Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-25
He Defends the Administration in
Its Hawaiian Policy.
STRONG DENUNCIATION OF SUGAR TRUST
Mr. Vest Offers a Resolution In
dorsing the President.
MATTERS IN THE HOUSE

| The Senate looked Respondent today with
the great clusters of roses and lilies which
rose two feet high and completely covered
the desk Of Mr.. Cullom of Illinois in recog-
milton Of his reelection to the Senate
The resolution of Mr. Mitchell (Ore) call
! ing for detailed information as to the
amount of sugar bounty claims, was agreed
to.
The Hawaiian question was then taken uI
and Mr.. Allen (Neb.) addressed the SEN
ate. He urged that Minister Stevens initia
| act was fragrant violation of Information
al law. The minister should have been
| promptly recalled. But this was not done
The wrong had gone unimpaired and the
| present government was now firmly es-
| tablished.
Mr.. Allen said he did not believe in a
strong foreign policy or in bully" pro-
cedure, but under existing circumstances
| 1t was the plain duty of this government
| to recognize these conditions and open ne
| gotiations toward annexation.
| Mr.. Mills ON the Hawaiian Question.
Mr.. Mills Texas) then rose to make the
! speech on the Hawaiian question he had
| given notice of yesterday. There Has
much interest manifested, and the Senator
was followed with marked attention.
At the outset Mr.. Mills went out Of the
beaten path and arraisned the sugar in
terest as responsible for the constant ex-
element over Hawaii. ut is an old story
| said Mr.. Mills, with great earnestness
There is a powerful sugar interest in this
| country and in Hawaii. 1t is interest
now demanding that the great power of the
United States be exercised in its behalf
This interest is manifesting itself in The
United States Senate in demands for in
PREVENTION in the affairs of Hawaii. 1t is
| manifesting itself in an arrangement of the
President of the United States because he
does not use the power of the United States
n ma lfofvl int How
GoinE Too Far.
Mr.. Mills proceeded to lay down the
proposition that the Senate was going too
far in directing the executive branch as to
what use it should make of the navy or the
army. 1t was a strange doctrine. said Mr..
Mills, that the legislative branch should
| assume the prerogative to direct another
branch of government what it should do.
IF the legislative branch can call on the
executive" declared Mr.. Mills, then it can
call on the judiciary branch. We will then
be able to call on the chief judicial body of
the country to furnish us information as
to why they affirmed the legality of the
legal tender act''
Mr.. Mills declared that if this doctrine
| was conceded then the executive branch
was powerless. The President Of the Uni
ted States could be brought to the bar of
the Senate at any time to give his reasons
or to direct his Sc. 1t would be a sorry
moment for the American people when
their executive head was thus made the
creature of the Senate or the legislative
branch of the government.
A1r. Mills spoke of the attacks on the
President, because he had conferred with
rcyaliSt "conspiritorS.' The Senator said
1t had come to the point that no word could
be spoken from Hawaii unless those Who
spoke resided at the Hawaiian le CATION. 1t
was a strange claim that the President of
the United States must be Inaccessible TO
those who represented an outra ged country.
rpnllhliCnn Irn pictr.
tiCn or for monarchy, but it would not do
for democratic administration.
Mr.. Mills eloquently related the manner
III which the American people had greeted
the hungarian patriot, koSSuth, after he
had dared to strike at the oppression SGr-
rounding kim, and came to the United
States for bullets.
Overthrow by Conspiracy and Fraud
Mr.. Mitchell (Ore.) asked if Mr.. Mills
sought to place together koSsuth and the
representatives of Queen Liliuokalani. Mr.
Mills responded, with warmth, that the
representatives who came here spoke for
people whose executive head had been de-
frauded by a representative of the United
States. whose government had been over
thrown by conspiracy and fraud
With intense sarcasm MIR. Mills read the
letter of President Harrison to Queen Lii
iuokalani when Minister Stevens was ac-
credited to Hawaii The Senator comment
ed as ne proceeded Win the letter. ms
was at a time, said he, when the queen
was still supreme. She was seeking TO
protect her own poor native people against
the corporate greed seeking to get possess
sion of the great sugar lands Of Hawaii.
But the sugar trust wanted the land too.
and they were more powerful than Lille
was, declared Mr.. Mills, with such force
that the paraphrase of the queens name
evoked only SMILE
Minister Thurston Of Hawaii came into
the diplomatic gallery and was an interest
ed listener to the severe arrangement of
the government represented by him.
Mr.. Mills next considered the course of
Admiral Walker. The Senator thought
this admiral had got out of a serious pre-
dicament pretty we'll. He had been trying
to play diplomat. He had sought to in
struct the President. This officer whose
duty was to obey, had dared to attempt to
take command of the navy.
The Senator denounced The present Ha-
waiian government as IAN oligarchy
maSquerading as a republic" 1t was a
part Of the great sugar oligarchy. This
was the olgarchy appealing to the
United States for sympathy and support.
The Samoan King.
Mr.. Mills asked Why a republican adj
miristration had set up a barbarous king
on the throne of Samoa.
Who designated this king" said Mr.
Mills. with keen irony. lit was Emperor
William of Germany, Queen Victoria of
England and Benjamin Harrison of the
United States" The Senator urged the
injustice by which the people of the United
States were now being taxed to pay the
royal expenses of this Samoan king.
Resuming his speech, Mr.. Mills read from
the New York Evening Post to the effect
that Hawaiian bonds were being fioated in
New England. There was a spirited con-
troversy between Mr.. Aldrich and Mr.. Mills
the former rose to ask what authority
The Texas Senator had for the assertion he
made that New England corporations were
among those greediiy absorbing Hawaiian
sugar lands.
The sugar trust owns the lands, and
New England owns 10000 shares of that
stock" declared MIR. Mills.
He read in detail the investments of
Claus Spreckles and others in Hawaii.
The Senator said there must be some
thing behind this great flutter" on the
part Of New England Senator's in behalf
Of Hawaii. Il trust" interjected Mr. AL
drich. that patriotism directs the coures
of the New England Senators, as it does
nine-tenths of the American people"
Returns From, the People.
"And when die you receive returns from
the American people?" asked Mr.. Mills.
"At the last election" responded Mr.. AL
drich