Arizona republican., 1898-02-09
Friends Of the Insurgents Have
 a Day in the Senate
THREE PLANS OF RELIEF
One is to CompsI an Inn medi- ate Restoration of Peace
Two Other Schemes for Involving the United States in Scrimmage. The Oregon Senatorship-Ala- bama Election Case Taken up

Washington, Feb. S.-Three propo- sitions differing materially as to meth ods, were presented to the senate to- day for the relief of the Cuban insur- gents. MT. Allen of Nebraska offered as an amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill a res olution recognizing the belligerency of the insurgents, and said he hoped thus to afford the senate an opportun- ity to vote on that proposition.
 MT. Cannon of Utah offered a reso- lution urging the president to notify the kingdom of Spain that if it did not recognize the independence of the Cuban republic before March 4, 1898, the United States would recognize the belligerency of the Cubans and within ninety days thereafter would assert the independence of the Cuban re- public. MT. Mason of Illinois followed with a resolution requesting the pres ident to notify Spain that the Cuban war must cease at once, and declare the intention of the United States to restore and maintain peace on the island of Cuba.
 Both MT. Cannon and MT. Mason gave notice of an intention to speak upon their resolutions tomorrow. The right of Hon. Henry w. Corbett to a seat in the senate from Oregon occu- nil hn ofosc hours, Senator Chandler SD 5aking in favor of seating the claimant. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in executive session.
 Senator Pett1grew of South Dakota was the only speaker on the Hawaiian annexation treaty in the executive ses- sion. He opposed the treaty, resum- ing his speech where he had left off a week ago, taking up the line of his argument in connection with his as sertions concerning the area and pop ulation of the islands. He asserted that the area capable of cultivating sugar amounted to fully half mil lion acres, and he said that as the land was very productive there was no doubt that all the sugar necessary to supply the demands of the United States could be produced in Hawaii. He quoted official statistics to the eff feet that in eleven months of the last year there had been 496, ,0OO, 900 pounds of Hawaiian sugar imported into the United States. He then undertook to show that all sugar grown on the is lands must be produced by Asiatic labor, repeating and elaborating on the argument that no colonies of the AngloSaxon race had ever been sue cessful within the tropics.
 He replied to Senator Teller on this point, saying that the facts were against the Colorado senator's con- tention, that the Hawaiian islands would prove an exception to the rule, that white man could not and would not labor in tropical climate If, he argued, we should annex the is lands, the Japanese would inevitably take possession of them and would net in any degree check their inroads un- der our new treaty with Ja pan which goes into effect next year. In view of this fact he contended that whatever bounty we gave or tariff we levy, the result would be in the interest of Asi- atic labor in Hawaii.
 Senator Pettigrew held that the re- suit of the encouragement of this spe- cies of labor would be to the detriment of Wh hn tended. is already declining in the Ha- waiian islands. The Asiatics, he sa d do not buy or use anything we pro- duce. He took issue with those who contend that the islands are in the track of commerce, saying that they place or any country. If, he said, we would fortify any outposts in the line of our travel to the orient it should be one of the Aleutian islands, whicf were directly in the way of commerce between the two hemispheres
 ''It is as absurd" exclaimed tn, senator. ito talk of defending Sal Francisco from Hawaii as it is to tall of defending New York from Ireland for the distance is about the same. Senator Pettigrew at o'clock an nounced that he had not concluded hi speech, but would continue tomorrow
 AN ELECTION CONTEST.
 Washington. Feb. S.-The house to day entered upon the consideration C the Aldrich-Plowman contested cleo tion case from the Fourth Alabam
 district. A majority of the commit