The San Francisco call., 1898-06-15
TO-DAY THE HOUSE WILL
 VOTE ON ANNEXATION
Fate of the Newlands Resolution to Be Decided at O'Clock This
 Afternoon

Afternoon.
 WASHINGTON, June 14-Eight hours comprising the afternoon and evening sessions of the House to-day, were de- voted to the debate on the Newlands res olution for the annexation of Hawaii. Twenty speeches were delivered, most of them brief A vote will be taken at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and in order to give time for speeches which members desire to make the House agreed to meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The resolution, according to estimates to-day, will receive, with the exception of not more than twelve, all the Republican votes and will enlist the support of from fifteen to twenty Democrats and members of other parties.
 Grosvenor (R) of Ohio was recognized first and in introducing his remarks said the pending question was not one of party politics, and he would not appeal to any of his Republican colleagues who might oppose annexation to be contrary to their convictions and support annexation as a party project
 Arguing for the constitutionality of the proposed annexation. he contended the power was given to Congress in the "gen- Replying to the claim that Hawaii is un- necessary as naval or commercial point in in Pacific transit. because Unalaska, on the Aleutians, now an American posses sion, is route 500 miles shorter than the Honolulu route, MT. Grosvenor presented a letter from Commodore Melville in
 
 route was the shorter. the dense and long-continued fogs, the ice foes and storms at and off Unalaska. and the ab- sence Of commerce in the Aleutians made the northern route unsafe and unprofit- able for merchant and passenger ships
 Proceeding, he touched lightly the sug- gestion that American labor, with it's wig or, intelligence and energy, would be af- fected by the slight competition which it would meet at the hands of the Asiat- ics in the Hawaiian Islands. MT. Gros- .gQi hn s1,1 upon a ground entirely separatd from any war emergency. He saw in the near flu ture wonderful development in the com merce of the East, and in order to pro- vide for the western part of the country to secure just and profitable share in that wealth of commerce, this halfway house upon the highway of the Pacific" was essential. The Ohio member was eI- oquent in his defense of the Hawaiian people against charges of ignorance and barbariSm, and referred in terms that brought generous applause to the atti- tude of that republic in ignoring all neu- trality law and standing out against the world to give American soldiers a resting place in order that they might go on to victory at Manila He denied that the in- teligent natives of Hawaii wer opposed to annexation.
 MT Richardson D.) of Tennessee fol- lowed in opposition to the pending meas ure, laying down the general proposition that only self-interest should be consd- cred in contemplating any step affecting the Government, and from that point of view alone would he treat annexation. MT. Richardson said he was firm be- liever in the Monroe doctrine and wanted its integrity to be preserved, but he was convinced that annexation would be a step that would end unavoidably in the abandonment of the doctrine.
 MT. Cochran (D.) of Missouri in speech replete with comparisons with policies of the countries of Europe ar gued in advocacy of colonization, not of conquest Failure to annex these islands MT. Cochran said, would be to invite war, for in five years, left to the present con- dition of population, the Government of Hawaii would be revolutionized and in pagan control. The Philippine Islands formed an entirely different proposition, and he protested vigorously against the foisting of that proposition at this time to strangle a righteous issue.
 Pearce (R.) of Missouri disputed the contention that Hawaiian annexation marked the beginning of policy of col oniZation contemplated by this country He announced that if the question were brought up in Congress he would vote for a territorial government there.
 Howard (D) of Georgia. In a speech oc- eupying more than an hour opposing the resolution. elaborated on the principal ar guments advanced by the opposition and devoted much time to careful review waii. He denominated the dominant gov- ernment in Hawaii as the government of sugar, for sugar and Dy sugar
 Sulzer (D2 of New York and Hamilton ported annexation. Shafroth (Sil RepO of Colorado concluded the afternoons de- bate. He opposed the resolutions. At 5:15 a recess to o'clock was taken.
 At the evening session few members were present and but few scattered oc- cupants of the galleries looked upon the speechmakers. Those who addressed the House were Barham (R) of California, Speery (R.) of Connecticut Cromwell (R) of Ohio, Hilborn (R) of California, Show alter (R.) of Pennsylvania, Stover (R.) of Michigan, De Vries (R) of California, Packer (R) of Pennsylvania, Davidson (R.) of Wisconsin, Gibson (R.) of Ten diana. Kitchen D) of North Carolina. and Broussard (D) of Louisiana against the resolution. The House adjourned at Il o'clock.