Evening star., 1895-01-24
SENATE AND. HOUSE
Hawaiian Affairs Again the Subject
of Dischssion.
Mr. GEORGE DEFENDS \ TEE PRESIDENT
He Declines to Listen to Any Sug-
N e
gest'ons.
ARMY PROPRIA TION

ARMY APPROPRIATION
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There was such q meager attendance at
the opening of the Senate today that Mr..
Hoar called attention to the absence Of
quorum, and a roll call was necessary be-
fcre business Gould proceed.
Among the bills Introduced was one by
Mr.. Chandler IN. H.) to prevent the tap
ping of telegraph wires used by news as
sociations. This Is to prevent the stealing
Of news, and was neoessitated by recent
developments in Chicago. when various
other associations, by means Of wire tap
ping, were making use Of Associated Press
news. s'-
Mr.. Mitchell (Oreg) sought to secure the
passage of a resolution calling the
Treasury Department for detailed infor-
nation as to sugar bounty claims. but OBJ
lection was made and the resolution went
over
Another Hawaiian Resolution.
Mr.. Allen (Neb.) presented another Ha-
wafian resolution, as follows: Resolved,
That it is the sense of the Senate that the
revolutionary government having now be-
come the established government of the
Hawaiian Islands, that wise and enlight-
eueu lOTclSu pOHCy requires ttldI SlcPS
should be taken by this government with
out unnecessary delay to annex those is
lands to the United States as part there
Of and that In the meantime the personal
and property rights of American citizens
in said island should be protected by the
presence of a sufficient naval force In I1a-
waiiah waters" The resolution went over
until tomorrow.
The Hawaiian resolution of Mr.. Lodge
AIass.) was then taken up and MIR. George
(Miss.) addressed the Senate in support of
the administration policy. Mr.. George made
a careful legal argument to show that
there was no popular suffrage and no real
republican form of government in Hawaii.
Mr.. George presented bill showing the
number of days United States warships
had not heen at Honolulu during the last
twenty years. 1t showed from forty-one
days in 1874 to 35S days in 1884. during
which no war vessel had been in Hawaiian
waters. From this showing he urged the
Inconsistency OF the present demand that
United States warships should be kept
there.
Would Take No Suggestion.
In the course of Mr.. Georges speech Mr..
Aldrich sought to make a suggestion. Mr.
George declared with asperity that he
wanted no suggestions. Mr. Aldrich per
sisted. whereupon Mr.. George appealed to
the chair: II ask that the Senator be d.
rected to take his seat" said Mr.. George
warmly. ThererLwas "a general laugh, in
which Mr.. Aldrich joined as he desisted
frsn h Mrs. Ms
the consideration of 1.-THE Nicaragua canal
bill was resumed, and Mr.. White Cal)
spoke in advocacy Of the project.
THE 4oUsE.
In the House otodag on motion Of Mr..
Shell ON. c., resolution was passed pro-
viding for an Investigation by the com
mittees on ventilation and public buildings
and grounds Of the Office Of the architect
of the Capitol.
- The House then, on motion Of Mr. Savers,
went into committee Of tlle whole and re-
sulned the consideration Of the sundry civil
appropriation bi1. .,s.n. -,..-..,.. =. .
The, paragraph in the bill appropriating
$25;0O0 for general repairs to tho custom
house and subtreasury. at Chicago was
stricken. out. de
Arizona and WyOnilnE Included
BY amendment Arizona and Wyoming
were included in the list Of states where
increased rates should be allowed for sur
veys and resurveys Of heavily timbered
lands. The amount to be expended for ex
animation of public surveys in order to
test the accuracy Of the work was in
of Mr.. Smith, Arizona, an amendment was
agreed to to appropriate $25OOO to survey
and segregate the coal fields on the San
Carlos reservation, Arizona. An amend
ment was adopted appropriating 5000 for
inclosng the grounds of the Columbia
Arsenal, Tenn
An amendment offered by Mr.. Terry
(Ark.) to increase the appropriation for the
construction and enlargement of military
posts from $2OO,OOO to 100000 precipitated
brief debate on the new policy of the
War Department of concentrating troops al
various centers. Mr.. Coffeen Wyo) pro-
tested against the policy of abandoning
frontier posts. Mr.. Springer and others in
dorsed the new policy. Mr.. Cannon QIl)
recalled the COW boy war In Wyoming and
that occasion the army was on the side of
the invading force and against the settlers
of Wyoming.
Mr.. Coffeen replied that the military
force was allied with the wrong side.
through a misapprehension of the facts on
the part of the administration here. The
amendment wss lost.
An amendment, offered by Mr.. Doolittle
CWash) to authorize the Secretary of War
to establish military post at some point
on Puget sound, was agreed to. 1t pro-
vides for commission of army officers to
examine and determine what point is best
adapted for such a post before the location
is made.
The clause in the bill providing for a mil
itary park at Gettysburg, Pa. was stricken
out, as bill for identically the same pur-
pose was passed on Monday.
The appropriation of s1o0,0OO for Hay
Lake channel was stricken out, General
Casey. chief of engineers, having advised
the chairman of the appropriation COM
mittee today that Colonel o. NJ. Poe. in
charge of the work. had. in an official re-
port stated that the money already ap-
propriated was sufficient to meet all ex-
perditures to the end of the fiscal year
erding June 80, 1885,
REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL CAUCUS.