The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-06-18
THE TREATY
For the Annexation of Hawaii Reaches
the senate-The Message of President
Mckinley Accompanied the Document.

mckinley Accompanied the Document.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE three
Hawaiian commissioners, Secretary
Day and Cridler Assem- bled in confer
ence in the diplomatic room of the
state department at 8 o'clock Tuesday
morning and began a careful COMPARE
son of the text of the Hawaiian treaty.
The Hawaiian annexation treaty was
signed at $3.50 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing at the state department by Secre-
tary Sherman for. the United States.
and Messrs Hatch, Thurston and Kin
ney for Hawaii.
The document will be submitted to
the senate Wednesday.
The treaty provides that the govern
ment of the Hawaiian Islands cede to
the United States absolutely and for.
ever all rights of sovereignty in and
over the Hawaiian islands and its de-
tendencies, and that these islands
shall become a part of the territory of
the United States. The government of
Hawaii also cedes to the United States
all public lands, public buildings and
public property of every description.
Congress shall enact special laws
to govern the disposition of the
lands in the Hawaiian islands All
revenue from these lands shall be used
solely for the benefit of the inhabit-
ants of the Hawaiian islands for edu-
cational and other public purposes.
The Hawaiian, islands shall be admit
ted into the union as territory of the
United States, local laws to be passed
by local legislature, but subject to
the approval of the president. Until
congress shall apply the laws of the
United States to the islands the pres
ent laws of Hawaii are to govern the
islands.
The present treaties and laws gov
erning Hawaii's commercial relations
with foreign nations shall remain in
force until congress shall take action.
Further immigration OF Chinese labor
ers is prohibited pending congressional
action, and the entry of Chinese from
Hawaii into the United States is like
wise prohibited. The United States
assumes the public debt of Hawaii, but
with a stipulation that this liza
SudA1 l1Ob CACc0u UUU,
600. The treaty before it becomes
effective shall be ratified by the prop
er authorities of the United States
and of Hawaii Nomen ton is made of
any gratulty TO Liliuokalani or Kaiau-
LAM
The Japanese government has fled
protest against the Hawaiian treaty
on the ground that it promises to lead
to breach of treaty stipulations be-
tween Japan and Hawaii.
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Assistant
Secretary Pruden arrived at the CAPT
toll $3.50 p. m. with the Hawaiian an
nexation treaty, but after consulting
with Senator Allison he retired with.
out presenting it, with the understand
ing that the senate would be prepared
to receive the document at 4:45 p. m.
with the treaty.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE treaty
for the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands reached the senate chamber at
5 o'clock Wednesday. The senate at
once went into executive session and
as soon as the doors were closed, the
message of President Mckinley, ac-
companying the treaty, and the treaty
itself were read to the senate. They
were attentively listened to- In one
part of the chamber there was a group
of senators who will bitterly oppose
the ratification of the treaty. Among
them were Senators Gray, Mills, Pasco,
White, Caffery, Pettigrew and McEnery.
As soon as the reading of the documents
was completed, Senator Davis, chair
man of the committee on fore ign rela-
tons, moved that the message and
treaty be made public. Senator Gray
objected to vote on the motion and
under the rules a single objection car
ried the motion over until Thursday.
Senator Davis gave notice that at the
next executive session he would press
the motion for publication as all the
essential facts and almost verbatim
copy Of the treaty had been published
in the press of the country,
The message of the president was
not very long document. It dealt
with the historical facts concerning
the island and showed that the United
States and Hawaii yearly grow more
closely bound to each other. This
was not annexation, he said, but ~
continuation of existing relations
with closer bonds between people
closely related by blood and kindred
ties. Since 1929, said the president,
the predominance of the United States
had been known. The sending of the
first envoy there brought the islands
in closer relations with the United
States, and those relations had grown
more firm by succeeding events. At
the time the tripartite agreement was
made for the government Of Samoa, he
said, Great Britain and Germany want
ed to include Hawaii in the group over
which a protectorate was esta blished,
but the suggestion was rejected by the
United States because this govern
ment held that there already eX-
listed relations between Hawaii and
the United States, which placed the
islands under the especial care of this
country and that this government