Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — BAYARD UNDER FIRE. [ARTICLE]

BAYARD UNDER FIRE.

The Ambniaador'i Speeches Abroad Attacked in the House. One of the new members of Congress, Mr, Barrett, of Massachusetts, caused a sensation in the House Tuesday by offering resolutions for the impeachment of Ambassador Bayard. The resolutions were not adopted, but the impeachment clause was stricken out and the whole matter referred to the Foreign Affaire Committee which, it is expected, will report back a resolution of censure. This was not done without opposition from the Democrats, nor until after a lively debate, in which ex-Speaker Crisp and Mr. Dingley were the chief participants. Young Mr? Barrett made a speech attacking the ambassador for his address at Edin-

burgh, in which Mr. Bayard denounced the American protective policy as fostering class legislation and corruption in public life. Mr. McCall, also of Massachusetts, made a still more bitter attack upon the ambassador. Ex-Speaker Crisp replied to Mr. Barrett in rather an ironical tone. The purpose of the resolution, he said, was evidently to give the gentleman on the other side something on which to air their views on protection. He did think, ho said, that any gentleman elected to a scat'on the floor of the House believed that this resolution contained grounds for impeachment. “If you impeach Mr. Bayard for those words," said the ex-Speaker, “you must.impeach a majority of the American people.” Mr. McCall followed Mr. Crisp, and said that Mr. Bayard made a violent partisan speech which was obviously one of impropriety. Bayard, he said, had misrepresented the American people by saying they needed a strong master. The people of the United States had no master. The President was their servant. He moved to amend his resolution so as to include in it the extract from Mr. Bayard’s Boston (England) speech incorporated in the McCall resolution.