The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-13
DAVIS On Annexation
Completes His Speech in Ex-
ecutive Session.
ALLEN IN OPPOSITION
Pro-Cubans Want to Trade
Votes.

day on the Hawaiian treaty, and was
followed by Senator Allen of Nebraska
who spoke in opposition.
Mr.. Davis requested at the beginning
that no questions should be asked dur
ing the presentation Of his argument,
as he preferred, he said, not to have
the continuity of his thoughts broken.
| The speech today was devoted largely
to a presentation of the stragetic fea-
| lures Of annexation. He displayed a
chart in front of the presiding officers
platform, showing the location Of Ha-
wall relative to this country and to
Asia. One of the points brought out
with considerable elaboration was the
danger. to the Nicaraguan canal from
! the occupation of the islands by some
| foreign power. He Illustrated by a ref
erence to Zhe map, showing that Ha-
wall was in a stre ight line between the
western terminus of the canal and ia
! pan and China. The nation, he said,
which controls Hawaii will control that
great gateway Of commerce, as the
/ guns planted on Hawaii would be point
| ed directly at the mouth of the canal.
| He also devoted very careful attention
| to the Importance of controlling Pearl
! harbor now owned by the United States
| saying that the nation which maintain
| ed possession of this harbor would hold
| the key to the military situation in the
North Pacific. He read extracts from
reports by engineers and others in con-
| firmation of this statement and in sup
port of a statement which he made as
to the character of the harbor, which
was that it as safe and commodious
and could be easily defended.
He also presented the necessity for
controlling Hawaii as a base of sup
plies in case of hostilities, saying that
it was almost necessary to control it
for this reason on account of the i'm
possibility of a warship crossing the
Pacific without replenishing her coal
supply. Mr.. Davis ridiculed the objec-
ton made by Japan, that the addition
Ct Haawii to the United States would
work a violation of Japans treaty
rights in the islands. He said in reply
to this objection that all rights would
doubtless be protected and inS-2rced
the creation of the German empire as
showing the effect of annexation upon
the treaties Of various countries which
e:Itnr into a c. 3sol.iItinn. He re'e"re1
to jar ans pr )test as Al ind alton Of
should have been satisfied with the ter
ritory wrested from China instead of
waiting to gorge herself by the addition
of Hawaii Mr.. Davis called attention
/, ia1 axric
ing between China and Japan as man
ifestedsby NJapan's offer to lend her fleet
to the English in their operations in
Chinese waters, where, he said, the
greatest naval demonstration of history
was about to be made. He did rot in
diacte a belief that immediate war
would be the result of the occupation
of the Chinese territory. On the con-
trary, he called attention to the fact
that the flagships of England, Germany
and Russia were floating side by side
in the Oriental waters, neither aving
been apparently ANXIOUS to disturb the
other so long as there was a prospect
of each power getting as much as the
others were taking. The only way in
which the United States could protect
itself against this division of territory
would be to control the Hawaiian Is
lands In case we should fail to do this
there was danger of losing very import
ant trade advantages which were rap
idly developing in the far east. He re-
ferred to the improvement of the COM
mercial outlook between the United
States and China and showed an in
% G~r71 T1rbi Cn
had exported one million dollars to that
country.
The last half hour of Mr.. Davis
speech was devoted to a recapitulation
of the subject. in which he dwelt at
considerable length and portrayed in
strong language the origin and close of
great wars, which was intended to IL
lustrate the probate ultimate result of
present operations in Chinese waters.
When Senator Davis took his seat he
was congratulated by every senator
present on the force Of his arguments,
the thoroughness of his speech and the
brilliancy Of his presentation Of facts.
Both Senators Hoar and Mason were
heard to remark that IL was a great
pity that the rules Of an executive ses-
sion prevented the publication Of the
entire document.
ALLEN IN OPPOSITION.
Senator Allen pop, NebD followed
with a speech in opposition to the
treaty which was comparatively brief.
He called attention to the distance
from Hawaii to our own shores, refer
red to the necessity we would be under
Of defending the islands in case Of war
and claimed that on this account il
was necessary for the United States to
establish and maintain a successful
fleet for their protection as we'll as an
army on the islands. He said coal was
no longer contrabaud OF war and con-
tended that the United States was in
greater danger from the British estab-
Ushmert at EsquimauIt than it could
possibly be because Of the location OF
any foreign power in Hawaii He also
deprecated the idea Of assimlatiug such
a population as that Of Hawaii calling
attention to the fact that almost half
NJ it was composed Of Chinese and
japanese. H cGntended that the anne
Ration OF the island would open the
doors for violation Of our laws for the
exclusion Of Chinese. holding that they
could find admission 70 prevent Ha-
waits becoming astate Of the union az
some future day and declaring that
the people Of that country were not %
a character calculated 10 send accept
able senators 10 Washington
There was apparent today q disposi-
ton on the part Of IN senators w5el an
nounce THEMSELVES as undecided as TO