The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-06
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY
WITH BANQUETS AND RECEPTIONS.
Many Prominent People at "A Dinner
in London-Speeches by Hay,
Reid, Potter and Others.


of the United States, residents of London
and visitors, sat down TO the annual dinner
of the American Society in London this
evening to celebrate independence day. The
banquet was held in the Empress rooms of
the Kensington Palace Hotel which were
handsomely decorated with American and
British flags, and the banqueters sat about
tables arranged in the form of a gridiron,
with the distinguished guests at the head
table
Most of the Americans prominent in
official and business life in London were
present. Notable among them were En-
bassador Hay, Mr. Henry White and Mr..
John Carter, of the embassy; Lieutenant
Colville, naval attache; Consul General
William Mckinley Osborne Consul Boyle,
of Liverpool, and other American consuls in
England. The nOnoffcial guests included
the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, General Miles,
Vice President Stevenson, Mr. Terrell,
former minister to Turkey; Mr. Thayer,
former minister to the Netherlands; Cap
tain Maus, United States army; Bishops
Potter, Doane, Whipple, Dudley, futile,
Leonard Perry and Quintard, and Messrs.
Creighton Webb and Ogden Mills. No la
dies We're present, nor any English guests,
for it was considered more fitting to make
the commemoration a national affair.
j. Newton Crane, president of the socie-
ty, was in the chair. He began the toast
list by proposing the health of the Queen,
and was followed by Bishop Whipple, who
proposed the health of President McKin-
lev Both toasts were received by the
company standing and with cheers.
Bishop Potter, proposing our Embas-
sadors, said 1T takes S,;s a thousand years
Britain but give US five hundred years and
we will show the world what We can do.
l rejoice in an American policy which
recognizes the duties of the United states
to our outlying populations. prolonged
cEeerS)
ambassador Hay. in response. said: I'VE
desire peace with the whole world and es-
pecially with the nation to which we are
drawn by such close ties. Every impulse
of affection towards England simply proves
that bloods flow from the same
springs. The jubilee has shown that we
are one ia spirit. The two countries are
absolutely one in their appreciation of the
great and good, sovereign who has shown
in her long and happy reign how compat-
BILE are the virtues OF the monarch with
purity of private life"
Whitelaw Reid, responding to the same
toast, said: Possibly, II the wise and
good Queen who reigns over the British
dominions had been her grandfatherS
place, or If that Queens son had been
there things might have been different, bat
colossal development of the American re-
public would have been impossible on
colonial lines. The millennium mas not quite
dawned and the American has not aban-
doned the traits of his race any more than
the EnglShman. But we to-day are the
most peaceful great nation of the globe,
tory with less popular desire for territorial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Nevertheless, We are
AnglO-Saxon still; and it follows that our
clear rights within the legitimate sphere
of our influence will be jealousy guarded
and the consent of no other nation to our
exercise of them will be held essential.
Speaking feeling between
United States and England Mr.. Reid said:
1T would be idle to ignore the fact that
from time to time serious differences have
arisen between the two countries. 1t would
be equally idle to imagine that either
ton will fail to maintain what it thinks
right But we can never forget our re-
latiOnShip. We may have family jars in the
future as we have had them in the past.
God forbid it, God grant, if they do come
that we may show that at least, on
both sides of the water, are civilized enough
and Christian enough to settled them with
out fighting with men of our own blood.
(Cheers) Surely England cannot have for
gotten Commodore Tatnall and the English
sailors riding safely on the recedng wave
out of the terrorS of Samoa. She can never
cease to hear the cheers, exulting over their
escape that burst from the threats of
American sailors about to die. That is the
feeling which led the chief magistrate of
our country to send me here, accompanied
by admiral on his flagship and by the
general of our army, to bear from him a
letter to her Royal and Imperial Majesty.
The President especially wished her Majes
ty to believe that nothing can ever permit
our government or our people to forget
that at a critical period in the history of
the United States the preservation of peace
between the two nations was largely due
to the gracious influence exerted by the
Queen with the aid of the lamented Prince
Consort.'
Mr.. Terrell proposing THE day we cele
brate." said that no man could fully APP
preciate what 1t meant to be an American
until he had dwelt away from home as he
Che speaker) had in the midst of a semi
barbaric race.
Rev. DIR. Millburn, chaplain of the United
States Serate. made an effective response
to this toast
Mr.. Dudley proposing The Community, of
English-speaking Peoples expressed his
regret that the Senate had rejected the
arbitration treaty. which he described as
the greatest step ever taken toward ma
tional peace and good will"
No Mention of MIR. GOwdy.
PARIS, July 5.-The American Chamber
of Commerce gave its third Independence
day banquet at the Grand Hotel this even
ing Covers were laid for 500 and the COM
pany included many leaders. Among the
guests were NJ Ribot, former premier; M.