The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-26

Hungarian patriot, Kossuth, after he
had dared to strike at the oppression
surrounding him.
Mr.. Mitchell Republican,, of Oregon,
asked if Mr. Mills sought to place to-
gether Kossuth and the representatives
of Queen Lilioukalan.
Mr. Mills responded with warmth
ohat the representatives who came here
spoke for a people whose executive
had been defrauded by a representative
OF the United States, whose govern
Inent had been overthrown 10y conspir-
Fey and fraud. With intense sarcasm,
Mr.. Mills read the letter of President
Harrison to Queen Lilioukalani when
Minister Stevens was accredited to
Hawaii
The senator commented as he pro-
ceeded with the letter. This was a
time, said he, when the queen was. still
supreme. She was seeking to prot ect
her own poor native people against the
corporate greed seeking to get 'FThe
But the Sugar trust wanted the
lands. too, and they were more power
full than Liliuokalani was declared
Mr.. Mills, with much force.
Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, came
into the diplomatic gallery and was an
interested listener 20 tine severe ar
raignment of the government repre-
scented by him
Merely MSsquerade>
The senator denounced the present
Hawaiian government as an "oligarchy
masquerading as a republic It was
a part Of the great sugar o,igarchy.
This was the aligarchy appealing to
the United States for sympathy and
support. Mr.. Mills asked why a Re
publican administration had set up a
barbarous king on the throne of Sa-
moa?
Who designated this king" said
1t was Emperor William Of Ger
many, Queen Victoria of England and
Benjamin Harrison OF the United
States"
Mr. Mills read from the New York
Evening Post to the effect that
Hawaiian bonds were being foated in
New England.
There was a spirited controversy be-
! tween Mr.. Aldrich and Mr.. Mills, as
the former arose to ask what author
ity the Texas senator had for the as
sertion he had made that New Eng
land corporations Wera' among those
greedily absorbing Hawaiian sugar
lands.
1.-THE Sugar trust owns the lands and
New England owns 10000 shares of tha;
stock" declared Mr.. Mills.
He read in detail the investment OF
CIaus Spreckels and others in Hawaii
The senator said there must be some
thing behind this great flutter' on the
part of the New England senators in
behalf of Hawaii.
81 trust" INTERCEPTED Mr.. Aldrich
'fthat patriotism directs the course OF
] New England senators as it does nine
tenths of the American people"
And when did you receive returns
from the American people?" asked Mr.
Mills.
AT the last election" responded Mr.
.Aldrich.
The gallery broke out in applause a
this answer and the presiding officer
( raped sharply for order.
And you received returns in '92 al
So retorted Mr.. Mills.
In conclusion, Mr.. Mills hoped he
had shown why this resolution intend
ed as a censure on the president should
not pass.
Throughout the. speech OF Mr.. Mills
the galleries were filled and he was
followed with greater interest than has
attended any previous Hawaiian
speech.
! To Endorse Cleveland
Mr.. Vest then introduced a resolution
endorsing the policy Of President Cleve
land toward Hawaii, and reciting tha-
the course of this government Should
be to withhold from entangling ALI
ances. This and the resolution under
discussion went over TO a subseQuen
day.