Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-02-01
CANAL BILL PASSED
The United States Must Control
That Gateway.
THE SUGAR MEN AND HAWAII
Senator Mills Declares the Great Trust
is-tastrumeDtsi In Helping the
Government.

Washington. Jan. 25.--The resolution
of Senator Mitchell. calling for detailed
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 Migrant 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 i'm 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 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
tiiio touiltIy anu ftdWdll, IL is an IN
terest demanding that the great power
of the United States be exercised in its
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
ii should do IF the legislative brancl
can call on the executive branch" de.
| clared Senator Mills, then it can cali
on the judicial branch. We will b,
able then to call on the chief judicial
body of the United States to furnish III
| 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 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 or the
legislative branch of the government
Senator Mills eloquently related tn,
manner in which the American peopl,
greeted the Hungarian patriot Kossuth
after he had dared to strike at the Oh
preston surrounding him.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon asked If
Senator Mills sought to place together
kossuth and the representatives Of
queen Liliuokalani. Senator Mills re.
sponded with warth that the repre-.
sentatiVes who came here spoke for
people whose executive had been de.
frauded by a representative of the Unit
ed states, whose government had been
oNerthrown by conspiracy and fraud,
With intense sarcasm Senator Mile
read the letter of President Harrison
To Queen Liliuokalani when Ministe,
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 owl
poor native people against the corpor.
ate greed seeking to get the "treasur,
lands of Hawaii. But the sugar trus;
wanted the lands too. and they Wer,
more powerful than Liluokalani was
declared Senator Mills with much force
fhe 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
publicans if the administration had not
set up barbarious king on the throne
or Samoa, said: who designated this
king? 1t was Emperor William of Ger
many, Queen Victoria of England and
benjamin Harrison of the United
States"
Senator Mills read from the New York
Evening Post to the effect that Ha-
waiian bonds We're being foated in New
England.
ALDRICH INTERPOSED.
There was spirited controversy be-
tween Senator Aldrich and Senator
Mills as the former arose to ask what
authority the Texas senator had fol
the assertion he had made that New
England corporations were among
those greedily absorbing Hawaiian
sugar lands. THE sugar trust owns the
lands and New England owns 3O.0o0
shares of that stock" declared Sena-
tor Mills. He read in detail the invest
ments of Claus Spreckels and others In
Hawaii The senator said that "there
must he something behind this great
hutter on the part of New England SEN
ators in behalf of Hawaii"
II trust" interjected Senator Aid
rich, that patriotism directs the course
of New England senator's. as ii does
nine-tenths of the American people"
And when did you receive returns
from the American people?" asked Sen
ator Mills. 'At the last election re-
sponded Senator Aldrich.
And you received returns in 1892
also" retorted Senator Mills. In con-
clusion, Senator Mills hoped he had
shown why this resolution intended as
a censure on the president should not
pass.
Senator Vest then introduced reso-
luton indorsing the policy OF the presi-
dent toward Hawaii and reciting that
the course of this government should
be to withhold from entangling al
lances. This and the resolution under
discussion went over to subsequent
day.
CANAL BILL PASSES.