The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-24

Washington, Jan. 23-The Senate
committee on foreign relations report
ed favorably the following resolution:
Resolved, from the facts and papers
laid before the Senate, that it is I'M
wise and inexpedient under the exist
ing conditions to consider at this time
any project of annexation of the
Hawaiian Islands to the United States;
that the provisional government there
In, having been duly recognized. the
highest international interest requires
that it shall pursue its own line OF
policy Foreign interventions IN the
political affairs of these islands would
be regarded as an act unfriendly to
the government of the United States"
Turpie. who reported the resolution
In behalf of the committee, said he was
directed by the committee to ask
Immediate consideration, as it was
the unanimous expression of the com
mittee, except the dissent of Senator
Dolph to the first clause.
Turpie further explained that the
resolution had no relation to the spec
ial investigation being made by the
committee.
Teller objected to immediate con
sideration on the ground that it has not
been printed, and Mills gave notice
that when it came up for considera-
ton he would ask for a division of the
question.
So the resolution went over under the
rules.
A bill for a commission at the Ant
werp exposition was presented by Man
dArc0Y1
stewart. of Nevada, spoke in favor
Of PETERS resolution denying the au-
thority of the secretary of the treasury
TO issue bonds
Wilson, of Iowa. spoke IN opposiuoh
To the repeal of the federal elections
law AT the conclusion of Wilson S
remarks, Cullom asked unanimous con-
sent to take up the resolution, Frye
declaring against interference in Ha-
vaiiRn affairs.
Chandler was quite willing to extend
time 10 Cyullom for that purpose and
allow the election bill to go over In
fact" said he, 4 will make even a
broader proposition to the senator from
Delaware (Gray) / would suggest the
bill repeating the election laws be al
lowed to go over until the first OF De
cennber next in the absence OF any
recommendation by the president OF
the United States that this bill should
pass dJaughter)
Il am very loath," said Gray, ito
wound the tender relations which exist
between the senator and the president,
but still, without regarding these re
lations which compel him to subordln-
ate his own views to the views of the
executive, l must insist the bill be con-
sidered now" Naughterl.
Chandler then yielded to Cullom, and
the election bill being temporarily laid
aside. the Illinois senator addressed
the Senate on Frye's Hawaiian reSo-
luton of non-interference.
Cullom savagely attacked the policy
of the administration in the Hawaiian
matter Abundant testimony had been
furnished to controvert the assumed
theory of the president and the secre-
tary Of state that the revolution was
melted and fostered by Minister
Stevens and Captain Wiltse, but in
any case, Cleveland found a govern
rnent established and in full posses
sion and recognized by the world. Gull
lom compared Blount's crafty acts of
a spy in Honolulu to the employment
of Major Andre by the British govern
rnent in revolutionary times. and said
Blount deserved Andres fate. The
country has reached the conclusion
that the president and cabinet with
all their new tangled para mounts and
cipher dispatches, are merely the iron
clad actors in a stupendous comedy of
errors.
At the conclusion OF Culloms re-
marks. a resolution was presented by
Dolph and adopted, requiring the pres
ident to communicate to the Senate any
correspondence exchanged between the
government of the United States and
the government of Columbia Vene-
zuela and Hayti since the proclams ton
issued by the president on the 18th of
March. 1892, levying import duties on
sugar molasses, coffee, tea, hides and
other produce brought from those
countries to the United States.
Chandler replied to the recent speech
of Vest on the operations of the federal
elections law in 1876, and the Senate
adjourned till p. m.