The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-01

Washington, June 30.-Late this af-
ternoon the senate cleared the legls-
lative decks for what may be the final
action upon the Hawaiian annexation
resolutions Through it's action today
the last of the appropriation bills that
has been pending in conference was
disposed of and was a law before mid
night After a debate lasting three
hours the senate finally receded from
it's amendments TO the sundry civil Dill
and adopted the conference report on
the Indian appropriation bill.
When the Hawaiian resolutions were
taken up, Mr.. Bate Dem., TENN and
Mr.. Tillman (Dem., s. % addressed
the senate Mr.. Tillman discussed the
race problem from the standpoint of
a southern man, and was characters
tically vigorous in his remarks.
DIR. Jacob Vorsanger, rabbi OF Tenn
pie Emanuel, and professor of Semitic
languages and literature at the UnlVer-
sity of California, San Francisco, pro
nounced the invocation at the opening
of the session. He prayed that the
flag under which we live, that for
which our fathers fought, be forever
the sacred emblem OF liberty, until
time shall be no more"
The Hawaiian annexation resolutions
were taken up, and Mr.. BateNf len
nessee spoke in opposition to them II
was an innovation, he said, upon all
precedent that a resolution from the
house should be sent to the senate
while a treaty upon the same subject
was still pending. He declared that
the treaty could not secure the neces-
sary two-thirds vote in the senate, and
that the political machinery had been
set in motion in order that the sentl-
ment in the senate might be over
ridden.
MIR. Bate declared that the vote that
would be cast for the joint resolutions
would be the knell of Republicanism,
but it would be cast. War times would
cause the majority to adopt the reso-
Iutions. The fever was in the brains
of the pc ople and those of the senators,
and il would force such action, in his
opinion. that would prove disastrous.
DEvILMENT AFOOT.
Mr. Tillman of South Carolina follow
ed Mr.. Bate Thus far he said, the
discussion Of the resolutions has been
entirely one-sided Whenever the ma
iority of the senate sits in sullen silence
on so important a question as this, /
( am Impressed with the idea that there
is devilment afoot. Senator'S like 20
talk: they like to hear themselves
speak, to get their names in the news
papers. and TO see their remarks IN
/ the Record. When, therefore, they are
! silent, there is, depend upon II, some
| thing rotten in Denmark.
Mr.. Tillman, in opening his argu-
ment. which was a comparatively brlet
| general statement in opposition 10 the
resolutions, said the whole question
| had been fully discussed last winter IN
executive session, a nd it is therefore
1aa ooh nf n
terest and an unwillingness to listen to
I a repetition of speeches delivered then.
He religiously believed, he said, that
II was unconstitutional to acquire ter
ritory by joint resolution, but an AFRO
: giant majority was, however, pressing
4 forward its purpose without regard 10
/ constitutional obligations or TO their
] oath OF office.
SUGAR TRUST INFLUENCE.
( AS to the sugar interests he said:
''When 1 consider the mastery of the
American sugar trust over the senate
and the house. as shown in the passage
of the Dingley tariff law, l am forced
into the belief that this trust is not
opposed to anneXation, and that ITS
influence. is already working among
the ranks of those favoring annexa-
ton"
Discussing the race problem pre-
sented, Mr.. TiIlman said: 1.-The Phil
ippnes are already densely populated
with races for which we have no af-
fnity or liking. 1t is the same with
Porto Rico and, in some degree, with
Cuba; but we have already one per-
picking and harassing problem right
here at home, and that must give us
pause. / mean the negro question.
The wisest craftsmanship is unable to
foresee the final result of the presence
/ in the same commonwealth of two dis
] tinct races, each possessing the same
rights under the law, but one of which