The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-01-31
The United States Must Control
That Gateway.
THE SUGAR MEN AND HAWAII
Is Instrumental Ia Helping the
Government.

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 a fragrant 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 in 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 a 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. ut is an old story" said
Senator Mills. with great earnestness
There is a powerful sugar interest in
this country and in Hawaii; it is an in
terest demanding that the great power
of the United States be exercised in it's
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
1t should do. IF the legislative branch
can call on the executive branch" de-
| clared Senator Mills, then it can call
on the judicial branch. We will be
able then to call on the chief judicial
body of the United States to furnish us
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 a
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 the
manner in which the American people
10 nj tri nt !,
after he had dared to strike at the OPP
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 a
people whose executive had been de-
| frauded by a representative of the Unit
ed States. whose government had been
overthrown by conspiracy and fraud.
With intense sarcasm Senator Mills
read the letter of President Harrison
to Queen Liliuokalani when Minister
! 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
|
poor native people against the corpor-
! ate greed seeking to get the treasure
lands of Hawaii. But the sugar trust
wanted the lands too, and they were
more powerful than Liliuokalani was, -
declared Senator Mills with much force
The senator denounced the present Ha-
waiian government as an "oligarchy
masquerading as a republic. 1t was a
| ~ 4.
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
of Samoa, said "Who designated this
king? 1t was Emperor William of Ger
many, Queen Victoria of England anc
Benjamin Harrison of the United
States"
Senator Mills read from the New Yorl
Evening Post to the effect that Ha
waiian bonds were being fioated in New
England.
ALDRICH INTERPOSED.
There was a spirited controversy be
tween Senator Aldrich and Senate
Mills as the former arose to ask wha
|
the assertion he had made that New
England corporations were amoni
those greedily absorbing Hawaiian
sugar lands. 1.-The sugar trust owns tn
lands and New England owns 5000
shares of that stock" declared Sena
tor Mills He read in detail the invest
ments of Claus Spreckels and others i
/ Hawaii. The senator said that "ther
must be something behind this grea
: fiutter on the part of New England ser
? ators in behalf of Hawaii"
? Il trust" interjected Senator Alc
7 rich, that patriotism directs the cours
! of New England senators, as il doe
( nine-tenths of the American people"
"And when did you receive return
Y from the American people2' asked Sci
= ator Mills. AT the last election" r.
. sponded Senator Aldrich.
= "And you received returns in 1888
r. also" retorted Senator Mills. In col
i cIuslon. Senator Mills hoped he ha
shown why this resolution intended F.;
a censure on the president should n,
pass.
1 Senator Vest then introduced res
/ luton indorsing the policy of the pres
l. dent toward Hawaii and reciting TIL
: the course OF this government shou
J. be to withhold from entangling a
:. liances. This and the resolution und