The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-29
TRAFFIC IN MOBILES
Representative on House Floor Plays International
 Marriages.
70, MAMMA, BUY ME THAT!"
Few Million American Dollars Ex- changed for Monocled Idiot
 With Title.

Washington, Jan 2s.-International marriages of American heiresses to titled foreigners was denounced on the floor of the house of representatives to-day by MT. McGavins of Illinois, who spoke on the bill of his colleague, Mir, Sabath, to tax all dowries and titled husbands.
 Mir McGavins' remarks were made under, the license. of general debate. At times they provoked laughter and applause on both sides of the cham be-,
 The house, he said, was in commit tee of the whole on the state of the union, but he wanted to know what the state of the union was and what it was coming to. In view of these international unions between Ameri- can heiresses and alleged nobility l abroad, he wondered what the early l pioneers would say if from their graves they could look back and see so many of the womeneof this country sacrifice their souls and honor upon the altar of snobbery and vice. He | expressly stated that he had no par ticular reference to any American girl nor had he prejudices against all titled men, but he referred "only to those who have a monocle on their eyes, and an idiotic look upon their faces--those who have neither the disposition to do good nor the ability to do harm
 Mir McGavins said that his curiosity had been aroused to know the right committee to which the bill should have gone. but he found that 1t prop erly had gone to the committee on ways and means because it sought to levy tax And then, he said, he was curious to know whether the present tariff schedule included dukes, earls, lords and counts, land finding that these things were nowhere mentioned though it might be proper for the customs officers/to classify them like frogs legs, as poultry, for it is the gen eral opinion among Americans that they are a species of geese"
 Mir. McGavins said the United States
  that as between 1t and other nations the balance of trade was in it's favor but he said. nowhere in the sum- mary can be, found a reference to sucf trade as that in which soiled and fray ed nobility is exchanged for few mil. Hon American dollars wrung from the lambs of Wall street with a woman thrown in to boot"
 Every day,.he declared, seemed 10 bs 8 bargain day in New York city whether 1t be for yard of ribbon o a pound of flesh, whether 1t be upor the retail counter of Broadway or the auction block of Fifth savenue."
 In these days, he said, wealthy Amer ican girls travelling abroad when the, see some remnant of royalty, en. Enthusiastically exciaim, "oh. mamma. buy me that" An interpreter then i secured, a bargain is made, the money Is produced, "and the girl is gone {, soon return ] sadder but g wiser one
 In conclusion Mir McGavins said While 1 have engaged in some criti cisms of those particular ones wh have made a mockery of the most sa \ cred relations of life-of those not sat isf1ed with any other name but 'Coun tess Spaghetti or Countess Maearoni I want to say one word Tn tribute {, those true American women who have spurned the wiles of earls, lords ant counts for the love of his majesty-ar American citizen,'