The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16
Signing of the Document Not Com
May Not Receive 1t To-Day.
PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY
CHINESE NOW IN HAWAII CANNOT
COME TO THIS COUNTRY.
Clause in the Harrison Administra-
Queen and Princess Omitted.
srecial 10 the IndlananoIlg Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 15.-Hawaii has the
stage and is likely to hold it for several
| days. Annexation is in the air and it has
been decided that the reason for immediate
action outweighs the reasons for delay
Hence annexation will probably be COM
| peted long before even the President had
| been figuring, and Japan and all other am
! bilious nations will receive official notice
to keep their territorally gTasping hands
! off the midpacific islands. This conclusion
has long been regarded as inevitable, and
the settlement of the question will be hailed
! with satisfaction by a whole people. Diplo-
mats of other nations have been watching
! with deep interest the Hawaiian develop
ments. and they profess to believe, as did
Mr.. Cleveland and his premier, General
Gresham, that by mixing into affairs re-
mote from our shores the United States
would be voluntarily abandoning the excuse
| of the Monroe doctrine. This objection to
the ratification of any annexation treaty
| will be urged by Democrats and possibly Dy
two three Republicans.
Probably because the fact of his return
| was not generally known the President
| had few callers at the White House this
morning before the time set for the Cabi-
net meeting. Prominent among those who
| did call, however, were Senators Hanna and
! Allison. Their conference with the Presi-
! dent lasted nearly half hour. A mass
| of mail had accumulated that needed the
| personal attention of the President and, be-
sides, there were 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 of the Cabinet arrived, and it was
! the first session for a week there were many
! matters of routine business that required
attention to-day. The meeting did not last
! an unusually long time. The matters of
public interest under discussion were, first,
| the projected annexation of Hawaii and,
second the state of affairs in Cuba. AS to
the first, the attitude of the administration
has already been defined. and it is under
stood that what remains now to be done
is to arrange only the details of the pro-
gramme by which annexation is to be at
tanned.
AS TO CUBA. :
AS to Cuba, it can be stated unequivo-
cally that no important action will be
taken by the administration until the new
minister to Madrid has been chosen and is
at his post ready for the duties OF the
mission. This fact is significant in that
! it means that some weeks must certainly
elapse before the President will take any
action whatever vital to the relations of
| this government and the Island of Cuba.
| The question was brought up and discussed
| briefly to-day, but the situation so far as
J Cuban action is concerned is just the same
| as it has been for weeks. The difficulty
! of finding a man satisfactory to the PreSl-
| dent to fill the post at Madrid delays ac-
| u
| lection for the post than he was at the.
beginning of the administration. The delay
| is somewhat VeXatious to the administra-
| tion, which is anxious to begin negotiations
with Spain looking TO the amelioraton in
| some form of the conditions of affairs in
| Cuba as speedily as possible. Several
names were talked over to-day, but the dis
| cussiOn was fruitless.
| 1t was the expectation that the Hawaiian
| treaty this afternon would receive the for
| NAL signatures of the negottatorS, Secre-
tary Sherman for the United States gov
| eminent and either Minister Hatch or Mr..
| Lorin Thurston, as a special commissioner
! for the Hawaiian government. The docu-
| ment itself had been prepared and every
thing was in readiness, When II was taken
again to the White House for the Pres1-
! dents final Inspection ana review. Secre-
| taryl Sherman remained at the department.
| later than is his custom In order to re-
| ceve the Hawaiians, but finally at o'clock
| the attempt to secure the signature of the
| treaty to-day was abandoned This may
/ prevent the submission of the treaty to the
| Senate Tomorrow 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 it's tendency in the
Senate would not necessarily cause any
| considerable obstruction to the progress Of
the tariff BILL and while there is every dis
| position the part of the President to
| avoid any interference with the 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 acted on promptly While
| the treaty is in the Senate, either in the
dc fHo nTr1iff tao pT1fO
! or on the calendar ofIexecutive business it
| is the expectation that the people of the
| United States will have an opportunity
| through the press and other mediums, to
| declare their sentiments on the matter and
| if, as is expected, there is an overwhelm-
| ing declaration for annexation, 1t is be-
! 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 execu-
| tive sessions while the regular tariff de-
bates are in progress daily.
PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY.
The one point of Importance in which the
treaty differs from the convention nego-
tiated by Secretary Foster in President
Harrison's administration is the omission
of any provision for ex-Queen Liliuokalani
and Princess Kaiulani In the original
treaty it provided that the government
of the United States should pay the ex-
Queen the sum of $4,000 cash and that
amount of money as a pension each year
| during the remainder of her natural life
provided she in good faith submitted TO the
| government of the United States and the
! local government of the Islands. The Prin-
| cess Kaiulani, being the next in line of
| royal blood, was to receive a cash payment
| of $50, 900, but no pension under a similar
| proviso in the case of the ex-Queen. 1t
| is understood that any objection that might
| have been expected to the annexation of
! the island based on the large proportion
of coolies in the population has been fore
stalled by article not only prohibiting
the further emigration of such laborers to
the Hawaiian Islands, but also prohibiting
the coming of the Cinnamon from the ISL
ands to the United States.
The manner in which the Hawaiian treaty
will come before the House is in the para
graph which provides that the United States
shall assume the present debt of Hawaii
This will not in any way affect the treaty
! or interfere in its adoption. Irrespective
and before any action will be sumbitted to
the House, viii come the ratification of the
treaty by the Senate. If the treaty is rati-
fed no action by the House can change
the condition. The failure of the House
| to appropriate to pay the debt or the inter-
est on 1t may become future complication
| but the ratification of the treaty by the
which made Alaska a part of this country
carried with 1t an appropriation OF several
! million dollars. There was most bitter