The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-15
SENSATION IN THE HOUSE
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(Continued from First Page.) for the purpose of participating in the coronation of king. l shall not dis cuss that because it, of necessity. in- wolves matters I do not care to go into here. I will in passing. say that it is most unfortunate circumstance. It is unprecedented in our history, and is to-day deeply lamented on the part of every country loving man in the repub lie. l am sorry that he did it. It is es- tablishing a precedent that he ought not to recognize, and it is but one more link in the chain showing toward what end we are drifting.
 "One other matter I wish to advert to. In the next few days we axe to have a brother of a ruler come over to this country and take charge of a little tug, ship vessel, or yacht, whatever you please to term it, built by some people up in New York We are ap- proprlating thousands of dollars, and the anglomaniacs and the European nlaniacs are falling over each other to get to see little Dutchman come over and take charge of a little ship (Ap- plause on the democratic side). What difference does it make whether he is Prince Henry or not? There are thousands of citizens of this republic following the ploy as noble, as honest, as intelligent as Prince Henry or prince anybody else" Applause on the demo- cratic side).
 Mir. Grosvenor of Ohio-"If the gen tleman had been living at the time of Lafayette came to this country, bearing the commission of the king of France. would he have overruled the action of George Washington in sending a com mittee to meet him and accompanying him over the country?"
 MT. Wheeler-No I would have been proud to join in the commission to wei come the Marquis Lafayette, He was a great soldier, a great fighter and fought for the rights of the American people. (Applause). But this man rep- resents the kingism of flunkeyism that seeks to enslave the labor of every peo- pie under the sum-
 Mir. Gillett of observation-disclosures the gentleman criticise the democratic administration os Buchanan in receiv- ing the Prince of Wales?"
 MT. Wheeler-'HThat is a very differ ent thing Daughter and derisive cries on the republican side). We received him not as we are receiving this man, if l recollect right, but he came as the head of his government"
 MT. Grosvenor-"On the contrary, he came under another name, and the at tendant that was with him came incog- nto also, coming as mere private citi- zen, and was taken charge of by the government during his entire stay in the United States and dined at the white house by a democratic president at time when democracy meant some thing"
 MT. Wheeler-"If the gentleman is correct, then I condemn in unmeasured terms the attitude of that democratic administration.
 Amid much confusion. and cries of regular order, MT. Boutell of Illinois said that the criticism of the head of one of our great departments should not go unanswered. No man in recent years he declared to the rattle of the republican replause had reflected such credit on our diplomatic affairs as the present head of the state department. MT. Boutell took up the events of Chi nese crisis. with the Russian proposi- tion, which, he said, would have dis membered the empire, and it's rejection of the German proposition for the sur render of certain of the Chinese lead | CTS. MT. BoutelI said that our course : throughout that crisis had won the commendation of the world and he read from a foreign reviewer who declared | that the American conduct of affairs | in that crisis was splendidly loyal to | the best principles of American diplom- acy and was effective in meeting and overcoming the grave problems then presented to the powers of the world
 There was a sequel to MT. Wheeler's