Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-04
Hawaii-Tbe Senate Report.

Tho report from the Committee on For
eign Relations In the United states Sen
ate touching the various Gueauo1s IN
volved IN the Hawaiian problem ought TO
take that subject out OF party politics.
and turn it over to craftsmanship. There
were substantially four reports made in
this case First, the report or the ma
FORTY, consisting OF the able and dis
tlnguished Democratic statesman Senator
Morgan, and Messrs. Sherman. Fry,
Dolph. and Davis, the four Republican
members. Second. the separate report of
these four Republican members. Third,
the report OF Messrs. Butler. Turpie.
Daniel, and Gray, four OF the five Demo-
cratic members. And, fourth. the report
OF Messrs. Butler and Turpie.
To state these facts ought to suffice to
satisfy everybody that the Hawaiian ques-
tlon ought not to be regarded as party
question. We might say that they prove
that It cannot be made such n question.
The people of the United States VIII re-
fuse to divide on party lines on this
question as the senators above named
have already refused to divide.
We look upon these reports as indi-
eating that though It may not be i'm
possible for the Hawaiian problem TO as
sumo a new form. yet IL will be impossl-
bic TO rally the Democrats TO the sup
port OF any policy hostile to the Pro-
yisional Government. The people OF the
United States and the people of Hawaii
are friends, and they intend to continue
10 be friends.
But the most significant OF oil the facts
involved in the reports named above Is
the supplemental report OF Messrs. But
Ter and Turpie, two leading Democrats.
the one representing the South ard the
other representing the West In which
those distinguished gentlemen say that al
though the question Of the annexation OF
Hawaii TO the United States was not
submitted to the committee, except Incl
dentally. yet they think It not improper
for them to say that they are heartily
In favor of the acquisition of those Islands
by this country. They wish the acqui-
sition TO be made in a proper manner"
of course, as do all the annexationists,
the internal dlssension on those islands
for which they believe that the United
States Government is in some degree re-
sponsible.
In other words, the South and the West
do not intend TO allow New England and
the Middle States to dictate the forei.n
policy of our government. The Hawaiian
l., l. In ffn Int. -
OF the two grand divisions of the nation
we have twice mentioned-to Wit, the
grand South and the grander West
1t looks TO us as If there were nothing
but shell in the Hawaiian case. and
this shell were about to be crushed in the
hands and by the hands OF the people Of
the United States. The Senate is a Demo-
cratic body. Its Committee on Foreign
Relations consists Of i've Democratic
members and four Republican members.
But when these senators are forced 10
divide on the question, Messrs Morgan
chairman. TurpIc. Butler. Dolph, Sner-
man. Frye. and Dayis-seven cut Of nine
members-turn the cold shoulder to the
ant!-annexation policy OF Secretary Grcs-
party lines, but they know what they are
81 favor OF and what they are opposed 10.
and they have not forborne To define
their positions for the benefit of the whole
people OF the United States
We incline to the opinion that the APP
pointment of Commissioner Blount was
unconstitutional Also. that 1t WAS rons
20 place the navy in the harbor Of Homo
lulu under the orders of Mr.. Blount or Mr..
Willis.
However the report or reports we are
considering will have the effect OF clear
ing up the weather in both houses OF
Congress.
Mr.. Boutelle will try In vain TO use this
matter To the injury of tho Democratic
party. His repeated attempts to inject
into the Journal of the House resolutions
and motions intended not TO build UP the
country but to keep up the Republican
party Will amount TO nothing. The record
OF the Democratic Congress must show
for ITSELF and must be such a one as can
be successfully defended before the peo-
pie, who are the fountain OF honors in this
country, and should always be consulted