The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-17
HOAR HOPS OVER TO HAW All
Cleveland and the Queen Accused OF
Ignoring the Laws.

the Hawaiian Constitution-Gal
ger Takes a Whaok at the Tariff
Issues-The Federal Election Laws
the Final Topic.
Washington, Jan. 16.-In the morning
business of the Senate the Presidents
message to congress, trapsmitting the
correspondence in the Hawaiian matter
was read by the secretary.
Mr. Hoar moved that the message and
accompanying documents be printed aud
referred to the committee on foreign re-
lations. He desired to address the Sen
ate on that motion, but postponed doing
so until after the transaction of the rou-
tine morning business.
Mr.. Call offered a resolution suspending
the rule as to secrecy in executive ses-
sions in the case of the nomination of the
internal revenue collector for the state of
Florida.
Mr.. Hoar suggested that the resolution
would have TO be considered in executive
session.
Mr.. Call said that he did not ask for
the present consideration of the resolu-
tion, He declined, however, to withdraw
it; and thereupon, at l2:45 O'clock the
presiding officer ordered the galleries to
be cleared and the doors closed and the
Senate went into executive session. The
doors were reopened at l o'clock p. m.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Call,
which went over without action, author
izing an examination into the condition OF
the civil service.
The House bill for the establishment Of
light and fog signal station near Butler,
Fla, was taken from the calendar and
passed.
THE QUEENS DEMAND FOR HEADS.
MIR. Hoar addressed the Senate on his
resolution to refer the Presidents Ha-
waiian message to the committee on for
eign relations. 1t would be remem bered
he said, that the President of the United
States, deeming that it would be a shame,
a foul shame, to expose the persons who
had been engaged in the establishment Of
the present government of Hawaii to the
vengeance of a cruel and semi barbarous
ruler, demanded from her an undertaking
that there should be complete pardon and
amnesty of all the persons engaged in the
revolution. Nobody, however severe
critic Of the present administration, ques-
toned the wisdom and humanity of that
stipulation. When the suggestion was
made to the queen by Mr.. Willis, said Mr.
Hoar, she was asked to issue proclama-
tion of amnesty, and she said that she
thought that the persons concerned ought
to be beheaded, their property contiscated,
and their children driven from
formed Mr.. Willis that she had
no constitutional or legal right to
promise amnesty. Finally, however,
promise of amnesty had been eXtorted
from her; and that promise was as gross
a violation of the Hawaiian constitution
as could be suggested or supposed. The
queen had notified Mr.. Willis of that fact
and had protested twice that she had no
legal power to do that thing.
Mr. President" said Mr.. Hoar. with
emphatic solemnity, there is but one
point of sympathy between the present
executive of the United States and the
deposed queen of Hawaii and that is a
purpose on the part of each recklessly TO
disregard the constitution of their own
country-the only difference being that
the President of the United States disre-
CARDS our constitution recklessly and
without provocation while the queen Of
Hawaii, in this instance, proposes to dis
regard only before the great temptation
of a throne"
GRAY MAKES NEAT TURN.
Mr.. Gray congratulated Mr.. Hoar on
his tender regard for the maintenance of
the Hawaiian constitution. He Gray did
not, however, know that the Presidents
act in insisting on condition of amnesty
and full pardon was not a wise one, not
withstanding the argument OF the senator
from Massachusetts. He Gray believed
that the President was right in saying
that he would exact such condition from
the queen before he would intervene or
exercise his good Offices with the pro-
visional government in her behalf, and
that the President was able under the
powers with which he was clothed, and
that the United States were able to make
good that promise.
Mr.. Hoar took exception to Mr.. Gray's
remarks, and u colloquy took place be-
tween them as to what each of them had
or had not said.
THE RAISING OF THE FLAG.
The colloquy drifted into the raising Of
the American flag and the landing of the
American marines at Honolulu, and in re-
gard to the flag, Mr. Hoar said that, as
he understood it, the flag had been hosted
purely and simply, as an act of courtesy
on the part of the provisional government.
Mr. Daniel asked Mr.. Hoar what right
had the American minister or the Ameri-
can admiral, at anybodys invitation, TO
assume the sovereignty of the islands.
'None at all" Mr.. Hoar admitted
After further discussion, in which moth
ing interesting or important was said, the
resolution went over without action Mr..
Hoar stating that the senator from
Illinois, Mr. Cullum, desired to address
the Senate upon 1t.
CHALLENGER on THE TARIFF.
Mr. Gallinger, rep, of New Hampshire,
then addressed the Senate on the resou-
tion offered by him on Dec. 20, declaring
it as the sense of the Senate that it is un-
wise TO attempt any change in the tariff
laws during the present administration.
MIR Gallinger concluded his speech at
2 AS o'clock, and the House bill to repeal
the federal elections laws was laid before
the Senate and became the unfinished
business"
Mr.. Palmer argued in support Of the
bill
The discussion was participated in by
Messrs. Chandler Gray and Hoar. In
the course OF Mr.. Hoars remarks, he
said that he preferred TO use the word
national rather than the word fed
eral. " and Mr.. Mills murmured that "a
rose by any other name would smell as
sweet"
HOAR TAKES UP THE QUOTATION.
Mr. Hoar caught up the quotation, and
said that whether the word national
or federal" smelled equally sweet de-
pended on the nostrils; and that there
was a time that the word national" did
not smell sweet in democratic nostrils. To
which Mr. Mills retorJed that there was
a time when the people Of Massachusetts
were as rebellious against the government
"a la fsaoatIa rf HaWIg