The age-herald., 1902-02-15
Says Secretary Hay Has Made United States the Laughing
 Stock of All Europe
OBJECTS ID AMERICANS
 KNEELING TO THE KING
Takes Shot at Committee Who Will Receive Prince Henry and Dubs the Admiral a "Little Dutch
 mann-Creates Sensation.

Washington, February 14.-The monoto- ny of private pension day of the House was enlivened today by a sensational speech from MT. Wheeler of Kentucky in denunciation of what he denominated ''funkial" to foreign countries. He took the recent statements emanating from continental cabinets regarding the atti- tude of Great Britain during the Span ish-American war a text for whole sale attack upon the trend of our diplo- macy.
 He severely scored Secretary Hay, and declared that if Lord Pauncefote had sought, as was alleged. to circumvent us during the war of 1893 the sooner he was shipped across the seas the better He also criticized the President for his re- ported intention to send his daughter to the coronation of King Edward, and pro- tested against the official reception of Prince Henry. His speech aroused the House to high pitch of excitement and elicited from MT Boutelle of Illinois a spirited defense of Secretary Hay, whom he eulogized in high terms. Several oth- CT members of the Republican side took a hand. and later in the afternoon MT Grosvenor of Ohio took MT. Wheeler to task for his inopportune protest, and re- hearsed 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 bills were passed in 37 minutes.
 Wheeler Begins Denunciation.
 MT. Wheeler during confederation of one of the private pension bills, deliv- cred his sensational speech in denuncia- tor of Great Britain, based on the re- cent revelations regarding that govern- ment's attitude toward the United States during the Spanish American war.
 MT Chairman said he. "I have read with lively interest the recent exposure and criticism in the press of the attitude of Great Britain and the other European powers toward this republic during the war of 1898. Division of public sentiment among the people of the United States Is to be desired. But until the inauguration of the President in 1897 there never was any division of sentiment upon one great question: and that was the splendid iso- lation of the republic and its fixed de- termination to hold aloof from all entan- gling alliances with foreign powers. Then the belief and fixed judgment of well-nigh every patriotic citizen was vorturned, and for the first time We witnessed president of the United States, aided and egged on by pitiable funky in the State Department, reaching his arms across the water to embrace the historic enemies of the American people.
 "From that good hour until now we have made ourselves laughing stock with every court in Europe because of our flunkeyism or truculency and disaraceful sycophancy of the repre- sentatives of the republic at the feet of Great Britain; and now, when it serves the purpose of some other great nation, the pitiabIe spectacle is pre- sented that we have been hugging to our bosom during the last five years 8 nation that has systematically and consistently attempted to destroy the liberties of the American people since the battle of Yorktown. We find now, despite the fact that the present ad- mInistration is afraid, even in the face of its great majority, to ask an appro- pration of $60,000 or $10o,o00 to pay some houlder-strapped, gold-laced Hunkey to cross the water and bow the knee and kiss the hand of some English King.
 That while this pitable spectable is being presented to us it Is being heralded broadcast that in 1898 when he were Ser1dOm from off the heels or Cuba, that nation was then secretly in our own capital at tempting to form coalition of the great powers of the world to prevent that inter- position. And 1t has not caused a ripple fin diplomatic circles It has been the boast of America, diplomacy to the con- trary notwithstanding, that when our state department said no we meant mo and when we say "yes' we meant "yes
 Calls Hay Velvet Tongued.
 "It remained for the President and the Republican administration to naugurate A system of European diplomacy with kid gloved velvet tongue gentleman. who had to travel out of his way to find a response to a plain categorical ques- tion We are destroying the integrity and the pride and intelligence and the hones- ty of that great department of the gov ernment. I have a respect for the pres ent occupant of the white house. I frank ly avow; I think he is too honest to be palpable to the average Republican parti- san. A little Quixotic. it is true nasty tempered, full blooded and not exactly desirable to many of our citizens and 1 indulge that hope that that lingering E element of Americanism will induce him at the first opportunity to boot out that man in the state department, who in my Judgment, has brought us to this humil- iatng condition
 'England friend of the United States 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 Q 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 ber diG not hasten to declare that we regarded with solicitude the endeayors and efforts of people to obtain their own liberty. For more than four years we have witnessed Great Britain main tainng stations inside the borders of the republic
 English Agent in This Country.
 we have seen agents going up and