Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-02
MILLARD CLAD TO Be HOME
Senior Senator and Daughter Return from
Six Weeks Trip in Europe.
OLD WORLD APPLAUDS ROOSEVELT
Europeans Think President Has
Achieved Great Diplomatic Vic
tory in Bringing Russia
and japan Together.

Senator Millard and daughter arrived in
Omaha Friday morning after a six weeks
trip to Europe. The senior Nebraska sena-
tor was on hand bright as a new dollar
shortly after his arrival in Omaha, his
appearance and bearing plainly indicating
that the trip over the water had done
him great good. The first thing that inn
presses visitors to returning Nebraskans
is that they look well and express the
feeling that tires not and is springing
perennially with health and vitality; and
yet they insist that the ozone of this
delightful prairie state is incompatible.
AS Senator Milard intimated:
THE anticipation of getting home to all
you know and love is the same feeling
that impelled the Irish emigrant. return
ing to his native shores. to lift his hat as
he entered Dublin bay and make that
declaration the poet has immortalized,
old Ireland out OF the full OF me heart
wish you the top of the mornin'.
Nebraska" said the senator, 'looks
magnificent to me. Boy and man, l have
known her moods for many many years,
and her adornments are steadily gaining
on my sentiments and my love. In all
sincerity l can say there is none to COM
pare with my own state and my own people.
Hut One Sentiment.
With reference to the conclusion OF the
peace of Portsmouth, Senator Mlllard
frankly spoke his belief:
There Is but one sentiment existent
among people l have met since my return
That is to the effect that our president
has achieved by good judgment and strong
EFFORT something that could not possibly
have been done by any European monarch.
This is the sentiment on both sides Of the
wa no.
that the chief magistrate of the America
nation had the prescience and determln-
alton to do, and did do what ought to be
done. This is especially true for the reason
that so long as the war existed there was
| a possibility of other nations becoming
mixed up in IT, The outcome is very pleas
ing"
on the question OF international recip-
rocity Senator Millard said:
Nowhere is there any word unfavorable
so far as l could Judge, The why's and
wherefores do not concern the people
! They seem 70 be friendly to the spirit Of
the proposition"
EmIgrants IN south America.
On another branch OF international man
euvering. the senator had this TO say;
THE German government is giving spe-
| cial attention at this time to placing emil
grants in Brazil the Argentine Republic
and other wide places OF the same charac-
! ter IN that section. / was struck by the
strength Of the German steamship com
panies in this connection. And let me say
with all the emphasis possible that It is
humiliating TO Americans abroad TO note
that our flag does not show Up on the seas
! as il was wont TO do. We have practically
| no ships on the ocean. Our commerce Is
/ carried on in or through the ships and
companies OF other nations.
Coming home one phase Of the ameni-
ties Of nations was forcibly presented TO
me On the Ia Touraine. the ship we
Travelled on. were two engineers OF tho