The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-20
THE REPLY OF BOUTELL
AGAIN ANSWERS THE SPEECH OF WHEEtER.
Indian Appropriation Bill Consider ed by the House, But the Speeches Were All Upon
 Extemporaneous Topics.

VI C | Washington, Feb. 1s-Agsin today the | general debate on the Indian appropria- ton hill was devoted almost entirely tc
 tn the heeU issue ~ raised by Mr. Wheeler 'aKy.i
 0 few days. ago came in for considerable attention and was the. feature Of the ses- sion. Mir Cromwell, an Ohio Republican
 Fleming a Georgia Democrat, added their l views to the literature on the subject | but 1t was Mir. BcuteH. an IIltnois Re- | publican, who entertained the House most s- .ss -s & 7 ts He was we'll fortified with material. and with exceeding temper and trenchant display of wit, he traced the history of what Mr. Wheeler had called ;truculent Ss he s.id e.asnt sne aay chased bogus coat of arms to the en- l tertainment of Queen Lilioukalanl by the | last Democratic President. He finally dismissed the whole subject by saying 1t | should be accepted abroad as one of the s"erratic and sporadic phases of American l humor." 900
 MT. Hamilton Michigan Republican.
 enlivened the proceedings with an enter
 speakers were MT. Little tArk.) who dis | cussed conditions in the Indian Territory; | Mir. Corllss (Mieh.) who apoke on the | Pacific cable; Mir. Stephens (Texo on | SLdLenOOu IOT ohiuiOHid, ouiASi. NAN' ", on increased pay for letter carriers: | Mir Fitzgerald (N. Y.), on education of | the Indians; Mir. Jackson lKas). on the | election of Senators by the people and Mir. Newlands (Ney.).' on the bill to re- deem silver dollars in gold.
 When the consideration of the Indian | appropriation bill was resumed in the House today, MT. Little (Ark. ), the rank mittee. addressed himself to the condi- tons in the Indian Territory. The ana-
 malous situation there, where 357.o white men had no voice in the govern gress. He contsnded that Territorial form of government should be set up there. t,9
 He reviewed the recent great develop the 1 Territory. with iSo town. and cities and wealth amounting to $50, ,000,00 he said there were ssoooo white children of school age, but no schools. Such con- o1n onase He asI bsevsd ths Terrtors ready for Statehood. but that Congress should grant at least some liberal form of Territorial government.
 MT Rromweli of Ohio. who followed upon the recent speech of Mir. Wheeler of Kentucky. In the course of his remarks he paid . tribute to the Germans ana elicited from MT Wheeler x. the nLo,, remark ,aS | making himself solid with his German | constituents.
 MT. Cromwell read humorous poem, the burden of which was that Mir; Wheel
 Germans of Kentucky went to the polls | in the fall.
 MT. Corliss of Michigan then delivered
 the second instaliment of his speech in | favor of the building of a government CO.,
 ble to the philippines. He argued against | any consideration of the Commercial Ca
 ble Company'sf offer to build a cable
 from San Francisco to Manila, denounc-
 Eastern Extension Cable Company whose | allied lines. he said, embraced system
 which aggregates nearly 10000 nautical
 miles of cable covering the most exten-
 sive and powerful cable and telegraph
 monopoly in the world. He said their lines reached every continent except North America and the purpose of the union
 with its American ally the Commercial
 I acific Cable Company is to encircle the | globe and extend the influence and ad- vantage of its present monopoly in the
 Pacific Ocean and the far East:
 What have you to say to the aitega,,
 Michigan, That your bill Is in the in
 terest of the Western Union Telegraph | Company" MT. Corliss replied thta In the Fifty l fifth Congress the Pacific Cable Com | legislation for the privilege of construct | ing a subsidy-fed cable. He had then contended, he said, that if two great companies wanted the privilege 1t should | be given to the lowest and best bidder, or that government cable should be built. At that time he said the Western
 Union opposed his idea and the Postal encouraged the idea of government ca, ble. Since then he said the Postal and Commercial had formed an alliance with the Eastern Cable Company and were now opposed to a government cable: The
 Atlantic Cable and the Western Union zt> Co rnru. tad with the monoplistic cmbination.
 Mir Jackson '(Kas), spoke in favor of agitation against the Senate to compel 1t to pass the joint resolution for consti- Senators by direct popular vote.
 Mir. Kern (nl), who announced that he represented large German constituency and was himself a son of German par make political capital out of tho recent speech of MT. Wheeler (Ky.) which he characterized as an insignificant inci- dent" He folio we'd his protest with an to show sympathy for the Boers. strmg- gling in South Africa, he said. for the liberties for which our forefathers fought
 MT. Boutell Gn9 congratulated MT: Kern on his accessi3, to the band of American hnmorists in which Mir Wheel CT ranked so high.
 MT. Boutell then proceeded with deli cate hamor to trace the origin of what MT. Wheeler had called "truculent syc- ophancy." First, he read a letter writtcn by Thomas Jefferson in 1771 in which he authorized the purchase of a coat of arms for him and from another written four years later in which he says thgt he would rather be dependent on Great Brit ain than any other country or than none Then 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 sobriquiet Of | Prince John. by which ne was known afterwards Mir. Boutell said that he felt sure that when the daughter of the Pres
 Edward VII she would be known as
 Princess Alice"
 | Mir. Boutell then told the story of the | coronation of the Czar of Russia in 1896 and of the appearance on that occasion 1 of the Democratic American Ambassador, | Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas, in | full court costume. knee brooches and
 all. Mir, Breckinridge was, he said, amid | laughs. a native of Lexington, Ky.
 He has been dead politically evel l since, interjected Mir Fitzgerald (N. Y) 1 Mir. Boutell produced the cahlegrams | and correspondence that passed between
 Mir Brecknridge and the State Depart l meth relative to the costume the Ambas-
 sador should wear at the coronation.
 MT Sims (Tenn,) interrupted to ask
 where this correspondence had been oh- | tained.
 'lnev are the originals from the State Department" replied Mir. Boutell. | Could not the diligence of the State | Department be better employed in help
 ing the suffering Boers than in unearth- | ing this correspondence? inquired Mir | Richardson. the minority leader, amid | Democratic applause.
 "I leave that to the experts on true