The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

lNehJ SHys It Ohly SSTNcS Ao DAAhN Ah'~
 Closer Bonds People Closely Related by
 Blood and Kindred Ties-Pronounced
 Opposition
 Washington, June 16.-The treaty for the annexation of the Hawaiian is lands reached the senate at o'clock this afternoon. The senate went into executive session and the message of President Mckinley accompanying the treaty and the treaty itself were read to the senate. They were attentively listened to. In one part of the cham Der there was a group of senators who will bitterly oppose the ratification of the treaty Among them were Sena- tors Gray, Mills, Pasco, White, Caffrey, PettigreW and McEnery.
 As soon as the reading of the docu- ments was completed, Senator Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, moved that the message and treaty be made public. Senator Gray objected to a vote on the motion and under the rules a single objection car ried the motion over Senator Davis gave notice that at the next executive session he would press the motion for publication, as all the essential facts and an almost verbatim copy of the treaty had been published
 There was some discussion as to when the treaty might be considered, and MT. White asked if it was the in- tention to push 1t at this session, and | +I,o lo f possible, the California senator said: | T desire to announce that I am pre- pared to stay here all summer to pre- vent the ratification of the treaty which I consider very bad proposi- | tion."
 'I'll join you" said Senator Petit grew of South Dakota.
 The message of the president was not a very long document. It dealt with historical facts concerning the islands and showed that the United States and i Hawaii yearly grew more closely bound to each other. This was not really an- neXation, he said, but continuation of existing relations with closer bonds be- | tween people closely related by blood and kindred ties.
 Since 1920, said the president, the predominence 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,l he said, Great Britain and Germany wanted to include Hawaii in the group over which pro- tectorate was established but the sug- gestion was rejected by the United States, which placed the islands un- der the especial care of this country and that this government could not al- low any other country to interfere in the affairs of Hawaii. The annexation of the islands and making them part Of the United States was in accordance with the established policy of this coun- ttry.
 The treaty proved to be a simple doc
 ument of six articles based in it's es-
 sentials details upon the treaty nego-
 ttated by Hon. John w. Foster during
 the administration of President Harri-
 son. The islands are ceded practically
 without conditions, leaving the United
 States to pursue its own course with
 reference to their management The
 first article reads as follows:
 The government of the Hawaiian
 islands hereby cedes from the date of
 the exchange of the notifications of this
 treaty, absolutely and without reserve
 to the United States forever all rights
 and sovereignty of whatsoever kind in
 and over the Hawaiian islands and
 their dependencies, renouncing In favor
 of the United States every sovereign
 right, as an independent nation 1t is
 now possessed and henceforth said
 Hawaiian islands shall become and be
 an integral part of the territory of the
 United States"
 The Hawaiian government cedes to
 the United States the absolute owner
 ship of all the public lands, public
 buildings, ports, harbors, Notifications
 military and naval equipments and all other government property. It Is spe-
 officially provided, however that the ex-
 isting land laws of the United States shall not apply to the lands of Hawaii but that special laws shall be made : from time to time for their disposition
 the proceeds of any sales of these lands , to be applied to educational purposes . in the islands.
 |
 constitute a territory of the United [ States, their local laws remaining ir force until new ones are to be enacted , A local legislature is provided for but
 the veto power is vested entirely in the president of the United States. A com mission of five persons consisting o1 three Americans and two Hawaiians to be nominated by the president anG confirmed by the senate is provided fol the purpose of formulating the mode o1 government for the islands.
 ] The treaties of the United States witt
 other countries are substituted for the treaties of Hawaii with the same coun. l tries in controlling the international re- ! lations of the islands. Immigration ot 7 Chinese laborers to the islands is pro. ' hibited and the laws restricting Chinese : immigration to the United States art
 made to apply to the prevention O. l Chinese removing from Hawaii to thi. country
 This government agrees to assume tht debt of the island republic to the eX t tent of S4.000,OOo
 The five commissioners provided fol in the treaty are expected to make rec
 concentrations to congress as to new } laws and also as regards the form O government. The present form of loca
 government is to continue in the islands for the present except that the pres dent of the United States is to hay,