The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-21
SENATE FOR ANNEXATION.
FRIENDS OF HAWAII' FEEL THAT
TIRE BATTLE Is AS coon AS WoN

a Vote en- q Motion to AdIsurs. rs 70 a..
Indicates tho Relative strength Of the
Friends OF AnneHatioH-President McRInisy
IL wow Confident THAT tho Rssolation
VIII Pass tho Senate at This Session.
WARRINGTON. June 2o.-Having succeeded in
getting tho Hawaiian question formally before
the Senate. tho advocates OF annexation arc
now confident that their long fight is as good as
won. A week OF debate may bring the final vote
or It may be protrncted for q month. When the
vote does come, however, the Newlands resolu.
tion, which passed the House last Wednesday.
win be adopted. To-day's vote in the Senate on
the question Of prolonGing the days session was
~ to 10, and this is in n measure a test OF
tie relative strength of tho friends and oppo.
nents of annexation In the Senate. 1t
cannot DO counted strictly as a test vote,
however, because the lines have not yet boon
drawn tightly enough to place tho annexation
ists on one side and tho anti.annexatlonists on
the other. Several Senators were paired on to.
days vote who are on the same side Of the Ques-
sion, but In a general way the vote forms a basis
for estimating the complexion Of the Senate on
the question of annexation.
The vote forms q basis for estimating the COM
plexion of the Senate on the question of annexa-
ton The vote might have been still larger, but
for the lack of tack exhibited by Senators
Frye. Wilson. and others. who. without
waiting for the opposition to indicate
whether they intend to employ dilitory
tactics, attempted to commit the Senate in
advance to n plan of procedure which was dis
pleasing to those Of the opposition who are not
In favor of hlibustering, as well as those who
are. This ill.advised stop was defeated. how
ever. and the Senate settled down to n discus
sion without any unanimous agreement having
been mado for the conduct OF debate.
II the question can be brought to a vote in the
Senate, and it now seems quito likoly that it
can be. the annexation resolutions will pass
by q largo majority. President Mckinley
said to ono OF his Senatorial callers
this morning that he was now satisfied
that tho resolutions will pass the Senate at this
session by a large majority. He knows and the
Senate knows that this result can be prevented
by one method only. That is by the action of
Senators in going away from Washington and
thus breaking o quorum in the Senate.
As the matter stands to-day there will either
DO q vote within ten days or a protraotod hli-
buster that may last all summer. Whenever the
vote 10 taken the resolutions will be passed.
II q nlibustor IL inaugurated, the lenRth
Of it will DO determined by the dis
position OF Republican Senators and
their willingness to sacrifice their personal
comfort to the good of the cause. Unfortu-
nately those in charge of tho Hawaiian resolu-
LIOub nhNo cast 10 LodT Luab CeTtdln ocuhlOTb
on the Republican aide of the chamber and some
ON the Democratic side who are not out-and-
out opponents Of annexation, are yet willing to
see 1t defeated or postponed II this can be &C.
oomplished without tho necessity Of their votes.
A canvass Of the Senate made to-day shows
that there are not moro than Ave Republican
Senators who are SO strongly opposed to annex
H. In. addition there are about tho same num-
Der who are lukewarm on the question, and
Let the whole question go overuntil next session.
lho 0ame mind. and II all OF this class should
leave Washington and not return 1t might be
There are. moreover. several senators who are
friends and advocates Of annexation, but who do
Siibuster, and II they Should join tho otheer re:
cruits the question Of annexation would be lost.
como to the knowledge Of those in charge of
$he question In tho Senate that these opposition.
preparing. to make a counter proposition as
Soon as 1t 6ec0pSs apparent that 4, a a v9te cannot
They will propose, It Is said; to POSTPONE tho
whole question until the first Monday In De-
probably be over. and all the questions Of terri
torial acquisition and policy can como up for
Tho Snnexation Of Hawaii. these. Senators
think. can be considered better after the war is
vote as long as possible.
not listen to q proposition Of this kind, and it can
be made successful only by Senators desertipg
their post Of duty and making It impossible
for those in change of tho Eewlsnds resolutions
TO produce . quorum when demanded by the
leaders OF the opposition Democrats.
Tho oVershRdowinR feature Of to-day'a dis.
cussion of the question was tho foreshadowed
split in the Democratic ranks, to which atten.
tiun was pointedly drawn by Senator Teller In his
patriotic speech denounoinR those who are dis
posed to put obstacles In the pathway of the des-
tiny of the United States. Mr.. Teller was aiming
at the leadership OF Bailey and Bryan and those
eo-cSlled Democrats who are using every means
progress of the flag. and his speech was goner
ally regarded In the Senate a. the entering
party, whose leaders are now devoting theiI
energies to preventing tho annexation of Hawaii