The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-16
TO SENATE TOMORROW
PROVISIONS FOR EX-QUEEN AND
PRINCESS OMITTED.
AND WILL SOUND PUBLIC OPINION
If favorable, Treaty Will Be Rushed Through
No Further immigration of Chinese
Laborers to be Allowed to
the Islands.

Washington, D. c., June 15.-It was
the expectation that the Hawaiian an
neXation treaty, this afternoon, would
receive the formal signature of the ne
gotiatCrs, Secretary Sherman, for the
United States government and either
Minister Hatch, or Mr.. Lorin Thurston,
as a special commissioner for the Haw-
allan government The document itself
had been prepared and everything was in
readiness, when it was taken again to
the White House for the President S
final inspection and review Secretary
Sherman remained at the department
later than is his custom, in order to re-
ceive the Hawaiians, but finally. at t
o'clock, the attempt to secure the sigma
ture of the treaty today was abandoned.
This may prevent the submission of the
treaty to the Senate tomorrow, as was
the intention of the cabinet, but the de-
lay in any case will not be material
At the cabinet meeting today, in the
course of discussion of the treaty, it
was decided that its tendency in the
Senate would not necessarily cause any
considerable obstruction to the progress
VI the udTIu Dlll, anu Willie JliPGe Is eN-
cry disposition on the part of the Pres
ident to avoid any interference with the
rights of the Senate in the matter, it can
be stated that the reaty will not go in
with amy idea that it is not the wish of
the executive that it should be acted on
promptly. While the treaty is in the Sen
ate, either in the hands of the committee
on Foreign Relations or on the calendar
r L - Al
ton that the people of the United States
will have an opportunity through the
press and other mediums to declare their
sentiments upon the matter and if, as is
expected, there is an overwhelming dec
laration for annexation, it is believed
that the Senate will be quick to respond
to the demand. In this case the treaty,
it is believed, can be taken up and rati-
fed in the course of one or two executive
sessions while the regular tariff debates
are in progress daily.
The one point of Importance in which
the treaty differs from the convention
negotiated by Secretary Foster, in Pres
ident Harrison's administration is in the
omission of any provision for ex-Queen
Liliuokalani and the Princess Kaiulani.
In the original treaty it was provided
that the government OF the United States
should pay the ex-Queen the sum of 500
600 cash and the same amount of money
as pension each year during the re-
mainder of her natural life. provided
she, in good faith submitted to the gov
eminent of the United States and the
local government of the islands. The
Princess Kaiulani being in the line of
royal blood. was to receive a cash pay
ment Of $150,000, but no pension, UNI
der similar proviso as in the case of
the ex-Queen.
1t is understood that another objection
that might have been expected to the
annexation of the islands based on the
large proportion of coolies in the popula-
ton has been forestalled by an article
not only prohibiting the further emigra-
ton of such laborers to the Hawaiian
islands, but also prohibiting the coming
of any of the Chinese from the islands
to other parts of the United States.