The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-27

AT last there seems ray of hope for the
Nicaragua canal. The Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations. it is said, intends to
take up Morgan's bill during the presen.
session. The President is understood to
be in favor of action, and so is Secretary
Gresham. and there cannot be any serious
opposition in Congress sincerely backed
by argument. The railway companies do
not like the canal, but their hostility is
thoroughly comprehended. Events in the
Hawaiian Islands have been of inesti-
mable value in educating American public
opinion to the need of the canal and also If
telegraph cable connection. Because
annexation of the Hawaiian group is de-
ferred, that is no reason why the canal
should not be constructed as part of
national policy In maintaining our posi-
ton in the Pacific. The navy would be
doubled in effectiveness for action at any
point by the canal, which during war
would easily repay The cost of construc-
ton. But its great value to commerce is
the motive which should be uppermost.
In the report of Chairman Morgan on
the Hawaiian question there is peculiar
vigor of language In one sentence likely to
make the passage his ORIG. 1t is not quite
accurate. as the history of England and
France illustrates, but it will serve pur-
pose for patriotic quotations. The report
says: when crown falls in any king
dom Of the Western Hemisphere it is pull
verized. and when the scepter departs it
departs forever" Nevertheless, the crown
came to Charles Ii when the protectorate
flickered out, and after the French reyolu-
ton Napoleon arose and then the Bour-
bons came back. Also. the republic in
Spain has given place to monarchy. But
in the case OF ex-Queen Liliuokalani the
crown is broken up. the throne may be in
lunkshop, and the scepter. if it exists at
all, Is very rusty. Ii is evident, whatever
happens 10 Hawaii, that the days of mon-
archy have indeed fled. The crown was
little better than gingerbread at any time.
and II relaxed and regilt would fail to
command alteration.
Rumor is already busy with The con-
tents of the next Queens speech in OPEN
ing Parliament. The present session has
lasted the unprecedented period in this
century of more than a year, and is not
over yet. But the session will hardly have
been closed when the next must begin,
and so on will go the weary round of
legislation coveted by one party and
detested by the other. If another home
rule bill forms part Of the programme
announced In the Queens speech it Is
quite likely the fresh session may go ahead
in earnest until there is some clash with
the Tories and Liberal Unionists suf1-
clently violent to warrant dissolution.
1t is beyond hope that the introduction Of
a home-rule bill in the amended shape liz
which the measure reached the Lords
would d OF again be discussed ad nausean,
by the Tories. The very clauses most
debated would again be subjected 10 dis
cussion with prolix iteration utterly
beyond excuse, the sole object being to
gain time ana defeat passage. If it does
reach the Lords they may be in a more
tolerant humor, but of this there Is little
indication from recent behavior on Gov
eminent measures which are not regarded
as identified with party politics. A gen.