The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-15
DEroUrcEs MR. HAY
Says He Should Be Booted Out fState Department.
If Stories of Pauncefote's Acttcma in 1908 are Trus, Declares the Congressman, He should Be I
 Driven from America.

Washington, Feb. 14-The monotony q a private pension day of the House vas enIivened today by sensational speech from MT. wheeler CKy.) in denunciation of what he denominated "nunkeyism' ts foreign countries. He took the recent statements emanattng from continental cabinets regarding the attitude of orea1 Britain during the Spanish war as a tsxt for a wholesale attack upon the trend of our recent diplomacy.
 He severely scored Secretary Hay ana declared that if Lord Pauncefote had sought. as was alleged, to circumvent us during the war of 1898. the sooner he was shipped across the seas the better He also criticized the President for his re- ported intention to send his daughter te the coronation of King Edward. and pro tested against the official reception c& Prince Henry. His speech aroused thu House to a high pitch of excitement and elicited from Mir. Boutell Qll) spirited defence of Secretary Hay, whom he eulo- gized in high terms. Several other mcu1- bers of the Republican side took hand and later in the afternoon MT. Grosvencr
 
 'inopportune protest" and rehearsed the history of the visit of the Prince of Wales to this country in 1860 and his reception by President Buchanan.
 During the day 125 private pension bIIls were passed in thirty-seven minutes.
 Mir. Wheeler. during consideration of one of the private pension bills, delivered a sensational speech in denunciation of Great Britain, based on the recent reve- t..& ant off tnde toward the United States during the Spanish war.
 l MT. Chairman" said he, 'I have read l with lively interest the recent exposura and criticism in tl1a press Of the attstude of Great Britain and the other European | powers toward this republic during the war of 1898. Divisions of public sentiment | among the people of the United States are to be desired But until the inaugura- ton of the President in 1897 there never | was any division of sentiment upon one great question. and that was the splendid isolation of the republic and its fixed determination to hold aloof from all en- tangling alliances with foreign powers Then the belief and fixed judgment of well-nigh every patriotic citizen was overturned, and, for the first time. we witnessed a President of the United States aided and egged on by pitiabla funkey fin the State Department. stretch ing his arms across the water to embrace the historic enemies 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 funkeyism, our truculency and disgrace full sycophancy of the representatives of the republic at the feet of Great Brit ain; and now, when it serves the purpose of some other great power, the pitiabie spectacle is presented that we have been hugging to our bosom during the last five years nation that has systemati- cally and consistently attempted to de- stroy the liberties of the American peo-. pie since the battle of Yorktown. We find now, despite the fact that the pres ent administration is afraid, even in the face of its great majority to ask an ap- proprfation of $60.000 or s100. 900 to pay some shoulder-strapped. gold-laced fiun- key to cross the water and bow the knees and kiss the hand of some English king, that while this very pitiable spectacle Is being presented to us if Is being heralded broadcast that in 1898. when We were seeking to strike the shackles of serf- dom from off the heels of Cuba. that ns- ton was then secretly, in our own Ncapl- tai. attempting to form a coalition of the great powers of the world to prevent that interposition. And it has not caused a ripple in diplomatic circles. It has been the boast of America. diplomacy to the contrary notwithstanding, that when our State Department said No we meant Mo- and when we say Yes we mean Yes It remained for the present and just closed Republican administration to inaugurate a system of European diplom- acy, with a kid glovec velvet tongued gentleman who had to travel out of his way to find a response to a plain categor- teal question.
 We are destroying the integrity and the pride and intelligence and the hon. esty of that great department of the Government. ! have a respect for the present occupant of the White House, frankly avow; I think he is too honest to be palatable to the avera SC Republi- can partisan. little Quixotic, 1t Is true nasty tempered full-blooded and not ex- actly desirable to many of our citizens, and l indulge the hope that that finger ing element of Americanism will induce him at the first opportunity to boot out that man in the State Department which, in my judgment. has brought us to this humiliating condition.
 England a friend of United States? I would to God she were: but what a spectacle have we presented in order to be able to boast that we have the friend- ship of Great Britain and have become a world power. Never before in the his tory of the republic has there been a struggle for freedom on the part of any people that representatives in this cham Der 6id not hasten to declare that we regarded with solicitude the endeavors and efforts of people to obtain their own liberty. For more than four years we have witnessed Great Britain maintain ing military stations inside the borders of the republic.
 We have seen her agents going up and down this country enlisting men and buying materials of war. And I believe I will not travel outside the record when I asert that any member of this floor who has served here as much Gs four years has received letters from his con- stituents protesting against the enforced enlistment of American boys by the Eng