The San Francisco call., 1898-05-28
DeWey'S Glorious Victory Vigorously Celebrated
 at Honolulu.
Committees Selected to Welcome the Boys in Blue While En
 Route to the Philippines.

Advertiser. It will be drafted by Mir. Neumann
 Ihere have been some crushing de- ieatS by the Government in the Legis- Iature. The most important was on the seymour cable bill. This was a rout ana brought forth such heated lan- Suage on both sides that the papers | have not published the discussion. The plll, amended out of all recognition by1 US trdmerS, passed by a vote of 10 to 4. The Governments five Senators went
 over to the opposition in a body It
 was el1ctted that the President, with out the cogniZance of the Cabinet. had informed certain Senators that he now favored the bill as amended It was in vain that Ministers Damon and Smith pleaded for the honor of the country and the Ministry, and threatened resig- nation and invited a direct vote of cen sure instead of these constant defeats. They merely appealed to bitterly pre- judiced ears and the vote came with even more crushing effect than they had anticipated.
 The Carter memorial fountain vote was another one which was obtained merely to strike another blow at the Cabinet, and still more curious is the defeats of the Presidents own land bill, drawn by himself and promised a pas sage on it's introduction. Apparently it now only requires that a measure shall be known as being favored by the ad- ministratiOn to cause its annihilation. We are now asking ourselves what will be the end of all this pickering? Will the Worn-out Cabinet some day Sullenly and suddenly resign? If so wno will be their successors? Men of position are reluctant to join in governing State unsettled politically as ours Is almost on the eve (should annexation not promptly ensue) of an election the re-
 s1.1 living man to predict. III health, too, causes us to lose one of our most capa- ble and honest legislators in the per son of Henry Warehouse, who leaves our shores for yours in the hope of recovering his health, shattered by leg islative duties.
 Strange is the whirlgig of time. Here we have the very men who oVerthreW the monarchy for licensing the sale of opium boldly passing an act themselves to license it's sale. Our climate makes us inconsistent. We shall evidently get the best of the bargain in annexation for we shall have all the profits of the partnership and you all the expenses.
 As has been anticipated in this cor respondence the bill repeating the fn- iuuitous labor contract law Is quietly dying in & committee of the House only to be brought forth at the very close of the session to be slaughtered. It has been uSoQ TOT all lIldl IL w e1o "OA III O'S an argument in the United States on behalf of annexation and is now dis carded. like many others of the tricky artifices that have been brought into play. The probability is that there will be an extra session of the Legislature called to complete unfinished business.
 The Legislature has generously raised Princess Kaiulani's allowance by 5000 a year without any apparent op- position. but has declined to raise the salaries of the President or his Cabinet
 Among interesting domestic leg1sla- tion are acts prohibiting the Chinese from sprinkling clothes with the mouth, to establish steam laundries and for rapid transit street railroads.
 The Call correspondent ascerta1ned, from the Minister of Foreign Affairs this morning that he had not yet re- nIied to the Japanese Government in reference to the arbitration convention and he added, "No one appears to be extremely anxious to reopen the mat ter" He absolutely declined to state whether or not President Dole had made any communication to the Gov ernment of the United States in regard Tn these islands, but felt certain that if any communication had been sent 1t had been sent with the consent of the Cabinet-a diplomatic statement that can be vouched for at Washington.