Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-15
TO ANNEX HAWAII.
The President Sends a Message Rec
ommending 1t to Congress.
A TREATY REED TO,
The Terms OF which Are Simple, Leaving
the Details to Be Worked Out Hereafssr-
The Latest Dispatche. Received From Min
lister Stevens as to His Action.

is accompanied by a treaty Of annexation con-
cluded between the Secretary OF State and the
Hawaiian commissioners and a mass OF cor
respondence relating to the question at issue.
The treaty is brief, providing merely
for the annexation of the islands under
the present provisional government and leaving
the details of the permanent form OF govern
ment, &c, to the action OF Congress. The
correspondence is very voluminous, going back
many years.and gives a complete history of the
islands SO far negotiations with the United
States are concerned. The publication Of these
papers will depend altogether on the action of
the Senate.
THE TREATY coNsIDERRD.
The members Of the Senate committee on
foreign relations today had the Hawaiian annex
alton treaty before them. The treaty is
a short one and provides for aunexa-
ton. 1t is similar to that which annexed
Alaska, except that there is no money consid-
Grafton. There is no legislation regarding il
necessary for annexation until the treaty Is
ratified by the two countries. Up 70 2 o'clock
today the treaty had not been reported 10 the
senate, but it is the intention to do during
the afternoon.
MINISTER STEVENS LATEST DISPATCH.
The following dispatches were received last
night:
UNITED STATES LOCATION.
HoSoLULU, Feb. 1, 1893.
(Receiyed February IA, p.m-)
Hon. John W. Foster, Secretary OF State:
Sir; Everything Is moving on here quietly.
The provisional government is discharging its
responsibilities with firmness, discretion and in
the spirit of conciliation and magnanimity.
The annexation sentiment has constantly in
creased since the departure of the commission
ers for Washington, and with healthful earnest
ness is taking possession of all classes Nearly
all the Germans, the larger proportion of the
respectable and responsible English and al
most the entire Portuguese population are
warmly for annexation. This inclination of
the Portuguese is quite important, for they
number seven or eight thousand. and are among
the most industrious and saving.
As to terLls of annexation / still adhere firmly
to the opinion expressed in my dispatch "a
that the sugar bounty to be paid to the Hawai-
ian sugar planters should be limited to mills
per pound-Sl2 per ton, so long and only so
long as the United States bounty system shall
be maintained. To the objection that this
allows only S12 per ton on Hawaiian sugar,
while the hwaiian planters get twice the
amount per acre that the Louisiana planters do
on the average, and as I said in NV dispatch
"a the consensus Of opinion among the leading
planters here, obtained by me FIVE or six
months since. was and is that Sl2 per ton
bounty will place all the Hawaiian plantations
worth maintaining on the road Of financial
safety and success.
As to the form of government for the islands
1 now only vary from views expressed in my
IA, as to incline strongly to the opinion that
the beginning should be substantially like that
of President Jefferson and Congress in respect
OF Louisiana, in the act of 1904. page 2s3,
United States Statutes at Large. only differing
from that by providing in addition to governor
attorney general, commissioner of finance
and commissioner of the interior and a legislative
council of thirteen fourteen all TO be appointed
by the President, unless it should be deemed
best for the governor to appoint attorney
general and the commissioners Of finance and
of the interior, who would be practically
cabinet Of three to aid the governor to carry on
the government This plan and method of
government could be maintained az a transition
government until experience should prove it
best to change TO more popular form. In the
meantime the responsible voters would
rapidly increase and American ideas and
interests would gain in force ard volume
Ny private consultation with the provisional
government since the departure of the COM
missloners for Washington has led us TO think
highly of the jefferson act of 1904 for Loui-
siana, as a transition expedient for Hawaii
This would cause no shock, and would allow
affairs to move along on safe and conservative
lines until time and experience demand some
thing better. 1t would be fortunate to have
head of the provisional government, the first
American governor of Hawaii.
As to liquidation of all political claims of the
fallen queen and the crown princess may be
allowed to suggest that the spirit and import of
the March treaty plan of 1854 had better be
adopted, which authorized the expenditure
OF 100000 for Ike purposes. / there
fore suggest that if liquidation of this kind
be now under consideration sl50, 900 should be
allowed as the total sum for this purpose.
$4,000 should go to the fallen queen, Liliuo-
kaanl, and S1O0O0 to the crown princess. kai-
ulana, and 5000 TO each of the two young
princes The last named, the two princes, are
harmless young persons, of little account, not
chiefs by blood. but they were made princes by
the late King kalakaua without any constitu-
tional right or power to do SO, the then BOYS
being nephews of his wife kapioiani. Should
the entire sum granted for these purposes be
greater or less than S150 900 / advise that the
above specified proportions be maintained.
As to the native Hawaiians and their native
leaders at this time things are tending favor
ably toward annexation Mr.. kauhane. for
many years a member Of the legislature and re-
garded, for many years, the best native in the
islands in public life, q noble in the recent ses-
sion of that body, is earnest for annexation. So
is Mr.. kauhi, a member OF the legislature from
this island. Mr.. John w. Kalua. the ablest
native lawyer in the islands, years a member of
former legislatures from the important Island
of Maui, thinks the fall of the queen and the
extinction Of the monarchy a boom to Ha-
waii, and he is for annexation. Robert W.
Wilcox, the half-white native, who led the
Hawaiian revolt in 1889, which came SO near
being successful, is now for annexation. He
was educated in Italy at a military school. is
thirty y-seven years Of age, his father being =
citizen Of Rhode Island and, il is said, is still
living in that state. This Wilcox has more
fighting ability than any other native Hawaiian
and will be proud to become an American
citizen, and at a future time to serve in the
army or civil service of the United States.
The ablest of the native Hawaiian Christian
ministers are strong in their American sympa-
thies. The pastor Of the large native Hawaiian
church in this city, native Hawaiian. 10 for
annexation earnestly. The other large Hawaiian
congregation and church in Honolulu has q
favorite pastor, born here Of American parcel
age, whose quiet influence is in the same
direction. The native newspaper Of much
the largest circulation in the islands
advocates annexation, stands by the provisional
government, and is losing none Of its circu-
lation. The main part of the opponents Of an
nexation are the lower class Of natives led BY un-
scrupulous foreigners Of little property, mostly
from California, Australia and Canada, who
wish to maintain the Hawaiian monarchy and
its corruptions for their own unworthy pur-
poses, and who think their opportunities
for power and spoliatioh viii be gone
II annexation becomes . fact The Ha-
waiian pear il now fully ripe, and this
IL the golden hour for the United States 70
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