The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-03-05

the
on while only plantation known to be held by
The natives hold portions
real estate or other property The foreign population dominate in
public affairs, and while reputable king foreground
the power behind the throne made up of sugar planters and
Hawaiian products their States and
this will forever friendly relations interest in treat
ing the Sandwich Islands with greater any other countries
which sustain friendly commercial intercourse with
Us VINO the rulers OF these Islands may be- they
for aggeon being thousand the Pacific
extent TO nearly onehaf Of those of te Tinted Trii
barriers presented at Gibraltar Malta and St Haena the
coasts are beyond the people make mpregnbe
have no colonial possessions and do not and shall require any
surplus population long Oned acreage
unculvated and long the able annually and
Americnze million of foreign immmgnnts Certainly there
requiring send any portion people,
Tho
has BEEN of course coreondingy enlarged shipping
exclusion of American vessels or denial of v viii never O ANY
such exclusion denial would be greatly and obviously
ment of the Hawaiian interests.
Years the Hawaiian Islands importance
engaged in the whale fisheries they accustomed during
o n and I1 rn y to @ there G the purpose
their catch In 1853 there 49 entries of whae ports
wa disappeared the Pacific Ocean and in 1881 there
only 10 which visited the Hawaiian Islands
We require fortified Gibraltar halfway houses ON any of the
highways leading dependencies such places
only peace by extraordinary expenditure and
they prolific weakness The time has not
come when any such foreign enangiemen can be justified
interests the States much more than
affords sufficient remedy those who would prefer Modification
merely that the first step that any satisfactory
its abTogan might be lawfully given by the President
report the adoption the
folowing
JOINT RESOLUTION Providing of reciprocity treaty
htieth eighteen hundred
reciprocity treaty concluded at Washing
ton this het of January eighteen hundred
the United States of the His King
Hawaiian Islands the other treaty in force
for from the date which operation and
further until the expiration of twelve months
contracting shall
the Same"; and
Whereas it appears hy n proclamation Of the President If t initial
States bearing the ninth September eighteen
six, that the treaty came into operation on that day.
Whereas further the United States
/ to continue the in force Therefore,
Representatives. of the United States of
7ecd Congress assembled That notice
the
ton the hereby charged with
the communication of such notice to the King and the
Islands, ana the United States make
the most friendly commercial relations tpower
The facts stated in the report the are en-
the state the
ing the latest date stated the tables report appears that the
importation of the Dutch standard Islands
during the 1888 III go pounds
that the
the year preceding duty would have
been derived from the admitted from Islands entered
for consumption the United States about
100000 while the entire value
cfandise the Hawaiian
the actual duty that would have been derived imported
from there.
The loss of ent undersigned
than benefit derived the
better TO terminate the with
mercl relations with the nearly recp-
roal than the provisions of the present treaty.
JOHN SHERMAN,