The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-15
SENSATION IN THE HOUSE
WHOLESALE DENUNCIATION BY MR. WHEELER OF KENTUCKY.

"Flunkeyism" Toward Foreign Coun-
 tries Made the Subject for Severe Att
 HHy-CaIIs on Roosevelt to Boot the
 Secretary Out of Office Because of
 Friendship for Greut tBritain-DecIares
 About Lord Pnumcefnte, Is True, the
 British Ambassador Should bo sent
 Home by First ship-Mfss RooseveIrs
 Contemplated Visit to Ktng Edward's
 Coronation and Proposed Official Re-
 caption to Prince Henry Also Critt-
 cised.
 Washington, Feb. 14-The monotony
 of private pension day of the house
 was enlivened to-day by very sensa-
 tional speech from MT. Wheeler of Ken
 tuckey in denunciation of what he de-
 nominated ''flunkeyism' toward foreign
 countries. He took the recent state-
 n.ents emanating from continental cab
 nets regarding the attitude of Great
 Britain during the Spanish war as a
 text for a wholesale attack upon the
 trend of our recent diplomacy. He se-
 verely scored Secretary Hay and de-
 clared that if Lord Pauncefote had
 crbt tr rir W.
 of 1898, as was alleged. the sooner he was shipped across the seas the better.
 He also criticised the president for his reported intention to send his daughter to the coronation of King Edward and protested against the official reception of Prince Henry.
 His speech aroused the house to high pitch of excitement and elcited from MT Boutell of Illinois spirited defense of Secretary Hay, whom he eu- logized in high terms. Several other members on the republican side took a hand in the debate and later in the l afternoon MT. Grosnevor of Ohio took l MT Wheeler to task for his ''inoppor- l tune protest" and rehearsed the history | of the visit of the Prince of Wales to | this country in 1860 and his reception | by President Buchanan.
 Address aud Debnte tn Full.
 MT Chairman" said Mr. Wheeler, q have read with lively interest the re- cent exposure and criticism in the press of the attitude of Great Britain and the other European powers toward the re- r,11h ip 6I1pir,cr Of 1908 DiUisiOTS | of public sentiment among the people of the United States are to be desired. But until the inauguration of the pres ident Tn 1897 there never was any divi- sion of sentiment upon one great ques- ton, and that was the splendid isola- ton of the republic and it's fixed deter imitation to hold aloof from all entang- ling alliances with foreign powers. Then he belief and fixed judgment of well nigh every patriotic citizen was over- turned and for the first time we wit ness president of the United States, aided and egged on by pitiable 1unkey in the state department stretching his arms across the water to embrace the historic enemies of the American peo- pie. From that good hour until now we have made ourselves a laughngstock al
  funkyism, our truculency and the dis graceful sycophancy of the representa- tives of the republic at the feet of Great Britain, and now, when it serves the purpose of some other great nation, the pitiable spectacle is presented that we have been hugging to our bosom during the last five years a nation that has systema tically and consistently at- to tho 1ihprtiaG nf American people since the battle of Yorktown .
 We find now despite the fact that the present administration is afraid, even in the face of it's great majority, to ask all appropriation of $6O,0OO or s1Oo, ,00O to pay some shoulder striped, gold laced f1unkey to cross the water and bow the knee and kiss the hand of some English king. that while this very , piliable spectacle is being presented to , us, it is being heralded abroad that in I 1898, when we were seeking to strike f the shackles of serfdom from off the heels of Cuba, that nation was then s secretly in our own capital attempting f to form a coalition of the great powers C of the world to prevent that interpoSi f tion. s 'I have respect for the present oc- r ,upant of the White house, I frankly r 4yow I think he is too honest to be f oalatable to the average republican f oartison. A little quixotic, it is true, f nasty tempered full bIooded, and not l. exactly desirable to many of our cit a zens; and indulge the hope that that V lingering element of Americanism will q induce him at the first opportunity to g boot out that man in the state depart nen who, in my judgment, has brought & IS to this humiIia ting condition. a Tt may be well enough to treat the f of foreign powers with F and consideration. I do de- $ lare that if the publication in the press S true this man Pauncefote ought to ,e ordered to take the first ship and ross the waters. We want no such nan in the republic. If he comes here o represent his government, well and ,ood but if he comes here to hatch onspiracies, to attempt to force his N wishes and his ideas upon the Ameri- u an people, the sooner we are rid of him C, he better it will be- a And, another thing" MT. Chairman, sl E.,y~x. T 1s.aa.. Il