The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-16

| clusion, Storer said that a submarine
| cable was not as much a necessity to
the navy as the electric signal which
| connects the pilot house with the en-
| gire-room Of battleship.
Draper said he favored this cable as
| a preliminary step toward the annexa-
tion of the Hawaiian Islands.
Hermann declared that to the Pacific
| Coast the question of a cable connec-
tion with Honolulu Overshadowed and
| transcended all others save only that
| OF the construction of the Nicaragua
canal. The people of the Hawaiian
Islands gave us 90 per cent. of their
/ trade. More OF our ships enterad the
port of Honolulu than any other port
in the world last year, Liverpool not
| excepted. Aside from the commercial
reasons for the construction Of this
cable, there were patriotic and public
reasons.
Harter thought this cable should be
laid by private capital, and, he con-
cluded, private parties had appeared
before the committee and asked for a
charter for this purpose. Ryan thought
this Democratic House could we'll af-
ford, in the closing hours of the ses-
sion to show its sympathy with mer-
chants desiring to extend our trade by
voting an appropriation for the con-
structton of this cable.
sICKLEs' ELOQUENT SUPPORT.
Sickles earnestly supported the ca
bic proposition. He was compelled
to appeal from the judgment of the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
to that of the Senate Committee. AS
an American he had q platform of his
own. He favored annexation. AS a
Democrat he found his warrant in the
policy of Jefferson, who annexed Lou
isiana, and of Jackson, who annexed
Texas. If party lines trammeled him
Oh a question like this be would break
them asunder as he had done before.
There could be no partisanship in
Americanism.
''Mr. Speaker" Sickles concluded,
Tiny span of life has not much longer
to run, yet hope to live to see the
star of the Republic OF the Pacific add
its tropical splendor to the star OF the
Western Hemisphere"
McCreary closed the debate, and in
the course of his remarks denied that
Mr.. Cleveland had ever indorsed Il
proposition for the construction of q
Hawaiian cable by the Government.
He had merely favored the iDcorpOra-
ton of company to lay such a cable.
The vote was then taken on Hits
motion that the House agree to the
Senate amendments. Hit demanded
the ayes and noes, and the roll was
called. His motion was lost, ia to
152. The vote was practically party
one, the Republicans and PopuIists
voting for the building of the cable
and the Democrats against 1t.
Without division the House, on mo-
ton of McCreary, non cOncurred in
the amendment and further confer
ence was ordered.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-The House
today insisted upon its disagreement
to the Senate amendment for the pro-
posed Hawaiian cable. The California
delegation voted solidly as before for
the appropriation, but the majority
against the cable was practically the
same as when the matter was before
broached in the House.
Representative Stone of Pennsyl-
vania, who offered the bill in the
House for an Independent cable to
Japan by the way of Honolulu, said to
q Chronicle correspondent that if the
amendment to the consular and Dip
lOmatic bill was defeated he would
Immediately try to get through his
own measure, asking unanimous con-
sent therefor, if necessary, te get it up.
The Senate is still firm, but opin-
ions differ as to whether 1t will ul-
timately yield or not. Senator Perkins
was inclined to think that the Senate
would stand firm, but Senator White,
on the contrary, spoke in rather dub
ious terms of the ultimate result of the
proposition.
Senator Perkins and Representative
Stone had conference upon the sub.
ject, and they determined upon line
of action in the event of the defeat of
the proposition embodied in the con-
sular and diplomatic bill. They will
both then endeavor to get through a.
bill for private charter.