Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-20
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, June 20.
SENATE.

Senate proceed to the consideration OF
the Hawaiian annexation resolution.
In answer to an inquiry from MIR.
Hoar Mr.. Davis said it was the purpose
of the foreign relations committee to &C.
cupy not only the morning hour but
the entire time of the Senate in the
consideration of the question of Ha-
waiian annexation. "The committee"
said he, considers this most impor-
tant measure to which it is very de-
sirahle TO give prompt attention. OF
course, there will be no disposition IN
necessarily to impede other business, hut
we regard it necessary to press this
measure 10 the exclusion of ordinary
matters"
Mr.. Hoar said he desired simply to
obtain time al an early date to have
considered the conference report on the
bankruptcy bill and hoped there would
be no objection to its consideration.
Mr.. Frye said that as the Senate was
entering upon an exceedingly import
ant matter he sincerely hoped the
chairman of the foreign relations COM
| mittee would insist that it should be
considered without unnecessary delay.
He expressed the hope that he would
press the subject upon the Senate in
sistently and not give way to any
measure that was not absolutely neces-
sary war measure. He thought the
Senate ought not to adjourn at four or
FIVE o'clock in the afternoon but should
sit as long as possible in order to facili-
tate the consideration of the resolutions,
which be added ought to be passed al
an early date. He did not think the
chairman of the committee ought to
wait for Senators to get ready to speak,
but should demand that all who de-
sired to address the Senate be prepared
on time.
Mr.. Frye then asked that upon the
taking up of tie resolutions the yeas
and nays be called.
Mr.. White instantly rose and made
the point of order that the resolutions
were already before the Senate and
that the yeas and nays could not be had
upon dead issue.
The point was sustained by the Vice
President, who announced that he had
already declared the resolutions to be
before the Senate.
Mr.. Jones said be desired to say in
reponse to Mr.. Frye's statement that
if harsh measures were to be adopted
in the beginning by the friends of an
nexation, he wanted to warn them that
| it would be necessary to keep a quorum
in the Senate chamber at all times.
, "Well, We'll keep quorum here"
replied Mr.. Frye, 'as We ought to do
at all times"
Mr.. Morrill, then took the floor to ad'
! dress the Senate in opposition. to the
resolutions and was accorded close at.
tention by the Senate. MIR. Morrill, said
he was unable to concur with the learn
ed committee on foreign relations in re-
gard TO such an annexation, whether
by treaty, by joint resolution, by fla
grant executive usurpation, or in any
| manner which leaves an open door for
the admission OF Hawaii into the union
as State. The undesirable character
of the greater part of their ill.gathered
races of population, gathered by con-
tract to serve long years OF semi slaY'
cry by sugar employers does not war
rant and never can entitle them to an
equal representation in the Senate OF
the United States with Virginia and
| Massachusetts, or with Illinois and
Colorado, nor any other State. A new
member, IS q business matter, ought
not to be pushed into the union with
out the consent of ell the present mem
bers. We can be their friend without
taking them into our family. The
Hawaiian annexation scheme hardly
belongs to the present administration,
nor to the Humanitarian war, and the
time may come when even its present
boldest advocates may not be unwilling
to have it more justly known as an un-
timely seven months offspring of some
previous administration. My firm con.
viction is that annexation OF distant ISL
ands is not in harmony with the consti-
tuition of the United States, but is con-
spicuously repugnant thereto; rie itin
harmony with the history or even with
any of the recorded opinions OF
our earliest and ripest statesmen.
If annexation is to be our fate at least
two or three of our vessels of war, ill.,
Guiding one OF our best battleships,
should be sent forthwith to Honolulu,
unless we intend to leave the islands as
an easy prize to some idle Spanish gun
boat. The formal annexation Of Ha-
wall, under one man power, under
republic in name, or whatever form OF
governmental experiment we may
choose or be compelled to prescribe,
will advertise the final wreckage of the
Monroe doctrine" so long held dear
by the American people.
The historic policy of the republic of
the United States for the hundred years
lust passed, based as it has been upon
the sound doctrine promulgated by |
Washington 10 his farewell address
with words ofperennial wisdom against |
foreign entangling alliances has taken |
root in the hearts Of the American PEG.
pie where it Is treasured up as their |
political bible and cannot now be
Knocked at as merely an ancient tradi-
tion."
At the conclusion of Mr.. Morrills
speech Mr.. Bacon entered upon dis
cussion OF the constitutional objections |
TO annexation as he viewed them.
During his speech Mr. Jones made
the point of no quorum and the roll was
called, disclosing the presence of 81
Senators.
Il made the point of no quorum"
explained Mr.. Jones, mot because l
desire to delay consideration ofthe pend.
- ,.o,olutionc Tinsist thot IL tho r;rid