| Show WRANGLE IN I StNAIE SEATE Caffery and Pettus Engage In Unseemly Un-seemly Personalities I ALABAMA SENATORS mEl mE-l GENTLEMAN nOM LOUISIANA INSULTED HIM A Reference t the Senilittes of Age Was More Than Mr Pettus Could Stand News of the Battle Evoked a Burst of Patriotic Eloquence Mos Threat Washingotn July 1For nearly sis hours today thE senate had under discussion dis-cussion the Hawaiian annexation resolutions reso-lutions The frt formal speech in favor of the resolutions was delivered by Pettus Dem Ala Mr > Mallory Dem Fla presented a constitutional argument against the acquisition of resolution of con territory by joint resoluton cn gress Mr Sewell N J of the committee on military affairs secured the passage of a bill to provide for a temporary increasE in the inspector generals department de-partment of the army Mr Cullom Ills directed attention to the present construction of the law providing for the payment volunteer troops In some instances the various regiments had not received as much from the United States a they were evidently entitled to and he instanced an Illinois regiment to which 1000 was due Mr Sewell slid that the matter would undoubtedly be taken care of properly PETTUS FOR ANNEXATION I I The Hawaiian annexation resolutions were then taken up and Mr Pettus Alabama addressed the senate His was the first formal speech delivered I I since the opening of the present hIs I sussion In favor of the resolution At the beginning he said he proposed particularly i I par-ticularly to address himself to those with whom during his life he had been i associated politically He requested j i that nobody should call a quorum while ae was speaking I Within a minute afterwards Mr Pettijrew S D made the point of no quorum The roll was called and I disclosed the presence of a quorum I Resuming Mr Pettus said he had no t respect for legislative filibustering and ust as little respect for a majority that would attempt to prevent full and I free debate Discussing the question of annexation annexa-tion he said it was not a party question I i ques-tion and could not be made so by one I man or a few men Mr Pettus then entered and constitu I upon a legal consttu tional argument in support of the resolutions reso-lutions He took issue with Mr Caf fery L who had argued that the I acquisition of Louisiana territory by i tact t-act of congress was unconstitutional He ridiculed Mr Cafferys argument that the question ought to be submitted sub-mitted to the people of Hawaii He said such an argument had a moral but no constitutional bearing and while It might be a fit presentation to children in the nursery it would have no force with senators I was too adolescent 4 CAFFERYS RETORT Mr Caffery replied tartly that as I between the adolescent expressions of sympathy and the senilities of age he j I would prefer the former Mr Pettus stung by Mr Cafferys retort sad The senator from I Louisiana has made use of a custom of the senate for a grossly improper I purpose He rose to ask me a question ques-tion and under the fraud of asking me I me question ne suutjut in ueuuuuue me personally Senators ought not to do such small things No interruption is proper except for the purpose of a question or of obtaining information And the man who does interrupt another an-other for the purpose of offering an Insult well Mr President I was brought up a Presbyterian and cannot properly characterize such conduct Mr Cafferj Will the senator permit per-mit me to interrupt him No I will not declared Mr Pettus I will not again be interrupted I am an old man afaln President but this is the first time I was ever insulted In the United States senate by such language lan-guage and I dont intend to tolerate gage erate It Mr Caffery absolutely disclaimed that he had intended his remarks as an insult I was he said merely a setoff set-off to Mr Pettus statement regarding adolescence FIGHTING ALONG TH LINE Mr Pettus had begun a discussion of the present war when he was interrupted in-terrupted by his colleague Mr Morgan Mor-gan who read an Associated Press dispatch dis-patch from Playa del Este announcing announc-ing that the battle of Santiago had begun be-gun and fighting was proceeding along the entire line Yes Mr Presldent said 11 Pettus the fighting is going on along the entire line and it behooves every man entre lne ever adolescent or senile to support the government to support the army and navy cf the United States in all their actions We ought to support the president pres-ident of the United States How many will die in the fight today npbdy can > gay But I pray God that those brave I men of ours if die they must may die with shouts of victory in their ears Mr Pettus said one of the objections objec-tions urged against Hawaiian annexation annexa-tion was that the acquisition of that territory would compel the United States to construct and maintain at enormous expense a powerful navy and perhaps maintain a large standing army I may lead the United States to build a great navy said he I hope to God it will I will welcome the day when our navy will DC so powerful that i no nation of the world will ever dare Ito I-to offer us an insult When Mr Pettus had concluded Mr I Mason of Illinois gave notice that if there was no agreement to vote on the pending resolution nor a movement to change the rules he would not stay In the senate to keep up the useless farce of the majority governed by the minority ority The conference report of the bill to Increase the efficiency of the quartermasters quarter-masters department and that to Increase In-crease the efficiency of the subsistence department were agreed to MALLORYS ARGUMENT In beginning a legal argument against Hawaiian annexation 11 Mallory Mal-lory of Florida said the question involved in-volved a new departure In governmental governmen-tal policy an Increase In our army and navy and the establishment of a system sys-tem of government In a colony of the United States which never before had existed He maintained that the resolutions reso-lutions presented were fundamentally wrong and ought not to be adopted Mr Hawley presented the conference report of the bill providing for the punishment of persons who trespass on defense works and or destroy harbor work I I fortifications of the United States The r a report aroused considerable debate upon its technical and legal aspects I T after the conclusion of which the report re-port was agreed to TJor In the course of his remarks Mr Mallory quoted a decision of the supreme su-preme court handed down by Chief Justice Marshal to show that terri Justce tory could be acquired either by conquest con-quest or by treaty but no other method of acquiring territory a indicated by the supreme court At 50 p m Mr Mallory concluded his speech On motion of Mr Davis of S Minnesota the senate went into exe iitivc session and at 533 adjourned t I |
