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viii Not Forgive Partisan Seheming
at This Time.
SENATORIAL FILIBUSFER ON HAWAII
Mr. Morgan Denounces the At
tempt to Block Business.
BUT A POLITICAL. TRICK


| conclusion of speech by Mr. Turley of
Tennessee a futile effort was made to agree
| upon a time to take a-final vote upon the
| annexation resolutions. The advocates of
| the resolutions voted down motions to go
| into executive session and to adjourn, and
| demanded the regular order.
The opponents of annexation were de-
! termined not to proceed with the debate
| and for nearly hour carried on filibus-
| tering tactics by entering motion after mo-
ton to adjourn or to go into executive Ses-
sion and demanding the yeas and nays on
| each motion. Several calls of the Senate
were sandwiched In between the various
| motions, each, of course, requiring roll
| call that consumed time.
The feeling was becoming every minute
more bitter and the explosion. finally came
when Mr.. Morgan (Ala.), a member of the
foreign relations committee and an ardent
annexationist, took the floor and made an
attack upon those who were conducting the
hlibuster, denOuncing the effort to hold up
the annexation resolutions as "a miserable
political trick and intrigue" to which he
could never bring himself to be party
He declared that the American people We're
In no mood to be trifled with on this ques-
ton, and that the men who were parties to
the hiibustering tactics would be spurned
by their constituents
Mr.. Morgan's Decentralization.
Mr.. Morgan said: "Mr President, if the
senator from Georgia desires to take the
floor upon the joint resolution for the pur-
pose of discussing 1t, nobody in the Senate
is going to undertake to force him against
his preference to go on this afternoon. But
the evident purpose here is to block
progress upon the joint resolution by fill
buster. 1t is due to a majority of the SEN
ate 1t Is due to the cause, to the OCCASION
1t is due to the situation of the country
that the Senate of the United States should
not refuse to do It's duty one way or the
other upon the joint resolution This coun-
try Is not in a condition to be trided with
The people of the United States are not 60
ing to put up with US If we trifie with the
general and public welfare upon an occa-
SIGN of the solemnity and Importance and
necessity of the present.
The President of the United States will
be compelled, indeed he has already been
compelled by the hardness of Congress and
by its refusal to perform its constitutional
DUTY, TO seize upon d friendly state merely
because 1t is dependent upon us and can
not heip itself, to send our armies there
for refreshment and repose for coal to
work our ships In an attack upon Spain at
Manila and elsewhere.
To Control the Elections.
we are taking advantage of Hawaii
simply because we know that she is bound
to us with hooks Of steel, or, rather, with
stronger hooks of affection, and that she
Is as American as we are. We know that:
ana because she is in that situation. for
mere political purposes. for the mere sake
or controlling the November elections. the
senate of the United States is permit ting
Itself here to stand and higgle and to nut
the President of the United States to
shame in the presence of the nations of
the world and of fnterna tionaI law. That
is what we are doing
I'VE will find out some day whether the
people stronger than the state We
VIII ma 1T out here now. We are testing
that matter now. Here is part of the
state that is obstructing the will of the
i peo pr beyond all question as it came to
US from the House of Representatives. and
we Will soon find out whether the peop' q
are not stronger than the end of the state
which is in this chamber
Il should like to know whether these
me, shken, glossy arguments about the
Constitution of the United States and about
the right of the President Of the United
States to coal his ships and stop and re-
Iresn MS troops In Hawaii and in Cuba are
10 STAND Tor moment in the presence Of
the events that are REMEMBERING this peo-
pie and causing them to lay their lives
down at our command and whether we can
aHord to stand here and bubble about lit
tie points like this, and obstruct the war,
prevent 1t and put to peril the troops that
we have sent out upon the high seas.
should like to know it. We have got to
face IT. and | am delighted to find there Is
a majority here willing to do it, And
am delighted to act with them, though
they are not my friends politically. l will
stand by them through thick and thin for
my country and its flag.
'Mfsernble Political Trick"
Mr.. President, we shall presently, be hay
ing wounded men and men sick with all
manner of tropical diseases coming back
from the Philippines. Are they there I'M
lawfully? Are they there without our COM
mand? Are they there in some unholy ex-
plot from which we not willing to re-
lieve them, or have they. while they are
there, and those who go to reinforce tn m,
been marking upon the records of history
the highest tribute to American power and
American character that has ever been
drawn by the hand of man with the sword?
These men will be coming back presently
many of them, and senator's are here on
this floor filibustering to prevent those men
from having friendly welcome and a land
ing under their own flag and their own
country at Hawaii as they come back, say
ing. we will make you sail across the Pa
cine or else die while yoi are trying" That
is the situation we are in
No. sir; repudiate 1t from my soul. 1
repudfate It; will have none of 1t; l will
not be a party to any miserable political
trick and intrigue like that. There are
men on this floor, plenty of them and they
have already started the movement to de-
Ter the question of the annexation of Ha-
wall until next winter. When the Senate
OF the United States makes that vote what
do we do with the President of the United
states but to express our disapprobation
that he In the meantime should permit one
of his soldiers to land upon those islands
for refreshment? -
"Personnl Convenience"
Now, sir, personal convenience is spoken
of, an afternoon of Saturday; 1T is hot;'
senators are fatigued.' Do you suppose
that General Skaters troops. who expect
to fight your battle tomorrow, Sunday, as
it is of great magnitude, are saying to
their commanding officers this afternoon,
1T is personally announcement for us to
move tomorrow or this evening; we prefer
to consult our ease; we do not want to go
into the fight tonight?"
Mr.. President, who are we representing
here? Men who are shedding their blood
for US upon the field Of battle, and we are
talking about personal Inconvenience! We.
are spoiled to death, Mr.. President, by our
prosperity. If this Senate had to march
out and shoulder arms for the defense of
this capital, and stand guard tonight and
Tor the next week, 1t would do us all good
We would then learn what 1t was to stand
for our country. not to sleep on our posts
and have our little political intrigues for
tbs next November elections and talk
about personal Inconvenience.
Sir, when the pending joint resolution has