Show HITT HAMMERING AWA AT 1 HWAI Bitterly Denounces thE Course of the Administration TRYING TO WORK TRYIG THE PATRIOTIC FAKE Rarnor Replies to Him in a 3Iosl Brilliant liant Effort I Stevens Had > o More Right to Raise I the American Flag Over the Hn I vruiiRii government Building Than the United States Minister Would Have to Raise i Over the Government Building in Rio De Janeiro Stevens and Hia Good nC8 Washington Feb 3In the House Bland presented a report on the bill to coin the silver seigniorage buUion and notice that n the treasury gave he would call it up at the first opportunity oppor-tunity Sayers presented the sundry sivil appropriation bill After routine business busi-ness the Hawaiian debate was resumed re-sumed The sundry civil bill as reported appropriates ap-propriates 32291382 for the fiscal year ci 1S95 The bill for 1S9 carried an appropriation of 541716311 The estimates mates submitted to the committee for 1695 amounted to 35381002 The greatest saving is in the item of rivers vinl and harbors the sum recommended being 8300000 against 14166153 in I I 1194 for public buildings and grounds thu appropriation drops from 10 < 7500 t 5647000 artificial limbs for soldiers I from 647000 to 196000 the claims of back pay and bounty from 7oO000 to V 5440000 Hit was recognized to complete the V speech begun yesterday He reviewed the main points of his speech of yesterday yes-terday dwelling on the consistency of the administration policy Why only a few minutes ago said he we were asked to approve of the V conduct of the American admiral at tlTV very time when the House was considering a resolution aimed at a ministei designed to pervert history in order to blacken the character of a public official for doing his duty on a foreign shore On that occasion not a gun was fired not a drop of blood was shed yet in the other case we are asked to approve of the action of an American officer who began operations by firirg across the bows of an insurgent ship following with a shell into the stern pot fO lowed by a threat of a broadside Rppublican applause Hit character ized the Blount report a a skillfully prepa ° d argument of a criminal lawyer bearing the incontestable in ternal evidence of his character Hitt concluded with a brilliant peroration I per-oration denouncing the orton denouncn acts of the administration against the new republic or the Pacific a course in violation of the opinions of all writers and authori ties on International law and revolting to our patriotism because i was an V attempt blood t overturn our own flesh and i I Raynor Democrat of Indiana one of the members of the foreign affairs committee followed in support of the resolution Raynor stated his position I a follows In the first place poion am convinced beyond all manner of reasonable doubt that Stevens min I ister of the United States was an a tive participant in the patcpant te overthrow of monarchy in the kingdom of Hawaii and in the second place the president having submitted havingsubmited the matter to Con T gress I am satisfied satsfe according to the usages and principles of international law we have no right by the use of arms or force to remedy a wrong com mitted and that all efforts for a peaceable solution of the matter hay mater hav ing terminated terminatd we have no right to intervene and that it is our duty for the present to recognize as de facto the government now in charge and our duty ir the future to recognize such a form of suc government as may be deter mined upon by the wishes of the people of those islands thos Raynor then pro ceeded to quote from the Hawaiian evidence submitted to Congress to show Stevens interference intrference and declared the queens abdication was not to the present provisional government but to the forces of the United rment Sttes Refer ring to the hauling down of the Unit s ed States flcg by Blount the speaker Blount asked what right i had to be run up V in the first frt place and he declared Sevens had no more right to raise it rght the rse i over Hawaiian government building thaI the United Sttes overment minister would > ae to raise i over the government V buiding In Rio Janiero After referring V In ironical terms rferrng ilnicl to the high character of Stevens saying he had no doubt > Stevens was compelled to carry around a very heavy pair of weights to keep aimself from being suddenly translated L Jo heaven Raynor proceeded Rynor to de fend the course of the administration He declared that a perpetration of E peretrton wrong against monarchy having been L established i was the presidents duty to attempt a reparation This he did I in good faIthwith the in unflinching tegrity and courage that characterized I all his official acts When however he queen refused to quen accept the condi tions of amnesty proposed she placed I herself beyond the pale of civilization and in the speakers civizaton only thing to do was to let her pass into history and remain there While Rayaor was dwelling upon the missing letter of Elaine to Stev ens in which the latter asked for in structions should a revolution occur reoluton in 1891 he said significantly would I dike to tell you what I infer those in structions were Id like to tell you < Go on go on came in a chorus from the Republicans Raynor however Rynor declined to do so saying he thought i would be unfair to give an inference but he added if this letter is produced und i ordered Stevens to keep his hands of he would V take back all he had said Later while discussing Boutelles resolution of inquiry into the authority by which Blount had ordered the flag hauled down he said Bootelle seemed to be possessed by the iflag idea He is with the flag said I he like the Irishman Irish-man Is with his Bhillalah whenever you see a head hit it so whenever lie sees a place for a flag he wants to haul i up Great Republican applause ap-plause Better haul it up than haul it i S down interjected Boutelle He has not stopped talking about it in twenty years Raynor continued contnued amid Jaughter V Atidhe never will said Boutelle Republican applause I seem to be la his dream in his leeping and in his waking hours V continued Raynor Ie were to start tot the north pole solitary and alone vith the folds of the flag about him the nineteenth century would bout fnd 1 rJ c V him standing in majestic solitude upon the frozen axis of the world waving the Stars and Stripes Republican applause But not under the orders of the secretary of the navy who ordered the flag hauled down added Bou teile amid renewed applause The eloquent close of Raynors speech was the signal for an enthusiastic enthusi-astic side demonstration on Democratic |