The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-06-14
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MONDAY, JUNE ID, 1886.
TREATY LITERATURE.
VIEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

LIE NcW IOIh HtFutU w dsu-
ington correspondent, under date Of
May 9Th, has the following on,
"How the Hawaiian Treaty is being
manipulated in Senate secret ses-
sions" =
The republican majority in the
Senate some time ago undertook to
constitute themselves, in secret ses-
sion, the removing power in the
government. Their action in Sc
cret session since then, judging by
the results published by themselves
in the official record, proves that
they broke down rather badly in
this.
They are now in secret session
again, assuming the treaty making
power-it remains to be seen with
how much success. A new treaty
with the Sandwich Islands was
negotiated by the last administra-
ton and referred to the Senate.
This treaty extended the present
reciprocity treaty definitely for seven
more years from the date of signing.
Into this simple agreement the
Senate have interjected, without
consultation with the administration,
the following new article:-
Article 2.-His Majesty the King
of the Hawaiian Islands grants to
the government Of the United States
the exclusive right to enter the har-
Dor of Pearl River, in the Island of
Oahu, and to establish and maintain
there coaling and repair station
for the use of vessels of the United
States, and to that end the United
States may improve the entrance to
said harbor and do all other things
needful to the purpose aforesaid.
1t has been known for some time
here that an amendment of this
nature was under consideration
in the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, but it was also known
that the proposition was opposed by
the Hawaiian Minister and by the
friends of the Hawaiian treaty, in
part on the ground that special
provision in the existing treaty
makes it unnecessary, and in part
because whenever the United States
have any ships which need harbor
in the islands an arrangement could
easily be made for their use OF
Pearl River by lease.
Article A of the existing recipro-
city treaty secures to the United
States, as against all other nations
very important matters. 1t is ii
these words:-
No export duty or charges shall
be imposed in the Hawaiian Islands
or in the United States upon any OF
the articles proposed to be admitted
into the ports of the United States
or the ports Of the Hawaiian Islands
free of duty under the first and
second articles of this convention.
1t is agreed ON the part of His Ha-
waiian Majesty, that so long as this
treaty shall remain in force he will
not lease or otherwise dispose of OF
create any lien upon any port, har
Dor or other territory in his do
minions, or grant any special priv
lege or rights of use therein, to any
other Power, State or government
nor make any treaty by which any
other nation shall obtain the same
privileges relative to the admission
of any articles free of duty hereby
secured to the United States.
Under this article it will be OBJ
served that no other nation can gair
any rights, even by lease, not merely
to Pearl River but to any other por
or harbor 10 the islands. 1t is under
stood in well informed quarters here
that the Hawaiian Government woult
at any time lease Pearl River to the
United States for coaling depot
but that the government and til.
people are strongly opposed toanJ
concession of any territory to the
United States. 1t is odd that the
Senate should attempt to make sc
important change in a treaty sub
mitted to it without the knowledg,
of the constitutional treaty making
power, and without advising the
government of the nation by which
the treaty has been agreed to ant
signed of the intention to make sucl
change.
1t is the more strange, wheI
already the existing treaty expressl.
excludes all nations but ourselves
from establishing themselves, no
merely in Pearl River, but in an,
other harbor or port in the islands
1t should be well understood tina
there is very big internal i'm
provement" job in this Pearl Rive
business. In 1878 two distinguished
engineer officers made an examina
ton of this habor. They were o
the opinion that for S25, 000,000
could be made q magnificent an,
secure place for fleet-if we had
fleet.
AS we have no ships, as we have
and have long had a convenient an,
entirely sufficient coal depot q
Honolulu for any stray man-of-wa
we may have in those seas, it woul
seem that Pearl River could wait
BY the existing treaty nobody els
can get it.
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