The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-12

ener do things down there which are worse.
England's orders to Kitchener are TO burn
the houses. kill the men. and dri"e the
women and little children out on the
yeldts TO die; destroy their cattle. rob
them of everything they have, and in that
way let them understand tine power OF the
British monarchy. l say that the Qdeen
when she was dying, according 10 the re-
ports we have uttered as ner last words
this sentiment: I hope and pray for
peace That is a legacy TO her SON the
present King of England. And ] say to
him. speaking for nine-tenths of the
American people. speaking Tor liberty,
speaking for freedom, speaking fer the
salvation of these two little Republics in
the cause of justice and humanity, make
peace. Make peace and you will go down
to history one of the greatest mon
archs that ever reigned but 7ontiaus this
war. King Edward the Seventh. and you
will go into history more Infamous man
than George the Third
Mr.. Mahon then addressed the commit
tee referring to Mr.. Suffers charges
against the Administration. recalled the
fact that at the public meeting IN Wash
ington to receive the Boer ENJOYS, pre-
sided over by Mr.. Sulzer. the sum of
Sl.177 had been raised in res oonse to an
appeal for the Boer widows and orphans,
and of this sum but SIS had been sent
to the persons for, whom it had been col
lected
This insinuation brought M. Sulzer to
his feet. He said:
Mr.. Chairman, there are many people
in this country-I may say that there are
many members of this Housewife have
heard a bell ring and yet do not know
where the clapper hangs. My friend from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Mahon), who has just
addressed the House. has put his foot into
F.. Il l..
of that condition. He knows not whereof
he speaks. II he understandable any con-
struction of our language would enable
him to understand he must know that /
had nothing whatever to do with the
amount of the fund raised and 10 which
he has referred in his somewhat impas-
stoned remarks.
Il hold in my hand the call Of the COM
mittee which was formed and organized
for the purpose of receiving and enter
tanning the Boer representatives when
they came to this country. l would like TO
real this for the information Of the House,
and / send it to the desk to have it read.
This was done.
His Contribution the Largest.
When the Boer ENJOYS arrived in this
country the citizens of Washington organ
lied a committee for the purpose of re-
celying and entertaining them during their
soiourn here. That committee was COM
posed of representative citizens of Wash
ington. On the committee were certain
members of the House of Representatives,
both Democratic and Republican. | was
not member of the finance committee.
had nothing to do with the collection OF
the fund. But stand here and the proof
is al hand to show that of all the con-
tributions made for that purpose my own
was the largest. About Sl,1OO in all was
raised. OF which l contributed S175. Be
sides that | paid the expenses of the com
mittee that went from Washington to New
York TO meet the ENJOYS of the South
African Republic-the Boers-and bring
them from New York 10 Washington.
81 want to say now that there never was
a dollar contributed in this city or any
where else that was not contributed for
the purpose of receiving and entertaining
The Boer ENJOYS Ny friend talks about
Tammany Hall. ! want to say to him that
there was not a member of Tammany Hall
upon any one of those committees and not
one member of Tammany Hall ever came
10 Washington with the Beers or had any
thing to do with their reception here. And
when you make that charge you make il
knowing it TO be willfully false. You
know enough about this matter as / do
and you know it is not true. 1t is like
all the other charges you make. You
know as much about this matter as you
; do about what Kitchener is doing down in
South Africa
At this point Mr.. Suffers time expired
and Mr. Hit objected TO an extension
of il.
Mr.. Sulzer-I rise to r question Of per
sonaI privilege. l am going to have this
out now. Ny question of personal privi-
lege is the wanton and unfOunded attack
the mean. contemplate attack, that the
gentleman from Pennsylvania has made
upon me, not knowing a thing about what
transpired or took place, and l am going
to tell you something
Mr. Hitt-I rise to a point of order
Mr. Sulzer-I will tell you something in
a minute.
MIR. Hitt-The gentleman IS out of order
The Chairman-In the Fl. Il place. it is
the duty of the Chair to pass upon the
question of personal privilege invoked 10y
the. gentleman from New York (Mr. Sui
zerj without attempting to pass upon
the application Of any language made b.
the gentleman from Pennsylvania to the
gentleman from New York personally, il
is the duty OF the Chair to rule that the
language must have reflected upon the
gentleman in his representative capacity.
Mr. MahonI did not refer to you at
ell. | referred to the meeting.
Mr.. Sulzer-Well, do not want TO sc-
cept your apology even
Mr. Mahon--I do not care whether you
do or not You viii not get 1t, you need
not worry.
The Chairrnan-The Chair did not un-
derstand that the gentleman from Penn
sylvania referred in any way TO the gen
tleman from New York in his ,epresen-
tatiye capacity. Does the gentleman from
New York complain that he did?
Mr. Sulzer-I mean to say that the gen.
iieman from Pennsylvania referred to me
as having collected some funds which
were for the widows and orphans Of the
Beers and that the funds were not tuIn-
ed over TO them.
Mr. Robinson OF Indiana-That is q
charge OF felony.
MIR. Gaines-That Is a crime.
Mr. Sulzer-That affects my position
here as a Representative and l think !
have a right to be heard upon this ques-
tion of personal privilege. l only ask for
what is fair. / never did thing in my
life that | was ashamed Of.
The Neeiy Episode.
The Chair held that Mr.. suIzer had not
presented a question of personal privilege
The Clerk resumed the reading Of the bill.
r-a AZ S''i--- moved to strike out the
hen explained his cOnnec-
er meeting and continued:
oaign began last fall. and
IN entered into 1t to some
Republican party found
eches that / had made In
RS were being circulated
ntry and influencing the