Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-05
HAWAII IN The SENATE.
INTERESTING DISCUSSION BROUGHT
our By MIR. LODGES RESOLUTION.
lie Desired to Know why the United
States Warships Had Becu Removed
From Honolulu aud Called on
the War Department for
Information.

proved and the routine morning business
transacted, MIR. Lodge tSep, MassD adj
| dressed the senate upon his resolution of
| inquiry as to why the United States war;
ships had been Withdrawn from Honolulu.
Mr. Lodge said: at the beginning of the
! session introduced resolution asking for
the reports and correspondence of Admiral
| Walker in regard to Hawaii. My motive in
so doing was because | believed the opin-
ions and observations of a distinguished
| and able naval officer who Is necessarily
outside of all politics. would he of great
| value to us in understanding the condition
OF affairs there. and In reaching a proper
| knowledge of our relations with those ISL
| ands. Admiral Walkers papers were. as !
| had anticipated. most valuable on these
| points. They showed that to disinterest-
| ed observer actuated by no motive but the
| interests of the United States. 1t was per-
fcctly clear that our true policy was the
| annexation of those islands. They con-
| ilrmed in this way the views expressed
| by the senate in a resolution of last sum
| mer and which | believe are the views held
| by substantially all the American people,
| except those concerned in the present ad
| ministration. All this was valuable infor-
| nation. but Admiral Walkers last letter
brought out strongly highly important
| point WnlCn mas mus laf NOT Deetl Apprc-
ciated. 1t was known to us through the
| press that all our warships had ben with
| drawn from Hawaii and that. although sov
| eral were lying idle at Mares island, none
had been sent back TO Honolulu. The last
| letter of Admiral Walker to which | have
| referred discloses in a striking way the
| danger and impolicy OF this course and also
| proves that our government had been
warned in regard to IL by an officer entitled
| to speak on such a poirt with the author-
n an
with great frankness that if the British
men-ofwar as well as our own. had been
withdrawn. II might have been good thing
certainly 1t would have done no harm to
| the stability of government in the island
| He then referred to the manner in which
| England reached out to Increase her pos
| sessions, and asserted that the British ship
encouraged the Hawaiian .royallsts. while
| the absence of the American vessel gave
encouragement to n counter revolution. He
| also referred TO the fact that Japan had
| warship at Hawaii. He said the impor-
| tance of Hawaii to the United States could
not be over estimated, and would become
greater upon the completion of the Near
aguan canal. He continued:
"under such circumstances to leave those
| islands without the confidence and protec-
| tion of an American ship Of war and leave
our interests in Pearl harbor and the inter-
| est of our citizens unguarded appears to me
| wrong in the very highest degree, What
motive aCtuatcs the administration in this
| extraordinary policy II Is impossible to
| say. If 1t is their desire to throw the Sand
| wich Islands into the hands of Great Brit
ain, they have openly proposed to do
with Samoa. their action is comprehensi-
BILE. but nothing else explains it. Such a
policy is so unpatriotic however, that 1T is
difficult to conceive that 1t should be en-
tertaincd. 1t seems to me that in view of
the vast Importance of the Sandwich ISL
ands TO this country great wrong has been
| committed in Withdrawing our ships at
this moment and that Il man-ofwar should
be sent there at once. 1t is for this reason
that | have introduced this resolution of
inquiry, and | think our government owes
1t to the people to send a man-of-war to
Honolulu without delay. If they do not do
this, they will no right to remain silent
to their reasons for such an extraordinary
course"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Lodges remarks
Mr.. Butler CDem. >. c. moved the refer
ence of the resolution of the committee on
foreign relations.
Mr.. Adrch suggested that the resolution
be modified so as to request informa-
tion on the subject from the president.
MIR. Morgan NDcm. Ala) declared himself
in favor of annexation ana a good friend to
the people of Hawaii At the same time
the resolution should go to the committee
on foreign relations. He believed the new
republic of Hawaii should have an oppor-
| tunity to show the world that it did not
need a crutch to help it along.
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