Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-23
HULL WAS MAD.
MANILA OFFICIALS DID NOT
 SHOW HIM DUE RESPECT.
He Strutted About Asking If the Peo-I pie Didn't Know Who He Was
 Wanted His Family Tn
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 Congressman Hull of Iowa, chair man of the house committee on mili- tary affairs, and speculatpr in Philip pine lumber, appears, according to a Manila newspaper, the Daily Times, to have made himself the "hero" of an unpleasant affair at the ceremony in Manila on the Fourth of July, when civil government was formally inau- gnrated in the Philippine Islands. The authorities in charge had provided g special stand, tribuna, it is called in the local Spanish yanaeular, for the high officials. To each was given one ticket of admission to the reserved in- closure. Their families were accom- modated on another nearby tribuna, or another section of the one tribuna. The reports are q little confusing en this point. But Congressman Hull in sisted on bringing his family with him to the place of chief seats.
 This place was guarded by an usher who knew his duty and dared to per- form it. He courteously informed the pushing congressman that his ticket did not admit others, but only himself and he was shown the place where the
 
 to sit. Not even the governors wife, nor the sisters, aunts and cousins of glory-crowned generals, were suffered to enter the tribuna reserved for pub lie servants of the first rank. The congressman protested and epostulat- ed and notified all of his high rank in the states, but in vain, He declared that if his family could not sit on the grand stand with him, he would not sit there himself. The usher was ob- durate. Then others, seeking 10 avoid q scene. got chairs and placed them next to the seats of the mighty, and there, as it were, on the bleach CTS, the congressman and chairman sat down with his chagrined family around him.
 But he was unpaeified and fmplaea- ble. Discovering a naval officer who was acting as q Volunteer usher, he cried out to him: 1'eThey put me down here among a lotpof clerks as if I was nobody" When told that he was ac- corded as much consideration as any one, he exclaimed: But do you know who I am? am Congressman Hull and chairman of the eommitteee on military affairs The officer again attempted to appease him. Appar- eIitly he was taken for an army off cer, and he was told in voice heard all about T have made lots of off cers and can unmake them I find the army very different here from what 1 thought it was. This is only Ill line with the way I've been treated since the time I came to the Philip 1 pines.'
 Then he left the stand and went down in front with the standing 1 crowd Here he got into a passage way which a policeman was charged with the duty of keeping clear Be ing asked to step back, he responded 1 to the guard: You don't know who I am: 1 am Congressman Hull" And the impudentc policeman retorted 1: You're no different from no one else ] so far as my orders gon's He remained l standing in the common crowd before | the stand during Governor Taft's ad- | dress. Commissioners Wright sent an army officer to ask him to come upon the official tribuna, and General Barry, ignorant of what had happened al- l ready, personally went down to in- vite him to come upon it; but the con greSsional mind was .ssot', in the opin- | ion that he had not been treated with | the consideration due to his office, al- l though he was there not on official bus l mess, but to look after his investments I Tn the Philippine lumber that had beep checked in their development. All this is in the news columns of | the Manila Times. In an editorial article it uaid: The extraordinary conduct of Congressman Hull has won | him much criticism and sudden mo- I toriety of a new sort His conduct can hardly be called gentlemanly. and 1 if he attacks the salary slate of the 1 higher insular offices, as he has prom | ised to do; the act will not be lacking q flavor. of vindictiveness. It is l strange to regard a, man of so much | reputed ability, by which it is to be presumed gthat he has risen to his place in the state, posing Tn such a ridiculous and childish light The na- ture of his conduct calls for lenient thoughts and eases the friction of his rudeness."