The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1893-12-28
SENATOR VEST. OF MISSOURI.

He Talks In Florida of. hawaii, State
hood and the " l!>on Tariff Bill.
Tampa, Fla, Dee Ex-senator
Vest, If Missouri, arrived here last
night, a,i iii c,n'! auy with h,s wife
is low guest of the Tampa Bay
Hotel. He ga. - light with efer
ence tot = SO. fiat:
II have o.. 'ii,~ t. add 10 What l
said In my speech of "Wednesday
last in the Senate that the Hawaiian
Government is lie facto Govern
ment, and | think this country
should have no ,-irg 10 with it. The
United States sh u!d leave the i'll
habitants Of Ht~au to settle the
trouble among themselves. l am
opposed to ann xation as much as
any man, for l think we have as
much territory as We can manage
We don't want those islands. After
my speech l was told by a Senator
very close to Mr.. Cleveland that the
President had not ordered Minister
Willis to use force, If he had, it
would haye been clearly unconstitu
tional, ,and I don't believe Nr. Cleve.
laud would violate the Constitution
1 thiuk the whole thing will oe left
to the Hawaiians to settle iu their
own way, and probably all our Gov
ernmsnt will do will be- to take such
measures as will best protect Ameri-
can citizens. their property and their
personal rights. Annexation eau not
succeed, as the,e is large majority
against it in both houses of Con-
gress
"Polygamy in the United States is
dead for ever was the Missouri
Senator emphatic declaration with
reference to Utahs clamor for eleva
ton to statehood. land there is no
good reason why Utah should not
be admitted into the Union. The
Mormons realize that the people of
the United States are opposed to
polygamy, and that they must give
up polygamv, quit the country, or
fight the Government. They can't
afford to do anything but give poly
gamy up. Any condition that Con-
gress might impose OH them as re-
quirement for admission would have
no effect, as they could vote it down
as soon as Utah became Il State.
The majority of Mormon men are
not polygamists at heart and will
give it up;the women are universally
polysamists, because they make it
their religion With them it Is a
matter of conscience. Mormonism
has received some terrible blows in
the last ten years, and l believe it is
dead.
New Mexico and Arizona will be
admitted, too, this session. They
would have been admitted with the
Dakotas and Nevada if they had
neutrality-suspicious., and SO would Utah,
Mornonlsm and all. They are Dem
ocratic. and that is all that kept
them out
Il have not read the Wilson tariff
bill through carefully" said Senator
Vest in reply to a question in that
direction. There are SO many
changes being made in it that it is
almost useless to try to keep up with
it until it comes over into the Sen
ate, but in general 1 think it good
bill The bounty will be taken of
sugar entirely, l think, and tax not
exceeding 4c per pound may be
placed on it. The loss in revenue
by the tariff will be met probably by
an income tax. I am in favor of
that. and it can be adjusted to meet
the deficiency. I am against all pro
lection. and believe in tariff for rev
enue only. Congress will probably
reduce the tariff on Sumatra tobac-
co. The bill viii probably pass as
it is reported by the committe.
Florida people want the tariff on
tobacco and oranges unchanged,
Senator, was suggested.
Il hope to see the whole tariff re-
| duced to IA revenus basis. was his
reply. If there is anything in my
State which wants protection for
projections sake. I am opposed to
it, and [ will vote the same way
apainSt other States The lead IN