The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-07
SENATE VOTES FOR HAWAII
THE ANNEXATION RESOIUTTOyy PASSED 4e TO 2i.

Question Brought to n Vote Quite Un-
 cxpectedly and Annexation is Now Ac-
 compIished So Far as the Legislative
 Branch of the Government is Com
 cerned-ResultG Greeted With Cheers.
 Washington, July 6.-The annexation of Hawaii now Is accomplished so far as the legislative branch of the govern ment is concerned. Quite unexpected ly the resolutions providing for the annexation of the islands were brought to vote in the senate late this after noon and they were passed by the de- cisive vote of 42 to 21.
 Early in to-day's session of the sen- ate conferences of the leaders on both sides of the chamber were held and a tacit agreement was reached that a vote should be taken tomorrow or Fri day at the latest. The opponents of | annexation had concluded their argu- ments and as they had no desire to keep the senate in session by purely dilatory tactics they announced their willingness that a vote should be taken as soon as MT. White, MT. Petti- grew and MT. Allen had finished their | speeches. Neither Mr. White nor MT. Pettigrew spoke at great length. MT. | Allen decided to eliminate a part of | the matter he had prepared and at 4:15 | he completed his speech. It was evil dent that a vote was at hand. l The word was passed swiftly through the corridors and committee rooms. and in few minutes every senator at the capitol was in his seat. The galleries filled rapidly and members of the house came hurriedly to the senate chamber. The test vote came upon an amend ment offered by Mr. White of Califor- mia. It was rejected by vote of 40 to 20 Amendment after amendment was offered, but the advocates of the reso- lutions stood solidly together, gaining rather than losing strength on success | sive votes.
 Finally at 5:30 p. m. the resolutions 1 themselves, in precisely the form in which they were received from the house, were reported to the senate and the roll call began. Intense interest l was manifested by every spectator. When the vice president announced the vote by which the resolutions were l passed tremendous wave of applause swept through the galleries. The de- tailed vote follows:
 Yeas-Allison, Baker, Burrows, Cannon. Carter, Clark, Cullom Dayls, Deboe FL German, Hale Hanna, Hansbrongh, flaw Icy, Hor,. Kyle, Lodge, Mcbride, McLaurin, Money pMorgan Nelson P,enTose Perkins Proctor, Sewell, shoup, Sullivan, Tellr, Warren, Wellington, Wetmore, Wilson, Vol
 Nays-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry. Caffery. Chiffon, Clay, Daniel, Faulkner, Jones of Nevada, Lindsay, NcEnery, Mallory, Mitch ell, Morrill,, Pace, Pettigrew, Roach, Hurley, Turtpie, White--21.
 There were twelve pairs announced as follows: The names of those who would have voted in the affirmative be- ing given first in each instance:
 Rawlins and Butler, Chandler with Vest, Murphy with Coekrell, Quay with Gray, Stewart with Mills, Smith with Geer, Ald- rich with Jones of Arkansas, McMillan with Kenney, Mantle with Martin, Platt of New 1 1OFh WlCu SpOoueT, WlCn IluTSLOus Mason with Tfllman.
 Senators Harris and Heitfield were absent and not paired, but their respec- tive colleagues announced that If pres ent they would have voted for the reso- lutions. MT. Merrill was the only re- publican who voted against the resolu- ton. Six democrats, Messrs. German, McLauren, Money, Morgan and Pettus and Sullivan voted in favor of annexa- tion. A sharp discussion was caused early in the session by the introduction of a resolution rendering the thanks of cngress to Commodore Schley for de- stroying Admiral Cervera's squadron. The resolution was sent to the naval affairs committee. The senate con- cured in the house amendment to the general deficiency bill, thus passing the last of the appropriation bills.