The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-02-24
THE TREATY REPORTED.

Hawaiian Annexation Favorably Reported
to the Senate-Latest Prom the Islands.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-The commit
tee on foreign relations reported to the
senate in executive session yesterday
the Hawaiian annexation treaty, with
the recommendation that it be ratified.
The treaty was placed on the executive
calendar, where it can be reached by a
majority vote at any time.
kilograms received at the state de-
partment yesterday afternoon from San
Francisco, at which port the steamers
Belgic and Monawai arrived yesterday
morning, reported that the American
flag was still floating over the gov
ernment buildings in Honolulu and
all was quiet on the Hawaiian
Islands when the steamers left
there. The United States war ship Mo
hican was just entering the harbor of
Honolulu as the Belgic sailed, but there
was apparently no necessity for any in
crease of the naval force, for both
whites and natives seemed content
Ex-Queen Liliuokalini was still in re-
tirement in her private residence. The
provisional government has demon
strated its ability to cope with the sit
uation and had in great measure won
over public confidence.
The correspondence sent to the SEN
ate by the president to accompany the
Hawaiian treaty contained the text of
Secretary Fosters dispatch of February
Il, which reviewed Minister Stevens
acts, and then concluded:
So far, therefore, as your action amounts to
flNo f0f flr0 do aofr,
eign government of the Hawaiian Islands, the
cooperation of the moral and material forces of
the United States for the protection of life and
property from apprehended disorders, your &C
tion is commended. But so far as il may ap-
pear to overstep that limit by setting the
thority and power of the United States above
that of the government of the Hawaiian Islands,
in the capacity of protector, or to impair in any
way the independent sovereignty of the Hawa-
iian government by substituting the flag and
power of the United States as the sym mbol and
manifestation of paramount authority, it is dis
avowed
You are authorized. upon the receipt of these
instructions, to arrange with the commanding
naval officer for the continued presence on
shore Of such marine force as may be practical
BILE and requisite for the security of the lives
and property interests Of citizens OF the United
States and the repression of lawleSsness and
public disturbances threatened them, whenever
in your judgment it shall be necessary so to
may be sought for good cause by the
government of the Hawaiian Islands: being.
however, always careful TO make due discrim-
ination between those functions of voluntary
or accorded protection and the assumption of
protectorate over the Hawaiian Islands by the
United States No step should be taken by you
or will be sanctioned by this government which
might tend to derogate in any way from the in
dependence of the government of the Hawaiian
Islands, which the United Stltes has recognized
as sovereign, and which il treats on terms OF
sovereign equality.
Morton For secretary CT Agriculture.
LAKEWOOD, n. J., Feb. 1S-Mr.
Cleveland announced last evening that
J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, who
visited him at his request yesterday,
was rendered the secretaryship of agri-
culture and accepted it. Mr.. Morton is
one of the most prominent
democrats in the state of Nebras-
ka. He has been in the state legis-
lature and was talked of as can
didate for governor last fall Very lit
tie is known of him in the east, but he
has been a prominent figure in the
west for a number of years. He owned
proprietary interest in an Omaha
newspaper at one time