The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-18
ANNEXATION OF
TIE ISLANDS
Message Sent 10 the Senate by
Mckinley.
NECESSARY AND
FITTING SEQUEL
FULL TEXT OF THE TREATY
SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS.
Views of Secretary Sherman Given in
a Letter to the President-JaPan
Does Not Care a Rap About
Eawaii-The American Nation
Can Have the Islands if it Wants
Them-A French View.

Washington, June 1.-THE following
is the full text Of the message sent to
the senate by President Mckinley yes
terday to accompany the Hawaiian
treat.-:
l transmit herewith to the senate. in
order that after due consideration this
constitutional function of advice and con-
sent may be exercised by that body, a
treaty for the annexation of the republic
of Hawaii to the United States. signed in
this capitol by the Dlenipotentiaries OF
the parties on the 18th of June. For the
better understanding of the SUBJECT l
transmit, in addition. report OF the sec
rotary of state, briefly reviewing the ne
gotiations which have led TO this impor-
tant result.
lands into the body polite of the United
States is the necessary and fitting sequel
to the chain of events which, from very
early period of our history, has controlled
the intercourse and prescribed the asso-
citation of the United States and the
Hawaiian islands. The Dredominance CT
American interests in that neighboring
territory was first asserted in 1920 by
sending to the islands a representative
agent of the United States. 1t found fur
Their expression by the signature of a
igatiop with the king in 1S2s-the first in
ternational compact negotiated by Hawai-.
1t was signally announced in 1913, when
the Intervention of the United States
caused the British government to dig
ayow the seizure of the Sandwich islands
by p British naval commander. and to
recognize them by treaty as an indepenc-
ent state. renouncing forever any pur-
pose of anneXing the islands or exerting
a protectorate over them. In 1851 the
cession of the Hawaiian kingdom TO the
although not then accepted. this govern
ment proclaimed IFS duty to preserve alike
the honor and dignity of the United
States ard the safety of the government
of the Hawaiian islands. From this time
until the outbreak of the war in 1861. the
policy of the United States toward Hawaii
and of the Hawaiian sovereign toward
the United States was exemolified by
continued negotiations for annexation or
for = reSer-ed commercial union. The
latter alternative was at length accom-
plished by the reciprocity treaty of 1878.
the provisions of which were renewed and
expanded by the. convention of 1884. en-
bracing the perpetual cession to the
United States of the harbor of Pearl river
in the island of Oahu In 1888 proposal
for the joint guaranty of the neutrality
of the Hawaiian islands by the United
States, Germany and Great Britain was
declined on the announced ground that
the relation of the United States to the
islands was sufficient for the end in view.
In brief from 1920 to 1893 the course of
the United States toward the Hawaiian
Islands has consistently favored their
autonomous welfare with the exclusion of
all foreign influences save our own to
the extent of upholding eventual annexa-
ton as the necessary outcome of that
policy
Not only is the union of the Hawaiian
territory to the United States no new
scheme. but it is the inevitable conse-
uuence of the relation steadfastly main
tanned with that mid-Pacific domain for
three-ouarters of q century. Its accom-
plishment. despite successive denials and
postponement. has been merely q question
OF time While its failure in 1893 may not
be cause of congra tulaton. it is GER
tainly proof of the Observation-Disclosures of
the United States the delay of four years
having abundantly sufficed to establish
the right and ability Of the republic of
Hawaii to enter as a sovereign contract
ant u2on conventional union with the
United States. thus realizing a purpose
held b. the Hawaiian peoDle ard pro-
claimed b. successive Hawaiian GOVERN
Inents through some 20 years of their vir-
tual dependence upon the benevolent pro-
lection of the United States. Under such
annexation is not a change
it is a consUnmation. The report Of the
and course of the recent negotiations ard
the features of the treatv itself The
and administrative details of
ere necessarily left to the
wisdom OF the congress. and I cannot
doubt. when the function of the consti-
tutional treaty making power shall have
been ACCOMPLISHED. the duty of tho ma
tional legislature in the case will be per
formed with the largest regard for the
interest CT this rich insular domain and
for the welfare of the inhabitants thereof
WILLIAM MRINLEY.
Executive Mansion. Washington, June
l6. 1897.