The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-26
NOW FOR THE BIG DITCH
The Nicaragua Biz Passed the Senate
YeSteFGGj.
HAD A GOOD MAJORITY
Senator Mills Spoke His Mind on
the Hawaiian '~stion-His De-
Tense of the residents
Course Was Vigorous.

as TO the amount of the sugar
bounty claims, was agreed TO. Tho Ha-
waiian question was then taken up and
Allen addressed the senate. He urged
that Minister Stevens initial act was "A
fragrant violation of international law.
The minister should have been promptly
recalled. But this was not done; tho
wrong had gone unimpaired and the pres
ont government was firmly established.
Allen said he did not believe in n ''s,rong
foreign policy If il meant bully proceed
uFc," because under existing circum-
stances il was the plain duty of this gov
crnment to recognize these conditions
and open negotiations toward anneXa-
ton.
Mills rose 20 make tho speech on the
Hawaiian question he had give notice OF
yesterday. lie went out of the beaten
path and argued that the sugar interest
was responsible for the constant excite
mcnt over Hawaii.
ut is an old story" said Mills, with
great carncstness. There Is n powerful
sugar interest in this house and in Hawaii
and that interest is demanding that tho
great power Of the United States he
exercised in its behalf. This interest is
manilcstng itself in the United States,
and accounts for the Intervention III the
affairs of Hawaii. Ii is maniiesting itself
in an arraignment of the president of tho
United States because he does not use the
power of the United States navy 10 main
tain this interest in Hawaii
Mills proceeded to lay down the propo-
sition that the senate was going too far in
directing the executive branch as what
use il should make of tho army or navy.
1t was n strange doctrine, said Mills, that
the legislative branch should assume the
prerogative to direct another branch OF
the government as to what II should do.
"lf the legislative branch can call on the
executive branch" declared Mills, "thcn
it can call on the judicial branch. We
will be then able to call OH the chief judi
cial body of the country to furnish us in
formation as to why they affirmed the
legal tender act"
Mills declared that if this doctrine was
conceded the executive branch was pow
erless. the president could be brought to
the bar of the senate at any time to give
his reasons for SO directing his course. 1t
would be a sorry moment for The Amcri-
can people when their executive head was
thus made the creature of the senate or
the legislative branch of tho govern
ment.
Mills eloquently related the manner in
which the American people greeted the
Hungarian patriot, Kossuth, after no had
dared to strike at the oppression sur
rounding him.
Mitchell of Oregon asked if Mills sought
10 place together kossuth and tho repre-
sentatives of Queen Liliuokalani.
Mills responded with wrath that tho re-
p-esentatives spoke for a people whose
executive had been defrauded by a repre-
sentative of the United States whose
government had been overthrown 10y con-
spIracy and fraud. With intense sarcasm,
Mills read the letter of President Harri-
son to Queen Liliuokalani when Mr..
stevens was accredited to Hawaii. The
senator commented as he proceeded with
the letter. This is a time said he,
when the queen was still supreme. Sho
was seeking to protect her own poor
native people against the corporate greed
seeking TO get the treasure lands of
Hawaii But the sugar trust wanted
the lands too, and they were moro power
ful than Liliuokalani was," declared
Mills with much force.
Tho senator denounced the present
Hawaiian government as IAN oligarchy
incorporating as republic Ii was a
part of the great sugar olIgarchy. This
was the oligarchy presented to the United
States for sympathy and support. Mills
asked why tho republican administration
had set up a barbarous king on tho throne
If Samoa? "Who designated this king ?'
asked Mills. at was Emperor William
of Germany. Queen Victoria of England
and Benjamin Harrison of tho United
States
Mills read from the New York Ercning
Post TO the effect that the Hawaiian bonds
were being iloated in New England. There
vas spirited controversy between Aid
rich and Mills as the former arose 10 ask
what authority the Texas senator had for
the assertion he had made that New Eng
land corporations were among those
srecdily absorbing Hawaiian sugar lands.
THE sugar trust owns tho lands and
New England owns 5000 shares of the
stock" declared Mills. He read in detail
the investments of Claus Spreckcls and
others in Hawaii. The senator said there
must be something behind this great
iiuttor on tho part of the New England
senators in behalf of Hawaii
II trust intcrjecied Aldrich, "that
patriotism directs the course of the New
England senators as 1t does nine-tcnths
Of the American people
"And when did you receive returns from
the American people - asked Mills.
AT the last election responded Aid
rich.
The gallery broke out in applause at
this answer and the presiding officer
raped sharply for order.
"Aud you received returns IN . - also"
retorted Mills. In CONCLUSION Mills hoped
ne had shown why this resolution, in
tcndcd as ccusuro on the president,
should not pass.
Vest iheu introduced a resolution in-
dorsinc ,hc policy of President Cleveland
towards Hawaii and reciting that the
course OF this government should be with
held from eutangling alliances. This and
the resolution under discussion went over
tail subsequent day.
The Nicaragua bill was then taken up.
White presented a letter from London
stating If the United States did not pro.
coed with the cannl uroipct british capitaI