The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-08

wAsgISeroN, May % BY a vote TAX
en- in the Senate today 1t Is believed
large majority of the members of that
branch OF Congress are in favor OF the
annexation of Hawaii. test vote was
secured by the de ermination OF Senator
KYLE to force the Senate to act on his
resolution of non interference on the
part o. this Government with the present
situation in Hawaii. He failed to get
vote on his resolution, but he succeeded
In drawing from the Senate most en-
phatic declaration upon the subject OF
annexation.
By vote Of thirty-six to eighteen the
Senate tabled a resolution offered by
Vest declaring against the annexation
o. Hawaii by the United States at any
time hereafter. Senator Frye, an &c
knowledged annexationist, said later:
"That vote means a majority in favor
o. annexation IL certainly means a
large majority in favor of the policy of
no,iniervention I hope the Senate
will in few days finally dispose OF this
mater | do not believe there are more
than eight Senators in the chamber who
are opposed to some form OF resolution
declaring against interfe ence OF the part
of the United States. / know of several
who voted in the negative on the morton
to table the Vest amendment WHO are IN
favor OF the passage III resolution
against intervention. L bel eve This
majority will soon cause the passage OF
thi- long postponed expression of opin-
ion.'
Senator Villas, it is said will offer COM
promise resolution as subsiI, ute Tor
Kyle's resolution. 1t declares against
intervention and ON is any reference 10
annexation enator Kyle saws there is
great n ed of immediate action TO quiet
affairs in hawaii.
81 have received word from the ISL
auds," he said today, (which convlnces
me that the royalists have been using
every possible argument and fiction to
persuade the natives that the President
is going to take active measures to place
the queen beck n the throne. One of
my fri-nds writes me that during re-
cent business trip to the island of Hawaii,
the largest of the group, he found the
royslisis busily engaged in cIrcu ating
letter in the native language among the
kanakas assuring them that the UDited
ktate, would soon forcibly recrown the
Queen aud warning them TO keep away
from the polls.
cit was broadly intimatsd that any
person u no voted with the Provisional
Government at the forthcoming election
would be nored secretly, and that when
the Queen returned TO power, as accord
ing ~ these prophets she surely would
do. all these individuals wou d be pro-
perly punished.
WASHINGTON M y 3I.-The Senate to-
day, Senator Mi Is of Texas alone voting
no, passed the resolution declaring that
the United states will net interfere with
the affairs of the Hawaiian Islands, and
that the United States will lard inter
ference by foreign power as an UNI
friendly act.
The Turpie resolution is as follows:
Resolved, That from the facts and pa
pers laid before the Senate it 8 UNIV Sc
and nexpedient under existing condi-
tons 10 consider at this time any project
of annexation of the Hawaiian territory
to the United States; that the Pfovis-
i,nal Government therein having been
du,y recognized the highest international
interests require that 1t shall pursue is
own line of polity. Foreign intervention
in the po itical affairs Of these islands
will be REGARDED as an act unfriendly TO
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