Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-16
HEARRAIGNS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Talks About the Sugar Bounty and
Hawaiian Annexation.
PENSION APPROPRIATIONS
The Bill Still Under ConSidera-
ton in the House.
SENATE.

After some routine Duslfess the senate tOok
up the sundry civil appropriation BILL tho pend
ing question being on the amendment (recom-
msnded by the committee on appropriations)
reducing the appropriation for the improve
ment of the harbor of Philadelphia from $780,
900 to $500 000
In the course Of discussion on the amend
ment Mr.. Vest (Mo.) alluded to Mr.. Allison's
remarks yesterday 10 the depleted condition
of the public treasury and said that 1t
would have been better if that Senator (the
distinguished leader financially of the
republican party had come to that conclusion
some time ago. Instead of any reasonable and
judicious remedy being applied to the present
conditions of affairs. what WAS the specta-
Gle now presented to the country? The Secre-
tary OF the Treasury was found IN Wall street
begging like an Italian mendicant for gold from
the banks of the country. in order to sustain
the public credit. And it was openly ayowed
by distinguished statesmen, who were making
history and q reputation for the future, that
their object to tide over the next two
weeks SO as to leave the present disgraceful
condition of financial affairs on the incoming
administration of Mr.. Cleveland. Whatever
might be Mr.. Cleveland's faults as an admins
trative officer or as political leader he
had left net surplus OF lOO,OOO,OOO
IN the treasury. Why it that the Senator
from Iowa had never thought of getting rid of
the bounty paid on sugar? Why was IT that
republicans had awaited themselves Of the
peculiar condition of southern Senators and
Representatives on the pension question and
of the timidity of northern Senators and Hep
resentatives on the same question to put upon
the country the most enormous pension obhga-
ton known TO ali civiZation?
Mr.. Vest charged Mr.. Frye with the RESPONSE
bility for the sugar bounty. and alluded to the
attitude of Senators Edmunds and Morrill,
toward that subject.
The other day, Mr.. Vest continued. the dis
tinguished Senator from New Hampshire (Mr
Chsndler) proposed legislation prohibiting i'm
migration for twelve months-first, because the
immigration WAS of such character as to
threaten the moral and political welfare of
the country. and secondly, because OF the dam
ger of the introduction of Asiatic cholera. But
| scarcely had the Senator's eloquence ceased
to reverberate when a dispatch came from
San Francisco stating that the emissaries
of revolutionary government in Hawaii
were on their way to Washington for the pur-
pose of asking annexation to the United States
| And it was also made known to the American
| people that that revolution had been ac-
| complished peaceably; that "town meeting"
| had been Called and on this information
| (meager as it was) the Senator from New
| Hampshire rushed frantically into this cham
| Der, scarcely waiting for the conclusion of
morning PRAYER, and offered resolutions for
the immediate and unconditional annexation
of the Hawaiian Islands, with their 80, 00O
inhabitants, about 1000 of them whites and the
| rest Kanakas, Chinese. japanese. Polynesians
with the institution Of leprosy firmly estab-
lished in the midst of these blssful islands
And now we are told by the morning papers
that there is to be another continuing appro-
priation" for the late Queen of Hawaii OF
$40. 900 year.
Mr.. Mills CTex. And a bounty for their
sugar, too.
Mr.. Vest-And a bounty for their sugar. bu
l see that the autocrat of the Hawaiian Island,
Minister Steyens-says that it ought TO be re
duced to Sl2 ton. Is it not strange that, in al
| this furore of jingoism. We hear nothing Of tn,
Hawaiian Commercial Company, as it is called
an immense corporation, 60 per cent of who's
assets consists i'll sugar plantations on tn
Hawaiian Islands, and the stock of which i
owned almost entirely by Claus Spreckles? Tha
stock today is selling at nominal figure. but i
annexation takes place millions on millions vii
be put in the pockets of the men VIII
own this stock. The Senator from Ne,
Hampshire Mr.. Chandler) is willing now to EN-
brace leprosy, although he shudders with frigh
at the idea of Asiatic cholera. l imagin
that statesman, after annexation is accompli
as the French say, standing on the pebb
. beach at Honolulu, with his statesman-like ey
fixed on the heaving pillows of the dark Pacifi
rolling away to that glorious land where tn
dreams of the ancients located the Islands o
, the BEST"
|
Kanaka maiden, while the roar Of the breaker
reminds him OF the applause of his countrymen
Looking across this immense area Of water b
might well exclaim:
"No pent-up Utica contracts our powers.
The whole unbounded universe is ours"
Kanakas, cholera, leprosy and all. We are
by this continuing appropriation" for Hawaii
on the system invented by the Senator fror
Maine Mr.. Frye, standing on a volcano. Tn
eruptions Of that known Mauna-Loa ar
nothing compared to that which We will hea
from the lingo statesmen in Congress and tn
country during the next ten days. 1t is great
to be hoped that this continuing" system wi
not be eliminated. Let the tax money Q
the people gush forth in a continuous
lavish stream. no matter if the trea:
ury of the United States be depleted an
bankrupt. The democratic party must meet an
dispose Of the legacy left to it by the state
men of the republican organization. And
| there shall not be a dollar left FOR the schem
of annexation and kindred schemes tbs
Will come thereafter. there is only one consol;
9 ton for the eminent statesmen on the othe
d side of the chamber. and that is that anythin
done by the democrats to relieve the preser
-. | condition will meet with harsh and deliberat
!. antagonism.
y Mr.. President, do not propose to contr,
= vert q single argument made by the Senate
} from Maine, Mr.. Frye. simply rose to e,
9 press my profound astonishment and regr
. that the economical spirit which had such ell
"a auent ebullition on this floor yesterday d
: not sooner come from the distinguished lead
- Of the republican party-the chairman Of Il
= committee on appropriations.
HOUSE.