Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-01-13
WORK Of CONGRESS,
Annexation Question Consid-
cred by the Senate.
Mr.. DAVIS ABLE SPEECH
tho Urgent Deficiency Bills Carrying ST.
a11,s4 :. Passed by the House. Bit
ter Attack Upon MIR. Cannon
by ar. DeArmond.
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her. of the committee on naval affairs,
| introduced in the Senate today a res
Oluton for which he asked immediate
| consideration. requesting the Secretary
| of the Navy to furnish the Senate list
| of the active officers of the navy in
| each corps, together with those who are
| a sea and those who are on shore duty
and those who are on waiting orders.
Mr.. Allen. of Nebraska, said that he
would be glad to have included In the
information asked for the number Of
retired officers of the navy. 1T is we'll
| known" said he, that vast army of
naval officers has been retired to make
| room for younger men who have been
| graduated from the naval academy or
are about II be graduated. Many Of
| these retired officers are anxious to re-
| sumo active service and / would like to
know whether the committee proposes
| to do anything in that regard"
Mr.. Chandler objected to 'tacking any
F, thing else to his resolution, and it was
adopted as presented.
At 1925 P. M. the Senate. on motion
| Of MIR. Davis. of Minnesota. chairman
of the committee on foreign relations.
went into executive session, and at $3.50
Z. NJ, adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Davis completed his speech in, the ex-
ccutive session of the Senate today on
the Hawaiian treaty and was followed
Dy senator Alien, OF Nebraska Who
spoke in opposition.
Mr.. Davis speech today was devoted
largely to the presentation of the STRAIT
eghc features Of arnexat ton. He dis
played a chart in front of the presiding
officers platform, showing the location
of Hawaii relative ITO this country and
Asia One of the points brought out
with considerable elaboration was the
proba BILE effect on the INicaraguan canal
of the occupation of the islands by
SCme fore gn power.
The nation. he said, which controls
Hawaii will control that great gateway
Of commerce. as the guns planted upon
Hawaii would be pointed directly at
the mouth of the canal.
He also devoted very careful auten-
ton to the Importance of controlling
Pearl Harbor. now owned by the Uni
ted States, Sa ying that the nation
which main ia med possession of this
great harbor would hold the key to the
military situation in the North Pacific.
He also presented the necessity for
| controlling IIa waii as a base OF sup
plies in case of hostii!tes. saying that
it was almost necessary to control it for
this reason on account of the imposs-
bility OF warship'S crossing the PA
| c!iic without repe1ishing her coal
bunkevs.
Mr.. Davis sidiculed the objection
| made by japan that the addition OF
! Hawaii as United States territory
would work violation OF JapanS
| treaty rights in the islands.
| Mr.. Davis referred to Japan'S protest
as an indica ton of natural tendency to
rapacty. and said that the government
! of that country should have been sat-
| is!ind with the territory wrested from
China instead of wanting to gorge her
| self by the addition of Hawaii.
! MIR. Davis did not indicate a belief
! that Immediate war would be the result
| OF the European composition over Chi
nesse territory. On the contrary. he
| called attention to the fact that flags of
| Great Britain, France. Russia and Ger
many We're floating side by side on the
! oriental waters, neither power being
| apparently anxious to disturb the other
so long as there was prospect OF each
power getting as much the others
| were taking. The only way in which
| the United States could protect them
| selves AGAINST the division OF te-litt Dry
| would be 10 control the Hawaiian is
| lands. In case we should fail to do this
theirs was danger Of losing very impoc-
i 'ant trade advantages which we're rap
| idly developing in the far East. He re-
| ferred to the Improvement of the COM
| mercial outlook between the United
States and China and insta noed The fact
| that one Minnesota firm had exported
| a half million dollars worth Of -four to
that country. -,
MIR. Davis closed With the remark
that while brilliant craftsmanship de-
randed thatwe should look out for to-
morrow, 1T was still more brilliant
craftsmanship to take into conskiera.
Ign the day after tomorrow He de.
clared that modern irnr movements Ia
| travel had produced such revolution
| that Honolulu is IN efreat no farther
from Washington today than was New
Orleans ait the time of the acquisbt on
Of Louisiana. and therefore contended
that the distance between the two c0un-
| IA v.
| When Senator Davis took his seat he
was congratulated by almost every Sem
a tor present upon the force OF his argu-
nent. the ti.orcughness of his research
and the biliiance of his present alton of
the facts.
Senator Allen. OF Nevada. followed
| with a Speech in opposition to the
treaty, which was comparatively brief.
He called attention no the distance of
| }a " ali from our shores, referred to the
necessity we should be under of de-
Tending the islands in case of war. and
claimed that on this account it would be
necessary for the United States to es-
| tabhistl end maintain separate feet
for their protection as well as an army
| on the islands.
He also deprecated the idea of assim-
Hating such population as that of
| Hawaii. calling attic ntton TO the fact
| that almost half of 1T was composed of
Chinese and Japanese. He commended
! InaI IHe GNNSAdllOH W lue ISL
would open the doors for violation of
| our laws for the exclusion of Chinese.
holding that they could find admission
Through Hawaii. He declared that the
people of that country We're not OF a
| character to send acceptable Senators
| to Washington. There was apparent
today a disposition on the part of some
| Senators who announced themselves
undecided az to what course ITO pursue
on the Hawaiian question to mix it
with the Cuban problem. They are
| friends of Cuba. and their desire is to
have the administration take a more
pronounced position in the interest of
Cuba as return for their assistance
on the Hawaiian treaty.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.--The House
today passed an urgent deficiency bill
carrying 81, 74l S43. One of the items, au-
tlloriDng a further expenditure of $780,
600 for the Soldiers Home at Danville.
HI, for which 100000 was appropriated
in the last sundry c:vfi bill, was used by
Mr.. DeArmond of Missouri, as a basis
for a hitter ferS1na1