The times., 1898-06-24
Nh. PET TIGRENI ON HAWAII
Despite Interruption, He In
Weighs Against Annexation.
AMERICAS MANIFEST DESTINY
The Phrase IL Responsible for Many
Untoward Things, He says-oIr
McEnery Follows with the Usual
Arguments-The Speeches That
Are Yet to lie Finished.

One more day Of tall against the an
! nexation of Hawaii was INDUCED in by
the jealous anti-annexation minority in
/ the Senate yesterday
/ There Is every reason to believe that
| the threatened prolonged filibuster will
not be INDUCED in. as strong pressure
! is being brought to bear upon the leaders
| of the opposition to annexation by mem
] bers of the Democratic party, both in the
| House and Senate. who, although opposed
! to the measure, yet do not desire TO go
| TO the extreme in their hopeless fight.
| They think it more polite to yield to the
| inevitable after exhausting all legitimate
arguments and without resorting to pure
ly dilatory tactics.
| Chairman Davis expresses himself as
gratiiied at the progress made so far, and
| INDUCES in the hope of a vote by the
middle of next week
| One hour was consumed at the opening
/ of the session in the discussion of a reso-
| luton for the investigation of a special
land agent in Arkansas. Mr. Jones of
that State introduced the resolution
! Wednesday and charged tLat this agent
| was outraging the citizens of that district
/ by sezing their RATS and requiring them
to furnish proofs, at great Inconvenience
and expense to themselves, that the tim
Der was cut on their own land and not
on lands belonging to the Government
The resolution met with considerable op-
position from members of the Committee
on Public Lands, which would have to
make the investigation Ii was tempo
I artlr
committee to audit and control the con-
tingent expenses of the Senate.
MIR. Davis then called up the Hawaiian
resolutions and Mr.. Pettigrew was recog-
nized for the purpose OF continuing his
speech against annexation. However, he
yielded the floor TO Mr.. Rawlns who said
he wished to call the attention OF senators
10 portion of the conference report on
the Indian appropriation bIl, which, he
claimed, was far more important than
the annexation of Hawaii, for if the pro-
vision he referred to became a law it
would deed away TO the Indians 50.G500 900
acres of minera! lands. including such
! lands in the District of Alaska.
Mr.. Rawlins said he wished to bring
this matter 10 the attention OF senator's
so that they would not be surprised when
they were called on TO vote on the report.
AT 1880 o'clock Mr. Pettigrew resumed
his remarks in opposition to the anneXa-
tion cf hawaii. He said that the asser-
ton that 1t was manifest destiny that we
should annex the Islands was Misleading
Manifest destiny" he said has
caused more wrongs and committed more
murders than anything else in the his
tory of mankind. Manifest destiny is
| simply the cry of the strong for the justi-
| hcation of the plunder of the weak"
Mr Pettigrew then decried in detail the
Hawaiian Ielan1c
We're capable of great development and
could be made to maintain three or four
times the population they now possess.
He maintained, however that our people
would never go there to settle on -accouht
| of the tropical climate. &
1.-THE American missionaries who went
there 10 preach to the natives he stat
ed. "abandsneds their jobs and stole the
land and property OF the natives. The
fellows who are now running that goY-
ernment are the shrewdest lot OF fellows
! ever knew. Their fathers would have
no communion with the devil, but their
sons had ---~1gh to make up for the
whole family" ~
At o'clock Mr. Chiffon suggested the
absence of IA quorum and the roll was
called ii
Mr.. Pettigrew.; continuing, said there
was a great disparity between the males
and females in the islands there being al
most twice as many mares as females.
This was the rule in all tropical coun-
tries. he declared.
The American laborers in the islands
are not very numerous and they are CON
stantly decreasing for the reason that
the Japanese displace them at smaller
wages, he said. This latter class is ship
ped there in large NUMBERS under CON
tract
Mr.. Pettigrew yielded the floor to Mr..
McEnery ef Louisiana at o'clock
Mr.. McEnery said there was nothing in
the constitution of the Hawaiian govern
ment authorizing them to make treaties
with other nations except for commercial
purposes. He declared that the present
legislation. if enacted. would not be bind
ing upon the people of that republic
He said that the only way the Hawaiian
Islands could be taken by the United
States was by making a state of them.
and he argued that that would be very
undesirable for many reasons
I'VE have a sufficient number of do
mestic questions said Mr.. McEnery, "to
occupy our attention for the next 200
years, and we ought to settle all of them
before we go outside to bring in new
difficulties"
At O'Clock. Mr.. Hawley interrupted
Mr.. McEnery to make a motion for an
executive session and an adjournment
was shortly had.