The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-01
Lodge and Elkins Would Overturn
American Policy.
A SCHEME OF CONQUEST
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII AND
THE PHILIPPINES.
Elkins Deprecates the Policy of Iso-
lation and Urges Big Navy and
Territorial Expansion-Lodge In
weighs Against Minority Rule In
the House-Hawaiian Annexation.

Washington, May Si.-Another day
has been passed by the senate in fruit
less discussion of the war revenue
measure. Not the slightest material
progress was made at today's session
towards disposing of the bill. Speeches
were made by Messrs. Mason (Rep.,
Ills.), Lodge (Rep., Mass) and Eiklns
Rep., w. Va.)
Mr.. Mason strongly advocated an
amendment to the bill, placing a tax
upon wheat flour, adulterated either
with clay of with corn flour, and pre-
scented a long statement by the Natlon-
! al Association of Millers in support OF
his contention. Mr. Lodge had IN
! tended to defend his action in offering
| the Hawaiian annexation resolution as
an amendment to the pending Dill, put
refrained, because, he said, secret
/ session would be demanded if that dis
! cussion were started. After comment
ing somewhat severely upon the AFRO
gance of the minority. which prevented
action upon a question which the ad-
ministration and a majority in both
branches of congress desired TO dispose
of. he began discussion Of some OF the
questions arising out of the present
war
Evidently believing this not a proper
subject for public discussion, Mr.. Tur-
pie (Dem., Ind.) forced a secret iegis-
lative session.
In the open session that followed, Mr..
Elkins discussed the general features
of the pending bill, opposing the cor
poration tax. tax on bank deposits and
the issue of greenbackS, and strongly
advocating the issue of bonds.
The chaplain's' invocation was
glowing tribute TO the life and char
acter of Gladstone. the greatest OF
our time, great in his gifts, greater IN
the use he made of them"
Mr. Money of Mississippi presented
the credentials of William b. Sullivan,
appointed a senator from MISSISSIPPI
by Governor McLaurin, TO fill the va
cancy caused by the death of. Senator
WaIthall. The oath was administered
to the new senator. who received hand
some floral pieces.
LODGES STATEMENT.
Consideration of the war revenue bill
was then resumed. Mr.. Lodge made his
statement concerning his motives in
Offering the Hawaiian annexation reso-
luton as an amendment to the war rev.
enue measure. In beginning. Mr.. Lodge
said that as he had no special desire to
speak behind closed doors, he would
not call up the amendment which he
had offered to the pending bill. He
said that it was a generally recognized
principle in this country that the ma
jority ought to rule and that any vio-
lation of that principle was a travesty
on justice. He referred to the prac-
teal and emphatic exposition of the
principle in the Fifty-first congress,
and declared that since then that prop
osition then made had been approved
by the courts and by the people.
A situation had now arisen, however,
in which it was being demonstrated
that the minority was still ruling, and
in this case it was a minority originally
selected by the majority. Mr.. Lodge
maintained that if a measure was pro-
posed to congress which the admins
tration desired should be enacted into
law, and which commanded the sup
port of a majority of both branches of
congress, it ought in all Justice to be
passed. Such measure had been pre-
scented, but in the. circumstances there
seemed nothing left for the, "hapiess
majority to do but to enter its feeble
protest against the arrogant minority.
On the floor of the senate it was pos
sible for humble member 10 call the
facts to the attention of the country.
He deemed it particularly desirable in
this time of war that the country
should be made acquainted with all the
facts of the present anomalous legis-
lative situation.
Mr.. White Dem.. CALI, leader of the
anti-annexation minority in the senate,
said that when any of the opponents
of annexation had attempted to dis
cuss the questions growing out of the
war they had been forced into a secret
executive session. He had himself de-
sired to discuss the Hawaiian question
in the open, but the privilege had been
denied to him. He thought no discrim-
ination ought to be made.