The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-03-24
ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND.
Congressman SuIzer, of New York,
Scores the Mckinley Admin
istration-

Congressman Sulzer recently introduced a
resolution into the House of Representatives,
calling upon the War Department for infor-
nation as TO what Notifications Great Britain
was erecting upon the Canadian border.
The committee on Military Affairs on Tues
day submitted reply from Adjutant- General
Corbin saying such information was secret,
but that Great Britain was erecting no works
which threatened our rights.
The committee recommended that the res
olution lie upon the table.
Upon this motion Mr.. Sulzer obtained leave
TO speak for five minutes and he used his time
well to score the Mckinley Administration.
He said
Mr.. Speaker, this resolution introduced in
good faith and at a popular demand for Legitimate
Information, which the War Department should
furnish to this House. There is nothing in the res
olution which calls for any secret information from
to me- that the Committee on Military Affairs are
sensitive in regard To this resolution.
The report from the Adjutant-GeDeral Is prepos-
lerous and untenable. He says that Great Britain
is not trespassng upon our territory. No one con-
territory. How ridiculous it is for the Adjutant-
General TO say that in this report What we do de-
clare and what every thinking and intelligent cit
of this country knows is that while Great Brit
ain is pretending to be friend she is sedulousy
and stdiousy and consistently erecting great for
tiAcations ON our 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 the property of our people.
IL seems to me that today the Administration is
being humbugged by the Administration of Great
Britain. Nothing can be done unless we get the
consent of Downing street
say that ON this resolution want To get the
of this House and find out who are the friends
of America and who are the friends OF Great Brit
ain. We ought to have this information. The gen
teman from Illinois the other day reported to this
House the Fertilization bill carrying an approptfa-
ton 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 Notifications
Great Britain is erecting.
There IL feeling all over this country that the
Administration has absolutely and abjectly surren-
done so in Alaska, 1t has done SO in regard to the
Nicaragua Canal, 1t is doing now In the Orient,
in the Philippines and in China. 1t has been
done" by Great Britain in this war in South Afrf-
Gu. Applause on Democratic side.
II IL had not been for what the Administration
did the other day after consultation with Lord
Fauncefote-after being told what TO do by Salis-
bury-there would have been concert OF European
powers which would have demanded the cessation
more English than the Administration in London,
and It is time for some one to stand up here and
talk for American rights against British interests.
Loud applause on the Democratic side.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Sulzers remarks
on raising vote the motion to lay the reso-
luton on the table was carried-94 to SO.
Thereupon Mr.. Sulzer demanded the yeas
and nays, which were ordered, and the reso-
luton was laid upon the table-110 to 81.