Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-17
HAWAIIAN MESSAGE.
Tie Address Of The President Sent 10
the Senate.
A REVIEW OF HISTORICAL EVENTS
Annexation a Necessary Result OF Our
Relations 10 the Island
Republic.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE follow.
ing Is the full text Of the message sent
to the Senate by President Nick inley
yesterday to. accompany tue Hawaiian
treaty;
transmit herewith to the Senate,
In order that after due consideration
the constitutional function OF advice
and consent may be exercised by that
body, treaty for the annexation OF the
republic OF Hawaii to the United
States, signed in this Capitol by the
plenipotentiaries Of the parties on the
10Th OF June. For the better unier-
standing of the subject, transmit, in
addition, a report OF the secretary oil
state, briefly reviewing the nesotia-
tons which have led 10 this important
result.
This Incorporation Of the Hawaiian
islands into the body polite Of the
United States is the necessary ana
hitting SEQUEL to the chain Of events
which trom very early period OF our
history hls controlled the intercourse
III thC hhuOOiutOh VI thc
United States anu the Hawaiian
Islands. The predominance Of Ameri.
can Interests in that neighooring
territory wa. first asserted In 1920 by
sending to tb. islands repres NATIVE
agent OF the United States. 1t found
further OK preston by the signature OF
treaty OF friendship, commerce and
navigation with the king Ia l826-the
first International compact negotiated
by Hawai-. 1t was signally announced
10 lSt3, when the Intervention of the
United States caused the British gov
eminent to disavow the seizure of the
Sandwich Islands by British naval
commander and 10 recognize them by
treaty as an independent state, re-
nuuncipg forever any purpose OF annex
ing the islands or exerting pro.
teetorate over them. In 1851 the
csssiou Of the Hawaiian Kingdom to
The United States was formally offered
and although not then accepted, this
government proclaimed its duty to
preserve alike the honor and dignity OF
the United States aud the safety OF
the government of the Hawaiian Ia.
lands. From this time until the out.
break OF the war in 1851 the policy OF
the United States toward Hawaii and
OF the Hawaiian sovereign toward tie
United States was exempiifisl by con.
tinued negotiations for annexation or
for Q reserved commercial union. The
latter alternative was at length ACCOM-
plished by the reciprocity treaty o.
1875, the provisions OF which we're rs-
nsweu aUd expanded by the conven.
tion Of 1854, embracing the perpetual
csssion tv the United States OF the
hsrbor OF Pearl river In the island OF
Oahu. In 1888 proposal for the joint
guarantee Of the neutrality Of
the Hawaiian Islands by the
United States, Germany and
Great Britain was declined
on the announced ground that the re-
iation of the United States to the
islsnds was sufficient for the end in
view. In brief. from 1920 to 1893 tue
course OF tue United States toward the
Hawaiian islands has consistently
favored their autonomous welfare
with the exclusion OF all foreign In
huences save our own to the extent OF
upholding eventual annexation as the
necessary outcome OF that policy.
Not only 10 the union OF the
Hawaiian territory to the United
States NO new scheme, but 1t 10 the Ia
evitable consequence Of the relation
stsadfastly maintained with that mid
Pacific domain for threo.quarters of d
century. Its accomplishment, de.
spite successive denials and postpone
msnt, has been merely . question OF
time. While its failure iu 1888 may
not DO cause OF c0ngratulatio., II IL
certainly proof Of the disinterested.
ness of the United States, The delay Of
four years having abu ndantiy Isuffioed
to establish the right and ability
Of the republic Of Hawaii to
enter as sovereign ooptractant
the DATED States, thus realizing
people and proclaimed by successive
seventy years OF their virtual depend.
sncs upon the benevolent projection
Of the United States. Under such cir
oumstsnces, annexation is not
change, 1t 10 q contamination. The
report VI the secretary OF state exhi-
bits the character and course Of the
recent negotiations and the features Of
tho treaty ITSELF The organization
and administrative details OF the In
corporation IRE necessarily lett to tue
wisdom Of the Congress- and cannot
doubt, when the junction OF the con.
stitunonal treaty making power shall
be accomplished, the duty OF the ma
tional legislature in the case viii be
performed with the largest regard lot
the interest ofithis rich insulsr domain
md the welfare Of the inhabitants
thereof.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
Executive Mansion, Washington,
June 18Th, 1887.