Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-13
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, June i
SENATE.

city, pronounced the invocation at the
opening OF to-dsy's session of the Sen
ale.
A House concurrent resolution was
presented to the Senate and at the sug-
gestion of Mr.. Allison was Immediately
considered. 1t provided for the enroll
ment CT the war revenue measure, the
enrolment of the bill in the form agreed
upon by the conferees having been rem.
dered legally impossible by a clerical
error.
Mr.. Allison explained that the error
affected only the mixed -four section Ct
the bill and that it was desirable mas
much as the intention of both branches
of Congress was thoroughly understood
that the resolution should be consider
ed at once.
The resolution was adopted.
A resolution directing the committee
on foreign relations to make such in
quiry IS it may deem advisable con-
corning all questions in relation TO
foreign governments arising out of the
present war was referred to the COM
mittee on foreign relations. The reso-
luton was offered last Thursday by MIR.
Chandler.
An act authorizing the appointment
of non-partisan commission to collate
information and to consider and rec
ommend legislation to meet the
problems presented by labor, agricul-
ture and capital was passed.
A measure relating to the Washing
ton, Woodside and Forest Glen Railway
and Power Company, of Montgomery
county, Md, was passed.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Lodge
directing the committee on claims to
investigate the payment of the claim
allowed by Congress to the book con-
Germ of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South was laid before the Senate.
Mr.. Bacon, speaking briefly upon the
resolution, said he had not the remot-
est suspicion that anybody who was
working for the claim had any pc.
cuniary interest in its passage. He
had had a conversation on the
subject with Major E. B. Stahlman,
who had received So per cent of the
claim paid and the impression left upon
him was that not dollar of the money
was to be paid to lobbyists. Mr.. Stahl-
man, said Mr.. Bacon, stated there was
no arrangement or contract whereby
anybody was to be paid single dollar
except possibly small amount for ex-
penses. Mr.. Bacon thought the idea
that the claim was lobbied through
Congress was absolutely abhorrent to
| Senators, particularly to those who &C
lively supported it.
Mr.. Chandler declared that the SEN
ate had been grossly and outrsgeously
deceived and that the Senator from
| Florida (Mr. Pssco) had been the agent
unwitlingly and unwilling of the decep-
| tiou.
Mr.. Pasco-"The Senator knows I
am incapable of deceiving the Senate"
Mr.. Chandler disclaimed any unkind
or unjusI imputation upon Mr.. Pasco,
1--WE all were deceived" said he, land
Barbee and Smith did it,"
Mr.. Pasco-"I ask the Senator from
New Hampshire to retract absolutely
those words which indicated that [ was
! an agent of the deception practiced
upon the Senate. 1 cannot remain pa.
tiently under such an imputation."
HOUSE.
Before proceeding with the Hawaiian
debate the House to-day passed Senate
bills granting American registers to the
steamships Victoria, Olympia, Arizona
Columbia, Argyle, Tacoma and Ar
cadia.
Mr.. Newlands then addressed the
House in advocacy of annexation. The
pending resolutions were introduced by
him. He was interrupted by Mr.. Can
non who presented and asked unani-
nous consent for the passage of an
emergency bill to appropriate S473. isl,
now carried by the sundry civil bill,
to pay the Boring sea award, but
Mr.. Bland objected. Mr.. Cannon ex.
planning the necessity for action, said the
time for payment would expire Friday
and the sundry civil bill would not pass
before that day. Proceeding, Mr.. New
lands commended that constitutional
warrant for annexing the islands as
proposed existed. He spoke of the i'm
portance of insular con Grol. Without
Hawaii no naval power, he said, could
attack the Pacific coast as necessary re-
ooaling would be impossible.
Mr.. Bell followed opposing the reso-
lutions. He attacked the existing re-
public as being an oligarchy and the
offer of the islands for annexation as
being made by few and in utter dis
regard of the wishes of the vast ma
jorily of the people who reside in the
islands. He contended for the rights
OF all people to be governed in accord
ance with their will. Continuing Mr.
Bell argued that the population
was undesirable and that the
location of the islands in the
tropical cline made it unlikely that
people resident there would ever be
desirable as a component element of
American citizenship. The conduct of
American missionaries and others who
have gone to Hawaii was attacked as
having resulted in successful conspiracy
to deprive the natives of their property
and self government. The existence of
leprosy in the island was commented
upon as drawback to annexation.
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