The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-19

There was, however, one case, Mr.. Nc
Creary said, where the acts of dipio-
matte officer had been condemned by
the House, and that was a prominent
Republican, Hon. Robt. Schenck, the
Minister to Great Britain, whose con-
duct in connection with the Semma
Silver mine was investigated by COM
mittee of the House and resolutions
reported condemning his action. Mr..
Schenck was also made conspicuous
while representing the United States
at the court of st. James by the adj
dress which he wrote on the subject
OF polIer-playing, but there was no
effort made to censure him for 1T.
Here Mr.. McCreary created much
amusement by drawing from his pocket
and waving aloft a small red volume,
"The rules of Draw Poker by Robert
c. Scnenck'
..How do his rules differ from those
of the present day." asked Mr.. Richard
son (Dem., TENN. But Mr.. McCreary
declined with a smile, to go into the
merits Of the volume.
The people of this country, he con-
tinued, know that Thomas Il. Bayard
had proved himself patriot, states
man and faithful public servant, and
the people were behind him in his oppo-
sition to protection and trusts in
far greater numbers than they are be-
hind those who sought to condemn and
censure him. To censure Mr.. Bayard
at this time, Mr.. McCreary thought,
would be detrimental to the cordial
and pleasant relations between our
country and Great Britain, and would
detract from the prestige and conf
dence which he should have when he,
as diplomatic officers, represents
our country in negotiations concerning
| important questions, now pending. 1t
was perfectly clear to his mind that the
real gravamen of ''this attack" against
Mr.. Bayard was the reference to ''pro-
| lection" in the Edinburgh speech.
Mr.. Cousins, of Iowa, then took the
| floor in support of the resolutions.
"This deliberate and unexampled
breach of diplomatic etiquette" he
said; this ungrateful, unproyolSed
and unbecoming insult to a majority
of the people of America, TO her distin-
guished living and to her honored
| dead. by one who bore their confidence,
their mission and credentials, must
| not be left unchallenged since it has
entered the annals of our diplomatic
history"
Mr.. Cousins read letter of Minister
| Rush, who was Minister to Paris in
| 1S4S. when he refused to present to the
/ French government the resolution
adopted by the Democratic National
| committee congratulating the Ma
tional Assembly of France on the
change of government in that country.
| Mr.. Bayard, he declared, toadied to
the Golden Club and to the School of
Manchester and to his own prejudice,
and told Great Britain that protection
| in America had banished men of in
dependent mind and character from
/ its public councils, when he knew that
| the list Of its il1ustrions advocates. be-
| ginning with the distinguished names
of Washington and Madison and Frank
/ lin, had never ceased to grow where
| progress marked the way, until 1T
| had recorded in the register of inde-
pendent minds and fame the names of
/ Clay, Of Jackson and of Webster, of
Lincoln and of Grant, of Garfield, Of
Randall and of Blaine, and he knew
| that almost on the very day he uttered
/ that Indictment the list of indepcnd-
ent minds that champion the doctrine
| of protection in America had grown TO
| the greatest and most significant ma
/ iority that ever spoke their independ-
ence at a popular election in this coun-
try. He knew, when he uttered that
| libel on the memory of the greatest
statesman of America, that if you
1 should blot out the list of names that
| identify the doctrine of protection i'll
| our history you would leave il a liter
ary desert, as insignificant and barren
Of achievement as Disraeli's grand
/ fathers chapter of events that never
took place.
"But last of all, our Ambassador con-
fides to Edinburgh the startling news
/ that protection in America danger
ously depletes the Treasury Why,
Mr.. Speaker, even Edinburgh knows
that the champions of protection took
| the treasury of the United States when
| there was nothing in it but a Demo-
cratic free trade vacuum, and filled it
| up with gold and silver coin. 1t took
| the credit of the Republic, sunlSen into
| disgrace, in the hands of the Democ-
racy, and made it as good as the
monied powers of Europe; SO good that
| Wendell Phillips declared that our
funds sold as well in Europe as Eng
| lish consols, and that the universal un-
| ion would borrow money as cheaply
as Great Britain. And, from the time
the party Of protection took the treas
ury, there was never deficiency for
twenty-five successive years, until the
black raven of free trade perched again
above our treasury door and hooted
| surplus, surplus, never more
No, Mr.. Speaker, our Ambassador to
Great Britain has not only violated the
regulations of his commission, not only
beer false to his position, but false to
the facts Of his own country. Who
would have thought that within forty
years after the eyes of the immortal
Lincoln were closed in martyred death,
| amid the alteration of this great and
grateful land, that within SO brief
| time the Ambassador of this country
to the motherland would so far forget
the dignified and delicate requirements
of his high position as to thus stigma