The record-union., 1895-01-26
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. - The bill
pledging the faith of the United States to
do the construction work of the Mica
raugua Canal passed the Senate tonight
by the decisive vote of 81 to q. 1t was
the termination of a debate which has
lasted since the present session Of Con-
gress began. 1t was, moreover, the first
realization in either branch OF Congress
of the vast project so long and vigorously
urged for canal joining the Atlantic and
Pacific, with the United States Govern
ment standing sponsor for the execution
of the work. The final vote was not Sc
cured until $50 o'clock tonight, but not
withstanding the lateness OF the hour,
there was an exceptionally full Senate,
owing to the interest felt in the culmina-
ton of the long discussion.
The Nicaragua Minister and many
other diplomatists interested in the pro-
ject had seats in the diplomatic galleries
throughout the voting of the many
amendments and the final question.
The bill in brief directs the issue of
S7O.0O0,0 600 Nicaragua Canal bonds. Each
of these is to bear the following guaran-
tee: The United States of America
guarantees to the lawful holder of this
bond the payment by the Maritime
Canal Company Of Nicaragua OF the
principal OF said bonds, and the interest
accruing thereon as 1t accrues. An addl-
tlonat $50 000, 900 of bonds is to be issued
without the United States guarantee.
The total SlO0,000,000 thus issued is to be
used in constructing the inter-Oceanlc
canal. The Secretary of the Treasury is
to have general supervision OF the pro-
ject. A board of fifteen directors is to
have immediate charge of the work.
The board is to designate ten members, no
more than two from any one State. The
United States is to receive $4,000, 900 OF
the canal company stock in return for
guaranteeing the bonds, and is to hold a
mortgage lien on all the property of the
canal company.
Aside from the final debate and vote on
the Nicaragua bill, the main interest Of
the day attached to very caustic speech
by Mills OF Texas, uphoiding the Ad-
ministration policy in Hawaii and Incl
dentally scoring the sugar trust.
The resolution of Mitchell calling for
detailed information as to the amount of
sugar bounty claims was agreed 10.
The Hawaiian question was then taken
up, and Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska ad-
dressed the Senate. he argued that Min
lister Stevens initial act was fragrant
violation of international law. This Min
lister should have been promptly recalled.
But this was not done. The wrong had
gone unimpaired, and the present Gov
ernment was firmly established. Allen
said he did not believe in strong foreign
policy or in bully" procedure, because,
under existing circumstances, 1t was the
plain duty OF this Government to recog-
niZe those conditions and open negOtia-
tions toward annexation.
Mills (Dem.) of Texas then proceeded
to make speech on the Hawaiian ques-
ton he had given notice of yesterday.
There was much interest manifested, and
the Senator was followed with marked
attention. At the outset Mills went out
of the beaten path, and argued that the
sugar interest was responsible Tor the
constant excitement over Hawaii. lit is
an old story" said Mills with great ear
nestness. There Is a powerful sugar in-
terest in this country and in Hawaii. 1t
is an interest demanding that the great
power of the United States be exercised
in its behalf. This interest is manifesting
itself in the United States Senate, and ac-
counts for Intervention in the affairs of
Hawaii. 1t is manitesting itself IN All
arraignment Of tho President OF the
United States because he does not use the
power Of the United States navy TO main
tain this interest in Hawaii"
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 CT the
army or the navy. sit was a strange
doctrine" said Mills, that the legisla-
tive branch should assume the preroga-
tive to direct another branch of the Gov
ernment as TO what it should do.
''lf the legislative branch can call on
the executive branch" declared Mills,
then it can call on the judicial branch.
We will be able then to call on the chief
judicial body OF the country to furnish
Us information 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 sorry moment for
the American people If their executive
head was thus made the creature of the
Senate of the legislative branch of the
Government.
Mills eloquently related the manner in
which the American people greeted the
Hungarian, Kossuth, after he had dared
to strike at the oppression surrounding
him.
Mitchell (Rep.) of Oregon asked if Mills
sought to placed together kossuth and
the representatives of Queen Liliuoka-
lani. Mills responded with warmth that
the representatives who came here spoke
for people whose executive had been
\ nited States, whose Government had
been oyerthrown by conspiracy and
fraud.
With intense sarcasm Mills read the
letter of President Harrison to Queen
Liliuokalani, when Minister Stevens was
accredited to Hawaii. The Senator COM
mented as he proceeded with the letter.
This was at time," said he, when the
Queen was still supreme. She was seek
ing then to protect her own native peo-
pie against the corporate greed OF those
III the treasure lands of Hawaii. But the
sugar trust wanted the lands, too, and
they were more powerful than Liliuoka-
lani was" declared Mills with much
force.
Minister Thurston Of Hawaii came into
the diplomatic gallery and was an inter-
ested listener to the severe arraignment
OF the Government represented by him.
The Senator denounced the present
Hawaiian Government as "oligarchy
masquerading as repnblic.o 1t was a
part of the great sugar olgarchy. This
was the oligarchy appealing To the United
States for sympathy and support. Mills
asked why Republican administration
had set up a barDarouS King on the
throne of Samoa. 'Who designated this
klng?" asked Mills. ''It was Emperor
William OF Germany, Queen Victoria of
England and Benjamin Harrison OF the
United States"
Mills read from the New York EUeninq
Post to the effect that Hawaiian bonds
were being. hoated in New England
1nefe was spirited controversy be-
tween Aldrlch and Mills, as the former
arose to ask what authority the Texas
Senator had for the assertion he had made
that New England corporations were
among those greedily absorbing Ha-
waiian sugar lands. ''The sugar trust