The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-01
Lodge and Elkins Would Overturr
American Policy.
A SCHEME OF CONQUEST
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII AND
THE PHILIPPINES.
Elkins Deprecates the Policy OF $50
lation and Urges Big. Navy and
Territorial Expansion--Lodge IN
weighs Against Minority Rule IN
the House-Hawaiian Annexation

washington, May I.-Another DAY
has been passed by the senate in fruit
less discussion of the war revenue
measure. Not the slightest matellai
PROGRESS was made at today's session
! towards disposing of the bill. Speeches.
were made by Messrs. Mason (Rep.'
Ills.), Lodge (Rep., Mass.) and Eiklns
Rep, w. Va)
Mr.. Mason strongly advocated an
amendment to the bill, placing tax
upon wheat flour, adulterated either
with clay of with corn flour, and pre-
scented a long statement by the Natlon-
al Association of AIillers in support OF
his contention. Mr.. Lodge hau IN
tended to defend his action IN ol1erlhs
the Hawaiian annexation resolution a.
an amendment to the pending DILL pue
refrained, because, he said, secret
session would be demanded IL thal us
cussion were started. After comment
ing somewhat severely upon the drIo
gance of the minority, Whlcn preVehts5u
action upon a question which the ad-
ministration and majority IN potn
branches of congress desired TO dispose
of. he began a discussion of some OF the
questions arising out OF the present
war.
Evidently believing this not a proper
subject for public discussion, MI Iur-
pie (Dem., Ind.) forced a secret lesls-
lative session.
In the open session that followed, Mr..
Elkins discussed the general features
of the pending BILL opposing the cor
poration tax, tax on bank deposlts ana
the issue of greenbackS, and strongly
advocating the issue of bonds.
The chaplain's invocation was
glowing tribute to the life and char.
acter of Gladstone the greatest OF
our time, great in his gifts, greater IN
the use ne made of them.
Mr.. Money of Mississippi presented
the credentials of William b. sullivan,
appointed a senator from Mississippi
by Governor McLaurin, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death OF Senator
WaIthall. The oath was administered
to the new senator, who received hand
some floral pieces.
LODGES STATEMENT.
Consideration of the war revenue bill
was then resumed. mir. Lodge made his
Statement concerning mis- motives IN
offering the Hawaiian annexation reso-
lution as an amendment to the war rev.
enue measure In beginning Mr. Lodge
said that as he had no special desire TO
speak behind closed doors, he would
not call up the amendment which ne
had offered to the pending bill. He
said that it was a generally recognized
principle in this country that the ma
jority ought to rule and that any Vio-
lation of that principle was travesty
on justice He referred to the prac-
teal and emphatic exposition of the
principle in the Fifty-frst congress,
and declared that since then that prop
osition then made had been approved
I by the courts and BY the people.
A situation had now arisen, however,
in which it was being demonstrated
that the minority was still ruling, and
in this case it was a minority originally
selected by the majority. Mr.. Lodge
maintained that if a measure was pro-
posed to congress which the admins
tration desired should be enacted into
law, and which commanded the sup
port of a majority of both branches OF
congress, it ought in all Justice to be
passed. Such a measure had been pre-
scented, but in the circumstances there
seemed nothing left for the 'hapiess
majority to do but to enter its feeble
protest against the arrogant minority
On the floor of the senate it was pos
sible for humble member to call the
facts to the attention of the country
He deemed it particularly desirable in
this time of war that the country
should be made acquainted with all the
facts of the present anomalous legis-
lative situation.
Mr.. White (Den.. CALI, leader Of the
anti-annexation minority in the senate
said that when any of the opponents
of annexation had attempted to dis
cuss the questions growing out OF the
war they had been forced into a secret
executive session He had himself de-
sired 10 discuss the Hawaiian question
in the open, but the privilege had been
/ denied to him. He thought no discrim-
ination ought to be made.