Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-04-27

If the treaty news received by the
last mail from the United States proves
to be reliable in the main, as we, with
many others, hope and expect it will,
from the certainty of the proposed
new treaty having been recommended
by the Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs, it will become the duty of the
people and Government of Hawaii to
give the matter earnest and careful at
tention as soon as the facts of the case
are made known officially. AT the
present time it would be less than use.
less to, enumerate the great advantages
which would result to Hawaii if new
treaty relations were entered into be-
tween the two Governments, both of
whom could afford to be liberal in con-
tinuing and extending their commercial
interests and trade relations through
an inexpensive exchange of political
courtesies.
While it is not as yet known what
the new provisions and political quail
ifcations of the proposed new
treaty will be, yet it is generally under
stood that the United States will re-
quest only such concessions of the Ha-
waiian Government as will be for the
mutual benefit of the two countries.
A new treaty would doubtless be more
expensive for the United States than it
would be for Hawaii, who would reap
the first fruits of the new compact; it
is, therefore, but reasonable that the
Great Republic should ask that certain
moderate considerations be passed so
that the new treaty would not turn out
to be, as the lawyers say, case of
international nndum baftUm.
1t is true that we have nothing
further to rely upon than meagre dis
patches and opinions expressed in
private letters, written Immediately af-
ter the action of the Senate Commit
tee, yet it is so notoriously fact that
publicity is one Of the chief character
istics of Congressional methods in the
United States, that it is not overstep-
ping the limits of a moderate proba-
bility to conclude that the proposed
new treaty with Hawaii is put forth in
good earnest and will be the basis ol
future friendly and reciprocal relations,
which our citizens are a unit in hop
ing will be the final result of our pres
ent suspense.
We do not at present know, of course
how far political considerations" vii
influence and affect the conditions O
the new treaty, but we think the posi-
ton OF Senator Stanford, Of California
may be taken as the key to the whole
situation from the American stand
point, when he declares, in speaking o
the present Reciprocity Treaty, tina
Irrational interests involved in the CASE
are paramount to those Of personal o.
commercial nature" Be this as il may
We do not think that the Senate of the
United States is ready to abrogate the
present treaty even though the new
treaty should not be successfully con
summated
While speaking of the matter in Z
preliminary manner, as we believe the
dispatches warrant, we wish to say that
we do not think that the old political
questions, which agitated this commun
ity fourteen or fifteen years ago in rela,
tions to treaty matters, ought to be re-
peated at this time where political and
international relations are essentially
changed and have ceased to be at vari
ance.
Peace Proposals from the SOudan.
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