The age-herald., 1898-01-19
SENATOR MORGAN
 DISCUSSES HAWAII Consumed the Entire Time of Executive
 Session of the Senate. THE MILITARY IMPORTANCE Of the Islands to the United States
 DRelt On At Length. HE DECLARED WAR INEVITABLE With Some Foreign Power Unless Uncle Sam Extended Protecting Wing to the
 Poor Little Orphans of
 the Pacific.
HE DECLARED WAR INEVITABLE

Washington, Jan. 12.-Senator Morgan occupied the attention of the senate during the entire time of the executive session today in the presentation of his views on the subject of annexation of the Hawaiian islands. This was the second installment of the senator's speech and when he con cluded, few minutes after o'clock, he had not then reached the end. He spoke for about three hours today and his speech was a general presentation of the impor- tance of the islands to the United States. He dwelt especially upon the military im- portance of the islands, quoting General Schofield and Captain Mahan, the eminent authority on naval affairs, at length in support of his position that the islands were natural outpost of the United States and necessary to the proper protec- tion of our western coast and of our gen. eral commerce in case of war;
 War in Ten Weeks.
 MT. Morgan predicted that if the United States did not take the advantage of the present opportunity to acquire the islands, there would be war between this country and some other power within ten weeks. It was not, he said, within the bounds of the possibilities in view of the present European competition for territory in Asia, that the Hawaiian islands should be allowed to remain independent for any length of time after the United States should finally announce their determina- tion not to make them a part of Ameri- can territory.
 Does the senator from Alabama mean to say,'' interrupted Senator Pettigrew, "that the Hawaiian government would voluntarily seek the protection of some other power and thus forego the great ad- vantage those islands now enjoy in their reciprocity arrangement with the United States which results in our remitting to them annually not less than S6,OO0O00?"
 To this question Senator Morgan replied that the reciprocity treaty had been nego- tiated for the purpose of giving this coun- of greater benefit to the United States than it had been to Hawaii, because it had accomplished it's purpose of making cheap CT one of our great commodities and one of the necessities of every household. We want. he said not only the sugar from Hawaii. but cheaper coffee as well, and many other necessary articles could be grown in those islands.
 In Roadway of Commerce.
 The senator displayed a number of large maps, from which he contended that the islands were in the roadway of commerce between our western coast and the Orient, and said that all ships, whether laden with the articles of commerce or the munitions of war; must necessarily pass them in go- ing to and fro between this country and the Asiatic coast, and thus, he said the na- tion which controls Hawaii will control the commerce of the east.
 In closing he said that failure to annex the islands meant inevitable bloodshed, and the responsib.--ty for that bloodshed would rest upon the senate of the United States for It's failure to perform it's duty at this critical hour in the history of the two countries.