The age-herald., 1901-07-05
Five Hundred Guests at a Dinner Given by the American
 Society
OLD GLORY ROUNDLY CHEERED
Verltable Love Feast Where BrItona and Americans Rejoiced With Each Other Over Friendly Relation
 of the Two Countries.

London July Alive hundred persons sat down tonight at the banquet of the American Society in London given at the Hotel Cecil. It was a remarkable gather ing. Across the upper end of the great hall and interspersed with the members of the United States embassy and promi- nent Americans, sat members of the British Parliament and representatives of Great Britains loyal colonies, all par ticipating with hearty good will in ceie- brating the one hundred and twenty-hfth birthday of the rebellious sister who founded new empire in the western world.
 Morgan Richards, fanked on the right by MT. Choate and on the left sby Robert W. Hanbury, M. P. presided. Represen- tatives of India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony were present. Gen. Ian Hamilton, who might be taken sentimentally to represent all South Af- rica was a prominent figure. The chair man toasted King Edward, the toast meeting with a warm response from the audience, who sang the British nationali anthem.
 pr. Joseph Parker, minister of the City Temple, who proposed the toast to Presi- dent Mckinley said
 Despite the traditional prejudice which, happily, has been weakening during the past century, 1t Is now well recognized that no other nation can sustain the re- lation to Great Gritain which the United States now holds; and, fortunately for the world, Great Britain and the .Lpitedr States now hold the worlds peace in the hollow of their hands,"
 Three cheers were then given for Presi- dent Mckinley. and these wer thrice re- peated, after which an additional three were given for Old Glory at the sugges- tion of James M Beck assistant attor- ney general.
 MT. Hanbury, proposing a toast to tho United States ambassador, referred gracefully to the joy of the British people over Mrs. McKinley's recovery, adding that sympathy, tempered with profound sorrow, was extended upon the death of Adelbert Hay.
 MT. Hanbury paid warm tribute to the United States Department of Agricul- ture whose progressive work has enabled the British people to feast daily at the overfiowing table of America no less surely than the British guests are feasting here tonight"
 MT. Choate. replying, referred to the marvellous material prosperity the United States. He reminded his British hearers that at the inception of the American republic the best parliament tary friends and defenders of the strug- gling colonies-Chatham, Burke and Fox enunciated principles that had ever since guided Great Britain in dealing with her colonies. |
 MT. Beck, who responded to the toast, ''The Day We Celebrate,' referred to the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the inslllar cases. He said:
 'JJnouestionab,y the supreme court was called upon to apply the principles Of the constitution to conditions of which the fathers of the republic never dreamed; but if by no means follows that this appiica- tion was not within both the letter and snirit of the constitution. That inspired compact was, as Jefferson said. 'made for the living and not for the dead It IS or the utmost importance that we should re- member this at time when the repub-
 
 tant phases of constitutional development. While such development can only proceed under and within the constitution, yet as the conditions which call for an exercise of constitutional powers change with the progress of the centuries, necessarily the true powers of the constitution-now latent-must from time to time be dis closed and developed. The power given to Congress to govern the territories probably meant nothing more to the founders of the republic than the control of what was then known as the North west Territory. But, with the majestic advance of the nation to Its due place in the family of states, this power to ac- quire and govern territory has received it's vindication In the recent decision of the supreme court which will make it possible for the United States without injury to herself and in the interest of human. progress to exercise that influence in the councils of the world which Is due to the greatest of the nations. I may venture my opinion that in nothing the Americans have done in recent years is there any reason to fear adverse judgment by the exalted standards established by Jeffer- son."