The Portland daily press., 1898-06-23
WHITE STILL TALKING.
California Senator Continues His
Speech on Hawaii.
THE THIRD INSTALLMENT Is DUE
FOR TODAY.

Ipopiries Ordered Regarding the Condi-
,,on of Hobson and His Men and the
humiliation of Bodies of Marines at
Guantanamo.
Washington, June 22.-Opponents of the
annexation of Hawaii again occupied the
attention of the Senate today. Mr.. White,
Democrat of California, resumed his
speech, begun yesterday but after speak
ing two hodrs, yielded the floor to MIR.
Pettigrew of South Dakota who discussed
the resolutions for an hour and half.
MIR. White has not concluded his speech,
Mr.. Pettigrew having taken up the ar
gument against the resolutions merely to
afford him an opportunity to rest. The
conference report on the Indian appropr1-
alton bill was presented and read but no
effort was made to dispose of it. 1t was
Sharply criticised, however, and the in
dications are that it's adoption will be
contested because of the elimination OF
the Senate free homestead amendment
and the acknowledgement of the right, in
certain circumstances and conditions, Of
Indians to lease mineral lands.
Washington, June 22.-Rev. Joseph 6.
Hartsell, =. D., Bishop of Africa, of
the Methodist church, pronounced the in
vocation at the beginning of the Senate's
session today.
Mr.. Wellington OF Maryland presented
the credentials of the Hon. Lewis E.. Nc
Comas, lately chosen a Senator from
Maryland to succeed Mr.. German.
Mr. Davis of Minnesota, chairman of
the committee on foreign relations asked
immediate consideration of the following
resolution:
''That the Secretary of the Navy is d.
rected to inform the Senate whether
Lieut. Hobson and those who were cap
tured with him have been or are conine
by the Spanish authorities within the
line of fire or under thu fire of the United
States fleet, and, If so, at what place or
places they are or have been confined
also to inform the Senate what efforts
have been made to effect the exchange of
such prisoners and with what results; also
to transmit to the Senate copies of the
correspondence of the report on the sub
jects of this inquiry
The resolution was agreed to.
MIR. Davis then offered the following
I0sO4upIOAt Which, was also agreed TO-
That the Secretary of the Navy is d.
rected to inform the Senate whether the
bodies of the United States marines or
sailors who were recently killed in battle
near Santiago de Cuba, were mutilated
after death by the Spanish soldiers and to
transmit to the Senate copies of the Off
cial correspondence and ceports upon the
subjects Of this inquiry"
A joint resolution was passed authoriz.
ing the President of the United States, to
invite through the proper channels, the
governments of England, France. Ger
many, Austria, Russia, Belgium, Switz-
erland, Mexico and Venezuela to send
details of infantry, artillery and cavalry
to this country to participate in a mill
tary jubilee to be held in Madison Square
Garden, New York, during two weeks
beginning December &c, 1898, by the trus-
tees of the Red Cross society of New
York. A resolution was offered by Jones
of Arkansas, directing the committee on
public lands to investigate the official con-
duct of special agent Schheholz, located
at Batesville, ARK.
In the course of a speech upon the reso-
luton, Mr. Jones made some very serious
charges against Schherholz. The resolu-
ton went over pending further investiga-
ton.
The resolutions providing for the an
nexation of Hawaii were laid before the
Senate, Mr.. White of California, resum-
ing his speech begun yesterday in opposi-
tion to the resolutions. He presented ad-
ditional arguments and citations of au.
tEorities to establish his position that an
nexation of foreign territory must be by
treaty and could not be by legisl1 tive act.
After presenting his legal and constitu-
tional objections to the resolutions, Mr..
White ridiculed the idea that the Ha-
waiian group was needed by this country
as a half way station to Manila. He
pointed out that from San Francisco it
was 4l8 miles nearer to Manila by way of
Unalaska than it was by Honolulu He
said, too, it had been urged that the Ha-
walian islands were needed as defense
Of the Nicaragua canal. Honolulu was
1910 miles from the western terminus of
the Nicaragua canal. He thought it
much more desirable. to defend the canal
from San Francisco, which was only 27OO
miles from the terminus, or from San
Diego, only 1900 miles away. Mr.. White
fidiculed the statement of the naval and
military experts that the United States
pught to hold the Hawaiian group as a
military necessity to prevent it's seizure
by any other nation and use 1T as a
stepping stone across the Pacific. Is it for
a coallng station that we propose to
change our policy. If SO let the govern
ment get our coaling station pearl
harbor) and let the government of the
Hawaiian islands proceed to work out its
own destiny, whatever at may be. IF we
need a coaling station in the Hawaiian
islands it does not follow that we need the