The herald., 1898-06-22

| Hawaii would remove all doubt as to our
land grabbing intentions.
| He declared that the annexation project
was a clumsy cover for the sugar mag
mates from around the edge of which the
saccharine juice dripped to the advantage
of all who cared to avail themselves oft
White Takes the Floor
At the conclusion of Mitchell's speech
White of California, the leader of the OPP
ponents of annexation took the floor. a
call for a quorum by Jones of Arkansas
developed the presence of sixty-one sena-
tors White maintained that the question
pending was not only of vital Importance
but the issues presented with it deserved
and ought to have the careful considera-
ton of all. He declared that territory had
been acquired by treaty but in no case
had territory been acquired by such a
'monstrous piece of folly and contradic-
ton las was the pending resolution. The
resolution, he said, declared that there had
been a cession which congress was to "ac-
cept, ratify and confirm" He demanded
to know what cession had been made and
what had been the cession. He maintained
that there had been on cession, as there
could not have been without the concur
renee Of both parties. 81 would be
ashamed of this senate" declared Mr..
White, 'if 1t should pass the pending reso-
luton, containing such a contradiction CT
names. should be ashamed of the senate
If it should adopt declaration of cession
that had never existed as fact"
A Dangerous Precedent
Referring to the possibility of annexa-
ton of the Hawaiian islands by legislative
action, Mr.. White contended that the ex-
ecutive would be justified in taking pos
session of foreign territory only as an act
CT war, and only from the enemy. Mr.
White gave some attention to the posi-
bility of the Hawaiian islands becoming
state of the Union in case of the annexa-
ton, and congratulated the country upon
the fact that no one had been found ID
contend for this right He characterized
the conditions on the islands as a heter-
cgenous compound of manifest nefficiency.
He contended that there were other ques-
tions than the annexation of Hawaii in
volved in the present discussion. He re-
ferred to the assertion that the American
flag, once unfurled in a country, could not
be taken down, and recommended that
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upon the circumstances under which it
was raised. 1t must depend upon whether
1t is justly or unjustly raised. If planted
as result of uncalled for invasion, and in
a spirit Of conquest and of rapine and
murder it could not be maintained, but if
planted on foreign soil under proper and
patriotic circumstances, it must be main
tanned here if to do so cost the country
its greatest strength, it's most powerful
effort and the best blood of the nation.
The Monroe Doctrine
Mr.. White read, among other things, an
calculation of the Monroe doctrine, and
then said "In this mad race for power, in
this mad race for conquest of territory,
let us consider most carefully the doctrine
of Monroe. 1t is idle for senators to say
we must extend our domination over the
world. In enunciating the Monroe doc
trine we announced that we desired no
interference of European powers with af-
| fairs in this hemisphere.
''The acquisition of the Hawaiian islands
| would be the entering wedge of that i'm
perialistic policy which is as foreign to the
purposes in view when this government was
organized as were the purposes of the mos,
despotic government on earth to our sys-
| tenn"
| In the course Of his speech, Mr.. White
had read by the clerk protest Of the jap