The times., 1898-06-09
WILL COME TO A VOTE.
Indications Tint the Hnwaiian
Question VIII He Rniscd mt Once.

Question VIII He Rniscd ut Once.
The indications are that the Hawaiian
question will be brought up before the
House either today orr tomorrow, despite
the Vaccinations of Speaker Reed.
1t all depends upon the courage of the
Republicans of the House. If they will
follow Gen. Grosvenor. the Speaker will
be driven from his position of secret an
tagonism and Hawaiian annexation will
become an accomplished fact; but If the
Republican majority continues to tempor
lze waiting for the nod of approval from
the Speaker. then Gen. Grosvenor and
the friends of annexation will be dis
appointed so far as the action of Congress
is concerned
There is no doubt as to the sincerity
and the courage of Gen. Grosyenor. He
is not afraid sto confront the burly Speak
er The issue has now been narrowed
down to direct conflict between the
President and the Speaker. There is no
longer any u1isconception as to that.
In the House yesterday. Gen. Gros-
venor, having left the President, and act
ing in pursuance of the latters urgent
request. offered resolution for reference
to the Committee on Rules.
Mr.. Grosvenor's resolution looks to the
immediate taking up and passing the res
olutions for the annexation of the Ha-
waiian Islands. Ii provides that imme
diately after the passage of the resolution
the House shall proceed to the consid
Grafton of the question of annexation.
and the same shall be then continued until
disposed of. II is the intention of the
friends of the measure to press this mat
teer a once and finally to passage.
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa. member of
the Committee on Rules. interposed with
the remark that 1t was not necessary to
present the resolution to the House; that
the proper method was to send it to the
Speaker
Gen. Grosvenor replied that he was
aware of that, but added that he wanted
to obtain the approval of the House.
The object of Gen. Grosvenor was to
bring the question of Hawaiian anneXa-
ton directly before the House. He knew
that more than three-fourths OF the mem
bers would indorse his resolution if they
could have an opportunity to express
themselves.
The further consideration of the ques-
ton was terminated at that point by an
objection from Mr. Johnson of Indiana.
zen. GroSvenor, the old soldier, cour-
ageous and aggressive in the fight for
American honor, stood guard like a faith
ful sentinel, watching every opportunity
TO advance the national demand for Ha-
waiian annexation.
The opposition brought up the bill to
enable volunteer soldiers to vote at con-
gressional elections and then sought TO
adjourn, making 1t the regular order.
Gen. Grosvenor vigorously protested
against adjournment at that hour, p.
m. saying il was a deliberate scheme 20
protract consideration of the pending bill
and 10 shut out the Hawaiian question.
The veteran Ohio congressman fairly
bristled with Indignation as he declaimed
against such methods Of excluding a sub
ject OF great national interest. He in
sisted that the House should proceed with
the volunteer vote bill and get through
with It, He wanted to get It out of the
way for the Hawaiian resolution today.
The opposition, in order to consume
time forced a call of the yeas and nays
on adjournment Gen. Grosvenor deter
mined that the motive in thus wasting
time should not be misunderstood. He
openly proclaimed that 1t was done 10
delay action on Hawaii.
The House adjourned. but il was not
test vote many friends of annexation
voting for adjournment because it was
then too late to accomplish anything.