The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-23

the fact remains that the bill passed by
unanimous consent, and that it does
create an order oftnobility. OF course,
this measure will be thoroughly ex-
posed if an attempt should ever be made
to pass it in the senate
There is no reason to question the
accuracy of the report. In the journal
of Senator William Maclay, of Penn
sylvania, who served in the first con-
gress of the United States, it is shown
that the greed for titles and desire for
a monarchical form of government were
very powerful. Senator Maclay was
minutes" of what transpired in the
senate chamber and the lobbies; and
the most interesting and valuable of
these memoranda deal with the doings
of the federal monarchists in the senate
of the first congress. Senator Maclay
entered congress as Federalist, but as
the monarchist spirit developed itself in
the controlling faction of his party,
headed in the senate by John Adams,
and in the cabinet by Alexander Hamil-
ton, he fought his way out of the Fed
eral party into the Democratic.
The cabal of army officers which
formed "The Order of the Cincinnati
at the close of the revolution undoubt-
edly hoped to form government mod
eled on that of England, and naturally
expected that they would be among the
dukes, marquises, earls and barons. The
idea found strong support in New Eng
land, and to some extent in Virginia,
finally received it's death blow. In the
constitutional convention the monarch
ist faction was overwhelmingly out
numbered, and, feeling the necessity of
postponing the full development of it's
tendencies, it fell back on the idea of
"a strong central authority" It's desire
for titles of nobility, which continually
cropped out in spite of all attempts at
caution, was checked but not crushed
by the constitutional provision prohibit
ing them. When congress assembled
the mOnarchist faction made a strong
rally and gained control Of the senate.
The house of representatives was Dem
ocratic, and both sides sbegan the siren
uous pull on Washington which made
the life of that noble and simple gen.
tleman a burden to him. A patriot and
Republican by his requirements, a be-
lever in equal human rights, and thus
opposed to all mOnarchical forms, Wash
ingtOn was an aristocrat by birth and
breeding. On these two sides of his
open and candid nature, the opposing
factions played. The monarchists in
the senate put him at the front and
continually used him as a stalking
horse.
Their plan was to thrust title upon
him as precedent for titles for them
selves. With this end in view, Vice
President Adams secured the appoint
ment of special committee on titles,
and a long and hard struggle began in
the senate. In his journal, Senator
Maclay has traced it with more care
than impartiality for it embittered him
from the first and he has laid bare
John Adams weaknesses with a pitiless
pen. The picture he draws is as vivid
as it is cruel. After the lapse of more
than century, it makes Adams a liv-
ing figure, even in such minutiae as
the wearing of nobleman's dress
sword in the chair of the senate, and in
faltering in the midst of speech and
breaking into vacant laugh, which
showed his dimples. He says, plainly
exasperated beyond endurance:
"I have really often looked on him
with surprise not unmingled with con-
tempt while he is in the chair. Instead
of the sedate easy air l would have
him possess, he will look first on one
side, then on the other, then down on
the knees of his breeches, then dimple
his visage adams was fat, like his
models, the royal Georges), with the
most silly kind of half smile that | can
not we'll express in English. Inc SCOTCH
Irish have a word for it that hits it
exactly-smudging. God forgive me
for the vile thought, but I cannot help
thinking of a monkey just put into
breeches when l see him betray such
evident marks of self-conceit."
The fight for titles began imnedi-
atty after the inaugural address. Mr..
Adams wished a canopied chair-which
need not be called throne-erected in
the senate chamber for the president to
sit in. An address was prepared to the
president, and in it Mr. Adams followed
the forms of addressing royalty. The
Democrats, headed by Senator Maclay,