Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1893-12-08
.iE FIGHT BEGINS.
Hawaiian Question Taken Up
 Ia the Senate.
A SPIRITED DISCUSSION.
Senator Hoar's Resolution Calling For the Correspondence Finally Adopted Without Division-Gulberson Gets
 Two More Judges For Oklahoma

WAsHINaToS. Dec. "A spirited dis cussion of the Hawaiian question oe- cupied the time of the senate. The debate arose over the resolution intro 1 duced by Mir. Hoar of Massachusetts to request the president to forward to the senate all the correspondence on the Hawaiian question. Senator Hoar said the resolution covered a period of three administrations, and he hoped and be- 1 lieyed the instructions would show settled and consistent policy, certainly down to recent time, ill regard to which there had been no party or pc iiticaf difference of opinion If the l presidents message meant anything it meant that the president was meditat ing the question whether he should, by his own executive authority. commit an act of war against friendly power. If what was apparently proposed to be 1 done had not been done, yet Senator Hoar desired that the swift and indig- nant remonstrance of the American people should make itself felt and heard. The president was getting into the habit of adopting rather extraor- dinary language in his dealings with other branches of the government. Senator Mills of Texas, opposed the resolution and denied the Statement that the president meditated an act of war. He said the only question pre- scented was. did the United States gov ernment interfere and oveFtnrn the ex- isting government of Hawaii? If it did it was the duty of the people of the United States represented in the gov ernment to make restitution and rein state the government which it had oyerthrewn. Senator Mills asserted that the entire Hawaiian difficulty had arisen because the sugar planters of Hawaii wanted to obtain a bounty on sugar to be paid them out of the pock- cts of American citizens.
 Senator Villas of Wisconsin thought the resolution should not be adopted at this time. He criticised the remarks of Senator Hoar as to the reported ae- tion of the president being an act of war.
 Senator Hoar continued saying the queen yielded to an armed insnrreetion and not to American troops.
 What information has the gentle man." asked Senator Gray, that there WAS any armed insurrection on the 9th Of January,
 The statements of Stevens and the provisional government, replied Sena. tor Hoar.
 There is not bit of evidence of that declared Senator Gray
 1T LlSs Il Hoar.
 Hoar urged that the whole argument of the senator from Wisconsin and ths senator from Texas WAS one that would require the United States to give Texas to Mexico
 We never got Texas from Mexico. T said Senator Mills. Texas came into the Union voluntarily" :"
 Without going into the question of the character of the instructions of the president to his minister Senator Vilae declared that what the president had instructed his minister to do he had ample, complete and perfect authority to do.
 "How do you known came from hall dozen senators at once.
 Senator Villas moved that the resolu. ton be referred tos the committee oz foreign relations.
 Senator Hill of New York and Sher. man of Ohio, spoke in favor of the reso. luton
 Senator Gray agreed with senasof Sherman shat there w&s no objection to the adoption of the resolution.
 Senator Frye of Main spoke of chs high character sf exTIinister stevsna and declared the readiness of himself and hrs colleague tHsle) to defend him against any attacks made upon him.
 Senator Call of Florida closed Che de l bate and the resolution was adopted l without division and the senate went | fxs n ow wA&1y4;x.a aaag{or