Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — BAYARD UNDER FIRE. [ARTICLE]

BAYARD UNDER FIRE.

The Ambassador's Speeches Abroad Attacked in the House. One of the new i members of Congress, Mr® Barrett, of Massachusetts, caused a sensation in the House Tuesday bj offering resolutions for the impeachment of Ambassador Bq yard. The resolutions were not adopted, but the impeachment clause w out andT ’the whole matter referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee which, Tt 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—Hingley were the chief participants. Young Mr. Barrett made a speech attacking Ihe

burgh* in which Mr. Bayard denounced the American protective policy as fostering class legislation and corruption in imbTieTi fel MuT'McCallLTlsSToFMassachusetts t ;madg. a .gtUL.mQ.rfi_Jjit.ter 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 off the other side something on which to air their views on protection. He did think, he sai<F,'that any gentleman elected to a seat on the floor of the House believed that thie resolution contained grounds for-, impeachment. ‘Tf you impeach Mr. Bay;: -d ft>r those words,” said the' ex-Speaker, 'you must impeach a majority of the American people.” Mr. McCall followed Mr. Crisp, pud said that Mr. Bayard made,a violent partisan speech which was obviously one qf impropriety. Bayard, he said, had mis, represented 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 aa to include in it the extract from Mr. Bayard’s Boston (England) speech incorporated in the- McCall resolution.