The daily sentinel., 1900-03-22
SULZER TALKS.
The Mckinley Administration
Has Abjectly Surrendered
American Rights to British In
terests.

In the house Mr.. Sulzer OF New York
delivered denunciation of the admins
tration in connection with his resolution
of inquiry calling upon the war depart
ment for nf.rmation as to what fortifi-
catious are being crested on the Cana
dian border. After Hull Of Iowa had
reported back the resolution introduced
by Mr.. Sulzer the committee recon-
mended that it be laid on the table.
The resolution had been referred to the
war department and was turned down
by Adjutant General Corbin. The reso-
luton is as follows:
Resolved, That the secretary OF war
is hereby requested to inform the house
OF representatives as early as possible
what Notifications are erecting, con-
structing and completing along the
northern frontier of the United States,
especially at Puget sound and other
places on tho Pacific ocean contiguous
to the state OF Washington and the dis
trict of Alaska"
BY unanimous consent. Mr.. Sulzer took
the floor for five minutes, to debate the
resolution.
"Mr. Speaker" said he "this resolu-
tion was introduced in good faith and
with a popular demand for legitimate
information which the war department
should furnish this house, in order that
it can properly consider and transact its
business There is nothing in the reso-
luton which calls for any secret infor
nation from the war department.
ut 10 very strange. it seems to ME,
that the committee on military affairs
are 90 sensitive in regard to this reeolu
ton. The report from the adjutant gen
eral is preposterous and untenable. He
says that this information is secret.
This resolution calls for no secret infor-
nation. He says that Great Britain is
not trespassing upon cur territory. No
one contends that Great Britain is tres
p assing on our territory How ridicu-
lous it is for the adjutant general to say
that in this report.
"What we do declare, and what every
LulnhlDk dbd AhbOih6Sh1 SAuAoh "a Sh'o
country knows, is that Will. Great Brit
ain is pretending to be our friend she is
sedulously and studiously and consist
emily erecting great Notifications on our
northern frontier which menace the in.
tegrity OF the republic, and which, on
notice OF twenty-four hours, could de-
stroy our cities, our towns and lay waste
the property Of our people. 1t seems to
me that today the administration is be-
ing humbugged by the administration
OF Great Britain.
1.-THE gentleman from Illinois the other
day reported to this house the forti9ca-
tion bill, carrying an appropriation OF
three or four millions more than the last
appropriation bill We want this inior-
nation in order to intelligently know
what Notifications we ought to erect in
opposition to the Notifications Great
Britain is erecting.
II think this resolution should pass.
There is feeling all over the country
that the administration has absolutely
and abjectly surrendered American
rights to British interests. 1t has done 80
in Alaska, it has done SO in regard to the
Nicaragua canal; it is doing so now in
the Orient, in the Philippines, in China.
1t has been done by Great Britain in
this war in South Africa.
II it had not been for what the admin
istration did the other day after consul
.:al Lo;p
told what to do by Salisbury. there
would have been concert Of European
powers which would have demanded the
cessation Of war in South Africa.
"The administration here il more En-
glish than the administration in London,
and it il time for some one to stand up
here and talk for American rights
against British interests"