The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-22
SENATE GETSIN A WRANGLE
4 LIVELY DEBATE TOOK PLACE ON
 THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION.

Traduces That Officer.
 Washington, Jan. 2.-At 1:l6 O'CLOCK the senate took up the resolution otter- ed Saturday by MT, Frye, rep, or Maine declaring the profound regret Wltn which the senate learned of the attempt to restore the deposed queen to power in the Hawaiian Islands.
 Mr. Gray, dem., of Delaware, spoke against it's adoption and defended the president from the criticisms Of MT Lodge in his speech of Saturday,
 The Hawaiian matter was discussed until o'clock when the Nicaragua ca nal bill came up as the unfinished pusl- ness. MT. Frye asked unanimous con- sent to have the Nicaragua bill lalo aside informally so as to proceed wlth the Hawaiian resolution. MT Morgan dem, of Alabama, in charge Of the NC aragua bill, objected to that course, ana then Mir. Frye gave notice that ne would move to take up the Hawaiian resolu- ton during the morning hour and would try to have it adopted.
 Mir. Mills, dem, of Texas, notified him that it could not be adopted without full debate A suggestion was made by MT. Chandler, rep, of New Hampshire that MT. Frye ask unanimous consent to have the house resolution retain its place on the table.
 MT. Frye's response to that was: we are strong enough to take it up. And would rather illustrate our strength by a vote on the motion to take 1t up" The Nicaraguan canal bill was tenn | porarily laid aside and the conference | report on the urgent deficiency bill was taken up.
 MT Catchings, dem, of Mississippi presented a resolution providing for votes, after two hours debate, on bills providing for public buildings at Brock | ton, Mass, and other cities. Tellefs were appointed on a demand for the previous question on the adoption Of | the resolution.
 The resolution was adopted, ITS to 6, and the bill for a building at Chicago was taken up.
 MT. Gray said q maintain that the attitude of the administration has been in exact accordance with precedents shat have obtained for one hundred | wears. luG DIGSluGlil AAeio obNeNAAAJ ed. amid much clanior detraction and l unjust criticism, to maintain the honor and fame of the country over which he has been called to preside. For him to have done otherwise, to have done what the senator from Massachusetts sug- gests, to have shown himself swift to interfere, swift to- display the military power of this great republic whenever a ripple occurred on the surface of those small islands, would have been to de-
 grade his high office and betray his
 trust"
 Talking of the newspaper reports of
 the recent affair in Honolulu, MT. Gray
 remarked that more space had been
 given to it than had been given to
 the hundred fold more serious matter
 of the railroad troubles in Brooklyn.
 MT. Gray quoted from the report of
 Admiral Walker in order to establish
 the point that it was not deemed neces-
 say to keep an American ship of war
 at Honolulu and much time was con
 sumed by MT Gray and other senators
 in quoting extracts on both sides oi
 that question. MT. Gray referred tc
 the expression of qualification by Presi-
 dent Dole that there had been no maya,
 ship in the port of Honolulu during
 the recent disturbance, and he spoke
 of Admiral Walker as "a swift witness
 on the side of the oligarchy that now
 holds sway in the island in the name
 of a republic"
 MT. Frye, rep. of Maine, said: "Wt
 have no right to send an American yes : sel into these waters to keep President
 Dole or his republic in power Blu
 there are American citizens there witt
 lives and property; and it is for then
 to say whether or not they need pro
 tection of American vessels, and i they do utterly regardless Of the re
 public there) it is the duty of the presi
 dent of the United States to send Amer
 ican vessels there"
 MT. Gray-The judgment of this grea admiral has been invoked by the sena tor from Massachusetts to override thu , judgment of the chief executive of thu
 United States in one breath, and yet il , the next breath we have the opinion of that same authority that he woult
 not hesitate to leave those islands en
 tirely alone.
 Mir Lodge--What Admiral Wake
 objected to was going away and leav : ing the British ship Hyacinth and tn
 Japanese ship Esmerelda there.
 Mr. Gray--If the admiral though that the British government wanted t keep them there his information wa , incorrect, for shortly after that tn Hyacinth went away.
 MT. Lodge-The Esmerelda is ther representing the Japanese and the sen ator from Delaware ought to know tha the Japanese population in the island } Is dangerous one.
 . Mir. Gray-The Esmeralda is there il the process of a change of flag from tn Chilian to the Japanese, and not in tn ] ordinary duty of cruiser, But if it 1 ] Japan and not Great Britain that W Q are afraid of, let us say that. knoV . that those senators who are planning = scheme of annexation are in great trou ! ble because the British government can f mot be excited to take hand and justif g all these apprehensions. The Britis a government is quite willing that W = should take these islands if we wan
 them and make them entreports for tn 0 commerce of the world, and so far as k am concerned I am quite willing tha S Great Britain should do that office 10 h the rest of the world.
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