The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-22
4 NEW HAWAIIAN TREATY.
1t Has Been Approved by Presi.
dent Dole and Cabinet.
TERMS NOT MADE PUBLIC.
The Fight for Annexation Is Almost
Abandoned.
Minister Blount's Report Will No Doubt
Contain a Recommendation for the
Establishment of a Protector
ate Over the Islands.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 81. -- Affairs
politically at the Hawaiian islands are not
running as smoothly as most people
think, - said gentleman who arrived by
the steamer City of Peking in an inter-
view today.
SIN the first place even the most ardent
supporters of the government have about
abandoned hope of Minister Blount's re-
commencing annexation to the United
States. They are confident, however,
that his report to President Cleveland will
contain recommendation for the estab-l
lishment OF a protectorate over the islands,
ultimately accomplished. The royalists
have used every means in their power to
| induce Mr.. Blount to recognize them, but
with indifferent success. They have laid
siege to him constantly day and night
since his arrival in Honolulu, and while
he has always listened to their statements
with patience and attention, they have
had comparatively little weight with
him and have not in the least aided him
in determining to recommend protec-
torate.
| ssThis determination is the result, pri
|
question. He sees in this an obstacle
which cannot be overcome with any de-
gree of safety to either the United States
or the Hawaiian islands. He feels that if
it is adjusted to conform to our laws re-
speeding Chinese immigration and con-
tract labor IL would work lrreparable in
jury to the sugar planters, who maintain
that only with coolie labor can they Gull
tiyate the cane at profit.
Gtpraai1auf Dola oud hic On hinet how
ever, have not abandoned their fight for
annexation, even if they do consider 1t
wellnigh hopeless, in view of the Ameri-
can Minister'S recommendations. For
some time the president has been en-
gagged in preparing new treaty of an
nexation for submission to President
Cleveland and Congress. This treaty is
proved by the cabinet, and probably came
up on the Peking and is now on its way
to Washington.
"While the text of the treaty is un-
known to anybody but the provisional
president and his ministers, it is said on
the best of authority that it differs from
the treaty first submitted to Congress
mainly in the disposition OF the labor
lquestion and in the matter Of finances.
In the first, President Dole takes the po-
sition held by ex-Secretary OF State Eos
ter. that special legislation respecting i'm
migration, or, in fact, any class legisla-
ton, can be enacted for or by any state,
territory or district of the United States,
and under this provision Mr.. Dole has
probably embodied a clause to the effect
that all Chinese laborers now in the
islands shall be prohibited from entering
any other portion of the United States
that all labor contracts now existing shall
remain in force until the expiration o.
, the time for which they were entered in
to, and that no new contracts shall be-
entered into; that all Chinese laboreri
now on the islands shall be allowed tt
register under the Geary law, and shall
be allowed the privilege of permanently
remaining on the islands ii they SO de-
sire. With these concessions granted
President Dole believes the labor question
will right itself.
Gas for the financial part of the treaty
that is more complicated and it is no
known just what is proposed. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the United State
government is asked to issue treasur,
notes in sufficient quantity to pay off tn,
Hawaiian indebtedness and to meet tn
expenses OF the proposed territorial gov
ernmen5. These treasury notes are to b
!, made full legal tender for all debts in al
parts of the United States.
"Another feature of the treaty is be
lieved to be the disposition of the crow
lands, which are worth nearly 81, OOO, OUU
These lands, it is thought, under tn
terms of the treaty, are to be disposed G
under such conditions as Congress ma
see fit to impose, and proceeds to become
special reserve fund of the United State
It treasury, to be applied against the cur
rency issue.
= Statehood is not asked for, but tn
= territorial legislature shall be allowed t
enact such necessary laws for self-goy
J. eminent as shall not conflict with til
9 laws or Constitution OF the United State
and subject to approval by Congress.
SIN view of the preparation of the me-
d treaty and the fact that it will be sut
mitted to the Washington government i
n SO short time, it is very doubtful if an
. instructions of special importance hay
S gone on to Thurston, the new Hawaiia
o minister That instructions of some Sol
8 arrived by Sundays steamer there is n
{, doubt, but it is believed that Thurston
directed to urge that no action be take
i on Blount's report, If it has already bee
forwarded, until the new treaty has bee
considered.
GA new complication has arisen in tn
islands over the rupture between Clau
e Sprekels and the provisional government
which can only add to the difficultit
that already beset the path of those i
r power. The government has recent
g had to meet an Indebtedness of $50, OF
y with interest, which Spreckels refused I
: extend, and this has undoubtedly been