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THANKS FOR MR.HAY
HOUSE ADOPTS RESOLUTION AFT
Err WARM FIGHT.
FOR HIS M'KINLEY ADDRESS.
REPUBLICAN STUMP SPEECH, SAYS
CLARK.


tive-Chnmp Clark Charged MIR.
Hay With Violating the PrOprie-
ties ana Said the Speech and Its
Endorsement Would BE Used for
Republican Campaign Purposes.
GEN. Hooker Spoke in Defense of
/ MIR. Hay md His Address.
Washington, June 2.-The House to-
day, by vote of 129 to 46, suspended
the rules and adopted the joint reso-
luton extending the thanks of Con-
gress to Secretary of State. John Hay
for his address upon the occasion of
the Mckinley exercises last February
Unanimous consent for the consdera-
ton of this resolution was objected to
by Mr.. DeArmond of Missouri some
time ago, and to-day Mr.. Clark of
| Missouri made a twenty-minute
| speech in opposition to it's adoption.
saying Mr.. Hay had abused the occa-
sion by injecting a Republican stump
| speech into the address Gen Hooker
| of Mississippi. a one-armed Confeder-
ate veteran. delivered defense of Mr..
Hays address, denying that it con-
| tanned anything that was Objectionable
from a political standpoint, and Mr..
| Grosvenor of Ohio, who was in charge
of the resolution, argued that Mr.. Hay.
in eulogizing the martyred President.
| could not divorce the man from his
| achievements and his record as man
| ly partisan.
Forty-six Democrats voted against
the resolution. as follows: Adamson
of Georgia. Bell of Texas. Bartlett of
Georgia, Bowie of Alabama, Brantley
of Georgia, Brundlge of Arkansas. Bur-
| CESS of Texas, Burleson of Texas, Bur-
nett of Alabama, Gambler of Missis-
| sippi, Clark of Missouri. Clayton Ct
Ala bama. Cochran of Missouri Coney
! of Massa chusetts, De Almond of Mis-
souri, Feeley of Illinois, Greene of
Pennsylvania, Henry of Mississippi.
Johnson of South Carolina, Jones of
! Virginia. Kern of Illinois, w w.
| Kitchin of North Carolina. Kleberg of
! Texas, Lester of Georgia. Lester of
South Carolina, Lewis of Georgia, Lit
tie of Arkansas, Lloyd of Missouri,
| Mccullough of Arkansas, Mclean of
Mississippi, Maddox of Georgia. Ma
honey of Illinois. Neville of Nebraska.
Richardson of Tennessee. Scarborough
| of South Carolina, Sims of Tennessee,
/
Sparkman of Florida, Speight of Mis-
! sissipp Stark of Nevada, Sulzer of
New York, Underwood of Alabama
Wheeler of Kentucky, Williams of
| Mississippi and Wooten of Texas.
champ Clark on Hay.
In discussing the Hay resolution Mr..
| Clark said he did not object to Re-
! publican stump speeches on proper oc-
casions, but he was unwilling 10 thank
any man anywhere for one at any
time. Mr.. Hays address would take
high rank as a literary production.
Some of its phrases were so eXtraor-
| binary that its author perhaps. should
| be accorded the dubious honor of rank
! ing with Grover Cleveland as a phrase
maker. But he was willing to submit
| to the other side as matter of taste
| whether Mr.. Hay did not violate the
! proprieties upon the occasion referred
| to. If this resolution was adopted the
\ speech would be circulated as cam
| paign document, together with a copy
| of the resolutions of thanks adopted
| by Congress.
If no one else voted against the res
| olution, Mr.. Clark said, he would do so.
He believed in the right of any man
| to express his opinion. but he believed
the House would lower it's dignity if It
voted to thank a man for delivering
| political speech.
| Gen. Hooker, in reply, said:
Gen. Hooker UphoIds Hay.
"I listened to Mr.. Hays address
with great care, with great caution
| and even with a disposition to criti-
| else if anything wrong had been said.
| But failed to detect in the whole of
it anyth that I thought improper to
be said or anything said in a party
| spirit And / feel sure that if
/ he
| of speaking on that occasion
| the sentiments of the American peo-
| pie had dared to inject into his al
| dress anything that was an appeal to
party spirit and party sentiment, the
shade of our great President, break
| ing the cerements of the tomb, would
have appeared before him and at once
! challenged his utterances. Amy man
who would have made here on such an
occasion a speech political in its char
acter would in doing so have dishon-
ored the memory Of McKinley's great
absence of partisan feeling and parti-
san ideas.
Were Both Republicans.
president Mckinley was a Repubh-
can; the man selected as orator by the
Joint Committee was a Republican.
Did we expect to select any
other2 was charmed with his
address: / listened to it with great
pleasure; and 1 am sure that the great
parsonage he was talking about would
not have countenanced for a moment
any exhibition of partisan spirit or
partisan heat.
81 saw that the man selected to de-
liver the address in cOmmenoration OF
him and to utter the sentiments which
all the people of this country enter
tanned for him, and proudly entertain
ed would not have dared to undertake
to deliver political address when ne
was speaking of a man of such high
character, such noble nature, such pure
life as our assassinate President"
Special orders were adopted for the
consideration of the anti-anarchy bill
and the bill to transfer certain forest
reserves to the Agricultural Depart
ment
The Senate bill to retire Surgeon
General Sternberg and the House bill
10 encourage salmon culture in Alas
ka were defeated on motions to pass