The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-07

VIZ RtOttb1 ihniiOS bu0 1OuS6i ab III,
took up the consideration OF the resolu.
tion Of the foreign affairs committee
ceDsuring Minister Stevens. and Outh
waite (Ohio) addressed the House. AS
preface to his remarks he said he
should have nothing to say against
President Harrison or Secretary OF Estate
Foster, and he had no doubt that Mr..
Harrison made great President from
his point of view.
present President and also the policy
which declared that the islands should
not be allowed to fall into the hands OF
any foreign government.
Culberson (Dem., Tex defended the
resolution in legal argument. Storer
(Rep., Ohio) made a strong legal argu-
ment against the legality of the appoint.
ment OF Blount as commissioners to Ha-
wall while the Senate was In session.
Everett dem Mass) defended the
course pursued by President Cleveland.
Loud (Rep CALI, who was the next
speaker, prefaced his remarks with the
statement that last spring he had Wis
tied the Hawaiian Islands and had re-
NAMED there two months, SO that he
spoke as one who had personal infor-
nation on the subject. AS result. on
an interruption, he said that he had
not gone to Hawaii to spy upon Blount.
but in his interests, and he thought it
was mistake TO trust implicitly to one
man instead OF commission, for no one
man was free from the faint of preiu-
dice.
Turner (Ga defended Blount from
the charges which had been made
against him and attacked the provis-
ional government.
Sickler (Dem., N. Y J created a sen.
sation by attacking the Presidents pol.
icy He was the frat Democrat who
had not uphold the resolution OF the
foreign affairs committee. lie held that
one administration should not constitute
itself court OF appeal or review OF
preceding administration. Republican
applause).
The question OF provisional govern
ment was res adjudicata" and he had
heard no one propose that that question
should BIO reviewed. He mentioned a
number Of instances in which it was
shown that this country had pursued q
policy of annexation. President Polk in
lS47 had negotiated protectorate over
the lsthmus Of Panama ana that had
stood for many years. The same thing
was done ia Nicaragua when it became
pre- bable that route from the Pacific
TO the Atlantic would be built there,
thus giving the United States control
there
In referring to the pending resolution
of the foreign affairs committee he said
he could not indorse it and he would not
vote for it. (Repu blican applause.) He
closed his remarks with the prophecy
that no matter what NJ light be the action
OF the House to day it could not change
the decree of destiny that sooner or
later, the Hawaiian Islands would be-
come part OF the United States cloud
applause on the Republican siee)
Deforest (Dem., Conn., defended the
foreign affairs committee resolution,
while Hepburn (Rep, Iowa) spoke in
opposition.
Hooker Dem, Miss was the last
speaker, and in a long speech ably de-
Tended the resolution OF the foreign
affairs committee.
At $3.50 tho previous question was
ordered and vote was frat taken on
Blair's amendment approving the recog.
milton OF the provisional government by
the Harrison and Cleveland admins
trations and declaring for a policy of
ultimate annexation.
Blair amendment was defeated on a
standing vote of n to 1855; and on the
roll call of 90 to 1856 vote WAS then
had on Mr.. Hits substitute. His de-
clares the sense of the House that tho
Presidents demand on the provisional
government to surrender and his at
tempt to erect monarchy in it's stead,
was an unwarranted intervention in the
affairs OF a friendly recognized govern
ment, contrary to the law of nations,
the policy and traditions of this repub
lie and the spirit Of the constitution
Also, that the provisional government
having been recognized the highest in
terests require that it shall pursue its
own line OF policy, and foreign inter
vention will be regarded as an act un-
friendly TO the United States. This
substitute was lost, yeas, l03; nays, 1853
Reed moved to recommit and this was
lost. yeas, OF; nays, 1873, Cummings
Dem, NJ W voting with the Republi-
cans. Reed demanded the yeas and
nays and the motion was again de-
feated, yeas, 30; nays, l60. All were
strictly party votes except that Mr..
Republicans. The Populists also GEN
orally voted with the Republicans.
The question then required on the
original resolution offered by McC.eary.
The ayes and nays being called for tho
Republicans abstained from voting
with one exception, Frederick, OF
Kansas) and the Democrats could only
muster 16l members, and one of these,
Sickles, kept his threat and v)ted
against the resolution.
Tho Speaker announced the result:
Ayes, 100; nays, 2-no quorum, and Nc
Creary demanded a call of the House
The Republicans, under tho leadership
Of Reed. f1libustered, and demanded