The sun., 1898-06-18
ANNEXATION IN THE SENATE
The Contest over tue Hawaii ResoIution to
ueEin on Monday.

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WARRINGTON, June 17.-At the suggestion Of
Senator Jones OF Arkansas. Chairman of tho
Democratic National Committee tho Senate in
executive session this afternoon agreed to ad.
journment over until Monday. Earlier in the
day Senator Davis, Chairman Of tho Committee
on Foreign Relations, had reported favorably on
the Hawaiian annexation resolution. passed
by tho House on Wednesday, and In do.
ing SO gave notice that he would nsk
tho Senate to proceed to Its consideration
tomorrow. The motion to adjourn ovor was
therefore the first step in the policy OF delay ad-
vocated bv the opponents OF annexation, but 1t
was deemed inadvisablo to contest it, and as
Senators on both sides of the question were Rnx.
ious for n holiday tomorrow, the motion to ad-
journ .cannot properly be considered as signih-
cant, beyond indicating that att leastl Chairman
Jones has not been converted by the ovcrwhelm-
ing vote by which tho Newlands resolution
passed the House. On Mondayl therefore, the
realIcontGst will begin, and according to present
indications 1t will bo brief and tame.
Senator Jones's reason for asking that consid-
Grafton be delayed until Monday was that as
the advocates OF the resolution had announced
their purpose Of remaining silent in order to get
prompt vote. it would be necessary for its oppo-
nents to begin speochmaking, procedure quite
unprecedented, and would therefore reed time to
prepare to discuss the question with which they
are SO suddenly confronted. 1t Is not known yet
how determined fight the opposition will
make. Senators White, Pettigrew and others
indicate in their public utterancos that they will
never yield. not oven IL Congress should remain
In session until Thanksgiving Day, but there is
authority for the statement that in private con.
versation these same Senators admit that
they do not intend to prolong the discus.
sion beyond week ten days. They
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stick to their declared purpose of remaining
dumb and keeping the Senate in continuous ses.
sion, day and night if necessary, to get to vote,
they can prevent it only by opon hlibustering,
which oven Whito and Pettigrow may not care
to resort to in the face of tho universal senti.
ment for the passage OF the House resolution.
At any rate. legitimate means will first be used
for securing delay, leaving tho flibustering
question to bo decided later in the light OF sub
scQuent events.
In tho gossip OF the past few days about the
probable action of the Senate much has been
said about an alleged agreement in tho Finance
Committee when the War Revenue bill was in
course OF preparation, under the terms of which
the Democratic members consented to allow
the bill to be reported in return for tho
promise that tho annexation question should &c
over until next session. Senator Jones and
others are suro that such an agreement was
verbally made. but, If SO. Republican Senators
outside of the Committee on Finance knew moth
ing about it, and are not inclined TO listen
with patience to the intimations that such
an agreement ever existed. II it does. it 4,
safe to say it will never be sanctioned
by majority. The advocates OF Hawaiian an
nexation arc in no mood to listen to talk about
what may or may not have been done behind
tho closed doors of tho Finance Committee
room. They know only that MAORI
| ty of tho Senate desires to pass tn,
| Hawaiian annexation resolution at once
and mean to have tho will of the majority
recorded before adjournment. Their only feal
now is that it will be impossible to keep
| quorum here in the fight should be pro
| tracted. At present, however. it looks as il
| final vote will como sooner than oven the frendI
| OF tho resolution had been led to expect it.