Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — CENSURE FOR BAYARD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CENSURE FOR BAYARD

DENUNCIATORY ACTION TAKEN -;> BY THE HOUSE. * ' v 1 ' . > ' • *. ; Several Democrats Join the Republican'Majority, 'While -Five Republicans Refuse to Vote Against the Ambassador to Oriat— Britain. Rebuke an Ambassador. For the first time in its lwstory, the popular branch of Congress has rebuked ah A.meriran diplomatic agent for his utter-: ances abroad. The House of Representatives Friday adopted a resolution censuring Ambassador Bayard for his utterances iu Great Britain, The majority was overwhelming, the vote standing ISO to 71. As if to emphasize the severity ofthe rebuke, says a Washington correspondent, the number of Democrats voting for censure was greater than the number of Republicans voting against it. _Qne. Democrat, Mr.. Bailey of Texas, made a speech in favor of the resolutions and condemned the ambassador quite as - savagely as any of the Republican orators. One Republican, Mr. Willis of Delaware, spoke in Jlr. Bayard’s favor, but, it is claimed, he ivu actuated largely by State pride. Six Pet locrats—Bailey and Cockrell of Texas, Cummings of New York, Lati,nn>r pi South Carolina and Layton, and Sorg of Ohio —voted against Mr. Bayard,. and five Republicans—Baker of Maryland, Cooke of Illinois. Draper of Massachusetts, Pitney,of New Jersey and Willis of Delaware—voted for him. The second* expressing the opinion of the House that our diplomatic agents' abroad should avoid public discussion, was adopted by a still larger majority, the vote standing 191 to r,!i. Mr. Adams ißep.. I’a.). who was minis ter to Brazil under the Harrison administration, was tlie first to resume the debate. He favored the resolutions and said Mr. Bayard's long service and commanding position as an American made his offense the more flagrant and reprehensible. To show Mr. Bayard fully recognized his position as the representative of the Whole

people, he read from a speech delivered a year ago by Mr. Bayard at Wilmington, Dei., in which tire ambassador said: “I represent no party as ambassador to Great Britain, but my country and my own people.” Mr. Fairchild (Rep., N. Y.) regretted that the committee had not brought in articles of impeachment instead of censure, and Mr. Hutchinson (Dem.. Texas) said he would vote for the second resolution laying down the well-established principle that our representatives in foreign countries should abstain from partisan speeches. Mr. Willis was the first Republican to announce that he opposed censuring Mr. Bayard-w -Mr. Turner (Dem.,«GaA-apokc eloquently in opposition to the resolutions, and then Mr. Hitt, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, yielded the remainder of his time to Mr. Bailey (Dem., Texas), who made a speech In favor of the resolutions, declaring the Edinburgh speech was a breach of good taste and of diplomatic etiquette and was an offense against our common sense and sound and rugged patriotism, and that a man who would express such utterances as those of Mr. Bayard at Boston was “unworthy to represent this country anywhere or at any time.” ’Then the vote was taken as previously stated. The first resolution censured Mr. Bayard “in the name of the American people”: the second condemned in general terms the delivery of partisan speeches by our foreign representatives! For the second resolution nine Democrats voted and no Republicans against it. The nine Democrats were: Allen, Mississippi; Bailey, Texas; Cummings, New Y'ork; Hutcheson. Texas; Layton, Ohio: Owens. Kentucky; Pendleton, Texas; Sorg, Ohio, and Stokes, North Carolina. . The ; City Council of Anderson. Ind., as the result of a vigorous campaign by Christian bodies, has passed an ordinance yanking it a misdemeanor for any person under the age of 16 to smoke a cigarette, punishable by arrest-and a fine not in excess of s2o. The Great'Western Pin Company assigned at Toledo and named Fred B. Dodge as assignee. The*schedule of assets and liabilities shows the former to be $73,000 and the latter $40,000. It is reported at Port Said that Gen. Barratieri passed through there incognito. The Italian Government has forbidden the boarding of any transports homeward bound.

AMBASSADOR THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD.