The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-05
A BANQUET IN LONDON
Members of Parliament Join
 in Cheering Old Glory.
Jamaica, Colombia, Germany, France, Denmark, Porto Rico, Cuba and Other Countries Celebrate the
 Anniversary of Independence.

sons sat down tonight at the banquet Of the American Society in London, given at the Hotel Cecil. It was a re- markable gathering. Across the upper end of the great hall and interspersed between the members of the United States Embassy and prominent Ameri- cans sat members of Parliament and representatives of Great Britain's loyal colonies. all participating with hearty good will in celebrating the one hun ured and twenty-fifth birthday of the rebellious sister who founded a new empire in the Western world.
 Morgan Richards, flanked on the right by Mir. Choate, and on the left by Robert w. Hanbury. M. F., pre- sided. Representatives of India, Can ada. Australia. New Zealand and Cape Colony were present. General Ian Hamilton. who might be taken senti- mentally to represent all South Africa. was a prominent figure. The Chair man toasted King Edward, the toast meeting with a warm response from the audience, who sang the British national anthem.
 Dr. Joseph Parker, minister of the city temple, who proposed the toast to President Mckinley, said:
 Despite the traditional prejudice which. happily. has been weakening during the past century. it is now well recognized that no other nation can sustain the relation to Great Britain which the United States now holds; and. fortunately for the world, Great Britain and the United States now hold the worlds peace in the hollow of their hands,"
 Three cheers were then given for President Mckinley and these were thrice repeated, after which an addi- tional three were given for Old Glory, at the suggestion of James M. Beck, United States Assistant Attorney Gen. eral.
 Mir. Hanbury, pcoposing a toast to the United States Ambassador. referred gracefully to the joy of the British peo- pie over Mrs. McKinley's recovery, ad- ding that sympathy, tempered with profound sorrow, was extended upon the death of Adelbert Hay.
 Mir. Hanbury paid a warm compli- ment to the United States Department of Agriculture, "whose progressive work has enabled the British people to feast daily at the overf1owing table Of America no less surely than the Brit ish guests are feasting here tonight.
 MT. Choate, replying, referred to the marvellous nAterial prosperity of the United States. He reminded his Brit fish hearers that at the inception Of the American republic, the best parliament tary friends and defenders of the strug- eling colonies, Chatham, Burke ana Fox, enunciated principles that had ever since guided Great Britain in deal ing with her colonies.
 Mir. Beck, who responded to the toast 1.-The Day we Celebrate,' referred 10 the decision of the United States supreme Court in the insular cases. He salo'
 hn SnnFemA was called upon to apply the principles of the Constitution to conditions of which the fathers of the republic never deramed; but 1t by no means follows that this application was not within both the letter and spirit of the Con- etitution. That inspired compact was, as Jefferson said, Made for the living and not for the dead.' It Is of the ut most importance that we should re- member this at time when the re- public is entering upon new and most important phases of constitutional de- velopment While such development can only proceed under and within the Constitution, yet as the conditions which call for an exercise of constitu- tional powers change with the progress of the centuries, necessarily the true powers of the Constitution, now latent must from time to time he disclosed and developed. The power to Congress 10 govern the Territories meant noth- ing more to the founders oS the repub- lie than the control of what was then known as the Northwest Territory. But, with the majestic advance of the na- ton to its/due place in the family of States, this power to acquire and gov ern territory has received its vindica- tion in the recent decision of the Su- vKrhi will lo eible for the United States without in- jury to herself and in the interests of human progress to exercise that infiu- ence in the councils of the world which is due to the greatest of the nations. I may venture my opinion that in noth- ing the American people have done in recent years is there any reason to fear adverse judgment by the exalted standards established by Jefferson"