Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-21

WASHINGTON. March 2O.-When
| the House met to-day Mr.. Hull Qowa)
Chairman of the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs reported back from that
committee the resolution by Mr.. Sui
ger, that the Secretary of War inform
ed the House what Notifications Great
Britain is erecting, along the northern
frontier of the United States. The
resolution had been referred to the
War Department Mr.. Hull said, and
came back with the following endorse
ment:.
1.-THE information the department
possesses on this and like cases has
always been held to be confidential,
and for good and sufficient reasons
has not been made public.
"It is remarked, however, that Great
Britain, SO far as the Department is
Notifications, t~respassing on our
rights.
(Signed), H. C. CORBIN,
Adjutant General"
Acting Secretary of Wal Meiklejohn
submitted an endorsement calling at
tention to that of the Adjutant Gen
eral.
By unanimous consent, Mr.. Sulzer
took theh floor for five minutes to de-
bate his fertilization resolution.
"Mr. Speaker" said he, this reso-
luton was introduced in good faith
and at a popular demand for legiti-
mate information, which the War De-
partment should furnish to this
House, in order that it car properly
consider and transact it's business.
There is nothing in the resolution
which calls for any secret information
from the War Department. 1t is very
strange, it SENS to me, that the COM
mittee on military affairs are so sem
sitive in regard to this resolution.
The report from the Adjutant General
is preposterous and untenable. He
says that this information is secret.
| This resolution calls for no secret in
formation. He says that Great Brit
ian is not tresspassing upon our ter
ritory. No n contends that Great
Britain is tresspassing upon u terri
tory. How ridiculous it is for the Ad-
! jutant General to say that in this re-
port. What we do declare and what
every thinking end intelligent citizen
of this country knows is that while
Great Britain has been pretending to
be our friend, she is sedulously and
studiously and consistently erecting
| great fortifcations on u northern
frontier, which menace the integrity
of the republic, and which on notice
of "a hours could destroy our cities,
| our towns and lay waste to the prop
erty of our people. 1t seems to me
| that to-day the administration is be-
ing humbugged by the administra-
ton of Great Britain.
1.-The gentleman from Illinois the
| other day reported to this House the
| Notifications bill, carrying an appro-
priation of three or four millions more
than the last appropriation bill. We
want this information in order to intel
| ligently know what Notifications we
ought to erect in opposition to the
| Notifications Great Britain is erecting.
| thing this resolution should pass.
| There is a feeling all owe this country
that the administration has absolutely
| and abjectly surrendered American
rights to British interests. It has done
so in Alaska; it has done so in regard
| to the Nicaragua canal; it is doing
| so now in the Orient, in the Philip
| pines, in China. 1t has been controlled
by Great Britain in this war in South
Africa. Applause on the Democratic
| side.) If it had not been what the ad-
ministration did the other day, after
| consultation with Lord Pauncefote,
after being told what to do by Sails
bury, there would have been a concert
of European powers which would have
demanded the cessation of war in South
| Africa. The administration here is
| more English than the administration
in London. and it is time for some n
to stand up here and talk for Ameri-
can rights against British interests"
cloud applause on Democratic side.)
A motion to lay the resolution on
| the table was carried, "a to SO. On de-
mand of Mr.. Sulzer the yeas and nays
were ordered.
The resolution was laid on the table,
| 10 TO 81.
| Hear the interesting lecture of
! Chaplain Chadwick. at the Carroll
| Club auditorium, on MOnday even
I inc March Goth dpRPrihinR the de-