The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-09
san Domingo.

The telegraphic news regarding the PROJECT of
aunexing San Domingo to the United States as
sumes special interest. BY a popular vote, the
Inhabitants of the island, or rather of the Domini-
can half of it, have decided, by a very large
majority, in favor of annexation. All that now
remains to complete the job, is for the Senate to
approve the treaty, and the House of Represent
atives to vote the purchase money-S1, 500, 900.
But the Senate refuses, through its committee of
Foreign Affairs, to endorse the scheme, and the
latter will, it is said, report against it, by a
vote of 5 to 2.
Here is where the case assumes special interest.
The President and Administration warmly favor
annexation, and are using all their influence to
change the views of the Senators, and carry the
treaty. 1t requires a two-third vote, and this
will be difficult to obtain, if the committee re-
ports against it. The views of the committee are
undoubtedly those of the majority OF the Ameri-
can people-they do not want any foreign tang
ling alliances, but what the result will be is as
yet uncertain. If the Senate adopts the treaty,
the House will vote the money. The n. Y. Times,
in the following, very cleverly hits off the prevail
ing annexation fever
OUR OFFERs.-After all, America is YOUR true
"World's Fair 1.-THE bazaar where islands are
hawked, kingdoms put up at a bargain, and repub-
lies knocked down to the highest bidder. Hitler to
our market OF natiOnalities come all peoples and DOW
es that are on sale, and we will be our own judges of
value, too, so that, though France could not buy st.
Thomas and Great Britain would not annex the Fills,
this shall be no bar to bargains of ours. We will
have the Tropic of Cancer competing with the Arctic
circle, islets in the Mediterranean with groups in the
Pacific, the Antilles with the Aleutian Archipelago.
That g cold corner We have bought in the north
west shall not make US eye askance the warmer hooks
in the southeast, the lands of volcanoes and lorna
does. Now we have an annexation project from
Nova Scotia, and one from British Columbia vet
again a third from Sonora and Chihuahua, while
California fairly stretches out to US her arms. st.
Thomas declares that it ought to be annexed, and
San Domingo that it must be annexed, while St.
Johns and Santa Cruz wait to be thrown into the
scales. Mexico says il will lend US the island of P-
chiliuque for q coal depot, and perhaps, that failing,
we may one day get the whole of the sister republic
n slice of the Isthmus We shall pretty surely have,
when the Darien Canal cuts it, and, perhaps, some
thing substantial both north and south of the high
way. The Sandwich Islands are in bodily fear of an
nexation-the FIJI Islands are in hope of it. Cuba
and Porto Rico have long been among the candidates.
There are a thousand islands in the Gulf of Mexico,
small and great, and forty of them are worth the TAX
ing ; and there are l54 islands in the Fiji group,
with 65 inhabited, and anxious to be taken. Nay, not
long ago, the Queen of Madagascar sent a ' plated
silver teaset, . as a sort Of prOpitiatOry Offering, to
Andrew johnson, even as the ancient Queen of Sheba
sent precious gifts to King Solomon. But King
Thackombau outdoes the Queen of Madagascar. Not
only does he salute the jamestown and her officers
and kindly entertains them, but he lays his domains
at our feet.