St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-14
VEST DEFENDS CLEVELAND
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open an adversary as l ever met. There
is no doubt he has the
SAME OPINION
of me politically that | have of him.
Neither of US strike below the belt.'
Laughter.
The crime committed by the president
or the United States, for which he had
been threatened with impeachment,
was that he did not favor annexation Of
the Islands. If that constituted crime
Mr.. Vest declared. he himself was a
criminal, and, in his Judgment, SO were
large majority of the American peo-
pie.
The plain issue before the American
people, said Mr.. Vest, is whether we
are to break down the traditional policy
OF this country inaugurated by Wash
ington and carried out by Jefferson,
jackson, Buchanan, and now by Cleve-.
land. Are we to depart from that policy
and now venture upon the great colonial
system of the continental powers of
Europe.
Was it proposed now, and Mr.. Vest
wanted this made distinctly an issue.
that instead of having a compact conti-
mental republic which the fathers made
1t, the United States is to have a great
expansive territory, acquiring govern.
ment and extending even 20 the islands
of the ocean and the uttermost parts of
the world? Was it pretepded, and would
any senator upon the Republican side
of the chamber say that the United
States was to bold the Hawaiian Islands
as colonies? The people of the United
States. said Mr.. Vest, wanted no colon
les. They wanted the government the
fathers made for them. and which they
intended to preserve for their children.
A compact republic in which every citi-
zen was represented
WITH NO ISLANDS
out in the ocean around which the
United States was TO gather an ener-
nous fleet. and upon which it was to
place Notifications, when an attack upon
single Kanaka would involve the dig
nifty of the whole country. and would
require the expenditure of the last dol
lar and the last drop of blood to defend
them. We intend TO know if you mean
this government shall trample under
foot It's traditions, its history, teachings
of its greatest men, and now go out on
diplomatic raids throughout the world
for the purpose of interfering with the
internal and domestic affairs of other
people. As l understand the condition
of affairs in Hawaii, the provisional
government is a de facto government.
1t is today de facto government, and
any assault upon it by armed force on
the part Of the United States or any
other country must be an act of war,
which can alone be brought about by
the action of congress. l DO not under
stand that Mr.. Gresham meant that
armed force would be employed. He is
an eminent iuriSt.
Coming to the instructions to Minis
ter Willis, Mr.. Vest said: ''If it should
turn out that those instructions were to
restore the queen by armed force, no
one will deprecate it and none will re-
slst the doctrine to any extremity more
than myself. l repeat. it would be an
act OF war. 1t seems to me impossible
that the secretary of state and the pres
ident of the United States should have
come to the conclusion that without
the
ACTION OF CONGRESS
they could do any such thing. But, as
understand the position. of the admin
istration now, as given in the instruc7
tons to Mr.. BlOunt, it is simply a repe-
tition and affirmation of the time-hon-
ored doctrine of our country in every
administration"
Mr.Vest closed with statement of
his conclusions. He said: ..If l had
the power l would withdraw every
shadow of United States authority from
the Hawaiian Islands except so far as it
was necessary to protect, under interna-
tIonal law, the property and persons of
American citizens legitimately residing
there. should leave the opposing fac
lions to settle the question OF SOW
ereignty for themselves"
Mr.. Frye replied briefly to Mr.. Vest,
and during his remarks said that in
I drawing a parallel between MIR. Blount
| and Mr.. Stevens, in which he intended
| to confine himself to mental qualities,
| ne had accidentally inserted the words
integrity of character" and then as
serted that Mi. Stevens was paramount
to Mr.. Blount in that respect. In revis-
| ing his speech he had stricken those
words out, because he did not mean to
attack tine integrity of Mr.. Blount.
Mr.. Hoar discussed the questions of
presidents for the Blount appointment,
and said that only few of them mot
more than thirty at the most applied to
the case.
/ The resolution was then referred to
the committee on foreign affairs.
L. Morrill, (Rep.,Vt.) then addressed
the senate on the tariff question. His
speech was devoted mainly to con-
parlSon of the practices of this country
with those of Great Britain OH the cues
ton of tariff, and of the industrial con-
dltlonS of the two countries, and to a
criticism of the Democratic party for its
tendency TO follow English presidents.
At the close Of Mr.. MorrilPs speech
the senate at 30 went into executive
session after which IL ndiOurnad