The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-01
GOVERNMENT FOR HAWAII.
Consideration of the Bill Continued
4 in the Seno.e.

Consideration of the Bill Continued
| IL. the Seno.e.
Consideration of the Hawaiian bill was
resumed in the Senate yesterday. Mr.. Allen
| spoke in opposition to the bill, although
1 he said he would not offer any amendment
| to it. He charged the Republican party
with being actuated by wild and un-
restrained dream of power" as shown by
| its foreign policy.
The annexation of Hawaii, he declared.
might debase the citizenship of the labor
| ing man in the United States, and reduce
his scale of living, but the Republicans
| cared nothing for that. That signified
nothing 10 them If they could extend
| their commerce while they reduced the
condition OF the laboring men of the United
States they would obtain their purpose.
And all this was done, he exclaimed Bit
terly, In the name Of patriotism and the
divinity 1t reminded him of the story
of the chief of a plundering association in
one Of the great cities, who regularly at
tended prayer meetings, and who, when
his associates gathered around him every
| Thursday opened the service by saying,
I'm the name of God let US rob somebody .
And so, he said, whenever the United
States now went to despoil some weak
people they did 1t in the name of the
meek NaZarene.
Mr. Spooner said that he also had been
opposed to the annexation of Hawaii, but
that Congress had made it part of the
United States, and is now engaged in
framing a government for it, and he could
| not reconcile it With his sense of duty to
decline to offer amendments to the bill.
1 if he thought them desirable. He then
went on to argue in favor of the amend
| ment which he had offered in relation to
| the judiciary of Hawaii.
Mr.. Teller offered an amendment Great
| ing Territorial judge with full jurisdic-
/ ton over all matters except those relating
| to admiralty.
The amendment led to long discus
sion involving the question whether the
fact >ef establishing a constitutional court
in Hawaii would not necessarily carry the
Constitution of the United States TO the
islands without any reserve, and give the
benefit of it to every resident of Hawaii.
Mr.. Morgan made an argument in which
he said that if the people of Hawaii would
take his advice he would advise them to
stay as they were for hundred years
rather than have this bill enacted into a
law Hawaii he said was not suffering
for American assistance. IL she was it
was her own fault. and the President of
the United States did not dare to say that
IHe I1dN dildu LeBlSsdluFt tDulu uOt dS-
sembie when the act of the last Congress
authorized them to do so. He yielded to
a motion for the vote to be taken at 4
O'Clock today. which was agreed TO.
During the morning hour bill was re-
Dorted from the Committee en- Foreign
Relations for the distribution of the bal
ance of the award by the late Spanish and
American Claims Commission; also a bill
from the Committee on Pacific Railroads
for the settlement Of the Sioux City and
Pacific Railroad Company's debt 10 the
Government.
In addition to a list of seventeen post
masters, the following Presidential nomi-
nations were submitted for confirmation:
Treasury--Thomas W. Wheeler, Of New York.
to be Surveyor of Customs f0r the port of Port
Jefferson in the State Of New York.
War-Msior Robert NJ. o'Reilly, Surgeon, to be
Deputy Surgeon General, with rank of lieutenant
colonel. Capt. William J. Wakeman, A istsnt
Surgeon TO be surgeon, with rank OF major
Second Lieut.. Charles II. Whipplc, ir. First Ar
tillery, to be second lieutenant of infantry.
At $50 o'clock the Senate adjourned un-
til today.