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SENATE MAY BE SENSATIONAL.
ALLEN ANXIOUS TO TALK ON CUBAN
BELLIGERENCY.

Other Senators Believed to he Will
Ing to Drop Cuban Matters Pend
ing the Maine InGu,ry-Attempt
to Add a Hawaiian Annexation
Amendment to the Consular and
Diplomatic Appropriation EAR
POxslble-AnneAa Treaty De-
bate Near Its End.
Washington, Feb. 20-The diplomatic
and consular and the military academy
appropriation bills will be considered and
passed by the Senate during the coming
week.
There will be more or less debate in eX-
ecutive session on The Hawaiian anneXa-
ton treaty, and speeches VIII be made on
the claim of Mr.. Corbett TO a seat in the
Senate on the appointment of the Cover
nor of Oregon.
The expectation is that the bill making
appropriation for the consular and diplo-
matte service will be made the basis for
considerable debate.
II IS unders GOD TO be Senator Aliens
Intention 10 make an effort to secure the
Incorporation in the bill as an amendment
of his provision for the recognition Of
Cuban belligerency and If he should make
this effort the result might be a general
discussion of the Cuban question. While,
however, this is among the possibilities,
1t does not appear probable that the SEN
ate is now in mood for an opening of
this question, pending the Maine investi-
this week there would have to be a quite
radical change in sentiment
There are some senator's however who
are DESTROYS of>having the subject debated
and they may force the issue. As MIR.
Aliens amendment was adversely report
ed from the committee on foreign relations
Senator Hale will raise the point of order
against it, This the Vice President will
sustain and Mr.. Allen will. Of course, APP
peal. There will be stubborn opposition
TO such an amendment. if offered, and the
contest may be an animated one if Mr..
Allen persists in his purpose.
Independently Of the Cuban amendment
the diplomatic bill is likely to cause debate
on other questions 1t seldom gets in the
Senate without being made the basis of
more or less general discussion of the
country's foreign policy.
The advisability of amending the appro-
priation bill with a provision for the an
nexation of Hawaii, which was at one
time considered by some of the supporters
of the Hawaiian treaty, appears to have
been abandoned. The treaty will, how
ever, receive Independent attention during
the week if the appropriation bills and the
Corbett case do not crowd it out SEN
ator Davis, who, as chairman of the COM
mittee on foreign relations, has charge of
the treaty, will be absent from the Senate
during the first half of the week, but SEN
ator Frye, who is acting chairman, will
move an executive session for the consid-
GRAFTON of the treaty If there should be an
opening.
There is a general impression that the
treaty will not be further debated at great
length. There are several senators who
desire to be heard upon il. but none of
these are liable to make very long speech
es. The present intention of the friends of
the treaty is to secure test vote as soon
as this can be conveniently done and for
this purpose Senator Bacon's amendment
providing for submitting a treaty to a
vote of the people of Hawaii will be utiliz-
ed. If they find upon this vote that the
treaty cannot command the support of
two-thirds OF the senator's the number
necessary TO secure its ratification. they
will move to re-commit it to the committee
on foreign relations, and then take up Sem
ator Morgan's bill for annexation, which
was fayorably reported to the Senate dur
ing the extra session. This is the present
plan, but details may, of course, be
changed.
The friends of the treaty regard the Ba-
con amendment as entirely unfriendly and
they would regard as antagonistic TO the
treaty any senator who would cast his
vote for it; hence. they think they can use
IL as foil and by its use secure the equiv
alent of a vote on the treaty without i'm
periling that document
If the vote on the amendment should
show that the treaty commands the sixty
votes necessary 10 its ratification, it would
then be pressed to final vote as speedily
as possible.
WORK OF THE HOUSE.