The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
Opposition Threatens to Tire Ont Re-
puBiicans and Force Adjourn
Inent without Action.
PRESIDENTS DESIRE PLAIN
WANTS PACIFIC ISLANDS TAKEN AT
ONCE AS A WAR MEASURE.
United States Now Receiving $780,
100000 Imports Yearly from the
Hawaiian Group.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June 19.-"The date of
the adjournment of Congress depends en-
tirely on the Hawaiian programme in the
Senate said Representative henry u.
Johnson, this evening. What that pro-
grsmme is have rot been able to discover,
nor do know any one who processes to
be authoritatively advised on the subject.
The House is in shape 10 adjourn whenever
the Senate says the word If an early vote
on Hawaii can be reached in the Senate,
Congress will not attempt to do much in
addition to what it has already done, be-
yond the passage of pending appropriation
bills. II, however, there should be a long
debate in the Senate on annexation, the
House may take up and act on the confer
ence report on the bankruptcy bill, the CEN
sus bill or the banking and currency BILL 1
should be very glad if any or all of these
measures, especially the latter, could be
considered before adjournment"
An Associated Press dispatch says: The
Hawaiian question comes to the front again
in the Senate during the present week. but
under somewhat different circumstances
from those which attended its pre-
sentation at the beginning of the
session. The purpose was then as
II Is now, 10 secure In6 annexation
of the islands to the United States, but the
effort at that time was to secure this result
by means of a treaty, whereas the present
course is through the fundamentally of
joint resolution. On the first occasion the
matter considered in executive session
with the public excluded while now the
doors are to be thrown open and the world
invited. What the outcome of the discussion
m no 0r a will he
one will undertake to say positively. The
leaders on both sides are full of prophecy
but there is such discrepancy between their
opinions as to render it necessary to discard
one in order to accept the other. The friends
Of annexation assert that there is no posi-
BILE doubt ofktheir ability to pass the reso-
luton, and say they have forty-six senators,
or one more than a quorum, pledged to re-
main in the Senate until the question can be
decided, while the opposition leaders declare
that forty-eight senators have assured them
they will vote to adjourn in preference to
remaining in session indefinitely for the con-
sideration of the Hawaiian question. The
supporters of the proposition express conf
dence that action will be secured within
ten days, while the opposition contend that
it will be found to be impossible to secure
a vote during the present session of Con-
gress The advocates of annexation declare
they will make no speeches, leaving the OPP
pOHeHLS TO occupy all the IlIne TO De con-
sumed by this means The opposition say
they are willing to make the speeches If
compelled to do So but that if forced to do
this they will insist that the friends of the
measure shall maintain constant quorum
in the Senate chamber. They also predict
that the annexationists will find themselves
compelled to participate in the proceedings,
as they expect to advance points which will
demand refutation or at least reply.
condition, one can only base prediction on
general conditions. There is no doubt, in the
first place, that annexationists have ma
jority in the Senate if a vote can be reached.
If a vote could be had now the result would
be about ffty-four for annexation to thirty
five against in full Senate. OF these fifty
four senators there are, however, quite a
number who are not jealous, and in whose
minds all doubt to the policy of the ac-
overcome. These senator's rule. are in
disposed to remain in session for any length
of time during the hot summer months to
consider Hawaiian annexa ton. Most Sena-
tors of this class are Republicans. and there
is probably sufficient number of them I'M
der normal circumstances to join with the
Democrats to force adjournment. They
find themselves confronted, however, with
the request of the admins tration to remain
and pass the resolution as a war measure,
and some of them are disposed to sink their
own preferences in obedience to the presi-
Dental wish. The gossip as to the proba-
bility of a poStponement until fixed day
in the next session increases, and many per-
sons are predictiEsr that this will be the out
come of the contest. A test vote probably
will be secured Monday on the taking up of
der to get it up to displace other measures
on the calendar