The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-26
CANAL BILL GOES
NICARAGUA PROJECT PASSES The
SENATE BY Ten MAJORITY.

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SENATE BY Ten MAJORITY.
Bill Provides for the Guaranteeing by the
United States of the Payment of Seventy
Millions of Bonds for the Maratime
Canal Company and for the Issue of
Thirty Millions of Bonds Besides--MiIls
on Observation-Disclosures Defended
Harrison and the Sugar Trust Scored
Sorry for Poor Old Lii.
Washington, Jan. 25.-The bill pledg-
ing the faith of the United States to
the construction of the Nicaragua canal
passed the senate tonight by the de-
cisive vote of q to q. 1t was the ternl-
ination OF a debate which has lasted
since the present session OF congress
began. 1t was, moreover, the first re-
alization in either branch of congress
of which the vast project so long and
vigorously urged for canal joining the
Atlantic and Pacific, which the united
States standing sponsor for the execu-
ton Of the work. The final vote was
not secured until $50 o'clock tonight,
but notwithstanding the lateness OF the
Eour there was an exceptionally 1Gll
senate owing to the interest felt IN me
elimination of the long discussion. he
Nicara guam minister and many otner
DIPLOMATS interested in the project had
seats in the diplomatic galleries
throughout the voting on the many
amendments, and the final question.
The bill in brief directs the issue or
$4,000, 900 of Nicaragua canal bonds
Each of these is TO bear the following
guarantee: THE United State of Amer
lea guarantees to the lawful holder OF
this bond the payment by the Maritime
Canal company of Nicaragua OF the
pricipal of said bonds and the interest
ACQUIRING thereon, and as il accrues.
BONDS IN ADDITION.
An additional $50, O0O, coo of bonds is
to be issued without the United States
guarantee. The total 500, 000, 900 thus
issued is to be used in constructing the
interoceanic canal. The secretary OF
the treasury is to have general super
vision of the project. A board OF III
teen directors is to have Immediate
charge of the work. OF this board the
president is to designate ten members,
no more than two from any one
state. The United States is Il
receive $40, 000, 600 of the canal
cCmpany stock in return tor
guaranteeing the bonds and is to hold
a mortgage lien on all the property OF
the canal company
Aside from the final debate and vote
on the Nicaragua bill, the main interest
of the day attached TO a very causuc
speech by Mr.. Mills of Texas, upholdlng
the administration policy in Hawaii
and incidentally scoring the sugar
trust.
Mr. Mills eloquently related the man
ner in which the American people
greeted the Hungarian patriot, Kos
suth, after he had dared to strike at the
oppression surrounding him.
Mr.. Mitchell (Rep., Ore.) asked if Mr.
Mills sought to place together kossuth
and the representatives of Queen I.iliuo-
kalani.
WITH INTENSE SARCASM.
Mr. Mills responded with warmth
that the representative who came here
spoke for a people whose executive had
been defra uded by a representative OF
the United States and whose govern
ment had been overthrown by con
spiracy and fraud. With intense sar-
casm Mr. Mills read the letter OF Pres
ident Harrison TO Queen Liliuokalan
when Minister Stevens was accredited
TO Hawaii.
The senator commented as he pro.
ceeded with the letter This was q
time. said he, when the queen was still
supreme. She was seeking to protect
her own poor native people against the
corporate greed seeking to get posses
sion of the great sugar lands Of Hawaii
But the sugar trust wanted tbs
lands too and they We're more powerful
than Lilikalani was" declared MIR
Mills with much force.
Minister ThurSton of Hawaii came
into the diplomatic gallery and was al
interesting listener to the severe ar.
raignment of the government Represent
ed by him.
The senator denounced the present
Hawaiian government as IAN oil
garchy. This was the oligarchy ap
pealing to the United States for sym
pathy and support" Mr.. Mills asked
why a Republican administration had
set UP a barbarouS king on the thron,
of Samoa.
HAS IT HIS OWN WAY.
who designated this king?" said
Mr.. Mills. 1T was Emperor William o!
Germany. Queen Victoria of England
and Benjamin Harrison of the United
States
Mr.. Mills read from the New Yorl
Evening Post to the effect that Ha
waiian bonds were being fioated in New
England. Their was spirited contro
versy between Mr.. Aldrich and Mr.
Mills as the former rose to ask wha
authority the Texas senator had for tn,
assertion he had made that New Eng
land corporations were among thoS,
greedily absorbing Hawaiian suga
lands.
The sugar trust owns the lands anC
New England owns $4,000 shares of tina
stock" declared Mir. Mills. He read il
detail the investments of Claus Spreck
les and others in Hawaii. The sena
tor said there must be something be
hind this great fiutter" on the part o
the New England senators in behalf o
Hawaii.
Il trust" interjected Mr. Aldrich
that patriotism directs the course O