The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-03
!. TWO LIVE ISSUES.
Cutting Out the Work of
Congress.
! HAWAII AND THE TARIFF.
The First of These Cleveland
Desires to Bury.
HAWAII AND THE TARIFF.
CANNOT CONCEAL THE TRUTH.
Even Now the Senate Has Begun
the Gathering of All Avail
=. -.. - able Testimony.

." w WASHING TOM Jan. =. - Most OF the
" members OF Congress are in town now, or
will be before Tomorrow morning, and il
is expected that there will be q o difficulty
about quorum when Congress meets.
From the very. outset this will be a
troubled session. The plan for the week
in the House Is that the tariff shall be
taken UP tomorrow and general debate
fndulged in. for two days. After that
b according to the agreement entered into
by the Republican members of the For
eiRn Affairs: Committee, The Hawaiian
resolutions are to be taken up on Friday
and discussed for two days.
Both of these questions are extremely
perplexng to the majority, and there Is
another whichiS threatened to be forced
. upon them at once which will be even
more trOU blesome.
The shrlDkage of funds now in the
treasury is so rapid that it is said some
means must be provided a. once to meet
the deficiency. The expectation Is, there
fore, that tlle consideration of the tar fl
~ question and ali other matters must be
interrupted within. week and some meas
Ure for the reliefof the treasury adopted
without delay. BY what method this re-
lief Is to be given is entirely unsettled,
ard the differences of opinion are radical.
The fact that the money has to be raised
. a. once. Will force speedy action, but hard
fight is expected There is no basis for a
prediction as.to what will be done, except
tbat'an issue Of bonds in some form is the
only me ans of raising money as speedily
as it is desired, and that is what the ad-
mtnistFation wants. Tie limited time n
which the money must be raised Will prob
ably force Democrats to consent to
bond issue who are violently opposed to it
now.
- The present purpose of the Democrats
is to'limit general debate on the tariff bill
!, 10 fourdayg, ana then to proceed to the con-
sidefauen Of the bill. under the five-miuute
rule as rapidly as posi- bic, with the idea
Of having the bill through the House be-
fore the end of January. ...:
The majority. of the Ways and Means
Committee: haTe:-ht last. come to su agree
neutnpon-. the proposition for an income
tax. adopting the plan of individual taxa
tIon agaln6t4the White House protest, and
3: Increasing The tax on whisky; but while
they have been quarrelipg over it there is
reason TO helieVe that in the House the ad-
vQeateSo the proposition to abandon the
income: tax in all lis forms and Co raise
revenue fFoIl*a dnty: on sugar have made
good many valuable converts, and there is
d Possibility that-this plan will be adopted,
II notify the Hotse then by the Senate.
. There is a very widespread disinclina-
ton alnong DenGoGrat to adopt McCTeety's
resolution cen s1FiEg Stevens and Wiltse
in the Hawaiian matter, and during the
two days fixed for the discussion of the
affair the administration will be severely
. arraigued by Republicans, and at the
same time there are several Democrats
who have it in mind to participate in the
srraigpment. :. IT has become apparent
that 1t wi II be Impossible to pass through
either House of fCQngTess any Endorsement
" of CleYeland's attempt to restore the
ex-Queep, and it, is very doubtful whether
= the McCreaTy resolution can be adopted
in the House, 1t is understood that there
are forty or fifty Democrats there who
.. think Cleveland should be rebuked,
Though It. IS improbable that many of
them-would have the courage of their con-
vicions.
r Very few believe CleveIand's course was
justified. and even among those few there
are some who think that it would be ex-
tremely unwiss to adopt the McCreary
RESOLUTION without further investigation,
especially as the Senate is Investigating the
matter being unsatisfied with the informa-
tlon In Its possession. 1t is urged that il
would be very unfortunate for the party
In poWerif the McCreary resolution was
adopted by the House and after that the
. senate investigation should disclose a con-
>dltlon Of affairs different from that as
sumeo 70 exlstOn very incom plete testi-
mohy on the pact:of the House committee.
Dome OF the Democrats in the House
: suggest amendments to the McCreary res.
oluton relieving Wiltse from censure and
declaring 1T to- be the Judgment OF Con-
gress that no action looking to the Festora-
ton Of IiliuOkalani should be takan.. The
mere general tmpres sion appears to be.
however, that either the resolution will ha
recommitted to await the result of the in:
Yestigation in the. SeRate.cr that an.invee-
tigation by the House will be ordered. A
yeTyIarge number Of Democrats believe it
would be extremely unwise for she House
TO pass resolutions Of censure against
.Stevena without a fuller in vestigation OF
the matter than has been so far made, and
there does not appearto be a probability
that the McCreary resolution will he
= adopted even under the lash of the admin
istTation whip.
Representative Hit of Illinois. head of
The. Republican. minority of the House
committee on Foreign Affairs, has re-
-tnrned to Washington. Owing to sickness
e IN his family he was unable to take part in
the preparation of the minority report on
the Hawaiian situation. but he will sup
port 1t On the floor when the resolutions
come up for debate.
1t Is evidently the determination of
: the administration to allow the Hawaiian
natter to drrp, said Hit, land that NAV
be the position of the Democrats in Con.
gress; but can 1t drop2 Here is BOYLE
Offering the yHawaiians all they asked
from US. Suppose with our policy of nom.
interference the Hawaiians accept the
terms with Canada for the British Govern
ment? This administration has never
declared Tito be the policy of the Govern.
nrett not to allow foreign interference
with Hawaii: or that the islands should
not become. part or some other country.
notwithstanding the desire on the part