The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-05
COMPROMISE REPORT.
Republicans and Two Democrats
May Agree onHawaii.

Republicans and Two Democrats
May Agree onHaWaii.
A MINORITY OF THE COMMITTEE
OF the Senate Investigating the Mat
ter Opposes the Presidents Policy.
Two Reports Probable-Repubii-
cans Willing TO Forego the Advan.
tage Q { Complete Endorsement of
stevens to Join the Democrats on
posed to Cleveland's Policy.
WASHINGTON. D. O., Jan. 4-There
are many why the Republican
members of the subcommittee OF tie
committee on foreign relations of the
senate, now engaged in investigating
the Hawaiian matter, should be willing
to compromise with two OF the Demo-
cratic members, Senators Morgan and
Butler, and unite in making a majority
report that will be satisfactory to the
opponents of the administration. Such
areport, in the first place, would have
the weight and prestige of being made
by four-ffths of the subcommittee,
leaving Mr.. Gray to work out his own
salvation and that of the President in a
minority report OF one. Then, too, it
would have the advantage Of presenting
the appearance of being a perfectly
non-partisan. report, free from party
prejudice. being signed by an equal
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OF course it would be difficult to ar
range just the terms of such a report,
Tor much would have to be conceded by
each side, and much accepted by both
that would be wholly unpalatable un-
der ordinary circumstances. Senators
Morgan and Butler belong to that large
faction in the senate which is opposed
to the President on SO many policies
that they are almost out OF his sphere.
They were in the minority in the great
silver fight, and thus found themselves
opposing his recommendations. They
lost no opportunity to declare their
hostility to him, and especially their re-
greet at his so-calIed disregard of the
theories that are supposed to underlie
the relations between the executive and
the legislative branches of the govern
ment. Though neither of these two
senators has expressed any open hos
tility toward the President in this par
ticular matter. yet it is openly avowed
by their friends that they are eager to
find some way in which they can apply
to him the screws that he put on the
senate last autumn during the silver
struggle.
THE IDEA.
The main idea of the Republican SEN
ators on the subcommittee is to vindi-
cate the course of President Harrison
and Minister Stevens. They use all
other phases of the controversy as Step
ping stones to this and. Mr.. Blount is
of no consequence personally on the
matter, as far as they are concerned.
They desire to save the Republican
prestige and to put the President in an
awkward position: Yet they are willing,
advantage of a complete Endorsement of
Mr.. Stevens in this particular for the
pleasure of a pointed slap at the Presi-
dent They are. therefore, not averse
to a plan that will combine the interests
of the dissatisfied Democrats with their
own.
REPORT.
Such a report might be outlined,
therefore,o on this basis, but OF no other:
MIR. Harrison's course to be accepted
without. comment and Mr.. Stevens
tacitly rebuked for an excess OF yea, the
appointment of Mr.. Bount criticised as
unwarranted and unprecedented, and
the efforts of the President to restore
the queen characterized as needless and
impolitic, with a declaration that it is
the. sense Of Congress that she should
not be restored. Thus both Republi.
can and Democratic prestige would be
maintained, so far as the parties are
concerned, while the party opponents
of the President would be given the
chance to disapproVe of the course that
he took on the ground that it was a>per-
&sonal. cause, unwarranted by amy action
or theoryof the Democracy, and there
fore not to be laid at the doors of the
party. OF course .suchsa step would be
serious one, and not to be taken with,
out grave deliberation. The character
of the two Democratic senators who
would sign it %sufices to disarm much
OF the opposition that it might inclte.
The fact that Mr.. Gray has already
placed himself on record as an advocate
OF the Presidents actions, and that he
has expressed himself since the sub
committee began its sessions, as OF the
opinion that nothing would be de-
veloped beyond the conclusions of Mr..
Blount, makes it the easier Tor the
other Democrats to take the high
ground of ruthless investigators, deter
mined to uproot the truth OF the case,
regardless of the consequences.
Should this course be not adopted it
would then be necessary for the two
anti-administration Democrats to ally
themselves with Mr.. Gray, or to make
an independent report.
DISASTROUS WRECK
In which Two Mon Arc Killed and One