The age-herald., 1902-02-20
Tells of a Kentucky Democrat Who Wore Knee Breaches
 al CzaI's Coronation
RECALLS VAN DUREN'S SON
 BEING DUBBED PRINCE JOHN
SatiraealIy Remarks That RooseVelt's Daughter Will No Doubt Be Called Princess Alice-WheeIer' Speech
 Sporadic American Humor.

Washington, February 19-Again today the general debate on the Indian appro- priation bill was devoted almost entirely to extemporaneous topics AS on yester- day the issue raised by MT. Wheeler, Kentucky, few days ago came in for considerable attention and was the feat ure of the session. MT. Cromwell, an Ohio Republican, MT. Kern, an Illinois Democrat, and MT. Fleming, Georgia Democrat, added their views to the liter ature on the subject but it was MT. Bou- tell, an Illinois Republican, who enter tained the house most. He was well for tiled with material excellent temper and with trenchant display of wit he traced the history of what MT. Wheeler had call ed "truculent sycophancy' as he said from the day when the first Democratic President had purchased a bogus coat of arms to the entertainment of Queen Lilloukalani to the last Democratic Presi- dent He finally dismissed the whole subject by saying 1t should be accepted abroad as one of the "erratic and spora- die phases of American humor."
 Several Speakers.
 MT. Hamilton, Michigan Republican. enlivened the proceedings with an enter taining speech on trusts. the other speak CTS were MT. Little Arkansas, who dis cussed conditions in the Indian Territory MT. Corliss, Michigan, who spoke on the Pacific cable; MT. Stephens, Texas, on statehood for Oklahoma; MT. Sulzer, New York on education of the Indians; MT. Jackson, Kansas. on the election of Sen ators by the people and MT. Newlands Nevada, on the bill to redeem silver dol lars in gold.
 MT Kern, Illinois, who announced that he represented a large German constitu- ency and was himself son of German parents. protested against the attempt to make political capital out of the recent speech of NIr. Wheeler. Kentucky. which he characterized as an Insignificant in- cident." He followed his protest with an assault on the majority for their failure to chow sympathy for the Boers, strug glng in South Africa, he said, flor the liberties for which our forefathers fought"
 MT. Boutell, Illinois, congratulated MT. Kern on his accession to the band of American humorists in which Mir Wheel CT ranked so high.
 Boutell a Humorist.
 MT. Boltell then proceeded with deli cate humor to trace the origin of what MT. Wheeler had called 'truculent syco- phancy." First he read letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 177l, in which he au- 4I.A af -nf- for him, and from another written four years later in which he says that he would rather be dependent on Great Britain than any other country. He passed down to the days of Martin Van Buren and told of the visit of his son John to the Court of St. James, which | earned for him the sobriquet of Prince John, by which he was known after wards. MT. Boutell said that he felt sure | that when the daughter of the President returned from the coronation of Edward | VII she would be known as Princess Alice" Mir Boutell then told the story of the coronation of the Czar of Rus sia in 1896, and of the appearance on that | occasion of the Democratic-American am | bassador, Clifton R. Breckinridge of Ar | kansas. in full court costume, with knee brooches and all. Mir, Breckinridge was, he said amid laughter, a native of Lex | ington, Ky.
 He has been dead politically ever since' interjected MT. Fitzgerald New | York.
 Mir Boutell produced the cablegrams and correspondence that passed between Mir Breckinridge and the state depart ment relative to the costume the ambas- sador should wear at the coronation.
 Mir Boutell caused great amusement by then reading a published account of the tour of the United States by the Grand Duke Alexis in 1871, dwelling upon the details of his visit to Kentucky. where he was received Officially and with great state. With good temper he concluded by expressing the hope that what had oc- cured in the house within the last week would be accepted abroad simply as an- other evidence of the "erratic and spora- die form, which American humor some times took in the forms of representa- | tives.
 | General debate on the Indian appropria- tion bill was closed and at 5:05 D. m. the | House adjourned.