The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-23
THE TREATY MADE.
HA WAITS DESTINY IS NOW
DECIDED.
All of the Terms Are Settled and
Only Minor Details Remain
to be ARRANGED.

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. - That a
treaty of annexation has been con-
Guided between the United States and
Hawaii no longer admits of question
or dispute. Secretary Foster of the
Treasury Department announced the
fact without qualifications at the Lin
coin banquet in New York on Satur-
day night, and the only question now
appears to be as to when the conven-
ton shall be submitted to Congress.
The papers are represented to be drawn
up in proper shape, and the President
has concluded the preparation of his
message of transmittal. Further ac-
ton is deferred until after the arrival
oil important dispatches from Minister
Stevens, due here in to nights mail.
In his telegram to the Secretary of
State, announcing the establishment
of a protectorate over the Hawaiian
Islands, Minister Stevens said he had
forwarded important papers by mail.
Another reason why the submission
of the message may be delayed until
the end of the week is said to be de-
sire on the part of the annexation
commissioners to prevent the terms of
the treaty from being carried to Ha-
wall in a garbled shape by the steamer
which sails from San Francisco to-
morrow. They desire, so it is said, to
take the treaty back with them and
to be the first to make it public to the
people of Hawaii and at the same time
to be in a position to explain its pro-
visions.
1t is said that the President has ac-
knOwledged the force of these cOnsid-
eratiOns and that he will hold back
his message transmitting the treaty
until Thursday, at least.
The principal feature Of the Hawai-
ian question considered at the meet
ing of the Cabinet to-day was in re-
| gard to Minister Stevens action in
establishing a prOtectOrate over the
islands. After the meeting Secretary
Foster this afternoon telegraphed to
Minister Stevens at Honolulu APPROX
al of his action in affirmatively re-
| spending to the request of the Provis-
| ional Government of Hawaii for the
establishment of protectorate over
| the islands pending negotiations for
| their annexation to the United States.
Instructions for the guidance of his
| future actions were also included in
| the telegram. These instructions will
| leave San Francisco for Honolulu to-
| morrow by the steamer Australia.
This action was taken because infOr-
nation now at hand indicates that a
failure on his part to comply with the
roquoot of tho Provisional Govern
ment would have been disastrous to
| American interests on the islands.
| The Hawaiian Commissioners had
| a brief conference with Secretary w. J.
Foster at the State Department this
morning. 1t lasted only fifteen minutes
| and was devoted entirely to minor
| questions affected by the proposed treat
| ty. Many matters of detail are con-
stantly coming up for discussion, some
of which will find no place in the treaty
| but will be left for settlement under
questions of administration and gov
eminent. The principal financial item
is that of the bounty on sugar. The
Hawaiians naturally want the present
law to apply to their crops, but are
not insisting upon this point strongly
being convinced that the bounty pro.
vision of the tariff law will not be re.
tanned long enough to cover the next
sugar crop of the islands. Aside from
the sugar bounty Mr.. hurston of the
Hawaiian Commission estimates that
the loss of revenue to the islands By
annexation will just about equal the
amount of expenditures of which they
will be relieved.