The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-19
Resolutions of Censure Taken
Up in the House.
AND WARMLY DISCUSSED
Final Vote Will Probably Be
Reached To-Day.
TARIFF AND McKlNLEYs DOODLE
Mr.. Dinsmore's Reference to Senator
ChandIer's Statement Raises
Breeze Among the
Renllhlicans


Washington, March 1S.-The House
to-day entered upon the consideration
of the resolutions consuming MrBayard
for speeches delivered by him before
the Grammar School at Boston, Eng
land, and before the Edinburgh tScot-
land) Philosophical Institution last
fall. The galleries were crowded to
overfowing. Even the Diplomatic
gallery which is usually empty, con-
tanned a number of the members of the
diplomatic corps and their wives. With
the exception of the speech OF Mr..
Cousins, of Iowa, however, the oratory
of the occasion was disappointing.
Mr.. HIT, chairman of the Foreign
! Affairs committee, and Mr.. McCreary,
who was chairman of the committee
| in the last Congress, opened respective
| Iy for and against the resolutions. Mr..
/ Draper (Rep., Massachusetts, an
nounced his inability to bring himself
! TO vote for the resolutions of censure.
| If the utterances were inappropriate,
the punishment was too harsh.
Mr.. Cousins speech in support of the
| resolution was the feature of the pro-
/ ceedings. He won for himself this af-
| ternoon high distinction as an orator.
! His bursts of eloquence, set of by
keen and penetrating wit, aroused the
| House and the galleries to unbounded
/ enthusiasm.
| Mr.. Dinsmore (Denl., Arkansas), who
was Minister to Corea during the former
/ Cleveland administration, in closing
| the debate for the day, defended the
/ utterances of Mr.. Bayard as to the
effect of protection and to the great
/ delight of the Democrats read extracts
/ from Senator Chambers interview of
yesterday, alleging that the Mckinley
boomers were levying on the protected
| Industries. The debate will conclude
/ tomorrow.
In opening his speech in favor of
! the adoption of the Bayard resolu-
tions, Mr.. HIT reviewed the speeches
delivered by Mr.. Bayard. The one at
| Edinburgh. delivered two days after
/ the November election, he character
lied as political diatribe." Mr.. Bay
| ards auditors, he said, had that day
read the election returns, no doubt
with great regret, and it was 10 a
sympathetic foreign audience that he
| delivered his passionate address. That
speech called attention again to the
speech previously delivered at Boston,
describing the Americans as violent
| people," That, he. said. was the case
upon which the committee on Foreign
| Affairs reported these resolutions of
censure. At first, he said, it had been
/ hoped that it would be found, ON ex-
animation, that the Edinburgh speech
was simply an academic address, but
| it was not.
| The words referred to his own coun-
try and bore upon parties and political
issues here. As a private American
citizen he had perfect right TO de-
liver his opinion, but representing
officially the majesty of the United
| States, he had no right to utter words
which would reflect upon and wound
| the sensibilities of his countrymen.
| Mr.. HIT then took up and analyzed
Mr.. Bayard's letter TO the Secretary of
State explaining the circuEtances under
/ which his address was delivered
/ Think of it," said he, ian Ambassa-
| dor and ex-Secretary of State defend
/ ing himself behind the bold letter OF
/ instructions to diplomatic officers.
Why, Mr.. Speaker, had a Republican
Ambassador, at his post abroad, rallied
/ at the Democratic creed as degrading,
| as corrupting to the public life, is
| there Republican among the mil
| lions who would not have been wound
ed and have resented it as an affront
( to his country. There lies the offense."
| Mr.. HIT here read some extracts
| from the London press, commenting on
| Mr.. Bayard's speeches. 1.-THE London
!! Times,' he said, 'en a curious tone of
| fiattery and contempt, has asked in
amazement what would be thought of
Sir Julian Pauncefote if he should de-
liver in the United States a passionate
speech in favor of Home Rule, and had
| said that such speeches as Mr.. Bay
ards would not be delivered by an
| European diplomat"
/ In conclusion, he urged the pro-
] priety and duty of the adoption od the
j resolutions.
| Mr.. McCreary Dem, kentucky, eA~
chairman of the Foreign Affairs COM
mittee, followed Mr.. Hit in opposition
! to the resolutions. At the outset he
called attention to Mr.. Hits error in
saying the Edinburgh speech was de-
livered just after the late Congressional
elections. The last Congressional cleo
/ tions occurred in November, 1894. The
speech was delivered in 1895.
La declaring his opposition to the
| resolutions of censure, Mr.. McCreary
| (Dem., Kentucky said that they We're
| unprecedented in history. The pro-
posed action of the House was an in-
yasion of the rights and authority Of
the President of the United States and
if the speeches of Mr.. Bayard referred