Evening star., 1898-06-23
Another Senator Who Opposes Ha.
waiian Annexation.
BE TALKS ON MANIFEST DESTINY
House Agrees to Adjourn From To.
day Until Monday.
o T II E r M A T T E R S

AT the opening OF todayS session OF the
Senate Mr.. White (Cal) reported from the
committee on commerce a bill for the pro-
lection of American seamen and for the
promotion of commerce.
The resolution offered yesterday by M
Jones (Ark.) directing the committee on
public lands to investigate the official con-
duct Of Special Agent c. A. NJ. Schlierholz.
who is charged with unlawfully Selling
timber. was again considered. A brief but
rather lively debate, in which Messrs
Hansbrough. Berry. Jones (Ark) and Will
son participated, took place, and then the
resolution was referred, without action, to
the committee on contingent expenses.
At l o'clock tine Hawaiian annexation
resolutions were laid before the Senate,
and Mr.. Pettigrew Is. d. was recognized
to continue his speech begun yesterday.
He yielded the floor to Mr.. Rawlins Utah),
who discussed the provision embodied oy
the conferees in the Indian appropriation
bill enabling the Indians to lease the min
eral lands of their reservations under GER
tain conditions.
He declared this was matter of graver
importance to the people of the United
States than the annexation of Hawaii, al
though he was in favor Of such annexa-
ton. This provision, said he, sis a rec
ognition of the title in fee of the Indians
to all the mineral lands of their reserva-
tions. The cession of this right to the
Is VI vastly Sicdtct ihpoi tdHSC
than the cession We shall get from Hawaii.
I'm the case of Hawaii he declared,
we obtain four or five million acres of
land, but in this case we cede to $4,000 or
10000 Indians an amount of territory ex-
ceeding fifty million acres, embraced prin-
cipally in the mining states and territories
of the west, not including the territory of
Alaska"
a matter as this would be sprung upon
Congress at so late an hour in the session
as this.
The reason. he thought, was that specu-
lators had already obtained the consent of
the Indians to lease to them the mineral
land. and powerful influences were being
brought to bear to secure action they de-
sired. He thought the report of the con-
ference ought to be rejected, and he hoped
it would be, as its adoption with the miner
al land provision included would involve a
loss to the government of tens of millions
of dollars.
The Hawaiian Resolutions.
In resuming his speech upon the Hawa-
iian resolutions, Mr.. Pettigrew said that
annexation was defended by the sentiment
that 1t was the manifest destiny of the
United States to extend its territory 1t
was manifest destiny, he said. that had
committed more crime and had done more
to oppress the people than any other thing
In the history Of the world. Manifest des-
tiny had built the feudal castles and gath
cred the serfs around them. Ii was the
justification of the strong for the punder
of the weak. 1t was, he maintained, mani
fest destiny that had actuated Great Brit
ain in the bombardment of towns IN Africa
filled with women and children. He de-
ciared that If the United States should an
mex territory into which we could not in
troduce our form of government, the re-
f1ex action of such acquisition of territory,
the people of which are far inferior to our
own, would cause our own government to
deteriorate.