The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-22
TREATY RATIFIED
Hawaiian Senate Codes the
Islands to the United
States Without Res
eTvation.
OPPOSITION STILL ACTIVE
Senator Morgan TO Address a Mass
Meeting Of Anti-Annex-
alton Natives.
OPPOSITION STILL ACTIVE

steamer City of Picking, which arrived in
port last evening and was at once placed
in quarantine, brought advices from the
Hawaiian Islands up to and including the
Nth inst. The Senate convened on Sep
tember 8, but owing to the death of ex-
Senator G. Rhodes, President of the Leg
~islature, adjourned until the following
day.
The session of the 9th lasted less than
two hours, but in that time the annexa-
ton treaty was presented and ratified
without a. dissenting vote. Commenting
upon the unprecedented vote of the Up
per Chamber, the "Iuso," newspaper or
gan of the Portuguese residents, of Sep
TENDER 10, said
THE Senate of the Republic of Hawaii
has unanimously ratified the convention
which cedes Hawaii to the United States,
not only with all mercantile property
with doubtful title but also tying up
privileges, which about i've thousand vot-
ers of the Portuguese colony enjoy and
nave enjoyed, and which can only be re-
covered If the Congress of the United
States, from a sense of justice and
equity, shall concede to us the privilege
to which we have a right. The session
was closed on the 10th, to be convened
again next March in regular session."
Despite the action of the Senate. the
opponents of annexation are continuing
their fight, and the leaders of the move
ment express the utmost confidence in
their ability to defeat annexation.
Before the Picking left a call had been
issued for an immense mass meeting to be
held on the 18th, and the indications were
tina it would be one of the largest ever
held in the islands. Some of the annex
ationists hoped to be able to have Senator
Morgan address the meeting with the OBJ
ject of changing the sentiment of the
natives, but there was little likelihood of
their plan meeting with success.
The steamship Australia, having on
board United States Senator John T..
Morgan of Alabama, Congressman A. S.
Berry, J. G. Cannon, H. c. Loudenslager
and j. A. Tawney, arrived In Honolulu
on the 18th. They were accorded a warm
welcome. Senator Morgan stood the voy-
age we'll and was in excellent health. The
Hawaiian Star of the following day
published this interview with him:-
81 nave nothing of definite nature to
say to the newspapers now, as l must
first have an opportunity to study the
StludllOI d ACW punt VI f1SWs Y
may say that 1 am predisposed in favor
of annexation. | have been an annex
ationist practically for thirty years. ever
since the question has been agitated.
The following translation of an article
published in the "Iuso," he organ of the
Portuguese residents, shows the alarm
with which that section Of the population
regards annexation.-
IF ~perchance the annexation should be
consummated, which we doubt, the For
tuguese colony as a political factor ceases
to exist, because in the foreign press
both here and in the United States, it has
been indicated with sufficient ~clearness
that they fear the influence of the For
tuguese vote in case this privilege should
be conceded to them.
Independence and a good government
of Hawaii, means prosperity for the coll
ony, but annexation without the privilege
which we speak of means ruin"
The delegates who were chosen to the
American Union Party convention ave
completed their platform. which was to
be presented for adoption at the conven-
ton to be held on the evening of the
18th.
The platform as arranged was short
and applied solely to island affairs. One
of the planks pledged the party to an
nexatton. first, last and all the time.
T. M. B. Murray has called for a meet
ing of the American League on the 18th.
It was the purpose to reorganize the
League. Mr.. Murray has announced his
determination to retire from the Presi-
dency.
The Hawaiian annexation treaty which
was submitted to the United States Sen
acted upon, provides for the cession to
the United States of, all rights of SOW
ereignty over the islands and all public
n land an oan pf2perty ! e rna ! y - fh tba ls1 I1aifs
ed States with a local Legislature, sub
ject to a veto power vested in the Presi-
dent.
All the treaties of the United States
with other countries would be substituted