Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-06-12
THE HAWAIIAN DEBATE
Six Speeches Delivered in
the House. e..
Mr.. CLARK'S PREDICTION
The Missouri Member Tells What Will BE
the Kesul: of an Enlarged Colonial
tiou Policy. MeAsrs. Grosvenor
and ewansAn Ke,ract.
tBy Telegraph,)

WASHINGTON. June 1.-THE Ha-
waiian debate in the House began to-
day. SIX Speeches were made. cover
ing general the contentious of the
support of the opposition to the reso-
lutions providing for annexation.
Proceedings began with a mutual
withdrawal by MIR. Grosyenor lRepub-
lican). of Ohio. and Mr.. Swanson lDem-
ocratl. OF Virginia. OF uncomplimentary
and injudiciouS language used by
them relative to each other in the heat
OF the debate Thursday night When
the revenue conference report was I'M
der consideration.
Mr.. Hit tRepublican), of Illinois
chairman of the committee on foreign
affairs. opened the Hawaiian debate,
advocating annexation.
MT. Hit quoted many naval author
tiles in assertions that possession Of
the islands was Of great Importance.
and pointed out that no fleet could
come from Asatic waters to operate
against the western coast without
touching at Hawaii for supplies and
rt.coaling. The control of the islands
would be practically an efTectual bar
rier to attack upon our western inter-
eStS. ."...
Mr.. Hit paid a tribute to the char
acter of the Americans who have es-
tahlished a republic in place of mon
archy in Hawaii and who now dare to
act INDEPENDENTLY of the world in time
of the Spanish-American war.
Mr.. Dinsmore. the ranking Democrat
upon the committee on foreign affairs.
| opened the debate in opposition. lie
declared his belief that no institution
al powe" existed to annex by joint yes
olution AS was proposed, and opposed
| annexation as being undesirable. IL
would be. he insisted. the first step
upon q policy of colonial aggression.
| in antagonism to the established rule
Inf 6tA
| reaching out into foreign lan:s and the
| establishment there Of American insti-
tutionS would neceSsitate the abandon
| ment of the Monroe Doctrine. Reply
| ing to those who contend that Hawaii
| is commercial and naval necessity as
a mid-ocean supply station, he declared
| there was already route TO Yokoha-
| ina. Hong Kong and to Manila from
| San Francisco by way of the Aleutian
| Islands, American possessions. eight
| hundred miles shorter than the Ha-
| Waiian route. 81. I&
Mr. Clark (DcmocraD, of Missouri
| opposing the resolutions, spoke against
| an enlarged colonization policy as
| something gorgeous in appearance
but fatal in experience, or else all his
tory is i lie AS member of the
committee on foreign affairs he said
| General Schotield had testified before
the committee that Pearl Harbor was
the only harbor in Hawaii that could
be fortified and that declared Mr.
Clark, lis under the control of the
country and from a military stand
point we need no more" He declared
the population of the islands was un-
desirable and its entry as an element
in our citizenship likely to bring injury
l to the social and governmental eStab-
| lishments of this country. DM
| 1.-THE lingo bacillus" declared Mr..
Clark. lis interchangeable in its work, "
and proceeding he said the proposed
annexation of Hawaii would be the en-.
| tering wedge to a policy that woule
| not. end until the American territorial
enlargement had gone to the extent o.
including the earth.
| Mr. Speaker" declared the Nilsson
| ri member in q characteristic burst
If this policy is pursued, as the jim
| goes want it. and you are here presid,
| ing over the House twenty years
hence, you will be called upon to rec
ognize the gentleman from Patagonia
the gentleman from Cuba. the gentle
man from Porto Rico. the gentleman
| from Greenland, the gentleman from
Hong Kong. the gentleman from Eli
and with fear and trembling the gen
| tleman from the Cannibal Islands a:
he gazes with cleaning eyes and glis
tening teeth upon your imposing ant
tempting self"
A great laugh followed this predic
| ton from the Missourian.
| Mr. Parker (Republican), OF New
Jersey. was presiding, Mr.. Reed occu
plying temporarily a seat upon the floor
| The laughter was renewed when Mr
| Clark added, lit is unnecessary to say
IL prepared that for the regular occu
pant of the chair"
| The House, at i:45 P. NJ. adjourned