The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-08
IN THE SENATE.

House bill adopting special rules fol | the navigation of harbors, rivers and
 inlands lakes of the United States was ] taken from the calendar.
 MT. Call, dem. of Florida, addressed
 the senate on his resolution of Decem- Der 19 for the appointment of a com
 mittee to investigate the Louisiana or Honduras Lottery company of Florida.
 MT. Calls remarks were cut off by MT
 Blackburn's, dem. of Kentucky, mo-
 tion to take up the diplomatic and con-
 sular appropriation bill.
 The diplomatic and consular bill hay
 ing been taken up and the pending
 question being on the item for the con
 struction of a telegraph cable between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands, the controversy as to the status of American citizens in Honolulu, who took part either for or against the ex- isting government there which began yesterday and was continued.
 MT. Frye, rep. of Maine, called MT. Gray's attention to the dispatches from San Francisco indicating that the Brit ish government held the British sub jects who helped to maintain the ex- isting government there had not there by forfeited their right of protection from their own government; while un- der the orders of the secretary of the navy to Admiral Walker, American cit izens under the like circumstances had forfeited the protection which their own government would otherwise extend to them.
 MT. Gray questioned the correctness of information that came from San Francisco in regard to affairs in Ha- wali.
 At 2 o'clock the presiding officer laid before the senate the bankruptcy bill as the unfinished business.
 The bill was laid aside informally, re- taining it's position as unfinished busi- ness, and the discussion of the Ha- waiian cable proposition was contin- ued
 Mr. Thurston, the Hawaiian minister who sat in the diplomatic gallery, was an interested listener.
 MT. Palmer, dem, of Illinois, ridiculed the proposition as a, notable case of "Hibernicism"-prov a cable now for thes use of fleet which will not be in existence before the next cen tury
 He pointed out that the annual ex- ports from the United States to the Hawaiian Island amounted to less than the cost of the proposed cable.
 MT. Aldrich, rep, of Rhode Island. called attention to the fact that Great commercial rival of the United States--was seeking permission to land a cable on one of the Hawaiian Islands and esked why that was
 MT. Palmer supposed it was because Great Britain needed it for exten sion to British possessions.
 And it is because we need it." Mir. Aldrich interposed, that we are SUD- porting this proposition.'
 "The senator is right" said Mir Palmer, "if he believes as do believe that we do not need it. I never could think of constructing a cable at the cost of three millions to a country where our imports are twelve millions a year and our exports only three. The pro- feet is directed by political considera- lions that begin and end in the United | States. Its purpose is to give to the United States government the means l 1f communicating with directness to | ts forces at those islands. I do not | 'avor either the annexation or the | acquisition of those islands. What | would an American congress do with | hose islands if we were to annex them tomorrow?
 "Oh, for one hour of Sumner, who | would not consent to the annihilation # the negro republic of San Domingo n this place he confronted power and defended these people. Oh, for one four of Charles Sumner, to infuse into hose who were his associates the pirit which animated him then. That vas the genuine, manly sentiment of he republican party. It cost him his ,olitical life. It cost him his life From that time on he was hunted down nd pursued until he died. But there ever was a moment when he faltered n his defence of the humble people of an Domingo Is there no one who will rise and speak for the helpless eople of the Sandwich Islands, who ave been robbed and who are now overned by agencies that are as des- otic as can be imagined.