The age-herald., 1898-03-13
MHTT MINOR THLKS OF
 SENATOR MILLS HND B0UTELLE

and man entitled to no consideration from the party which made him.
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 MT. Mills was sent to the senate through the force of sentlmentality in Texas that he should have been unjustly treated in his defeat for the speakership, and that his friends in the state desired to emphasize their disapprval of congress in not electing him to the speakership. It was not that they believed him to be fit man for the United States senate, but state pride was at stake, and that was the only reason MT. Mills was made senator. He will have served one term in the senate, and that Is enough. Roger c. Mills will go down in history as one of the smallest men who figured in public life during the most pro- gresslve period in the history of the Amer iean government. After itwenty-four years of continuous service-eghteen years in tha house and six years in the senate-ths statute pages will be absolutely blank So far any measure of general interest to the people being the work of Roger Q. Mills is concerned. Like John J. Ingalls,, he will retire from congress without having left his imprint upon single page of the national statutes. Mills has been fairly good in Reclamation. He has been dress parade peacock kind of public man. He has done nothing to benefit mankind in general nor his constituency in particular His game has been rule or ruin. It was better that he ruined than ruled, for his rule would ba worse than ruin.
 Roger Q. Mills has been the enemy of progress. His constituents have been more considerate of him than he has been of his constituents. He has cursed every man whom he could not control or use for his personal interests There is nothing broad or generous in Mr. Mills nature. He is cross, mean, tyrannical conceited, bigoted- in fact everything that a statesman is not He deals in small things not in great ques- tions. man who today swears by the sun, tomorrow worshlps the moon. A man who today gathers inspiration from right and next week champions the cause of wrong. man whose personal integrity has never been impugned, but whose po- litical methods have always been open to criticism. Until MT Mills was made chair man of the ways and means committee he was companionable in way, and, to a cer- tain extent, courteous to those about him. His elevation ruined him. He had no sooner climbed to the top of the ladder than he turned and kicked it down. He be. came much inflated with his own impor- tance and grew larger than an Andree balloon. Mr Mills actually believed at ona time that he was destined to be presiderE of the republic. Outside of his own family, do not suppose there was a person in the United States who ever seriously thought of such a thing. On the 3d of March next Roger c. Mils will retire to private life, This will be as it should have been many many years ago.
 Representative Charles A. Boutelle, of Maine, chairman of the naval affairs conn mittee of all the Reed congresses, has for the past two years been the avowed friend of Spain. For more than twelve years have sat in the press gallery of the house of representatives and watched the con- duct orthis Maine salesman. He has been the special champion of the national honor on the floor of the house. At no time has he ever lost an opport ity to abuse and vify the south. MT. Boutelle has claimed the special privilege of carrying more par trotism and loyalty to the square inch than any other man in congress. He has been given hundreds of good thrashings on the floor of the house in debate yet Boutelle never knew when he was whipped. In the Forty-ninth congress in 1886, George D. Wise, then a member of congress from Richmond, Va, figuratively speaking, took the Maine statesman by the nape of the neck and shook the life out of him. He practically ate him up No man ever left 4La zf pletely annihliated and humiliated in de- bate than did MT. Boutele. The question under debate was about the removal of cer tain tablets upon certain guns in the Ports- mouth navy yards that had been captured by the federals during the war.
 
 Mr. Boutelle upon this occasion tore the decorative glass from the canopy of the shown little patriotism for the United States during the heated controversy be- tween this country and Spain. No man has been more disloyal, no man has ap- preached nearer the point of being a traitor to his country than has this same Charles A. Boutelle. He has championed the cause of Spain with ardor and vigor for more than two years. His friend and colleague III COuBTeSS, oSHdtoE I1die, HdS uOne Iu0 same thing. Senator Hale has been the one and only champion in the senate of Spain, its murderers, and it's treacherous cutthroats. Boutele was soldier dur ing the war; was engaged in the battle at Mobile bay. He has never lost an oppor- tunity to point with pride to his career as a union soldier, but the first time since the close of the war that this country has been upon the verge of war with foreign country, Boutelle is a paid representative of foreign power. MT. Boutelle did all he could to prevent the passage of any legislative measure to increase the navy for possible immediate against Spain After the tide had set and MT. Boutelle was engulfed in it, he made the faint protest that he had been asked to keep quiet for fear of angering Spain. Why should he have been the only man so asked? The fact of the business Is that Senator Hale, Speaker Reed, Dingley and Boutelle are the paid agents in congress of the Spanish government.