The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-09
ANNExATIoNISTS AGITATED.
HAWAIIAN NATIVES SAID TO BE
STACKING THE CARDS.

They viii Play on the Sympathy OF
Senator's Who Go There to study
the Question with the ex-Queen
as Trump Card-The AnneXn-
tiOnists Fear That This sympathy
Would BE Too Many Points in the
Game Against Thcm-Late Hawaii
an News.
Honolulu. via Victoria, B. c., Sept. s.
The annexationists are much worried over
the difficulty of an alleged attempt on the
part of the anti-annexationists to influ-
ence Senators Morgan and Quay, who are
expected to arrive here soon on a tour of
investigation. They say that Senators
White of California and Thurston of Ne
braska, who will lead the fight against an
nexation in congress this winter, will also
visit Hawaii and attend the mass meeting
of natives, which it is alleged by the an
nexationists has been called for the pur-
pose of convincing the senators that the
natives bitterly oppose annexation.
1t is stated that Senators White and
Thurston will superintend the drafting of
monster petition to congress, in which
the Hawaiians will assert that the gov
ernment was torn from them through the
action of American Minister Stevens. 1t
is also alleged that the mass meeting will
be conducted by Hawahans, and will be
made as dramatic as possible. The idea
is to work upon the sympathies of Sena-
tor Morgan, and to persuade him, if pos
sible, that the natives have been deprived
of lands and power by handful of rich
and powerful whites, backed by treach-
erous American minister.
1t is believed that the ex-queen may ar
rive on the same steamer as the senators
and that she will address the people at
the mass meeting
The second card of the anti-annexation-
lists will be played on the arrival here, late
in September of Senator Pettigrew of
South Dakota, Lee Mantel of Montana,
and Frank Cannon of Utah. They are
now in Japan and China studying the sill
yer question. Before they sailed by one
of the Empress liners from Victoria, Brit
ish Columbia, they secured return pas
sage by the Pacific mail steamer Doric,
due here from Yokahoma on Sept. a. and
announced their intention of remaining
over a week in this city to study the an
nexation question.
The ambition of the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company people is to ex-
tend their lines on all waters, and will,
sooner or later make them bidders for
Honolulu business. Already the company
has issued a large number of charts and
maps which have been distributed free
ly about the city, containing the proposed
routes from Yokohama to San Francisco,
via Honolulu, Australia to San Francis
co and from Yokohama to Victoria, Brit
ish Columbia.
Some of the company's steamers now
traversing the Atlantic have been found
too slow for the service on that ocean.
The North German Lloyd Company peo-
pie 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 to the
Pacific ocean to establish the Australia
Victoria-Honolulu and San Francisco
routes.
The supreme court has decided that the
income tax law passed by the last session
of the Hawaiian legislature is constitu-
tional.
Alvy Rhawkns a young man from
Gatesvlle, Tex, died in this city yester-
day morning from blood poisoning. The
deceased was a nephew of the governor
of Tennessee.
President Dole has issued proclamation
calling the Senate to meet in special ses-
sion on Sept. 8, instead of 14th, as previ-
ously announced in a Associated Press dis
patch. After the annexation treaty is rat
flied the Senate will adjourn until the reg
ular session.
An attempt to bring negro laborers to
this country has failed. The matter was
referred to some southern senator's for an
opinion. A telegram brought here on the
26th. by steamer, knocks the scheme in
the head. The southerners including Sem
ator Morgan, object to any attempt to
take their labor from them.