Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-24
TEXT OF THE TREATY,
Submitted to the Senate on Thurs
day for Ratification.
Under Which Annexation of Hawaii to the
United States VIII be Accom- plished by
Mutual Ratification of the Instru-
ment-Ths Presidents Message.
The Fun Text of the Treaty.

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public Of Hawaii, in view of the natural de-
pendence of the Hawaiian islands upon the
United States, Of their geographical proximity
thereto, of the preponderant share acquired
by the United States and its citizens in the
industries and trade of said islands, and OF
the expressed desire of the government of the
Republic of Hawaii that those islands should
be incorporated into the United States as an
integral part thereof, and under its sovereign
ty, have determined to accomplish by treaty
an object SO important to their mutual and
permanent welfare. To this end the high
contracting parties have conferred full power
and authority upon their respectively ap-
pointed plenipO tentiaries, to-wit: Tine presi-
dent of the United States; John Sherman,
secretary of state, the United States The
president of the Republic of Hawaii; Francis
Marsh Hatch, Lorin A Thursson and VIM.
A Kinney
ARTICLE 1.-The Republic of Hawaii hereby
cedes, absolutely and without reserve to the
United States of America, all rights of sover-
eighty, OF whatsoever kind, In and over the
Hawaiian islands and their dependencies; and
it is agreed that all the territory of and ap-
pertaining to the Republic of Hawaii is here
by annexed to the United States of America
under the name of the Territory of Hawaii
ART. 2 The Republic of Hawaii also cedes, and
hereby transfers, to the United States the abb
Solute fee and ownership of all public, gov
eminent or crown lands, public buildings or
edifces, ports, harbors, military equipments,
and description belonging to the government
Of the Hawaiian islands, together with every
right and appurtenance thereunto appertaln-
ing. The existing laws of the United States
relative to public lands shall not apply to
such lands in the Hawaiian islands; but the
congress of the United States shall enact
special laws for their management and dispo-
sition; provided: That all revenue from or
proceeds of the same, except as regards such
part thereof as may be used or occupied for
the civil, military or naval purposes of the
United States, or may be assigned for the use
of the local government shall be used solely
for the benefit OF the inhabitants of the Ha-
waiian islands for educational and other pub
lie purposes.
ART g. Until congress shall provide for the
government of such islands, all the civil, ju-
dicial and military powers exercised by the
officers of the existing government IN said is
lands shall be vested in such person or per-
sons and shall be exercised in such manner
as the president of the United States shall
direct, and the president shall have power
to remove said officers aud fill va
cancieS so occaSioned. The exist
ing treaties of the Hawaiian islands
with foreign nations shall forthwith cease
and determine, being replaced by such treaties
as may exist, or as may be hereafter conclud-
ed between the United States and such for
eign nations. The municipal legislation OF
the Hawaiian islands, not enacted for the full
fillment of the treaties extinguished, and
the constitution of the United States,
nor to any existing treaty of the United
States, shall remain in force until the
congress of the United States shall
otherwise determine. Until legislation shall
be enacted extending the United States Gus
toms laws and regulations to the Hawaiian
islands, the existing customs relations OF the
Hawaiian islands with the United States and
other counties shall remain unchanged.
ART. 1.-The public debt of the Republic Of
uF,.I1r- aviS af no date of ha
exchange of the ratification Of the treaty, in
Guiding the amounts due to depoSitorS in the
Hawaiian postal savings bank, is hereby as
sumed by the government OF the United
States; but the liability of the United States
in this regard shall IN no case exceed S4,OOO,-
600. So long, however, as the existing gov
eminent and the present commercial rela-
tionS of the Hawaiian islands are continued,
as hereinbefore provided, said government
shall continue to pay the interest on said
debt
ART. 5. There shall be no further immigration
of Chinese into the Hawaiian islands except
upon such as now or may afterwards be
allowed by the laws of the United States, and
no Chinese by reason of anything herein con-
tanned shall be allowed to enter the United
States from the Hawaiian islands.
ART. 6. The president shall appoint five COM
missioners, at least two of whom shall be
residents of the Hawaiian islands, who shall
as soon as reasonably practicable, recommend
Territory of Hawaii as they shall deem neceS-
sary proper.
ART. Z. This treaty shall be ratified by the
president of the United States by and with
the advice and consent of the senate, on the
one part, and by the president of the Repu b.
lie of Hawaii. by and with the advice and
consent of the senate, in accordance with the
constitution of the said republic, on the other,
and the ratification thereof shall be ex-
changed at Washington as soon as possible.
In witness whereof these special plenipoten-
tiarieS have signed the above articles, and have
hereunto set their seals.
Done in duplicate at the City of Washington.
this sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-seven.
ISEALl JOHN SHERMAN,
TSEALl FRANCIS LARCH HATCH,
[SEAI.I LoRIN A. THURSToN,
ISEALAl WILLIAM A KINNEY.
The Presidents Hawaiian Message.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE following
is the full text of the message sent to the
senate by President Mckinley to &C
company the Hawaiian treaty:
To the Senate oTthe United States:
1 transmit herewith, TO tie senate, in order
that after due consideration, the constitutional
function of advice and consent may be exer-
cised by that body, treaty for the annexation
of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States,
signed in this capitol by the plenipotentiaries
of the parties on the 10th June inst.
For the better understanding of the subject,
I transmit in addition, report of the secretary
of state, briefly reviewing the negotiations
which have led to this important result. The
of the Hawaiian islands into the
body polite of the United States, is necessary
and fitting sequel to the chain OF events which
from q very early period OF our history has con-
trolled the intercourse, and prescribed the as
OF the United States and the Hawaiian
he q American inter-
ests in that neighboring territory was first as
serted in 1920 by sending to the island repre-
agent of the United States
1t found further expression by the signature
of a treaty of friendship, commerce and naviga-
ten with the king in lS26-the first inter
national compact negotiated by Hawaii
1t was signally announced in 1873, when
the intervention of the United States caused
the British government to disavow the seizure
Of the Sandwich islands by British naval COM
mander. and to recognize them by treaty, as an
state, renouncins forever any pur-
pose of annexing the islands, or exerting pro-
tectorate over them:
In 1851 the ceSsion of the Hawaiian kingdom |
to the United States formally offered, and
although then accepted. this government pro-
claimed its duty to preserve alike the honor !
and dignity Of the United States and the safety |
of the government of the Hawaiian islands.
From this time until the outbreak Of the war i
in 1851, the policy of the United States toward |
Hawaii and of the Hawaiian sovereign toward |
th., United States was exempude1 by contin-
ued negotiations for annexation or for a re- |
served commercial union. The latter alterna- |
tive was at length &c accomplished by the reci-
-rocity treaty OF i5tS. IA provisions o. which :
er, 4sI - an. a. N - : tie Goa 'lit.ca
of 1881 embracing the perpetual ceSSloa to the
United States OF the haroor of Pearl River, in
the island of Oahu
In ISSs n proposal for the joint guaranty of |
the neutrality of the Hawaiian islands by the |