The morning call., 1895-01-26


is to be used in constructing the inter-
oceanic canal. The Secretary of the Treas
ury is to have general supervision of the
project. 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 SIC, 0OO, 900 of the
canal company stock in return for guaran-
teeing the bonds, and is to hold mort
gage 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 upholding the ADMINISTRATION
policy in Hawaii, and incidentally scoring
the sugar trust.
THE NICARAGUA BILL PASSED.
Senator AIdrich Tells MUS When He
Heard From the People.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-In the Senate to-day
the resolution of Mitchell calling for detailed
information as to the amount of sugar bounty
claims was agreed to-
The Hawaiian question was taken up and
Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska addressed the Senate.
He urged that Minister Stevens initial act was
V
This Minister should have been promptly re-
called. But this was not done; the wrong had
gone unimpaired and the present Government
was firmly established. Allen said he did not
believe in a strong foreign policy or in "bully"
procedure, because under existing circum-
stances it was the plain duty Of this Govern
ment to recognize existing conditions and open
negotiations toward annexation.
Mills of Texas then rose to make the speech
on the Hawaiian question he had given notice
OF yesterday. There was much interest mani
tested, 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 for the constant excite
ment over Hawaii.
cit is an old story" said Mills with great
earnestness. "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 accounts for 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 navy to maintain
this interest in Hawaii"
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. Itwas strange
doctrine, he said, that the legislative branch
should assume the prerogative to direct an
other branch of the Government as to what it
should do. If the legislative branch can call
on the executive branch then it can call on the
judicial branch. We viii be able then to call
on the chief judicial body of the country to fur
nish us information as to why they affirmed the
legal tender act. Mills declared that if
this doctrine was conceded the executive
branch was powerless and 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 when 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
patriot, Kossuth, after he had dared to strike
at the oppression surrounding him.
Mitchell (R.) of Oregon asked if Mills sought
to place together Kossuth and the repre-
sentatives of Queen Liliuokalani.
Mills responded with warmth that the repre-
sentatives who came here spoke for people
whose executive had been defrauded by a rep
resentative of the United States, whose Govern
ment had been overthrow by conspiracy and
fraud. With intense sarcasm, Mills read the
letter of President Harrison to Queen Liliuo-
kalani when Minister Stevens was accredited
to Hawaii. The Senator commented as he pro-
eeeded with the letter. This 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 "the treasure lands of Hawaii"
"But the sugar trust wanted the lands, too,
and they were more powerful than Liliuokalani
was" declared Mills with much force
Minister Thurston of Hawaii came into the
diplomatic gallery and was an interested list.
ener to the severe arraignment of the Govern.
ment represented by him. The Senator de.
nounced the present Hawaiian Government as
ian oligarchy masquerading as republic" II
was part of the great sugar oligarchy This
was the oligarchy appealing to the United
States for sympathy and support. Mills asked
why Republican administration had set UP a
barbarous King on the throne OF Samoa? ''Whc
designated this King?" asked Mills at was
Emperor William of Germany, Queen Victoria
of England and Benjamin Harrison of the
United States.'
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 between
Aldrieh and Mills as the former arose to ask
what authority the Texas Senator had for the
assertion he had made that New England cor
porationS were among those greedily absorbing
Hawaiian sugar lands.
''The sugar trust owns the land and New
England owns 10000 shares of that stock, y
declared Mills He read in detail the in.
vestments OF Claus spreekels and others in
Hawaii. The Senator said there ''must be
something behind this great futter" on the
part of the New England Senators in behalf OF
Hawaii.
81 trust" interjected Aldrich, "that patriot.
ism directs the course of New England Sena.
tors as it does nine-tenths of the American
people"
'And when did you receive returns from the
American people?'' asked Mills.
cat the last election" responded Aldrieh.
The gallery broke out in applause at this an
swer and the presiding officer raped sharply
for order.
"And you received returns in 1892 also" 70