The age-herald., 1900-03-21
SULZER ATTACKED
 ADMINISTRATION War Department Would Not
 Disclose Information. HIS RESOLUTION WAS LOST Consideration Was Begun of the Land Bill Restricting Character ot Pub lications Entitled to Second
 Class Mail Rates
HIS RESOLUTION WAS LOST

 day MT. Sulzer of New York, delivered a denunciatlon of the administration in con nection with his resolution of inquiry call ing upon the war department for irlforma- ton as to what Great Britain was erect ing on the Canadian border. The commit tee on military affairs submitted a reply of Adjutant- Corbin saying such information was secret, but Great Britain was erecting no works which threatened our rights. The committee recommended that the resolution lie upon the table The house sustained the comm.ttee's resolution by a vote of 110 to 97.
 Consideration was then begun of the Loud biN to restrict the character of pab.i- cations entitled to pound rates as second class mail matter. The bill has been be- fcre congress for several years. Mr Loud defended the bill in a long speech. The other speakers were II. c. Smith of M.chi- gan. in favor elf the oill and Messrs. Little of Arkansas; Bell of Colorado, Henry of Mississippi; Stokes, South Carolina, and Brown of Ohio in opposition ito tt.
 When the house met MT. Hill of Iowa, Chairman of the committee on military affairs reported back from the committee the following resolution introduced by MT. Sulzer of New York
 Resolved, That the secretary of war is hereby directed to inform tine house of representatives as early as possible what Notifications Great Britain is directing, constructing and completing along the northern frontier of the Unated States es- peciadly at Puget Sound and other places on the Pacific ocean contingent to the -tata z~f ,.-u,!.. Alaska"
 The committee recommended that it lie upon the table.
 The resolution had been referred to the department, MT. Hull said and came back with the following indorsement:
 The Information Secret
 'The information the department pos sesses on this and like cases has always been held to be confidential. and for good and sufficient reasons has not been made public.
 Tt is remarked however, that Great Britain, so far as the department is in- formed, is in no instance erecting fortifca- tions trespassing on our rights.
 (Sgned) HI. c. CORBIN,
 "Adjutant Genera'
 Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn sub mitted an endorsement calling attention to that of the adjutant general.
 
 and delivered a scathing denunciat ton of the adminstra tion's alleged pro-English course, charging that 1t did nothing without the consent of Downing street. that the recent action of Secretary Hay was taken upon the request of Lord Salisbury and de- feated concert of the European powers to intervene In South Africa, and charging generally that the English were erecting Qualifications along the Canadian border that menaced the peace and welfare of this country.
 Introduced in Good Faith
 ''Mr Speaker" said he, "this resolution was introduced in good faith, and at pop ular demand for legitimate information which the war department should furnish to this house. in order that it properly consider and transact it's business. There is nothing in the resolution which calls for any secret information from the war de- partment It is very strange, 1t seems to me, that the committee military affairs are so sensitive in regard to this resolution. The report from the adjutant general is preposterous and untenable. He says that this information is secret. He says that Great Britain is not trespassing upon our territory. No one contends that Great Britain is trespassing upon our territory. How ridiculous it is for the adjutant gen. eral to say that in his report. What we do declare, and what every thinking and intel ligent citizen of this country knows is that while Great Britain is pretending to be our friend she is sedulously and studously and consistently erecting great Notifications on our northern frontier which menace the in- tegrity of the republic and which notice of "A hours could destroy our cities, or towns and lay waste the property or our people, It seems to me that today the administra- tion is being humbugged by Great Britain. The gentleman from Illinois the other day reported to this house the fortifcation bill carrying an appropriation of three or four millions more than the last appropriation bill. We want this information in order to intelligently know what Notifications we ought to erect in opposition to the fortif- cations Great Britain is erecting. This resolution should pass.
 American Interests su, re idered
 .sThere is feeling all over 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 fin regard to the Nicaragua canal and 1t is doing so now In the orient, in the Philippines and in China. It has been done in tE1fs war in South Africa (Applause) If it had not been for what the administration did the other day, after consulting with Lord Paunce- fote after he had been told what to do by Salisbury there would have been concert of European powers Which would have de- ulanded the cessation of war in South Aflica.
 '',The administration here is more English than the administration in London, and 1t ds time for some to stand up here and talk for American rights against Brit ish interests" Loud applause on the democratic side.)
 At the conclusion of MT. Sulzer's remarks the resolution was laid on the table 110 to 97
 The special order, the Loud bill, relating to. second-class mail matter, was then taken up. Its main provision cuts off from the privileges of second-class mail matter which pays one cent per pound, publica- ticns purporting ito be Issued periodically and to subscribers but which are books or reprint of books and defines the condi- tions under which publication shall be admitted to the mails as second-c1ass matter. MT. Loud said that when the bill failed in the last congress, he had said that he would never again press this measure. But when he had returned to the present con gress he had been urged by members who said they had voted against it under mis- apprehension in the last congress, to bring at AT~ At. 1..xt