Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-02-17


devoted four hours TO consideration of
the Hawaiian treaty. The principal
speech was by Mr.. Pettlgrew rep, n.
ID, this being the third installment
of his remarks upon the subject. Mr..
rettigrew devoted himself largely to
the administration of President Dole,
showing how the government of Queen
liiuokalani had been overthrown and
TO the presentation Of his views of this
government participation in the rev.
olutlon. The government, he said,
which declares, as does this govern
ment in It's constitution, that all
nom the consent of the governed
could not afford 10 depose a friendly
government, set up usurping govern
ment in its place and then acquire title
TO the country without first obtaining
the consent of the people of that
country. Mr.. Pettigrew also con-
tended that the passage of the Mckin-
ley tariff law had been the direct
cause of the revolution by which the
queens government was overthrown
the motive being to secure a bounty
of two cents per pound on domestic
sugar which that law provided, In
summing up. Mr.. Pettigrew said that
the opponents of annexation claimed
to have established four points. They
had, he said, shown first, that the route
to the orient via the Aleutian islands
was thousand miles shorter than
that by Honolulu second, no battle
ship coaling on the Hawaiian islands
could reach the United States in con-
d.tion to fight, and that on this &C
count possession of the islands would
be an element of weakness rather
than of strength which was in opposi
ton to the theory that the islands We're
necessary to defense, third that the
commerce of the islands,
which had been claimed would be
| one important reason for their annex
alton was constantly declining and
| less than that of an ordinary county
/
of the Aleutian islands would afford a
more secure footing and by shorter
rute for cable to Asia than would the
route via Honolulu. At the close OF
his three days speech Mr.. Pettigrew
was cordially congratulated by many
senator's, including some OF the oppo-
sition upon the thoroughness with
which he had gone into the subject
and the ability with which he had pre-
scented the opposition to annexation.
Mr.. Proctor (rep., Vt.) followed in a
brief speech in favor of annexation
He devoted himself exclusively to the
military phase of the question He
cited the fact that England has strong
ly fortified posts all along our Atlantic
sea board He also called attention
to the strong fortress ct EsqGimaut
and said that if England should pos
sess the Hawaiian islands, as she
might do in case we let this opportu-
nifty to acquire them pass by, her drum
beat would be heard almost entirely
around the United States and she
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own territory In any direction. He
also contended that 1t would be a com
ILaratively easy matter for the Japan
csc to acquire the islands by popu-
lating them as they are apparently
strongly inclined to do He said that
the United States, failing to make the
islands part of this country, could not
regard their seizure by some other
power as an offense against this eoun-
/ Try During the session Mr.. White
| (oem., CALI attempted to ascertain
f. ON Mr.. Davis (rep, Mimi in charge
of the treaty, whether there would be
an early attempt to secure a vote upon
| it. Mr.. Davis in reply stated that he
! could not at present say when the de-
! bate would cease Jr when the vote
would be taken.
HOUSE.
! Washington, Feb. 10 William Al