The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-23
THEY DRAW CROWDS
HAWAIIAN DEBATES GOOD FOB 4
WASHINGTON HOLIDAY.

WASHINGTON HOLIDAY.
It's George and Gray Against Lodge and
Hawley--Mr. Gray's Temper is Less Cor
rugated and He Meets Accusations OF
the Administrator Lack of Patriotism
More in Sorrow Than in Anger--Cieve-
lands Course Upheld as a Model of Po-
litical Conseryatism--Whole Thing is
Decidedly RInglish, We Know.
Washington, Jan. 22.-The policy of
| the administration as TO Hawaii was
| again the subject of sharp attack and
defense in the senate today. The per-
sonal element in the controversy drew
! large crowds to the galleries which at
times overlooked into the outer CORR
doris. 1t indicated little diminution of
public interest in Hawaii now that the
course Of the administration is the main
question of discussion. Mr. Gray and
Mr.. George justified the administration
and Mr.. Gray dwelt upon the persis-
tency and vindictiveness with which
the president was villified and misrep-
resented. Mr.. Lodge and Mr.. Hawley
made the critical speeches of the day,
| the former urging the extent of the for
eign British aggression in the Pacific
while Mr.. Hawley made pointed COM
ment on the consideration given to
Queen Lilioukalani's representatives
who visited the state department after
the United States had formally recog-
nized the Hawaiian republic. .
Mr. Gray said he had no information
on that point. Mr.. Hawley rose to re-
ply, holding in his hand a newspaper
| slip containing President Cleveland's
! authorized statement of the facts con-
corning the Royalists delegates Mr.
| Hawley said he had not intended to
! maintain that personal interview be-
! tween the president and the Royalists
had occurred. He was reliably inform
ed that there had been no personal
meeting, but continued reading from the
| presidents statement to show that the
! Royalists delegates had seen Secretary
| Gresham.
THEY HAD THEIR NERVE.
1t should be kept in mind that these
| delegates were the representatives of
! thoSe consplring to restore a depoSed
queen. They We're in Washington eth
er as conspirators against the existing
! government of Hawaii, or else thew
were here on an honest mission If it
was honest they ought to have been re-
ferred to the Hawaiian minister If
! they We're conSpirators they should not
have been seen by Mr.. Gresham. Mr..
! HaWley read from the Ietted from the
/ Royalist delegates to the secrtarv of
state: I'VE the undersigned represen-
! tatives sent by the deposed queen re-
quest an interview with the president
! Just think of the audacity," said Mr..
J a=r 10
/ secretary of state after we had formal
! ~ recognized the government of Ha-
wall"
The senator said he desired to make
| no personal arraignment of the presi-
| dent but he Hawley) believed that the
presidents whole course on Hawaii had
/ been wrong.
Mr.. Gray again answered the criti-
clsms upon the president. He said
/ these attacks were so constant, their
animus SO evident, that it was perhaps
| useless to controVert them. Some peo-
I pie seemed determined to attack the
/ president whatever the subject be. If
he sat down he was too long; if he stood
| up he was too short. These critics
were bound to find fault
PIECE OF CONSERVATISM
The presidents letter to the Royalists
! delegates was purely unofficial. 1t was
( part of the conservative course by
which the president with a steady head
and strong hand was endeavoring TO
conduct public business.
The senator declared this agitation
and this talk of keeping warships at
Honolulu was kept up largely by the
| ''schemerS for annexation who thought
1t would help their cause.
! The Samoan question was unexpect-
edly interjected into the debate at this
point Mr.. Gray referred to the fact
I I. h. h. -,,,4
! by international agreement to keep
barbarous king in power in Samoa 1t
would not do to declaim against bar
| barouS queen when we were at the
same time protecting and maintaining
! such a king.
Mr.. George declared that the Hawaii
an government was eRpublican only
| in form. 1t was a government of force
1t had been established by force and
was now maintained by force.
| Mr.. Lodge presented new phase of
| the subject by submitting a long list of
the islands in the Pacific which great
Britain had gradually absorbed. In
pursuance of a settled policy England
/ has taken every foot of territory she
could lay her hands on They were
/ now trying to get Neckar island of the
/ Hawaiian group. This was part of the
/ British policy of aggression.
/ BRITISH ALL THE WAY THROUGH
! This British influence was back of the
| Royalist element in Hawaii. The heir
! or the throne was Princess Kauilana
! daughter of an Englishman and now
! bein educated in England. Her guard
/ ian, TheophlluS Dolph, was an English
/ sympathizer and was TO some extent
/ identified with the recent uprising OF
I the Royalists
THE arms used in this uprising were
/ bought by an Englishman," declared
Mr.. Lodge. They were shipped in
British ship from a Canadian point.
/ The insurrectionists are largely Eng
! liShmen. When the Alameda left Ha-
wall fifteen Canadians We're under ar
! rest and the British minister was inter
ceding in their behalf
This said Mr. Lodge made out the
case that British influence was be-
hind the RoyaliSt element in Hawaii.
The senator proceeded to criticize the
action of the administration in taking
ships from Honolulu and then con-
ferring with the Royalist delegation
who came TO Washington. Mr.. Lodge
! thought it a peculiar coincidence that
warships We're withdrawn in July at
the time when the Royalists arrived
| here.
LEAVE THAT FLAG ALONE
The present administration was Omen
! ly and avowedly opposed to the exist
! ing government Of Hawaii. The speech
IS of senators in defense of the admin
| iStration We're in effect speeches in SUM-
port of the Royalist element of Hawaii.
But il was time for action by congress.
1t was no longer a question of maintain
ing American interests in Hawaii The
senate had heretofore passed a reSolu-
ton stating that any foreign occupancy
| Of Hawaii would not be tolerated hy the
United States. This was q threat To