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interest for the House, and few mem
bers remained.
Mr.. McCreary related in detail some
OF the incidents Of the Hawaiian reyo-
luton.
Mr.. McCreary declared that Mr..
Stevens letter Of March s, 1892, plain
/ ly showed that be was plotting to over
throw the Government. The resolu-
tion, ne cOntended, was in the interest
OF the sugar planters who wanted an
nsxation 10 order that they could secure
the sugar bounty offered American
planters under the Mckinley law. "Is it
not strange" he asked, that of all the
/ distinguished Republicans who defend
this proceeding, not one has raised his
voice ia favor of annexation, which was
its ObieCt?"
"Here is one, interjected Mr.. Blair.
"Wel, 1 am glad to see one at least"
Mr.. McCreary.
There was 90 popular uprising in
/ Hawaii against the Queen. 1t was not
a revolution; IL was a conspiracy. But
amazing as were the proceedings in
Hawaii, more amazing still were the
/ proceedings at Washington. Two days
after the revolution the commission
ers were on their way here. They
arrived February .. The Harrison
administration was TO 90 out OF power
| March 4. They had TO be expeditions.
/ On February II, the treaty was con-
cluded February Is it was sent TO the
! Senate with Mr.. HarrisOn's recommend
alton that it be ratified. or all the
| treaties ever sent to the Senate, this
] rlr 10
read parts of the treaty and said: "If
the Queen was riRhttully dethroned, as
gentlemen on the other side claim, how
can they reconcile that claim with this
treaty provision to pay her S20,e00 per
annum and the Princess $780, 0OO."
T Mr.. McCreary recited the manner in
which Maletoa had been restored as
| King of Samoa, partly through the in
| terventiOn of the Harrison adminiStra-
/ tion, aud pointed out the inconsist-
ency of the Republicans after that
| in bsratng MIR. Cleveland for
/ trying to do an act of justice
20 Liliuokalani lie reviewed the dip
/ lomatic events OF the last administra-
tion; the Italian incident over the New
/ Orleans Malta massacre; the Behring
/
and lastly the Hawaiian revolution.
lie then took up the authority for the
appointment OF Commissioner Blount,
citing numerous instances where such
/ commissioners had been appointed. He
discussed at some length Mr.. BiOunt's
/ report.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. McCreary's
speech, Mr.. Blair offered an amend
ment TO the McCreary resolution as fol-
lows:
"RCSolUcd, That the Rouse of Repre-
seutstivss approves the recognition of
the existing provisional government OF
/ the Hawaiian Islands by the last
( and present administrations and
will view with satisfaction the
maintenance of 4 policy which shall
tend to consummate in the near future,
with the consent Of their people, the
annexation of said islands TO this coun-
try, or some other political arrange
ment which will fully preserve and pro-
mote tne mutual Interests Of both
| Hawaiia and the United States"
Mr. Hit, the leader OF the Republi-
can minority Of the Foreign Affairs
/ Committee, replied TO Mr.. McCreary.
Mr. Hit made the point that the ma
iority report was discussion of dead
issues while the proposition OF the
minority considered the live, vital
( questions which every one recognizes
lin connection with the recent
affairs in Hawaii. The attitude
of the administration on
the great question of annexation was
not vet known. Mr. Hit spoke OF the
strength OF the provisional government,
which mad maintained itself even as
against the meddling of the agents of
the United States. And yet the present
administration had attempted hari-
kari in a foreign country fully capable
OF governing itself. In all questions Of
foreign intervention one OF the two
causes were recognized as necessary to
warrant the intervention.
One was self preservation, which war
ranted a government in sustaining its
rights by foreign Intervention itself;
the other was TO prevent or overcome
cruelty or inhumanity. But neither Of
these causes operated to warrant our
Intervention. 1t was TO restore 10 q
throne a queen whose hOrrid character
had shocked the civilized world 1t
was In behalf of woman who had told
Minister Willis, while Shivers ran down
his back, that she would behead great
number Of her people.
MIR. Hit was warmly applauded at
his severe arraignment OF the Queen.
Bomba, by his fierce crueltieS, had
awakened the horror of Europe, but
his brutalities did not compare with
the bartholomew day massacre, with
which this queen intended TO celebrate
her return 10 the throne.