The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-09
IL HAS SHOCKED THE SENATOR'S.
President Dole May Receive Notice Not to
Go Too Far.

WASHINGTON, Feb. g. The Senators
plowed through snowdrifts to get to the
Capitol to-day and the effect of the bliz-
zard was shown by the scant attendance in
the galleries. The condition of the Wash
ington poor, resulting from the storm and
intense cold, induced Sherman to intro
duce a bill appropriating $4,000 and
making it Immediately available for the
relief of the poor. Formalities were dis
pensed with and the bill was passed with
out opposition or debate.
The Vice-President announced the re-
ception of message from the President.
AS the clerk began reading there was a
sudden suspension CT the buzz of comment
through the chamber and marked atten-
ton was given to the document Occa-
sionally there was smile on the face of
some Senator as he noted the decisive
manner in which the President set forth
his purposes. Hill talked occasionally
with Vest as the reading of the message
proceeded.
Sherman was apparently one of the most
interested listeners to the message. He
turned to Wilcox as the reading closed and
the two held an animated conversation
which brought Manderson, Perkins and a
group of Republican Senators around them.
The Democratic Senators soon formed in
caucus and discussed the Presidents utter
ances. They were joined by Frye, Lodge
and others from the Republican side in the
exchange of views.
German and Aldrich rose at the same
time to move the reference of the message
to the Finance Committee, and it was SC
referred. The routine business of the Sen
| ate was resumed. but it received limited
attention, as the message proved to be the
main topic of the day. The Hawaiian
cable amendment to the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill was then dis
cussed. Unanimous consent was given
that the vote on the cable amendment and
on the diplomatic and consular bill be
taken at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow.
! The Presidents message giving Mr.. Viii
lis latest dispatches as to the sentences Of
death in Hawaii was then read amid i'm
pressive silence. Hale said the tragic and
melancholy results foreshadowed by Min
| lister Willis showed the imperative need o.
! cable. 1t would have averted or post
poned this tragedy. Teller said the Ha
waiian Government was acting far beyond
the demands of the occasion. The circum
| stances would shock the world. Teller
hoped the Committee on Foreign Rela
tions would inaugurate steps toward inter
vention in order that the death penalitie!
| be averted.
"But," said Frye, "they can hang every
man in the Hawaiian Islands before yor
get word to them"
/ Most of the speech of White was de
voted to the cable, but at the close he spok,
of the Presidents message concerning tn,
death sentences in Hawaii. ~ do not be
lieve these sentences have been imposed
with a view to their being carried out, ,
said he. s'The Government of Hawai-
must be built on something more substan
tial than sand stained by blood" White
said this Government should intervene
whether those under sentence of deatt
were Americans or not, but it was certainly
our duty to intervene if any Americans
were under sentence.
| The cable project was further discussed