The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-03-16
CULLOM BILL
Passes Senate Without
Division.
lelIer's Amendment Adopted Estab-
l.shing District Court and Tdal
BY Jury in Hawai-.

WASHINGTON. March THE bill
providing a form Of government for The
Territory Of Hawaii was passed by the
Senate today without division. Clay of
Georgia delivered a carefully prepared
speech on the Philippines.
When Clay had concluded his speech
oonsideI alton of the HAwaiian bill was
resumed, Penrose OF Pennsylyan stat
lng that he would not call up the Quay
case on account of the unanimous
agreement as to the final vote on the
Hawaiian Government bill
The pending question was tne amend
ment OF Teller re,atlng to the estaD-
District Judge IN Hawaii, carrying with
at the rignt OF trial by jury before the
court. morgan Vi AIdJaHId I~ouIAIcu
has speeLu, vesun ycs.c4uay, aneas-
DullI.H Ou lc.unICaI 6iOuI.us TIE piu-
poseu amendments.
lie s.asol,ou "A. Lonne,ti ton with DIS
CusslUn Vi me JuuIcIdI leatuies oi me
measure, mat me Dali as 1T 5000 now
wound leglslate out OF Office every
DemuclaL IA Hdwall. lie declared nIs
belleI tnat some senators we've de-
1ermIheu 10 give poll.l,aI complexion
to the Hawaiian Judiciary.
FOrdher, CnaaI man OIL me committee
on FacInc Islands and forto R.co, IN
terTupJed Morgan To report back the
House forto klcan tarln bill, WITH the
preamble and al alter the enactlnS
clause of the House bill stricken out
and the senate Dill providing Tor a gov
eminent Tor Porto Rico substituted.
Certain amendments to The seDale Dlil
were also reported, including one liking
the tallff on Porto RiCan p. oducts at
Is per cent of the tarin fixed by the
Dingley law.
When the consideration of the Ha-
Waiian bill was resumed, Teller's
amendment was adopted.
Clalk of Wyoming proposed an
amendment appropriating Sz5U,OOO 20
be paid to Liliuokalani, late Queen of
the Hawaiian Islands for all int. est
she may have in the crown lands the
sum to be repaid from the revenues
from the crown lands. Cla. k main
tanned that it was on.y the part of
equity and justice that the Queen who
mad been deposed by the United States
forces should be reimbursed for the
losses she had sustained. Mr.. Cullom
offered an amendment holding that the
late Queen had no rights in the matter.
She was here now, he said, consulting
lawyers as to her claims against The
Government, and his understanding
was that many of them had informed
her that she had no good claim.
The amendment plecipitated gen.
eral discussion of the deposition OF the
Queen, participated in by Jones of Ar
kansas, PettigIew of South Dako a and
Others. Pettigrew said he was Opposed
TO the bill and to any enort made by
this Congress to provide government
for the islands. He favored turning the
hawaiian Islands back to their people,
and permitting them to make the best
of them.
Quarles of Wisconsin followed Petit
grew, making his maiden speech in the
Senate IN opposition TO the p. opositlon
to pay to the former Queen any sum of
money. Referring to the dark picture
drawn by Pettlgrew or the result OF
the annexation of Hawai and the ac-
QUESTION of other territory by the
United States, Quarles said: 81 had
Thought IHdt lue oeHdtoT lIOm oousu
Dakota had exhausted his means OF
chasing ghosts out of our insular pos
sessions. but here he brings up a boyle
man from the Sandwich islands and
sets him to gyrating before the Senate
20 frighten somebody"
Plat of Connecticut opposed the
amendment, declaring that the right
to the crown lands was in the people
of Hawaii and not in the Queen.
The amendment was laid ON the
table without division.
Plat of Connecticut offered an
amendment providing that the terri
tory OF Hawaii should not at any future
time be admitted to the Union as a
state or be attached to any state of the
Union. but it was ruled out on point
of order. The measure was then passed
without division.