The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-07


Mr.. Mills was still speaking when the
morning hour expired, at , o'clock p. M,
but, on motion Of Mr.. Hoar. he was per-
mltted to proceed with his speech. He
spoke OF the picture presented in the
overthrow of the Hawaiian government,
and the American republic, a power able
to cope with all the nations OF the earth,
standing with its guns shotted to the
lips and turned upon the palace of a poor,
hdlf-savage, half-civllized queen. Why,
he asked, had all this been done3 Why
had the American minister been CON
stantly informing the government about
the desirability of the Hawaiian
islands and about the value of their sugar
productions 1t reminded him of that in.
cideut in Roman history when Cato who
had been to Carthage, laid on the table
before the Roman Senate a bunch of Car
Uhage figs saying: This splendid fruit
grows within three days sail from
Rome"
Carthage delenda est. Carthage must
fall because she produced fine figs which
the Romans wanted. So the Hawaiian
Islands should change their government
because the sugar planters of Hawaii
wanted to obtain the bounty on sugar, to
be paid to them out of the pockets of the
American citizens.
Villas FAvORs WAITING.
Mr.. Villas thought it was due to all the
senators, that before the discussion as to
Hawaii proceeded they should be in posi-
tion to deal with the facts and to know
what they were. He desired that every
thing asked for in the resolution, and
much more besides, should be furnished
so as to enable the discussion to be con
Quoted on an intelligent basis. But there
were reasons, he thought, why the resO-
luton ought not to be adopted at the
present moment. The President in his
annual message, had made brief state
ment of his general position in relation to
Hawaiian affairs. and had said that addi-
tional advices were soon expected, and
would be promptly sent to congress. In
view of that complete and ample proffer
of information, it would be a more digni-
fed course for the Senate to pursue to de-
fer making a request of the President.
HoAR STICKS TO HIS POINT
Mr.. Hoar, again speaking, said that
even if six months or year ago some Off
cial of the United States had, in violation
of right and international law, done some
thing by which the government of Hawaii
had been OVerthrown and new govern
ment established, he would not concede
that it would be the duty of the United
States, six months afterwards, to over
throw the existing condition of things,
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restoration of Texas to Mexico.
Mr.. Mills reminded Mr.. Hoar that the
United States had not acquired Texas
from Mexico. Texas had come into the
union voluntarily.
= Mn Villas asserted that for what the
President had done, and for what he had
instructed his minister to do, he had
ample, complete and perfect authority.
HILL STANDS BY HoAR.
Mr.. Hill said that he did not propose to
cross the Hawaiian bridge until he got
to it. He did not propose to discuss the
wisdom of the original procedure. or the
wisdom of what had been recently done
by the present administration. He did
not understand that those questions were
involved in the resolution. He seldom
agreed with the Senator from Massa-
chusetts (N1r. Hoar), but he did
agree with him in this particular-that
the resolution was an ordinary and simple
one, asking for information from a de-
partmcnt Of the government in relation
to a most important matter. 1t was
information for which the American peo-
pie had looked in the Presidents mes
sage, and which they had been disap-
pointed in not finding there. When the
senators ascertained what instructions
had been given, and understood what the
true situation was, they could determine
what they ought to do. He did not CON
slider that the adoption Of the resolution
in the absence of the chairman of the
committee on foreign relations would be
any disrespect to that senator, Mr.. Nor
gan. What the Senate might see fit TO
do when the information was furnished
was another and different subject alto
gether
WORKING FOR DELAY.
The suggestion that the resolution
should not be acted upon in the absence
of the senator from Alabama was simply
for the sake of delay and in order that
congress might be powerless to take
proper action in a certain event. He had
no reflection to cast on the preceding ad-
miniStration or on the present admins
tratiOn. He had no unkind word to say
in relation to the action of the previous
minister to Hawaii, or of the present min
lister. 1t had been publicly limited that
instructions had been given to upset the
provisional government, by force, If nee
essary. That would bring up the
question as to whether the Pres
ident had the right, by the use
of the army or navy, and
without the consent of congress. to re-
store the previously existing status
even cOnceding that the former govern
ment of Hawaii had been overthrown by
fraud or force The informrtion asked
for in the resolution was asked because
the Senate was entitled to it. The resO-
luton was respectfully worded The in
formation was asked only so far as it was,
in the Presidents opinion, consistent
with the public interests to furnish it,
He knew that that was the usual form,
but he did not see why the information
should be withheld for single moment.
GOULD DO no HARM.
What harm was to be done if the peo-
pie could know precisely what was now
going on in the Hawaiian islands, No
good reason had been presented. or could
be presented, why the President
should not promptly comply with the
resolutions. There are reasons why the
information should be given here and
now Perhaps at this very moment, at
this very hour, the navy of the United
States, in co operation with the United
States minister might be seeking to de-
stroy the provisional government by
force. He did not intend to intimate
that the instructions given to the United
States minister to Hawaii, whatever
they were, were improper, because he
did not know what they were. Some
might say that the President had done
right, and some might say that the Presi-
dent had done wrong, butnO senator knew
what the President had done, and
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