The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-13

ed. After an hour. had been spent in
talk at the second meeting, 1T was
agreed to submit the whole question,
together with the various projects
which had been advanced, to the Re-
publican members Of the finance COM
mittee to formulate q proposition which
shall be submitted to a future caucus
in the event that 1t is not satisfactory
to all.
There were frequent references in
the caucus to the probability Of new
treaty for the annexation Of Hawaii,
and it seemed to be quite generally
understood that such a treaty was in
| cluded among the possibilities of the
near future. There appeared, however,
! to be no definite information as to the
details, and the references were very
general in character. No one pre-
sumed to speak for the president on
this point, but so far as anything was
said 1T was apparently based upon
the supposiion that the president was
prepared to enter into negotiations
looking to placing the islands under the
| protection of the stars and stripes as
| a part of the United States. Senator
Frye referred once or twice to the pos
sibility Of annexation, and Senators
| ThurSton and Nelson, who strenuOuSly
| oppose the continuance Of the present
| treaty in effect, announced themselves
as prepared to consider favorably the
question of annexation on the theory
that an arrangement for consolidation
| on that basis would be reciprocal,
There were a half dozen different
| 1on n
which were the following:
By Senator Frye, to leave 1t absolute
| ly to the president to say what shall
be done with the treaty, and providing
against any interference with the pro-
visions of the treaty pending any &C
ton he may take.
| BY Senator Allison, a proposition
very much in the same line as Senator
F'rye's, but intimating more clearly to
| the president the opinion of congress
that the treaty should be modified.
| By Senator Perkins, a provision CIV
| ing notice that unless something more
is done within a year to continue the
treaty in force, that it shall be abro-
| gated.
By Senator Nelson, to abrogate the
| treaty absolutely after one years no.
| tice, and giving notice as a proviso IN
connection with the sugar schedule.
Senator Nelson led in the fight in
favor of the abrogation Of the treaty
In support Of his proposition, Mr.. Mel
son presented many figures showing
that the imports from Hawaii to this
| country were much greater than the
exports to Hawaii, and he claimed
that the reciprocity was in favor Of
the Hawaiians. He took the last re.
port of the minister of finance for the
year ending Dec. 81, 1896, and said that
the business OF American vessels with
Hawaii was about one-third as much
as that done at the port of Duluth, in
Minnesota. Mr.. Nelson declared that
the whole treaty was a very one-side6
bargain for the United States. Taking
the sugar imported from Hawaii III
1896, he said that under the Wilson
law the exceptions from duty by rea
son of the treaty would be $4354,269
under the house bill $8,163,962, and, i
the new senate schedule was equiv
alent to rs per cent ad valorem, and /
was possibly so per cent, the exemption
would be $500, 203. This, said the Min
! nesota senator, was donation to tn,