West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-06
PLEAD FOR Beers.
A HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE GAVE
HEARING.
Hexamef Said If Resolutions Were
PigeonhoIed Republicans Would
Lose Million German Votes.

WaSnlHgEO0, May o.-I0e NTSL con-
gressional hearing to those favoring
mediation for the Beers was given
yesterday a asub-committee of the
house comm iktee ON foreign affairs.
consisting OF Representatives Adams.
Of Pa; GiIiett, Of Massachusetts,, and
CQNsins, of Iowa The room was
c1bwded with delegations from manv
pAets Of the country, including Com
nlAhdant Snyman, who was on De-
Vets staff, and others.
DR.. Hexamer, of the National Ger
man Alliance. urged that resolutions
be reported, asking the president to
communicate to Great Britain IN ex-
preston Of the sympathy Of the
American people for those struggling
in South Africa and expressing the
hope that tae unfortunate differences
may be adjusted.
Would Mean Loss of Million Votes.
DR.. Hexamer said that England
would not at this time take umbrage.
mess, which has become a running
sore. He declared tire was no pur-
pose Of putting the administration in
o hole or of cooperating with the
minority in congress. He spoke, he
said, Is a Republican and not as a
said that if these resolutions were
pigeonholed it would mean the loss
Of a million votes of the German al
lance.
Charles S. Keyser, of Philadelphia,
chairman of the Boer legislative com
mittee, presented large number I
petitions.
He said that the governors of iii
nois, Louisiana and Colorado were
mostag gres siveB Ger tao krdl off
kstrongly pro-Boer and that one of the
most aggressive Boer sympathizera
would be chosen governor of Pennsyl.
vania.
Representative William Alden
Smith presented a letter from Mon.
tagu White, the Boer delegate, er
closing report by l. NJ. DeBruy:'
representing Messrs. Vessels and
Wolmarans, Boer ENJOYS, on the U.S.
of New Orleans and the waters of
the United States as base for aug
| menting the military supplies OF
Great Britain.
Others also spoke.
A brief from Peter Van Vlissingen
| Of Chicago, as to the breach of neu-
trality involved in the use of Ameri.
can ports for shipping military sup
plies, was presented.
Representative Smith stated that
the Fifth congressional district I
Michigan was united to a man in ask
ing that congress act, and he ex
pressed the earnest hope that tht
committee would respond to the uni
versal sentiment of the country II
giving the house of replese atatives
an opportunity to vote.
SuIzer Plead For ACTIN.
Representative Sulzer declared that
| nine-tenths of the American people
would approve a resolution of sym
| patty. In addition he urged that the
| president of the United States shcul5
| government should see that flagran,
violations Of the neutrality laws
which Mr. Sulzer declared now exist
| ed, were brought to an end.
Chairman Adams, Of the congress
sional committee, closed the hearing
He expressed the thanks Of the con-
mittee and said the only exception
which could be taken to the addresse7
| was in the statement Of some that !
political question was involved. This
was not a political question, he as
serted. The sympathy Of the present
administration had been shown by 9
tender of its good Offices, which has
been rejected. AS to the question c.
neutrality the facts were before tn
| attorney general.
Mr.. Adams said that the issue
were not those of domestic politics
but Of the rules of International Law
He assured the speakers that tn
resolutions Of sympathy would .
ceive due consideration.