Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — SHOCKS THE SENATE. [ARTICLE]

SHOCKS THE SENATE.

NEW JERSEY MEMBER UTTERS SOME BLUNT WORDS. EiTl the People Are GettiaK Tired ot Inactivity—Minister Willie in Disfavors at Hawaii—Rumor that the Mew Government la Shaky. Smith Score# Hi# Colleague#. Senator Smith, of New'" Jersey. addressed the Senate Monday in opposition to the Monroe doctrine resolution. There was, he argued, no occasion for any action of any kind upon this subject- at this time. Both houses of Congress by the passage of the resolution providing for the appointment of a commission to determine the true divisional line l>etween Venezuela and British Guiana hail donp all that the Presidentand Secretary of State, charged with the responsibility of diplomatic negotiations with other powers, desired. and all that the people expected. “Wehave.” he said, “done all that either prudence can justify or patridfisih demand.” Later on in his f-poech Senator Smith said: “The people hare hail enough They want no more jingoism. They are ridclTahdtireddf the constanT injeetitm of party politics and personal ambition into onr dealings with other nations. They are suffering from our inaction upon matters of most vital importanoi*., Indeed, it is a fact, and we may as well admit it first as last, that the great majority of the people are disgusted with Congress in general and the Senate in particular. The. most popular thing we could do today, and probably in the present condition of affairs the most beneficial thing we could do, would be to pass the necessary appropriation bills and go home. The mere fact that we are in session is a menace to the revival of business and the r«*turn of prosperity.” Mr. Dole Indignant. Advices from Honolulu say that ti tles# Secretary Olncy apologizes for the aetions of Minister Willis that official may be given his passport soon. The trouble grew out of an invitation issued by the Hawaiian foreign office to the diplomatic corps to participate in the national billday of Jan. 17, the anniversary of the overthrow of the monarclTy. AVillis refused to take part in the celebration on the ground that President Cleveland did not approve the manner. in which the monarchy was overthrown. Julian D. Hayne, editor of the Hawaiian, a monthly magazine'published at Honolulu, arrived at Man Francisco on the steamship Australia. He takes a Tory pessimistic view of the present government of Hawaii and says the Japanese are becoming «o numerous there anil so firmly rooted that the islands are in danger of becoming mere outposts of Japan. Britain Will Arbitrate. Dispatches from Ambassador Bayard received Monday at the State Department at Washington bring good news. The queen's speech at the opening of parliament recommends arbitration of the Venezuelan difficulty and indicates that diplomat icrclat7onsT>eriveehGreafßrit-' i»in and Venezuela, which havedfieen suspended since 1887. are now in a fair way to be speedily resumed. Nor- is this all. Ambassador Bayard informs the State Department that Great Britain will sub- " in it to the VcjiezuWan Commission apI>ointed by the President copies of all the records concerning the Guiiuja boundary in possession of the foreign office. These records are voluminous, anil have only reeently been translated anil printed by the foreign office, after painstaking investigation at the capitals of Holland and Spain.