Show WHITEHAll THEFLOOR Able Speech Against the Annexation I of Hawaii 1t t MAD RACE FOR CONQUEST t MONROE DOCTRINE SHOULD NOT BE ABANDONED Senator White Contended There Had Been No Cession of the Islands Senator Mitchell Believed the Na I V tion Had BeenShorn of Its Judgment Judg-ment Policy Washington June 2L Interest in the discussion of Hawaiian annexation which iS proceeding in the senate already al-ready has begun to flag Early in the presentsession the senate debated the question behind closed doors for six weeks During that time a majority of the speakers were accorded close attention at-tention It is evident from the proceedings proceed-ings todav that the senators will not become enthusiastic over arguments I which are not new to them Early today Mr White Dem Cal the leader of the ODDonents of annexation V annex-ation spoke for three hours and a half His argument was skillful and presented present-ed with oratorical ability but it failed to command the attention from senators sena-tors it really deserved Mr White had not concluded his argument when the resolutions were laid aside for the day Mr Mitchell Dem Wis opened the discussion today with a brief speech in 1 opposition to the resolutions Among the bills passed was one providing pro-viding severe penalties for the malicious ma-licious injury or destruction of submarine sub-marine mines torpedoes fortifications or other coast defenses Almost immediately after the senate convened the resolution for the annexation annex-ation of Hawaii was laid before it Pending its consideration Mr Roach of North Dakota who had been quoted in a TiJSshington paper as favorable to the annexation of Hawaii rose to a question of personal privilege He said he lad not made the statement attributed attri-buted to him and as a matter of fact was opposed and always had been opposed op-posed to the annexation of Hawaii NATION IS DAFT Mr Mitchell of Wisconsin delivered JL speech in opposition to annexation i He declared that the nation just now was shorn of its judgment The effort to establish our government in the far west and the adoption of a policy of imperialism was evidence of that He thought the seizure of Hawaii would remove all doubt as to our landgrab I bing intentions He declared that the annexation project was a clumsy cover for the sugar magnates from around the edge of which the saccharine juice dripped to the advantage of all who cared to avail themselves of it V V WHITE IN OPPOSITION At the conclusion of Mr Mitchells speech Mr White of California the leader of the opponents to annexation j took the hoer A call for a quorum by Mr Jones of Arkansas developed the presence of Gl senators V Mr White maintained that the question j ques-tion pending was not only of vital importance 1 im-portance but the issues presented with it deserved and ought to have the careful care-ful consideration of all He declared that territory had been acquired by I treaty but in no case had territory I been acquired ny such a monstrous piece of folly and contradiction as was the pending resolution The resolution reso-lution he said declared that there had been a cession which ngress was to accept ratify and confirm He demanded de-manded to know what cession had been made and what lawyer in the senate would state that there had been a cession ces-sion He maintained that there had been no cession as there could not have been without the concurrence of both Darties V I would be ashamEd of this senate declared Mr White if it should pass the pending resolution containing such a contradiction of names I should be ashamed cf the senate if it should adopt a declaration of a cession that had rever existed as a fact Referring to the possibility of annexation annex-ation of the Hawaiian islands by legislative legis-lative action Mr White contended that the executive would be justified in taking tak-ing possession of foreign territory only as an act of war and only from the enemy Mr White gave some attention to the pcssibility of the Hawuian islands becoming be-coming a state of the Union in case of their annexation and congratulated the country upon the fact that no one had been found to contend for this right He characterized the conditions on the islands as aheterogenous compound of manifest inefficiency He contended that there were other questions than I the annexation of Hawaii involved in the present discussion He referred to the assertion that the American flag once unfurled in a country could not I be taken down and recommended that whether this was true must depend upon the circumstances under which it I was raised It must depend upon whether it is justly or unjustly raised I If planted as a result of uncalled for I invasion and in a spirit of concuest II ik and of rapine and murder it could be I k maintained but ifplanted on foreign soil under proper and patriotic circumstances circum-stances it must be maintained there if to do so should cost the country its greatest strength its most powerful effort and the best blood of the nation I na-tion MAD RACE FOR CONQUEST Mr White read among other things an elucidation of the Monroe doctrine and then said In this mad race for power in this mad race for conquest of territory let us consider most carefully the doctrine of Monroe It is idle for senators to say we must extend our domination over the world In enunciating enun-ciating the Monroe doctrine we announced an-nounced that we desired no interference interfer-ence of European powers with affairs ir this hemisphere but by those who framed that doctrine It had in contemplation contem-plation that we ourselves had no intention in-tention to interfere with territorial poss pos-s ions outside of this hemisphere The acquisition of the Hawaiian islands would be the entering wedge of that imperialistic policy which is as reign to the purposes in view when this government was organized as were tht purposes of the most despotic government gov-ernment on earth to our system JAPANESE INTERFERENCE In the course of his speech Mr White had read by the clerk a protest of the Japanese minister to this country against the arguments and conclusions cf the foreign relations committee as presented in its report on the Hawaiian treaty The particular object of the i ministers criticism was the statement of the committee concerning the purpose pur-pose of the Japanese government to interfere in Hawaiian affairs As the clerk was about completing the reading read-ing of the document Mr Morgan rose and indignantly commented upon such i S a criticism of the senate committee He declared that no foreign minister had any right to send to the senate such an attack upon senators Mr White said the minister had not sent the document to the senate lie had brought it himself V Is it an official paper inquired Mr Morgan It has been filed replied Mr White I have presented it here and have used it as q l part of my remarks It is apposite and relevant to the conclusions conclu-sions pf committee on foreign relations rela-tions Well what I complain of continued contin-ued Mr Morgan is that the sec etary U Q o or of state should spermit to be filed in his office a paperimputing to a committee com-mittee of this body ignorance at least and perhaps wbrsg prevarication I regret we have come uppn a time when other departments of the government will permit such criticisms V which are incisive if i notxlangerous upon the senate I sen-ate theUnited States At 4fSO p > m the Hawaiian resolution resolu-tion was laid aside Mr White having hav-ing SpT > kenfori three hours and a half and not having concluded Mr Pettigrew of South Dakota chairman chair-man of the committee on Indian affairs af-fairs presented a conference report upon the Curtis bill for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory and it was agreed to Bills were > pasEed to permit the state of Utah to select ceftainigranted lands to amend Van act entitled An Act to Provide For mporarily Increasing the Military Establishment of the United States is Time of War At 525 p m the senate went into executive session The V senate adjourned ad-journed at 525 p m V |