The San Francisco call., 1898-06-14
ARGUED IN THE HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, June 13.-Newlands (Silverite) of Nevada to-day addressed the House in advocacy of annexation. The pending resolutions were intro duced by him. He was interrupted by Cannon {R.) from Illinois, who pre- sented and asked unanimous consent for the passage of an emergency bill to approprfate S417,151, now carried by the sundry civil bill, to pay the Bering Sea award, but Bland (D.) of Missouri ob- iected. Cannon said the time for pay ment would expire on Friday and the sundry civil bill would not pass before that day.
 Newlands spoke at length in favor of Hawaiian annexation as essential to our commercial growth and necessary 10 the protection of our Pacific Coast. The Phil ippine and Hawaiian questions, ne de- clared, were entirely distinct lie was op- posed to the former as involving a policy of Territorial expansion. while the latter was purely one of territorial defense and commercial expansion.
 Bell of Colorado followed, opposing the resolutions. He attacked the existing re- public as being an oligarchy and the, offer of the islands for annexation as being made by a few in utter disregard of the wishes of the vast majority of the people who reside in the islands. He contended for the right of all people to be governed in accordance with their will. Continu- ing, Bell argued that the population was undesirable and that the location of the islands in the tropical climate made 1t unlikely that a people resident there would ever be desirable as component of American citizenship. The conduct of American missionaries and others who had gone to Hawaii was attacked as hav- ing resulted in a successful conspiracy to deprive the natives of their property and self-government. The existence of leprosy in the islands was commented upon as a drawback to annexation. Bell concluded by saying the annexation of Hawaii would be accepted by the world as a vir- tual abandonment of the Monroe doctrine. because 1t would be a reaching out and an establishment of American institutions beyond the boundaries within which the Monroe doctrine originally applied and that the latter could not occur without re- ciprocal rights being conceded to Euro pean powers.
 Pearson R.) of North Carolina advo-
 Henry (R.) of Indiana spoke for the resolutions on the ground of strategic val ue. Illustrating this value, he declared Manila, would be helpless and beyond the possibility of aid from home were the Ha- waiian islands controlled by hostile hands.
 Bland (D) of Missouri followed in op- position, directing his remarks to a plea for delay in .disposing of the Hawaiian question until after the conclusion of the war. He protested against urging annex ation as a necessary war measure and begged the. House to pause in what seem eQ dTQ W0dI pIOHliSeQ 10 De a mad course of wild legislation under pretense of 1t being essential to the proper con- duct of the war. The very fact, he said, that the Government was sending out expeditions and withdrawing all ships from the California coast showed how ab- solutely secure was that coast and how unnecessary was the present emergency upon the part of the friends of annexa- ton.
 In brief speeches Barrows R.) of Mass achusetts and Stewart (R.) of New Jersey spoke for the resolutions and Smith D.) of Arizona in opposition.
 Kirkpatrick (R.) of Pennsylvania ar gued in support of the power of Congress to annex the islands Mann (R.) of Ill., inois spoke for the resolution.
 upon request of Cannon, the House passed the emergency bill appropriating $473,151 to pay the Boring Sea award, which will be due June F.
 At 5:1S o'clock the House adjourned