The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-27
TIE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
rIEFs or Seer 1AKr SHERMAN
AND SENATOR DATIs.

rohrd to Annexation amt Eupinira ftts Atti-
tude-srhntor Or 'is on the Hesourccs Of tho
usinnds srd Their AmnitJ 60 the Cnitea stst-s
WAsutSaToS, Juno 2G.-Annc1atioa -. tho
Iawdiian Islands having become AL but n fact.
tie treaty having boon slgncl aud tho rat!rca.
ton OF tbs senate only being needed, ! called
upon the Chairman OF tho Senate Foreign Rein.
lions Committee, eastman l.. paT is. and after.
war; upon tho Secret. ~ OF STATE, John Shcl.
nGla. - inuulrc as 10 the news OF tho event.
MI. Davis, whose middle name Is Kellogg, Is
.ust 90 years old this Month, and has been ton
yerrs q Senator.
Secretary Sherman IN hfteen years older and
was "a lust MAY.
Davis graduated ut the University Of Mich.
gan. the lest institution ot learning in the West.
Sherman merely went to the plain schools of
Lancaster. o., and his student and lawyer life
quickly y ssed into tho cnroor OF n successful
Congressman and Senatorial candidate. AIS IS
he had been elected Senate.
Davis was nearly 80 when he became n Sena-
tor, hut was Governor ~ Minnesota at 80. He
w"n' Ia ia" war while n yot;rS lawyer. and hnd
little legislative career; rather waS an advocate
rnd student. lic attracted attention Ivy IL bold
reply 10 n demand upon him by the Debs powor
to cast his vote - that disorder would have
'oenl status. Tho reply was that o; anybody hut
vote so:ter, and therefore appealed 20 tho
>ntry.
-, Sherman has neyer Oiled m executive
w.. though haiI u century IN controlling poll.
Wv, d never ran before tho people OF any part
untry but his Congressional district.
- Is OF Connecticut stock. his fathers
Gratis. ~ ~
nv" "''nntrd on the 81. Lawrence River.
MI, " is probably OF Vermont stock.
Wv who made this treaty and pro-
n''i, ~ - m"togother unlike.
cast in any otht $3.50, -. 49,
,hili OF nature a. -. 80 - ,,,narr n.,.
What is written rH' .,a,. =, ~
presses lis mind. b. .n"' 10 INV u.
,n,s. and he disrcrns { on,, .nan.s a..
erection and acquisiiivca "a .n;,a. 49,.
roller aud older from their ,onn,i,n
sherman reads without raN,h,,,
lie is n comncrcial.minded n T.n,. 49,
literary presentation Of a caS, -
tant 10 him ns a matter OF bank. in,aro., IA
trade. ~
Davis Is a man OF good size. a.
hium. with n little ch'ld's ear. n PEI, 49,,
.hc Latin pattern, like Albert GallatE 800
o! huinor and sololnnity alternating IN ,o,rrn,
vein. He looks warily out at n new ST..
yo, with impulse o. youth and IN AM.
His coinrade life in tho war made internH>..,
things not disnlaying. lie still has the pic.,.
outlook. thinking between his company behss
and the possible enemy before. :
Sherman took up Foreign Relations late an,
still studies them from tho post Of u Chairma,
of the Finance COMMITTEES. The business propo
sition t" kes all the romance out OF a case will
him. Yet he is Rot q bold business man, indeet
an exceedingly prudent one. After he lost thu
Speakership In 1859 Mr.. Sherman became a con
sentative.
In talking on tho Hawaiian question it wai
plain that Davis had a conviction, and tina
Sherman was looking at both sides OF the case.
As . student OF our history Mr.. Sherman Il
not nimble; he recoliccts names and the exact
ness OF things with ineSactness. i should ga,
that he did not know how to handle his aut
ties from an original want OF the method o
books. Pts certainty Of tho procedure in som,
former foreign complication. if self-satisfying
raises q doubt Of the facts in his auditor. A
his late colleague, Calvin S. Brice. expressed IL
Sherman does not care about his authorities
he plumbers and thinks 1t of no consequences; 1
he is thousands OF miles and millions of dollar,
out Of the standard he says it is not Of tn,
slightest consequence"
Yet Mr.. Davis speaks of Mr.. Sherman with
the greatest respect.
found Mr.. Davis at his residence on Massa
chusetts avenue and asked at once for som.
starting point on the Hawaiian question.
Take the equator for a d giding line" said
MIR. Davis, land below IL are great numbers Of
islands with harbors and all Of them are unde,
the eye OF or pre6mptcd by some one of tine great
Gov rnments. Japan has lately taken Formosa
from China, nearly on the latitude OF Hawaii
That Is also the latitude of Canton. Calcutta
and Havana. 1t is the line that passes through
the Gulf Of Mexico and the mouths of the Indus
and the Gangcs. II Is, in fact. the Tropic OF
Cancer that the Hawaiian Islands stand upon
Sixteen hundred miles south Of them is the
equator. North OF the equator are only two
groups OF islands with harbors, the Aleutian
ISLANDS, which already belong TO US and where
we have surveyed the fine harbor of Kiska, and
the Sandwich Islands. Kiska and Hawaii are
2,lOO miles apart and each about that distance
from San Francisco, making an cquilateral tri.
angle, Tor kiska is about due north Of Honolulu.
BY possessing ourselves or Hawaii we have
Ihe adTSntage OF a great ocean there ,unoccu'
to make 7 harbori post, and power OF Esquimalt.
What IL The distance from Hawaii to japan 4"
Nearly 1000 miles. look only at the question
Of poSiii9 9ho 4 ontwgighs that Of territory OF
of The United States, and for fifty years we "a We
notice that nobody else should have them. Our
take precedence when we revived this tr rSHI: 70
,.Has the sugar interest or have rival sugar
Il know nothing on that subject. What can
nugnr have TO DO with Islands which already
tchd their raw sugar here free under treaty and
samef'
Do you expect that rival politics will cause
me Democratic party to resist T.
entity T%Iiled By dii;eyeii?"nSdi S against S"' he ," tTs.sy
with all his power. Their voters were not happy
with the spectacle. There is no politics in this
simple precaution for NATIONAL advantage and
security; AS n citizen OF Minnesota. II / favor
IL on public grounds when the place is SO far
away. why should others not favor 1t who are on
the front at Now York or San Francisco r.
Has tho old idea of restricting Chinese i'm.
migration anything to do with resisting the
tre ~ ."
That may be the ground OF Senator Whites
hesitation. but II is n very remote question. The
restriction OF Asiatics was a pot,n cause OF Tho
Government of the islands desiring annexation.
Japan had, started In. It was said. to coolicize It's
subjects there"
But the treaty will not DO pressed upon the
extra session T.
"IthInk not. Tho hot weather will soon be
here. In a fow weeks alter IL is over Congress
Will meet again and have plenty OF time. Decay
for that period will not do any harm"
But Hre the Hawaiian Islands not exposed
for thc summer and fall to cruel contingencies n
Hardy"
ARE they in any sense already admitted by
tho treaty having been signed T.