The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-05
QUESTION OF ANNEXATION
SENATOR WHITE AGAIN. ATTACRS
PROPOSED HAWAIIAN TREATY.
Makes Additional Points Against Advisa-
Pulposes-Powerfui Navy Would be
Needed-Cheap Labor-Denounces Dole
Government,


PuIposes-Powerfui Navy Would be
Needed-Cheap Labor-Denounces Dole
Government.
Washington, Feb. 4.-Senator White
concluded his three days speech in op-
position to the annexation of Hawaii
in the executive session of the senate
to-day. At the beginning of to-day's
speech, he made some additional points
against the advisability of annexing
Hawaii for defensive purposes, saying
that it was 1,500 miles out. This fact,
he said, demonstrated that numerous
points must be guarded from hostile
assault and that q powerful navy
would be required to accomplish this;
that this immense expenditure would
be without benefit to our defenses on
the continent. He declared that as
soon as Hawaii was acquired it would
be contended that our domains should
be extended to other islands and we
would finally embark upon the foreign
acquisition business, involving an out
lay of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Hethen took up the question of labor
contending that. the Chinese were re-
ceiving SIS per month without board.
He ridiculed the pretenSion that the
Anglo-Saxon race could labor in Ha-
waiian sugar fields and demanded to
know why if they could there was no
such white labor on the islands now.
He read from a recent consular report
to show that the coffee business was
of boct r,rohIoy,o ttoo1 apd that avon n
this work laborers only received SIS
per month without board He de-
nounced the master and servant regu-
lations now in force in the islands as
species of slavery; and said that cof-
fee must be produced in competition
with the lowest grade sof European
toilers.
He denounced as absurd an assertion
that trade would be diverted from the
United States if annexation were de-
feated and said that even with the
present treaty out of the way, the Ha-
waiians would do business with us;
that when the Mckinley bill was in
force they still traded with the United
States. He then took UP the Dole gov
ernment, insisting that it was irregular
and a fraud. He said hat it was uni
versally conceded that the Hawaiian
natives were we'll educated and would
be citizens of this country in case of
annexation and contended that they
should be consulted. He read from the
proceedings with relation to the admis-
sion of Texas to show that the consti-
tuition providing for annexation and
the specific question of annexation
was submitted to a. popuIar vote: that
whatever might be the rule as to bar
barous tribes or portions Of territory
held by monarchies, it was clear that
here where the validity of the govern
ment was challenged and where the
people have never had an opportunity
to vote upon the annexation treaty,
no action could be taken.
This government, based upon the will
of the people, could not afford to in
corporate a large number of persons
who would be eligible to citizenship
against their will. He read from Judge
Cooley and several other writers in
support of his views mad declared
again that the entire power behind the
throne was the sugar combination OF
Hawaii whose personal interests had
he said, always been consulted regard
less of the effect upon the public. He
criticised the action of President Dole
in coming to Washington at such q
time and he asked what would have
been thought of the taste of the Prince
of Wales had he come here at the time
the treaty of arbitration was under
consideration for the purpose of influ-
encing our action.