The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-03
HAWAII WOULD COME HIGH.
SEN Major WHITE ATTACKS THE,
PROPOSAL TO ANNEX.


Claims Ii Would BE Necessary to
FOrtify Three Islands and Vain
tnin "a Large Navy at Heavy Ex-
pense-CIafms Made by senator
Morgan Declared Not Well Found
ed-COntrary Opinions as to the
Possibility lof FOrtiGying Homo
lulu.
| Washington, Feb Ex-senator White Of
| California continued his speech in oppo-
! sition to the Hawaiian annexation treaty
in the executive session Of the Senate to-
| day.
In the main bis speech was a continue
ton of the argument on constitutional lines
| which was begun yesterday but he also
| took up questions of practical purport in
| to-day's speech, and undertook to show
that for reasons of commerce and defense
the acquisition of the islands would be I'M
wise.
| He reviewed most OF the documents
quoted by, Senator Morgan as favorable to
annexation Of the islands for the purpose
OF showing that they were all favorable TO
! Hawaiian independence bur not to Hawa-
| ian annexation.
He then took up the contention that the
! control of Honolulu was necessary to the
defense of the Nicaraguan canal and as
serted that there was no foundation to
support it and gave figures to show that
in case of defense of the canal became
necessary by this country it would be de-
Tended from either San Diego or San Fran
cisco and not from Honolulu. He quoted
Admiral Bc}knap to the effect that Homo
lulu could be fortified effectuaIy and Gen
Schofieldlto the effect that it could not be
fortified at all for a land defense. which
| shows that the authorities differ. He con-
tended that if one of the islands should be
| fortified ali three of them should be, and
| that 1T would require an immense navy
| to remain there permanently.
The whole scheme for the annexation Of
HAWAII, he said, lis based upon senti-
mentality and sugar" and continuing this
/ line of presentation, he said that the SUI
gar people, who were netting s., 100000 or
$9,OOO,000 a year under the reciprocity trea-
ty, are back of the annexation project with
the hope of making the benefits now de-
rived from reciprocity perpetual. If it
were not, he said, for this condition of uf-
fairs, the treaty would never have been
heard OF, and hence he charged that che
| patriotism of senator's was being imposed
upon to consummate a most disgraceful
proposition"
Senator Tllman Of South Carolina came
! into the debate, making some assertions
which created a breezy stir for few
minutes. The South Carolina Senator re-
| ferred to the recent Hawaiian revolution,
and to what he termed the effort of the
| Republican party to establish a govern
ment i'm the interest of the white people in
| the islands, when they numbered only one
out of thirty in the inhabitants, and in
this connection he referred to the reor-
| ganization of party lines in the South af
ter the war.
1--WE were then" he said, lin South
| Carolina attempting to establish white
| mans government The Republican party
nterfered with us then, or attempted to
do So processing TO hold opinions about
the sacred rights of the majority to rule.
/ should like to know whether the Repub-
| ican party has changed its opinion on this
subject of the right of the white man to
rule; FOR If it has. and will extend il to
the Southern states, | will vote for the
treaty."
The distinguished senator from South
| Carolina evidently knows all about the eff
fort to re-establish the white mans party
! in the South after the war and could
doubtless give us much interesting infor
nation on that point" said Senator
| Chandler
Il do know something" responded Mr..
| Tillman, and / know that there was some
cheating AND some use of the shotgun in
| those times. as there probably was in Ha-
| wall"
sThe senator from South Carolina would
not, l hardly think" interrupted Senator
Hoar, say in open session what he has
| here said
II am willing to say 1t anywhere" said
| Mr.. Tillman. 'T want the same policy
all along the line. Throw open the doors
| 4 T., I,,-f1 IL,
entire world
Senator White did not conclude, and he
| will continue his speech tomorrow.