The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-02-02
The United States Must Control
That Gateway.
THE SUGAR MEN AND HAWAII
Senator Mills Declares the Grrat Trust
Is Instrumental in Helping the
GOvernmtnt.


information as to the amount of sugar
bounty claims was agreed to.
The Hawaiian question was taken up
and Senator Allen addressed the senate.
He urged that Minister Stevens initial |
act was a fragrant violation of inter
national law The minister should |
have been promptly recalled. But this |
was not done. The wrong had gone |
unrepaired and the present government |
was firmly established. Senator Allen
said he did not believe in a strong for
eign policy or in bully procedure. be-
cause under the existing circumstances
it was the plain duty of this govern
ment to recognize these conditions and
open negotiations toward annexation.
Senator Mills rose to make a speech
on the Hawaiian question that he had
given notice of yesterday Senator
Mills went out of the beaten path and
urged that the sugar interest was re-
sponsible for the constant excitement
over Hawaii. 1T is an old story" said
Senator Mills with great earnestness.
There is a powerful sugar interest in
this country and in Hawaii; it is an in
terest demanding that the great power
behalf This interest is manifesting
itself in the United States and accounts
for the Intervention in the affairs of
Hawaii 1t is manifesting itself in an
arraignment of the president of the
! United States because he does not use
the power of the United States to main
tain this interest in Hawaii"
Senator 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 Senator Mills.
that the legislative branch should as
sumo prerOgative to direct another
! branch of the government as to what
it should do. IF the legislative branch
can call on the executive branch" de-
clared Senator Mills, then it can call
on the judicial branch. We will be
able then to call on the chief judicial
body Of the United States to furnish us
information as to why they affirmed
the legal tender act"
Senator Mills declared that if this
doctrine was conceded, the executive
branch was powerless. the president
could be brought to the bar of the SEN
ate al any time to give his reasons for
SO directing his course. 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.
Senator Mills eloquently related the
manner in which the American people
greeted the Hungarian patriot Kossuth
after he had dared TO strike at the op-
preston surrounding him.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon asked if
Senator Mills sought to place together
KOssuth and the representatives of
Queen IiliuOkalani. Senator Mills re-
sponded with warth that the repre-
sentatives who came here spoke for a
people whose executive had been de-
frauded by a representative of the Unit
ed States. whose government had been
overthrown by conspiracy and fraud
With intense sarcasm Senator Mills
read the letter of President Harrison
to Queen Liliuokalan when Minister
Stevens was accredited to Hawaii The
senator commented as he proceeded
with the letter. This was a time, said
he. when the queen was still supreme
She was seeking to protect her own
poor native people against the corpOr-
ate greed seeking to get the treasure
| lands of Hawaii. But the sugar trust
wanted the lands too. and they We're
more powerful than Liliuokalani was d
declared Senator Mills with much force
The senator denounced the present Ha-
{ waiian government as an "Oligarchy
masQuerading as a republic. 1t was a
/ part of the great sugar oligarchy. This
was the Oligarchy appealing to the
United States for sympathy and sup
port"
Senator Mills, when asked by the re
2 publicans if the administration had not
set up a barbarOus king on the throne
, of Samoa, said "Who designated this
e. king? 1t was Emperor William of Ger
3 many, Queen Victoria of England anC
Benjamin Harrison of the United
States"
G Senator Mills read from the New Yorl
e Evening Post to the effect that Ha
81 waiian bonds We're being fioated IN New
e | England.
4 ALDRICH INTERPOSED.
=, There was a spirited controversy be
e tween Senator Aldrich and Senator
! Mills as the former arose to ask wha
. authority the Texas senator had To-
e the assertion he had made that New
[ England corporations were amOnl
o those greedily absorbing Hawaiian
sugar lands. THE sugar trust owns tn
a lands and New England owns 5000
= shares of that stock" declared Sena
e tor Mills. He read in detail the invest
{ ments of Claus Spreckels and others il
i Hawaii. The senator said that "ther
1 must be something behind this grea
flutter on the part of New England sen
ators in behalf of Hawaii"
II trust" interjected Senator Aid