The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-03
THE THANKS
OF THE HOUSE
John Hay the Recipient
Of Vote.
CLARK SPEAKS AGANSTIT
CLARK SPEAKS AGAINSTIT
General Hooker Defends the
Secretary's Address.
Declares There Was No Effort to
Make Political Capital Out Of
the 0ccasion-The House
and Senate.

by vote of 129 to GA suspended the rules
and adopted the joint resolution extend
ing the thanks Of Congress to Secretary
John Hay for his address on the occasion
of the Mckinley memorial exercises last
February. Unanimous consent for the
consideration Of this resolution was OBJ
jected to by, Mr.. DeArmond (Mo) some
time ago and today Mr.. Clark (Mo.) OPP
posed its adoption on the ground that
Mr.. Hay abused the occasion by injecting
Republican stump speech into the
address.
General Hooker (Miss.) a one-armed
Confederate veteran. delivered an eloquent
defense of Mr.. Hays address. denying
that 1t contained anything that was
Objectionable from a political stand,
point
Mr.. Grosvenor (Ohio) who was in
charge of the resolution argued that Mr..
Hay in eulogizing the martyred Presi-
dent could not divorce the man from
his achievements and his record as
manly partisan. Only forty-six Demo-
Gratis voted with Mr.. Clark against the
resolution.
Special orders were adopted for the con-
sideration of the anti-anarchy bill and the
bill to transfer certain forest reserves to
the Agricultural Department.
The Senate bill to retire Surgeon Cen
eral Sternberg was defeated on motions
to pass 1t under suspension OF the rules.
Mr.. Hooker Speakers.
Mr.. Hooker Is a one-armed Confederate
veteran, who was one of Jefferson Davis's
counsel when he was tried for treason.
He served in the House in the S0s and
sos and during his former service was
one of the leaders of the Democratic side.
OF late years his voice has failed some
| what, but as soon AZ he arose to speak
members from both sides OF the House
crowded about him. Mr.. Hooker spoke
as follows:
IT had the honor to be appointed on
the Joint memorial committee to present
suitable resolutions in honor of our de-
ceased President, Mr.. Mckinley and to
select an appropriate speaker to deliver
the eulogy on that occasion. l accepted
the position and united in the selection
Of the present Secretary of State to de-
liver the eulogy. 1 listened with great
| care and attention to the address de-
livered by Mr.. Hay. / think l am as
keenly alive to everything that affects
| the interests and the honor and the well
fare of the Democratic party as my
| friend from Missouri, but from whom
entirely dissent on this occasion l
| listened to that address with great care,
with great caution and even with dis
position to criticize If anything wrong had
been said. But / failed to detect In the
whole of that address anything that L
thought was improper to be said, or any
| thing said in a party spirit. And teei
sure, that If a man selected for the great
| ~ that occasion the
| sentiments of the American people had
dared to inject into his address anything
| that was an appeal to party spirit ana
party sentiment the shade. or our great
| President breaking the cerements OF the
tomb would have appeared before him
and at once challenged his utterances.
| Any man who would have made here on
| such an occasion a speech political In It's
character would in doing so have dis
bonored the memory of McKinley's great
absence of partisan feeling and partisan
ideas.
| Charmed by the Address.
| president Mckinley was q Republican;
the man selected as orator by the joint
| committee was Republican. Did We ex-
| pect to select any other? / was charmed
| with his address; | listened to 1t with
| great pleasure, and l am sure That the
great parsonage he was talking about
| would not have countenanced for mo-
ment any exhibition of partisan spirit or
| partisan heat.
| 81 saw that the man selected to deliver
tho address in comrnemoration of him and
| To utter the sentiments which all the peo-
| ple of this country entertained for him,
and proudly entertained, would not have
| dared to undertake to deliver a political
| address when he was speaking of man
| of sucn high character, such noble ma
ture. such pure life. as our sssassinateu
| President.
The vote was then taken and the reso-
luton adopted, 129 to 10.
Those Who Voted Nay.
Those who voted against the resolution
were all Democrats, as follows:
Adamson (Ga), Bell CTex.l. Barnett
(Ga.) Bowie (Ala), Brantley Ga)
| Brundidge (Ark). Burgess CTex). Burle-
son CTex), Burnett (Ala). Gambler
| fMissl. Clark MOI, Clayton (Ala), Coch-
ran (Mo1. Conry (Mass) ,Dearmond
(Mo1. Foley 0ns). Green Pa.). Henry
| tMiss1. Johnson IS. c., Jones Va),
Kern Glls1. w. w. Kitchen IN. c. ,Kle-
burg (Tex). Lester (Ga.), Lever IS. c.,
Lewis (Ga.J. Little (Ark), Lloyd (Mo.),
| Mccullough (Ark.), Mclean (Miss). Mad
dox (Ga), Malone 0lls.), Neville Neb),
| Richardson (Tenn.), Scarborough Is. CO,
Sims (Tenn.), Slayden CrexO, Smith
| CKy). sparkman (Fla.), Spight (Miss.),
Stark (Nev). Sulzer IN. ", Underwood
| (Ala1, Wheeler (KyD, Williams (Mis.),
ansd Wooten Crex).