The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-12-07
THE NATIONS CAPITAL
An Exceedingly Lively Debate
in the Senate.
HILL MAKES A STRONG SPEECH
He Challenges Cleyeland's Right
to Use Force in Restoring
IiiiuOkaiani.
Associated Press.

Washington, Dec. Elm the senate
/ this afternoon, when Hoar's Hawaiian
| resolution was taken up, Hill created a
| sensation by making perhaps the
strongest speech of his senatorial Ca
ieer. He challenged the right of the
president TO use military force to re-
store the Hawaiian queen. There are
three coordinate branches of this gov
c1nment," he said, land this authority
is not vested in the president alone"
The contemplated action of Cleveland,
he declared, would be a usurpation of
the rights of congress. Sherman also
challenged the correctness of the pres
idents position
A spirited discussion occurred on
the Hawaiian question over the re3o-
luton offered yesterday by Hear le;
questing the president to forward To
the senate all correspondence on tie
Hawaiian question Hoar desired that
swift and indignant remonstrance
from the American people should make.
itself felt and heard. The president
was getting in the nabit of adopting
rather extraordinary language in his
dealings with other branches of the
government"
Sherman favored the passage Of the
resolution. One thing which appeared
to him to be every plain was that the
congress of the United States had not
been treated in an open and fair way,
in which an administrative part of the
government of the United States
should treat congress The resolution
was then adopted without division.
Mills opposed the resolution. 1t call
ed for information, and meanwhile, Its
a,uthOr, before he got that information.
ch arged the president with medituting.I
cn act of war. Mills denied that state-
ftlel It. The presidents action in the
HAT ter had been strictly confined with
III IL e limits of his executive authority.
The only question presented was, did
the United States government inter-
fere a nd overturn the existing gov
trnment of Hawaii. If it did, it was
The dut of the people of the United
States, represented in its govrnment,
TO make restitution and reinstate the
gove1nme1 1t which had been over
thrown.
Hill said he did not propose to cross
he Hawaiian bridge till he reached it, |
nor did he int nd to discuss the wisdom |
If the original procedure. or of wha;
1ad been done recently by the present
This was simple res
,lution asking fol information which
he thought the Am erican people want
ID 10 know from TIN presidents mes
sage, and were disaE pointed when Ii
vas not given them. 1T had been said,
continued Hill, that Instructions had
seen given. He did not say so, how
wer, and he hoped 1t wa not true,
nom which it was inferred that force
night be used to restore the p reViouhly
'Ilsting status Shat brought up the
question whether the admlnisl r.Ltion
rad pUacr, without the consent OF con-
ress, to nse the army or navy t. 4e-
tore the previously existing condh ior
{ affairs. \eyen conceding the govel n
lent had been planted by fraud pr
ven by .orc.. There were three de-
of this government. and the
xecutive department was but one OF
hem. There were reasons why this
should be given now. Per- d
APPS at this moment, possibly at this I
cry hour, the navy Of the United Z
tates cooperating with the United /
tates minister was seeking to destroy
he provisional government by force,
nd that was question the propriety
( which should be determined by con-
ress.