Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS

The SenatefJiin. 24. convened without a quorum, and a roll call was necessary before business could "be proceeded with. Unimportant bills were considered and disposed of. Mr. Allepthen presented th< Hawaiian resolution as follows: “Resolved. That it is the senee of the Senate thatthe revolutionary government having’ become the established government of the Hawaiian islands, that a wist Fi and enlightened foreign policy requires that steps should be taken by this Government without unnecessary delay to annex those islands to the. United States at a part thereof, and that In the meantimt j the personal and property rights of American eitizens in said islands shou Id be protected by the presence of a sufficient nava force in Hawaiian waters.” The resolution went over. The Hawaiian resolution ot Mr, Lodge* was r.tiler: taken up, and Mr. George made a carefu legal argument to show that there was nt popular suffrage and no real republican form of government in Hawaii. Mr George presented- a table showing the number of days United States war ships had not be»n at Honolulu during the last” twenty years. It showed that. I'nited States war ships bad been kept in Hawaiian waters very little of the time d iring the last twenty years. In 1874 our ships were away from tho islands forty-one days, At the-conclusion of Mr. George’s speech consideration of the Nicaragua canal bill ; was rest! med, and Mr. White spoke til advocacy of tlie project-. The bill for the transfer of a portion of the exhibit of the Department, of State at the World’s Columbian Exposition to the Columbia! Museum of Chicago was also assed. Tht jaxtitbtttmirsferred coveTsTher'&rßAo’W’ convent and the, collection relating to it After short executive session the Senate, at 5 o’clock, adjourned. The House. Jan. 24, devote! all its time to a consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. An amendment was agreed to on motion of Mr. Sayers providing for the expenditure of notexceediiif $150;00Jot the n ppro pri a tioti o f $7;>8,333 foi the improvement from the mouth of tlTt Ohio river to the mouth of "the Missour river, for using movable jetties and steel', caissons in removing bars and improving the low-water channel of the Mississipp river.

In the Senate, Jan. 25, Mr. Mills madt a caustic speec.li upiiolding the course o! the administration policy iu Hawaii anq scoring'the sugar trusts .The Senator denounced the present Hawaiian government as “an oligarchy masquerading as t Republic. Itw--as a part of the great sugai oligarchy. Th Is was the ol igarefiy appeat ■ ing to -the United Sia-tes for-sym-pathy auc support.” Mr. Mills asked why a Republican administration had set up a barbarous king on Hie throne of Samoa.. “Whi designated this king?’'' said Mr. Mills “Why, Emperor William of Germany. Queen Victoria of Eugland and Benjam r. Harrison of the United States.” The Nicaraguan bill was then taken up. Mr White, Democrat 'from California, presented a letter from London, stating that if the United States did not proceed wilt the canal project British’ capital wonk step iu and carry out the plan. Briel speeches were made under the five-minute rule. A number of amendments were offered and adopted, the rnpst impurtant being that of Mr. Wolcott, providing that every dollar of stock shai! represent a dollar actually expended. The bill was then J»ut to a final vote, with the amendments, and passed—yeas. 31: nays, 21, In the Senate, Saturday, Jan. 26, ths Hawaiian question again came to the front. Senator Vest offered the following resolution: , “Resolved, That while the people of tin -United States earnestly-sympathize with the effort, tb establish republicanVnstlnv tions wherever that effort is made, thej reaffirm the policy of non-intetference, unless by agreement. w_ith_tha-aft'airs- oi other nations, and recognize to the fullesi extent the right of every people to adop; and maintain their own form of goverrrment, unaided and uninfluenced by foreign dictation. “That the administration of President Cleveland in maintaining this policy as tc our foreign rei-teHnns dtHeiwiVthe.appK+vai and support of the American people.” After a protracted debate the resolution passed—2l to 22. In the diou-e, Jiff). 26, th#propo.titd re« peal of tife bne-tentb different.iui tax or. -Sngac-hrohgii t- an exciting det,ate between Mr. Wilson, of We.-t Virgiira. and several Republicans. Mr. Wilson made th.? Ha'emutil that, the Gevernment did not jieed additional revenues.,. “1 would like to dispel from the minds of Jb( American people;”-said he, “the commo: and prevalent idea that the treasury is in distress from lack of revenues. Tiii.stutetnent was received with jeers on t.’ii Republican side of the House, but. Mr. Wilson waved it off doprecatingty, declaring that, :o far as the revenues were concerned, tlie Treasury was flush and tn no. danger of default. He again expressed the opinion, in which lie said lie had never wavered, that, lite tariff iiiii. as it originally passed .the House, wit h tjie ..income, tax provision and with no duty on sugar, would, under normal conditions, have snppllid suffich’ri-t--revenue. It:str-ad ol bankruptcy staring ns in the fare,” said he, amid a howl of Republican derision, “we are moving steadily and persistenly toward a surplus.” Mr. Dlngiy (li“p). of Maine, and Mr. Hopkins (Kepj. bf Illinois, closed with Mr.i Wilson at this point, .challenging his figures Mr. Payne (Rep.) of New York, arzued that the sugar differential did not contravene the favored nation clause of our treaty with Germany. Only two persons ho said, coutim le I that it. did—Secretary Gresham and the'German Embassador. The President in bis message last December, had not taken this vie v of the case. 12r;11 f there was to 18; com mereia I war between this country an i -Germany, the United States could stand it. . Mr Warner (l)--m.) of New York, closed the debate Tor the das'. Tn t'ne course of hi; remarks he read a st ’teinent from a sugai jou-rnal that :V though' the fill! might, pass the House, it would meet death in tin Senate. The House, at 5:10 p. tn., ad journed.