The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-06-22
Washington Letter.
{ From orr regular CORRESPONDENT J

(From onr regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. G., June 16.-Tne
Senate yesterday passed(by a vote Of
26 to 23) bill granting charter to
an international bank, in accordance
with Recommendation of the Pan
American Congress. This bill has
occupied considerable time in the
Senate this week, and the intecuation-
al American bank which it proposes
to authorize the incorporation of, is
designed to furnish such banking and
exchange facilities as will promote
trade between the United States and
the countries of South and Central
America. The bill, as it bassed the
Senate, provides that the bank shall
have capital OF s5,000,00O, which
may be increased to $25,000,000.
The bank will be located in New
York City, will be under the super
vision of the Comptroller OF the Cur
rency, like other national banks, and
will have its property subject to taxa
ton by the laws of the State in which
any OF its property may be located.
Under the bill, any coterie of citizers
who comply with the requirements OF
the charter may organize and es!ab-
lish an information bank upon the
same footing with any other inter-
national bank authorized, or incor-
porated, under the provisions OF this
bill But, of course, the bill is not
yet wholly out of the woods, although
| it is perfectly safe to predict its
triumphant passage through the
House, since it is one of the many
measures desired and demanded by
the plutocratic masters who seem to
hold the reins which guide the whole
policy Of the present Congress and
the present Administration Of all de-
partlnents of our great Govern
ment.
The House has also passed the
resolution annexing the Republic of
Hawaii, which has also been referred
to the Senate, considered BY its Com
mittee of Foreign Relations and re-
ported by that committee back to
the Senate with Il recommendation
that it do pass. The formal debate
on the question OF annexation in the
Senate will begin Monday the 2Oth
instanD. The debate will be more
or less protracted and intense; but
it will probably be conducted behind
closed doors SO that the people OF
the country will not see the argu-
ments pro and con. It has come to
public notice in the Senate that two
of the leaders Of the Republican side
of the chamber, in order to get the
Democrats to Withdraw any policy OF
delay which they might have against
the consideration and final passage
of the war-revenue bill, promised that
the resolution Of annexation should
not be considered al this session OF
Congress. But it turns out to be like
most of the promises made to the
country by this party-the promise
will not be kept in good faith: the
other members on that side of the
chamber will say that these two Sem
ators had no authority or right to
make any such promise and pledge
the Senate to any such policy. And
vet it is as well-known fact that the
Senate nearly always recognizes such
promises as binding upon the party
whose leaders make them. In this
case, they are bound to be one Of two
things; either keep the promise and
run counter to the wishes and policy
of the President and his Administra-
ton by laying the consideration of
the Hawaiian question aside until
the next session OF Congress, OF break
it and rally around the flag of the
President and those who control him.
OF course, there can be but little
doubt as to which horn of the di-
lemma they will select.
Whenever the Senate does pass
the resolution, however, it is to be
hoped that it will add Ole important
feature to it which is absent in its
present shape: that is u provision
that no Chinaman who happens to be
resident of the Sandwich Islands
shall, by reason of this annexation to
the United States, become a citizen
of the United States.
The bill or resoiution) already
provides against their immigration to
the United States; but, when Hawaii
becomes part of the territory Of the
United States, its citizens become cit
liens of the United States nnleSs
there be an express exclusion Of that
idea made manifest in the terms OF
the resolution itself by a clear and
explicit prohibition.