Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-25
The Compromise Hawaiian Resolution

The resolution in regard to Hawaii
which Is pending In the United ola'es
Senate is not the same as that WHICH ~
pending in the House of Representative
The Senate resolution. as 1t was eApiaiheu
on Wednesday by Senator White' Oh |ah-
fornia mot Senator White. of LOUISIANA
who has been transferred from the senate
IN the bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States, strikes us as ahordins 'he
basis for q compromise resolution which
every senator, Republican anu Demo
cratic, might vote for. and which would
commit our government neither to IN
definite postponement nor immediate con-
slderation of the question OF the acquisi-
ton OF Hawaii by the United states. We
quoted yesterday from Senator Daniers
speech of this week in which he sustained
the general polly of the administration
and yet did not forbid the Hawaiians to
look to future events to indicate what the
Administration at Washington would be
found willing to do whenever that admin
tratlon should see its way clear TO the
adoption OF a permanent policy for US to
pursue In treating with the Pacific Is
landers.
Mr.. Daniel, as We stated recently,
waved over the Pacific TO the Provisional
Government and its American supporters
in Hawaii his greetings Of fod-speed. IL
this greeting does not imply friendly
determination to support the new govern
ment in its efforts TO stand alone, we DO
not know what meaning it was intended
10 coavey TO the Hawaiians.
Senator Whites speech OF Wednesday
was in the same line as that of Senator
Daniels Of Monday and Tuesday. The
California Senator warned the RepubE-
cans that there was no process OF dis
indignation going on in the Democratic
party. I'VE are prepared TO stand by
the Democratic administration" continued
Mr.. White. This Is another declaration
which may be Interpreted as indicating
that the resolution upon which he was
speaking-namely, the one reported TO
the Senate from its COMMITTEES on For
eign RELATIONSHIPS acceptable to the ad-
ministration. We may criticise a little.
added the California Senator, but little
family row does not mean a divorce
vinculo Coming from a California sena-
tor, whose constituents may be set down
as practically unanimous in favor OF the
ACQUISITION OF Hawaii by the United
States, these utterances must be regarded
as most agreeably significant.
What says the resolution upon which
Mr.. White was commenting when he
made the declarations we have just
quoted? 1t says first that We must recog-
nize conditions as they are. That Is to
say, we must recognize the Provisional
Government Of Hawaii, and not the pre-
tended royal government OF Queen Liliuo-
kalani. The resolution adds that no for
eign power shall intervene in the affairs
Of Hawaii. This declaration nay lcok as
II our government intended to play the
part of the dog in the manger. but. IL SO.
the next declaration makes amends to
some extent for an Ltterance which might
consistently have been withheld, seeing
that 1t Is liable TO lnisconstruction. For
the United States 10 refuse TO acquire Ha-
wall, and in the same breath TO declare
that no other country shall acquire 1t
might consist with the law Of nations,
but would not be regarded by the states
men Of Europe az justinaDle. Eut the
resolution is well guarded on this point.
II. as the telegraph Tells US, 1t goes no
further than 10 declare that we do not
wish to annex Hawaii lat this time"
These three words qualify the Senate
qualification.