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Mr.. VEST IS NOT SATISFIED.


hour expired and the resolution went TO the
foo, of the calendar.
MR. VEST IS NOT SATISFIED.
Mr. Vests substitute was as follows
Resolved. That it is unwise and inexpedient
to consider the project of anneXing the Ha-
waiian territory to the United States; that the
people of the Hawaiian Islands should be left
to choose and maintain their own Government;
end that any foreign intervention in the political
affairs Of the islands will be regarded as an act
unfriendly to the Government of the United
States"
Ny Vest disclaimed emphaticay any intention
to be hypercritical in relation to the resou-
ton reported by the Committee on aoreisn
Relations. 1t was possible that the intention
Of the committee might be the same as his own
He might be mistaken, but the resolution re-
ported from the Committee on Foreign Relations
seemed to him suggestive Of future annexation
1t said that it was incXrediert and unwise to
consider the project Of annexation "at this time
and under present conditions. His substitute
was not amenablc to that objection. The Com
mitIee resolution. if adopted. might be used as
an argument by the Provisional Government and
its adherents They might say. IF we main
tain ourselves for short time longer. then the
Senate Of the United States has told us that ii
al
.cUCKoo's" VIEW or THE CASE
Mr.. Gray del. DEM a member Of the Com
nttee on Foreign Relations, said that Mr.
Vest entirely miscOnceived the scope and OBJ
ject Of the resolution reported from the COM
mittee He did not see that the substitute
differed at all from the committee resolution ex-
cept that the substitute left out any phrase
oogy that could. by any implication. be con-
sidered as putting the Senate alongside Of the
Executive in his treatment of the treaty OF
annexation. which he withdrew for further
consideration" The purpose Of further con-
slderaton'' had been honestly entertained by
the President. and had been honestly acted
upon. He (Mr Cray challenged any one 10
show that that purpose had not been honestly
in the Presidents mind The President had
sent to the Hawaiian Islands gentleman to see
with his eyes and TO hear with his ears what
the President could not sec hear with his
own eyes and ears. He had thereby shown a
jealous intention and desire to perform a great
public act on due Information and with
we-infOrmed mind and conscience.
Having done 50. the President had submitted
a special report TO the Senate with the facts and
papers on which it based. announcing his
conclusion that IL not wise and expcdient 10
rcsubmit the treaty under present conditions.
in that respect the resolution did not differ from
the substitute except for the studiOus exclusion
from the substitute Of any language which
might. by implication. refer to the President Of
the United States.
Rather too much had been said Mr.. Vest
remarked. IN regard to reflections on tho Pres-
dent. The Senator from Delaware says that the
substitute excludes an Endorsement quasi-n-
dorsement of the President on account Of his
=,
ate; and that the substitute differs in that re-
spect from the committees resolution"
Il did not say or intend to say" Mr.. Gray re-
piled. that the Senator from Missouri intended
any reflection on the President. ] merely wished
to point out that there absolutely differ
e2ce between that part Of his substitute and the
first clause Of the committees resolution"
Mr. HoAR GROWS INQUISITiyE.
Mr. Hoa: Tep. Mass)-Did the Senator from
Delaware state that the purposes of the com
mittee in reporting this resolution was to in
dOrse the Presidents action In withdrawing the
treaty?
Mr. Gray-I did not. | stated what was my
understanding.
Mr. Hoar-I supposed that the fact that the
President had withdrawn the treaty and had
indicated his opinion that annexation ought not
to be considered was one Of the facts and cir
cumstances that might lead the committee and
the Senate to say that 1T is not worth while for
US TO consider 1t. But If anybody claims or pre-
tends that this resolution is intended to say that
IF the President were willing and ready to con-
slider it now. should not be ready to join with
him in considering 1t. that would pre- sent very
serious question Indeed.
Mr. Gray-For one. do not know whether the
President within the remaining years Of his
annexation not do not understand that this
resolution was framed with any notion of com
hitting the committee or any Senator who voted
for it either for or against annexation.
Mr. Hoar-Does the Senator understand that
this resolution is reported for the purpose of
. committing the committee and the Senate or
anybody who voted for it either to appreciation
or disapproba.ion Of the Presidents act in with
drawing the treaty?
Mr. Cray--I have said nothing in relation to the
purpose of the committee in that respect
Mr.. Mitchell (Rep.. Orc)-Does the s. nator from
Delaware believe that ever since the recognition
Of the Provisional Government the highest utter
national interests have required that 1t shall be
permitted to pursue rs own line Of policy?
Mr.. Gray-No; do not. am speaking in the
present tense. not in the past tense.
BELIEVER IN ANNEXATION.
Mr.. Frye (Eep., Mc.). another member Of the
Committee Foreign Relations, avowed that he
was now and always had been a very earnest
annexaiionist He believed now and had be-
/ levej for years that the best interests of the
Hawaiian Islands and the best interests Of the
United States Of America required annexation
He should therefore, have much preferred that
the resolution had been silent on tina. point
But he had voted for the resolution In COM
m!ttee because he regarded 1t a paramount
duty on the part Of the United States to-day to
bring peace to those Islands. 1t was In the
power of the Republic to do so. The people of
the Hawaiian Islands had believed for the last
six months that the Government Of the United
States was determined to destroy what they con-
s.dered as their liberties and their rights