The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-16
The Principal Subjects Which Were
Under Consideration.
Expected That a Paper Relating to the
Latter Will be Sent to the Senate
To-Day - No Provision in the
Treaty to Pay Any Sum What
ever to Ex-Queen LiliuokaIani or
Princess kaiulani.

Hanna and Allison had a conference
with the President to-day which lasted
! half an hour. A mass of mail had ac-
cumulated that needed the personal at
tention of the President, and besides
there was a number of commissions TO
| be signed before the appointees could
set about their work and begin to draw
their salaries. So the morning hours
were fully occupied.
| All the members of the Cabinet were
present when the meeting hour arrived
and as it was the first session for a
week there were many matters of rou-
tine business that required attention
to-day. The meeting did not last an
unusually long time. The matters of
public interest under discussion were
the projected annexation of Hawaii
and the state of affairs in Cuba.
1t can be stated unequivocally as the
result of to-day's Cabinet meeting that
no important action relating to Cuba
will be taken by the Administration I'M
til the new Minister to Madrid has
been chosen and is at his post ready for
the duties. This fact is significant, in
that it means that some weeks must
certainly elapse before the President
Will ldhS ally dCllOIl w llitCNCl Nlloi "
the relations of this Government and
Cuba.
The situation so far as the Cuban
action is concerned is just the same as
it has been for weeks. The difficulty
of finding a man satisfactory to the
President to fill the post at Madrid
delays action. The delay is somewhat
vexatious to the Administration, which
is anxious to begin negotiations with
Spain looking to the amelioration in
some form of the condition of affairs
in Cuba as speedily as possible. Sew
eral names were talked over to-day,
but the discussion was fruitless.
1t was the expectation that the Ha-
waiian treaty this afternoon would re-
ceive the formal signatures of the ne
gotiators, Secretary Sherman for the
United States Government and either
Minister Hatch or Lorrin Thurston, as
special Commissioner for the Hawaiian
Government. The document itself had
been prepared, and everything was in
readiness when it was taken again to
the White House for the Presidents
final inspection and review. Secretary
Sherman remained at the department
later than it is his custom, in order
to receive the Hawaiians, but finally at
4 o'clock the attempt to secure the sig
nature of the treaty to-day was aban-
dOned. This may prevent the submits
sion of the treaty to the Senate to-
morrow, as was the intention of the
Cabinet, but the delay in any case will
not be material.
At the Cabinet meeting, in the course
of the discussion of the treaty, it was
decided that its tendency in the Senate
would not necessarily cause any con-
siderable obstruction to the progress of
the tariff bill, and while there is every
disposition on the part of the President
to avoid any interference with rights of
the Senate in the matter, it can be
stated that the treaty will not go in
with any idea that it is not the wish
of the Executive that it should be act
ed on promptly. While the treaty is
in the Senate either in the hands of the
Foreign Relations Committee or on the
calendar Of executive business it is the
expectation that the United States Will
have an opportunity through the press
and other mediums to declare their
sentiment upon the matter, and if, as
predicted, there is an overwhelming
QCCldI dtlO1l IOI diIleXdIlOn, 1t is De-
lieved that the Senate will be quick to
respond to the demand. In this case
the treaty, it is believed can be taken
up and ratified in the course of one or
two executive sessions, while the regu-
lar tariff debates are in progress daily.
The one point of Importance in which
the treaty differs from the convention
negotiated by Secretary Foster during
President Harrison's Administration is
the omission Of any provision for ex-
Queen Liliuokalani and the Princess
Kaiulani. In the original treaty it was
provided that the Government OF the
United States should pay the ex-Queen
the sum of $50, 900 cash and the same
amount of money as a pension each
year during the remainder of her ma
tural life, provided she in good faith
submitted to the Government of the
United States and the local Govern
ment of the islands, The Princess
Kaiulani, being the next in line of
royal blood, was to receive a cash pay
ment of S150,000, but no pension. under
similar proviso as in the case of the
eX-Queen.
1t is understood that any objection
that might have been expected to the
annexation of the islands based on the
large proportion of coolies in the pop
ulation has been forestalled by an ar
ticle not only prohibiting the further
| immigration of such laborers to the
Hawaiian Islands. but also prohibiting
the coming of any of the Chinese from
the islands to other parts of the Unit
ed States.
At the request of Senator Allison the
Hawaiian provision in the tariff bill
has been passed over by the Senate.