Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-05-20

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Islands. Representative Hit, of
ILL.,, who will be chairman of the
house committee on foreign af-
fairs, made an impassioned ap-
peal to the house to agree to the
amendment, because of the ne
cessity of the establishment of a
naval station and of the danger
that England or Japan would
profit by our neglect. Repre-
sentative Cannon, of the same
state, who will be chairman of
the committee on appropriations,
pooh-poohed the suggestion of
danger and said it was nonsense
to make an appropriation that
would not dredge the sand out of
the harbor, and added significant
ly: "We hold Pearl Harbor be-
cause it is ours, because we have
the right and the power, and we
hold the Sandwich Islands in the
same way as far as the protec-
tion of Pearl Harbor and of our
navy and our flag are concerned"
Representative Amos Cummings,
of New York, democrat, spoke
for the appropriation, and said:
II have faith enough in the
patriotism of President Mckinley
to believe that before he leaves
the White House the Hawaiian
Islands will be an integral part
of this republic Representative
Henry, of Conn, closed his re-
marks by saying: II am ready
to announce myself in favor of
this appropriation and as in favor
of the annexation of the Hawaiian
Islands" Representative Walk
er, of Mass, proposed an investi-
cation to find out how much
would be needed, and Represent
tative Sayers, of Texas, closed
his remarks against the appropri-
alton by saying: Next to a
conflict with my own brethren, /
would deplore war with Eng
land; not alone because she is Our
mother country, but because she
speaks the same language. /
don't believe England wants a
war with us any more than we
want war with her.
Senator Kyle made a personal
.explanation this week in which
he denied having made any deal
with republican senators to secure
committee assignments, and said
that he believed the proper policy
of the populists to be to give the
control and responsibility in the
senate to the republicans who
were in control of the other
branches of the government.
The annual meeting of the su-
preme council Of the A. P. A. is
now in session in Washington. AS
usual the sessions of the council
are secret, and the proceedings do
not leak out as quick as those of
an executive session of the U. S.
senate. 1t is stated that the num-
Der Of new branches organized
during the past year is 312, and
that the membership of most of
the old branches continue to in
crease.
Representative Richardson, of
Tenn, will get we'll paid for the
time he has spent in compiling
the Messages and Papers of the
Presidents" if nothing happens
to the amendment to the sundry
civil bill that gives him a dupli-
cate set of the electrotype plates
of the book ard the right to print
and sell the books to meet the
demand which is already far in
excess of the number of copies
authorized to be printed for con-
gress; and as the amendment has
already been agreed to by both
house and senate there is little
danger of anything happening to
it. How valuable what Mr..
Richardson will get for his work
will be, may be Judged from the
offer of publishing firm to give
S1O,0 for tie plates and right
10 print and sell the book. Mr.