The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-14
CULLOM BILL
Passes Senate Without
Division.
TeIIer's Amendment Adopted Estab-
fishing District Court and Trial
By Jury in Hawaii.

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
consideration Of the Hawaiian bill was
resumed, Penrose OF Pennsylvania stat
ing 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 the amend
ment OF Teller relating to the estab-
lishment OF a District Court with a
District Judge in Hawaii carrying with
It the right OF trial by jury before the
court Morgan of Alabama resumed
his speech, begun yesterday, antaS-
oniziug ON technical grounds the pro-
posed amendments.
lie asserted in connection with a dis
cusslOn OF the judicial features of the
measure, that the bill as 1t stood now
would legislate out OF office every
Democrat In Hawaii. lie declared his
belief that some Senators were de-
termined % give political complexion
to the Hawaiian judiciary.
Foraker, chairman OF the Committee
on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, in
terrupted Morgan To- report back the
House Porto Rican tariff bill, with the
preamble and all after the enaCting
clause OF the House bill stricken out
and the Senate bill providing for a gov
eminent for Porto Rico substituted.
Certain amendments to the Senate bill
were also reported, including one fixing
the tariff on Porto RiCan products at
10 per cent of the tariff fixed by the
Dingley law.
When the consideration OF the Ha-
waiian bill was resumed, Teller's
amendment was adopted.
Clark of Wyoming proposed an
amendment appropriating $4,000 70
be paid To- LiliuOkalani. late Queen of
the Hawaiian Islands for all interest
she may have in the crown lands the
sum to be repaid from the revenues
from the crown lands. Clark main
tanned that it was only the part of
equity and justice that the Queen who
had 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 pTecipitated a gen
eral discussion of the deposition of the
Queen, participated in by Jones of Ar
kansas, Pettigrew of South Dakota and
others. Pettigrew said he was opposed
to the bill and to any effort made 10y
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 proposition
To pay to the former Queen any sum Of
money. Referring TO the dark picture
drawn by Pettigrew OF the result o
the annexation of Hawaii and the &C
quisitiOn of other territory by the
United States, Quarles said: II haC
thought that the Senator from SOutl
Dakota had exhausted his means o
chasing ghosts out of our iusular pos
sessions, but here he brings up a bogi'
man from the Sandwich islands ant
sets him TO gyrating before the Senate
to brighten somebody
Plat of Connecticut opposed TIT
amendment, declaring that the RICH
to the crown lands was in the peopl'
of Hawaii and not in the Queen.
The amendment was laid on tn
liable without division.
Plat of Connecticut offered al
amendment providing that the terri
tory OF Hawaii should not at any futur
time be admitted to the Union as
state or be attached to any state Of tn
Union, but IL was ruled out on poin
of order. The measure was then passeu
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