Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-02-17
HOT shot BY WHEELER
Congressman Denounces Alleged Dis
position to European Funkyism.
SCORES THE ADMINISTRATION
Declares 1t Wrong to Send EnvOys
to Edwards CrOwninE-Criti-
cises Nature of Welcome
to Henry of Prussia.

Washington. Feb. Ii. - This being
pension day, the house went into com
mittee of the whole and took up the
consideration of private pension bills
on the calendar.
During the debate upon a pension
bill Mr.. Wheeler (ky.) created a sen
sation by a speech denouncing the at
titude of the administration and the
state department in connection with
what he termed the recent exposure
Of the attitude Of Great Britain to-
ward the United States.
Mr.. Wheeler eXcoriated what he
termed the modern disposition toward
European funkyism." Until 1896, he
said, all Americans had gloried in the
splendid isolation of the republic and
Its determination to hold alOof from
foreign entangling alliances.
Less than five years ago. he declared,
a president, legged on by the pitiable
iunky in the state department." had
stretched his arms across the seas in
adulation to the people of Great Brit
ain, and today the government was
hugging to its bosom a nation that
since the battle of Yorktown has sys,
tematically and persistently plotted
our downfall.
Criticism For EnvOys
He sneered 1t the shoulder strapped
laced fiunkies" who were to be dis
patched across the Atlantic to bend
fho kpnn fp onH hiss tho hand nf tha
English king, whose government, he
declared, had attempted to form a CO.
alition Of European governments to
thwart is while we were seeking to
strike the shackles from Cuba. Hon
est. straightforward American diplo-
Macy. he declared. had given way to
European diplomacy.
He said he respected the present oc-
cupant of the White House. He was.
he said, too straightforward for many
of his party colleagues, slightly quixOt-
lie perhaps and hasty tempered, but
honest and brave enough, he thought,
to boot out that man in the state de-
partment who had brought us to this
numiliating position"
DenuncintiOn of England.
Turning to Iingland's war in South
Africa, he denounced her tyranny and
the part we had in it in allowing wal
material to be shipped from our shores.
If half that was said of this maj
P~auncefOte" was true, he declared. he
ought to be shipped across the water
and the sooner the BETTER Refsrrins
to the report that a member of the
presidents family was to attend the
coronation, Mr.. v heller said it was
perhaps unbecoming to allude to 1t.
Nevertheless, he said. he considered it
most unfortunate and unprecedented
and to be lauented by every liberty
loving American" 1t was but one link
In the chain.
Mr.. Wheeler then turned to the pros.
pective visit of Prince Henry. With a
gesture of contempt, lie declared that
the European ~n!aniacs are falling
over each other to see the little Ouch.
man." There We're a thousand Amer.
leans following the ploW, he said, who
We're as honest and as noble as he"
Why, he asked. should the American
people give heed to this tlunkyism OF
the present administration? We should
treat our visitors politely, but why fall
down and worship them?
The Whole House Aroused.
The whole house was aroused by Mr..
WheeIer's philippe. Several times the
Democratic side burst into applause.
AS he was concluding Mr.. Gillett
(Mass.) called attention to the fact that
President Buchanan, a Democrat, had
received the Prince of Wales.
'"That was a different thing" retort'
ed Mr.. Wheeler amid Republican jeers.
"He came in an official capacity as the
heir to the British throne"
This statement Mr.. GrOsvenor de.
MED, declaring that the prince came
incognito and was received and enter
tanned at the White House by u Demo
cratic president. IF the gentleman is
correct" announced Mr.. Wheeler, then
| condemn the action of President
Buchanan"
Mr.. BOutell Qll.) vigorously defend
ed the head of the state department.
No man in recent years had reflected
such credit upon Il diplomatic af
fairs as he. He referred especially to
the Chinese crisis and said his acts
throughout that time had won the
commentator of the world. Mr.. Bou
tell said he could not sit silent while
such an attack was made Upon u man
who had shed luster upon II diplo.
macy.
The excitement then subsidized. and
consideration of the pension bills was
resumed.
Drinking Water In the navy,
For many years after the close of the