The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-02
HE FAv0RS ANNEXATION
Senator Pettus, Alabama, Wants
a Powerful Navy.
NOT A PARTY QUESTION
Mallory OF Florida Speaks in Opposition
to the Annexation OF Hawaii = 1t
Involves a Departure in Gov
ernmental Policy.

Washington, July latter the trans
action of some unimportant business
the Hawaiian annexation resolutions
were taken up and Mr.. Pettus of
Alabama addressed the senate. Dis
cussing the question of annexation, he
said il was not a party question and
could not be made one by one man or a
few men.
Mr.. Pettus entered upon a legal and
constitutional argument in support of
the resolutions and had begun a dis
cussion of the present war, when he
was interrupted by his colleague, MIR.
Morgan, who read an associated press
dispatch from Playa del Este, announc-
ing that the battle of Santiago a be-
gun and fighting was proceeding along
the entire line. Yes, Mr.. President"
said Mr.. Pettus, "the fighting is going
on along the entire line and 1t be-
hooves every man to support the gov
ernment; to support the army and navy
of the United States in all their actions.
We ought to support the president of
the United States. How many will die
in the fight to-day nobody can say. But
/ pray God that those brave men of
CNAtf ~ aA1 Aiity tIuSAg hay uIt NllH
shouts of victory I'm their ears
Mr.. Pettus said one of the objections
urged against Hawaiian annexation was
that the acquisition of that territory
would compel the United States TO con-
struct and maintain at enormous ex-
pense a powerful navy and perhaps
maintain a large standing army.
1T may lead the United States to
build a great navy" said he. II nope
TO God IT will. I will welcome the day
when our navy will be so powerful that
no nation of the world will ever dare
to offer us an insult"
When Mr.. Pettus had concluded Mr..
Mason, Illinois, gave notice that IL there
was no agreement TO vote on the pend
ing resolution, nor a movement to
change the rules, he would not stay in
the senate to keep up the useless farce
of the majority governed by the minor
ity.
The conference report on the bill to
Increase the efficiency of the quarter
masters department and that to in
crease the efficiency of the subsistence
department were agreed to.
In beginning a legal argument
against Hawaiian annexation, Mr.. NAL
Tory, Florida, said the question involved
a new departure in governmental pol
icy, an Increase in our army and navy
and the establishment of a system OF
government In a colony of the United
States which never before had existed.
He maintained that the resolutions pre-
scented were fundamentally wrong, and
ought not to be adopted.
Mr.. Hawley presented the conference
report on the bill providing for the pun
ishment of persons who trespass on
or destroy harbor defense works and
Notifications of the United States. The
report aroused considerable debate upon
its technical and legal aspects, after
the conclusion of which the report was
agreed to.
In the course of his remarks Mr.. NAL
lory quoted a decision of the supreme
court, handed down by Chief Justice
Marshall, to show that territory could
be acquired either by conquest or
treaty but no other method of acquir-
ing territory was indicated by the su-
preme court.
At sos p. m. the senate went into eX-
ecutive session and at 5:55 adjourned.