The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
Friends Of the ambassador, How
ever, Believe That He Avoids
Embarrassment.
WORSE THAN HIS ADDRESSES.
Grosvenor of Ohio Classes the Diplo.
mats Move as an Attempt to
Bulldoze Congress.

LONDON, Eng, Feb. 3.-The United
Press learns that Hon. Thomas F. Bayard,
United States Embassador here, has au-
thorized President Cleveland to announce
his resignation in the event of vote ad :
verse to him upon the House of Represen-
tatlVes resolution censuring him for his
utterances in his speeches in Edinburgh
and elsewhere in Great Britain.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. 3.-Noth-
ing authoritative can be learned here con-
corning ambassador Bayards reported
conditional tender of his resignation to
President Cleveland, but despite this lack
OF information in the matter there is a be-
lief among Government officials corrobo-
rative OF the news. Friends of the EN-
bassador who were seen were inclined to
believe that Mr.. Bayard had rendered his
resignation conditionally, mainly to re-
lleye the President of any EN- mbarrassment
in the affair, and Incidentally. perhaps,
through not thoroughly understanding
the resolution OF censure was adopted by
the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
by party vote.
at the Capitol the announcement
created something of sensation among
the members of the House. BY Repub-
licans generally it was regarded as a
threat" and some of those spoken to
were disposed to resent it. Grosvenor oi
Ohio, for example, characterized it as tan
attempt to buIldoze Congress-" He also
added that he regarded it as "worse than
the sentiments contained in Mr.. Bavard' &
original speeches." The principal effect
of the announcement, he said, would be to
pass the resolutions by larger m ajority
than would otherwise have been the case.
McCreary of Kentucky. chairman oi
the House Foreign Affairs Committee dur
ing the past two congresses, and who is
now its ranking Democratic member, de.
clined to express an opinion regarding the
dispatch. He stated subsequently that
whatever he had to say regarding the
matter would be contained in his speech
defending Bayard when the resolutions oil
censure shall come before the House. He
will assert in this speech that the action
of the House is unprecedented and that it
is an invasion OF the executive power. He
will also produce data showing that it has
been the habit of American Ministers to
Enelana for fifty years to make public
speeches.
Taft of Ohio, one of the Republican
mem bers of the committee, expressed a
an unwillingness to make public the de-
tails of the discussion in the committee
room on Saturday last, but said that the
Republicans would have met the Demo
Gratis more than halfway in the adoption
of a mild resolution of censure.
1t is now learned that the proposition
placed before the Democrats by the Repub
licans was the adoption of resolution
stating in terms that American represen.
tatives abroad should not discuss publicly
the affairs of their country. 1t was in
tended that this admonition should be
general, and that Bayard's name should
not appear in the resolution. The refusal
of the Democrats to agree to this resolu-
ton resulted in some of the younger
members of the committee forcing
through the resolutions, the substance o.
which has been already made public.