The age-herald., 1897-09-09
ANNEXATION THE QUESTION While Dole and His People Favor
 the Move NATIVES ARE OPPOSING IT Mass Meeting Called to Take Stand Against the Project-North German Lloyd
 Line at Work.

Honolulu via Victoria, B. C., Sept. S. The annexationists are very much wor- ried over the discovery of an alleged at tempt on the part of the anti-annexa- tionists to influence Senators Morgan and Quay, who are expected to arrive here soon on a. tour of investigation. They say that Senators White of Cali fornia and Thurstop of Nebraska, who will lead the fight against annexation dn congress this winter, will also visit Hawaii and attend the mass meeting of natives, which, it is alleged by the annexationists, has been called for the purpose of convincing the senators that the natives bitterly oppose annexation. It is stated that Senators White and Thurston will superintend the drafting of monster petition to congress in which the Hawaiians win assert that the government was torn from them through the action of American Minister Stevens. It is alleged that the mass meetings will be conducted entirely by Hawaiians and will be made as near racial as possible. The idea Is to work upon the sympathfes of Senator Morgan and to persuade him, if possible, that the natives have been deprived of lands and power by the powerful whites, backed by treacherous American min ister It is also staed that the ex-queen may arrive on the same steamer as the senators and that she will address the people at the mass meeting. The other card of the antf-annexationists will be played in September on the arrival of Senators Pettigrew, of South Dakota; Mantel. of Montana, and Frank Cannon. of Utah. They are in Japan and China studying the silver question.
 Before they sailed on one of the liners from Victoria, B. C., they secured re- turn passage on the Pacific mail steamer Doric, due here from Yokohama on Sept. 19, and announce their inten- ton of remaining over week in this city to study the annexation question.
 The ambition of the North German Lloyd Steamship company people is to extend their lines on all waters, and wil sooner or later make them bidders for Honolulu business. Already the company has issued a large number of charts and maps which have been dis tributed freely about the city, contain ing the proposed routes from Yokomama to San Francisco to Victoria, B. c. The same company's steamers now travers- ing the Atlantic have been found too slow for the service on that ocean The North German Lloyd company people are equipping the Atlantic service with fast boats. The slower boats. capable of doing from fifteen to seventeen knots an hour, it is said, will be brought into the Pacific ocean to establish the Aus tralia- Victoria Hono1ulu-San Francisco routes.
 The supreme court has decided that the income tax law passed by the late Hawaiian legislature is constitutional.
 Alvary Hawkins, a young man from Gatesville, Tex, died in this city yes terday morning from blood poisoning The deceased was a nephew of the gov ernor of Tennessee
 The United States stea mer Marine left for Mar Island on Aug. 27.
 President Dole has issued a proclama- tion calling the senate to meet in special session on Sept. s, instead of Sept H. as previously announced in an Ass ociat- ed Press dispatch After the annexation treaty is ratified the senate will adjourn until the regular session.
 An attempt to bling negro laborers to this country has failed The matter was referred to some southern senators for an opinion.
 A letter was received on Aug 29 by steamer which knocks the scheme in the head. The southerners. including Ssna- tor Morgan, objected to any aia:enpt to take their labor from them.