The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-16

WAsHINGToN, March 3.-The pro-
ceedings were comparatively tame.
In the Senate the naval appropriation
| bill consumed the time until after 10
| o'clock tonight. The amendment of
the Committee on Appropriations
striking out one of the proposed bat
| tleshipS being, among other things,
| agreed to. Then Senator Blackburn
| reported the continued disagreement
| of the cOnferes on the Hawaiian cable
| amendment to the consular and dip
| lomatic bill. He urged the Senate to
| recede from it's stand in favor OF the
| cable, expressing his disapproval of
the project, and saying he believed
| the President would not approve the
measure with such a provision. Black
burn confessed that the Democrats
had not shown themselves able to
cope with the financial question and
he thought the cable scheme should
also be committed to the next Con-
gress.
Senator Hale followed with a speech
in favor of the cable, saying that if
this Congress refused the appropria-.
tiOn the next Congress would surely
authorize it, and Elf the President
would not sign the bill it would not
be very long before Republican Pre-
sident would have a chance at it.
Senator White of California said
that he had favored the cable project
and voted for 1t before. He believed
it now necessary for the Senate to re,
eede from the stand it took. The ayes
and noes were not ordered, but num-
Der of Senators on the Republican
o. Il h. =.
viva voce vote. This disposed of the
consular and diplomatic bill.
Blackburn presented another con-
ference report on the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill stating that
no agreement had been reached on the
Hawaiian cable, and there was no
prospect that the House would ever
yield. The bill would fail, he said, if
the Senate persisted on the vote about
to be taken, in keeping the cable an
preparation in the bill. He believed
also that the bill was doomed to fail
ure even if the two houses acquiesced
in the item.
Hawley quickly asked if it was
meant to intimate that the President
would veto the bill.
'I am not able to say" replied
Blackburn, ''that the President would
veto it, but know that if were the
HTeSlOe0C WOulu veto IL.
Blackburn warned the Senate that
another insistence on the cable then
might mean an extra session. He
thought perhaps that this might be
desirable, as he believed it would show
the next Congress as helpless in deal
ing with the financial question as this
Congress had been. he moved that
the Senate recede from the Hawaiian
cable amendment.
White Cd of California announced
that he had heretofore supported the
cable item, but he now felt compelled
to change his vote.
Black kburn's motion to Tecede on the
cable item was then put to q vote and
carried without a division. The con-
ference report on the diplomatic and
consular bill was then agreed to.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The House
devoted most of the day to the con-
sideration of the Senate amendment
to the Consular and Diplomatic Ap-
preparation bills, appropriating $780,
900 for the construction of a cable to
the Hawaiian Islands. Ryan, Bart
lett and Sickles spoke in favor of the
amendment, which was defeated by
vote of IA to 152, sixteen Democrats
voting for the cable. The bill was
then sent to further conference.
Hooker, a member Of the Foreign
Affairs Com mittee, opened the debate
in opposition to the proposed amend
ment. By the terms of his amend
ment, he said, the Government was to
own, control and operate this Hawaii
an cable. Such q proposition had
never been made before. A private
enterprise should construct this cable,
il 1t so desired.
Storer deprecated making this mat
ter party question, but said he real
lied IL was only In this way the Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs hoped to defeat this project.
Party lines had been broken in the
Senate when this amendment was
voted into the bill. He called atten-
tion to the necessity for the cable as
expressed in two of Pres dent Cleve-
lands messages aud tie recommended
tons of Mr. BayaTf when BE was Sec
retsry of State.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's PROPER COURSE.
That, said StOrer, was when there
was Democrat at the head Of that
department. Things were different
now that there wa Secretary in the
State Department VINO rose above or
below party accordingly as he was
viewed. Still, If the Administration
was now opposed to this cable, the |
manly thing for Cleveland to do would !
be to send message to Congress say |
ing he had changed his mind. In con |