The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-20
Mr.. T1cker's Eloquent Speech
in the House.
ON cENsURE RESOLUTIONS
A Magnificent Tribute to Our
Ambassador
LORD PgARsoN's LITTLE TALK
The Vote on the Resolutions Will Be
Taken To-Day at 2 O'clock and
sThey VIII Be Passed by a
Party Vote.


Washington, d. c., March 19.-Under
an agreement reached just prior to the
adjournment of the House to-day, the
vote on the resolutions to censure Mr..
Bayard will be taken at 2 o'clock to-
morrow. The debate on the resolutions
to-day at times waxed into discussion
of the merits of protection as an eco
nomic policy.
Mr.. Tucker (Dem., Va.), who made
the principal speech in opposition, de
tended Mr.. Bayard's utterances, and
Senator Chandler's interview was again
brought forward as a yindication OF
Mr. Bayard's statement that protection
tended to corrupt public life. The Re-
publicans We'd with each other in up
holding and eulogizing protection.
Mr.Pearson (Rep., North Carolina),
announced that the candidate who
would be nominated at ST. Louis would
be he who measured up most nearly TO
the ideal standard, the living imperson-
alton of the doctrine of protection.
Mr.. Barrett, of Massachusetts, and
| Mr.. Grosvenor, of Ohio, also spoke.
The debate to-day concluded with
an amusing alteration between Mr..
| Sulzer, of New York, and Mr.. Gibson,
of Tennessee.
| There is no doubt that the resolu-
tions will be adopted tomorrow by
practically a strict party vote.
Mr.. Pearson rep, North Carolina)
| in supporting the resolutions said that
| the good name of our public servants
constituted large part of our national
wealth and a form of wealth that he
would not barter for all that lies upon
or beneath our soil. 1t gave him no
| pleasure to join in the humiliation of
lofty spirit or in the degradation of
an iIlustrious name. He could say IN
candor, that he had been an admirer
and supporter of Thomas f. Bayard--
a name that goes back spotless and
| shining into the mists of the middle
| ages. He wished that the executive,
| by timely action, or the Ambassador
| by suitable explanation, or the Demo-
/ Gratis of the House, by suitable conces-
| sion and non-partisanship had relieved
| the members of demanding the CEN
sure of such a man. There were only
| two questions at issue, the power of the
/ House to censure an Ambassador, and
| does the offense in this case Justify
/ such action? These he answered in
/ the affirmative and quoted authorities
/ in support thereof.
In the course of some remarks upon
| protection, which Mr.. Bayard assailed,
/ the speaker said:
'sThe cause of protection has tri-
| umphed in the last two elections, and
| it uilI triumph in the one for which
we are now preparing; this doctrine
| il firmly lodged in the mind of the
| American people, and they have set
| tied conviction that there will be no
return OF genuine prosperity until
| there is return of a genuine Amefl-
| can protective tariff, and the man
who will carry the banner of victory
/ i'm the coming contest will be that
man who measures up most nearly TO
| the ideal standard, to the living inn
| personation of protection"
In closing, Mr.. Pearson appealed TO
all members to pass the resolution,
| saving: "Fhen if our representatives
| i'm foreign lands cannot boast OF our
| institutions they will at least pay them
| the poor tribute of their silent con-
| tempt. Let it never be expunged un-
| til the day of doom, or until that day
| of gloom and shame when the repre-
sentatives of the American people no
longer dare to defend the fair name OF
their country against all enemies, for
eign and domestic, against the assaults
of the open foe and against the inso-
| lent public servant who would eXalt
his party by debasing his country"
| While Mr.. Pearson, in the course OF
/ his speech. was referring TO protection
| and It's victories, Mr.. McCreary inter-
posed to ask why he did not recall the
| elections of 1892, when Cleveland was
reelected and the Mckinley bill con-
demned.
because the elections of 1892 are
back number" replied Mr.. Pearson.
s.The Democrats elected in 1892 were
Overwhelmingly repudiated in 1894, and
retired to private life, and the protec-
ton victory of '94 will be repeated this
year" Republican applause).
Mr.. Tucker (Dem., Va.), member
of the Foreign Affairs committee, then
took the floor in opposition to the adop-
ton of the resolution. Mr.. Tucker
argued that the Republicans were de-
luding themselves with the idea that
Mr.. Bayard's characterization OF the
American people was offensive. Per
sonally he was proud of the description
of them as strong, self-confident and
oftentimes violent people--men who
seek to have their own way"
That was a glorious description of
the history of the Anglo-Saxons as
people. He argued that American peo
pie were sometimes violent" He cited
the strikes at Chicago and other places,
the mob violence at New Orleans, the
calling out of the military a few days
ago in Kentucky.
''There is some theft in Virginia"
interrupted Mr.. Bailey (Dem., Texas),
s1but on that account would YOU say