The herald., 1893-02-11
IN HIGH HoPn,
Tho ommissfoners TO BE Roco1ved By
the Prcsident rodnx.

Tho Com missfoners TO BE Roooavsd by
the Presidents Todpy.
WASHINGTON. Feb 10.Thi1 alter
noon's Developments in the Has iHa
matter wsre impoftanD. Eonikl iii
commissioners from the isl4ndr an
hopeful. if not confident, that tom sqg
will see the practical if not the tceanas
conclusion of their labors. This alter
noon, after Office hours, Secretary Foatex
held conference with the commissions
ers at the state department, which las TOD
until 6 O'Clock. In the COURSE OF the
proceedings the commissioners WerA In
formed that arrangements had been
made for their reception BY President
Harrison tomorrow, probably 81 noon.
This announcement Of course gave them
great pleasure, as it marked the dstef-
mination of the administration to recog.
nize them officially and enter upon for
NAL negotiations regarding the objeot d
their mission.
In the previous conferences the whols
situation was considered orally with
only memoranda in writing of the
point to be covered. The officials OF the
state department and commissioners
prepared from these the text OF sn
agreement which may be exchanged to-
morrow. That there is practically nnf-
formity in the documents il shown fiy
the statement of one of the Hawaiian
this evening, that he hoped 10 get
through with the business tomorrow.
The probabilities on this latter point
however, are that he is too sanguine, for
it ie not considered likely that any de-
termination will be reached sbv thls
government until the representative of
the deposed queen shall have presented
their side Of the case. This, of rnuree.
cannot be done before the latter part al
next week.
The published interview with paEi
Neuman, the queens commissi0pet to
the United States, gives the reprasenta-
tives of the provisional govern
ment much satisfaction. 1T diHpoaes
OF the sentimental side of the question: ,'s
said one of them this evening, 'sthe one
of which the opponents Of annexation
made so much. According to Neuman
he bears an agreement prepared IN
triplicate, in which the queen propoeen
to sell the islands to the United Etatea.t
We propose to give them this country,
but the end aimed at is the Same and
the natives will be in exactly the same
position whichever proposition is ac-
cepted. The published statement talliea
precisely with what Neuman told me,
half an hour before we sailed. the queen
would do" Il
MI. Castle, one Of the commissioners
speaking of the annexation Of the GIL.
bert islands by England, and the moral
involved, said: "Great Britain made
no attempt to get possession Of the GIL
bert islands until after the publication
was made that the United StAtes de-
clined to annex the territory or entab.
lish protectorRte over It. She Il now
waiting for the United States to not On
the application Of the Hawaiian gov
ernment and il nothing ID done hers. =
continued he, II hare no doubt
Great Britain will take some steps 10
get control of the islands; and did yom
ever think when it was that Great Brit
ain, Germany and SpAin entered upon
the campaign Of seizing every available
island in the Pacific? Look back oysr
the history OF their recent actions n
this direction and you will seo thQf
began with building nav navy. Tko
United States, now that ifB navy - 61I
proachine condition of e6eotf tfV6ne68 ~
compared with ttiosa of the Europehu
powers, can annex our group, tae only
important one Left s. q