The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-18

wards Coronation-A Furry In the
Senate.
Washington. February IA little
furry was created in the senate today
over the employment since the begin
ming of the session or a score or more
Of extra clerks and messengers to COM
mi tees. The charges oil extravaganza
made induced the reference Of the whole
subject of clerical employment to a
committee for Investigation and report.
The matter was brought up bv sem
ator CLAW. Of Georgia. VINO made q
vigorous protest against a REPORT from
the committee on contingent expenses
authorizing additional employees. He
pointed nut that during the past thirty
DAYS more than twenty extra messen-
gers and clerks had been employed al
d salary of s1.440 eact. Der wear. He
had been Informed. he said. that nine
OF these employees were for committees
hat had not had a meeting In eight or
ten years.
The bill creating a permanent census
office was under consideration for a
time. but was not d;1Dosed OF finally
An effort to cut down the salary Of the
director of the census was defeated.
After the passage OF q large number
of priva e pension bills the senate eulo-
giZed the life and character OF the late
Representative Brosius. of Pennsyl-
vania.
House of Representatives.
The monotony of private pension day
in the house was enlivened today by a
very sensational speech from Mr..
Wheeler. of Kentucky in denunciation
Of what he denomina.ed "funkyism"
TO foreign countries. He took the re-
cent statement emanating from conti-
mental cabinets regarding the attitude
of Great Britain during the Spanish
war as q text for a wholesale attack
upon the trend of our recent diplomacy.
In the course of his remarks he severe
w scored Secretary Hay and declared
that If Lord Pauncefote had sought, as
was alleged. to circumvent us during
the war OF 1898 the sooner he was ship
ped across the seas, the better. He also
took occasion to criticise the president
for his reported intention to send his
daughter to the coronation Of King Ed
ward and to protest against the official
reception of Prince Henry.
His speech aroused the house to a
high pitch OF excitement and elected
from Mr.. Boutell, of illinois, a spirited
defense of Secretary Hay, whom he
eulogized in high terms.
Several other members of the republi-
cans took a hand. and, later in the at
ternoon, Mr.. GroSvenor, of Ohio, in q
twenty minute speech took Mr.. Wheeler
to task for his "inopportune protest"
and rehearsed the history Of the visit
of the Prince of Wales to this country
in 1860 n his reception by P~residen,
Buchanan.
Mr.. Wheeler said:
Until the inauguration Of the presi-
dent in 1897 there never was any divi-
sion upon one great question and that
was the splendid isolation Of the repub-
lie and it's fixed determination to hold
aloof from all entangling alliances
with foreign powers. Less than five
years ago the most sacred tradition of
the republic WEI = disregarded. For the
first time we witnessed a president of
the United States aided and egged on
by a pitiable funky III the state de-
partment, stretching his arms across
the water to embrace the historic enc
mics Of the American people. From
that good hour until now we have made
ourselves a laughing stock at every
court in Europe because of our f1unky-
ism, our truculency and the diSgraceful
Sycophancy of the representatives 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, not only to the
liberty loving people of the republic,
but to the world that we nave been
hugging to our bosom, during the last
five years a nation that has systemati-
cally and persistently attempted to de-
stroy the liberties of the American peo-
pie since the battle of Yorktown.
1T is being heralded abroad that in
tOnO r-L~- - Ill A.
shackles of serfdom from the heels OF
Cuba, that nation was then secretly in
our own capital attempting to form a
coalition of the great powers Of the
world to prevent that ~interpoSition. /
have a respect for the present occupant
of the White house, l frankly avow; l
think he is too honest to be palatable to
the average republican partisan-a lit
tie quiXotic, it is true, hasty tempered,
full blooded n not exac ly desira-
bic to many Of our citizens; and 1 in
dulge the hope that that lingering ele-
ment of A~mericanism will induce him
at the first opportunity to boot out that
man in the state department who in my
Judgment has brought US to this humiI-
iating condition.
England, a friend of the United
States? L would to God she were. but
what a spectacle we have presented in
order to be able to boast that we have
the friendship of Great Britain and
have become a world power. Never be-
fore in the history of the republic has
there been a struggle for freedom on
the part Of any people, that representa-
tives in this chamber did not hasten to
declare that we recognized with solicit
tude the e~ndeavors and efforts of a peo-
pie to obtain their own liberty. Fol-
more than four years we have witness
ed Great Britain maintaining military
stations inside the borders of the re-
public. We ave seen her agents going
up and down this country enlisting men
and buying materials for war.
Afraid of shocking the delicate Sensi-
bilities of Great Britain, wanting to be
a world power, wanting to inaugurate
this new system of diplomacy in our
country. 1 want the people of the Unit
ed States to understand who is respon-
sible for the deep humiliation and dis.
grace that have been brought to the
American people. The republican
party has sanctioned and does sanction
the attitude not only Of this, but of the
| nrevious administration in itS conduct