Birmingham state herald., 1897-06-17
HAWAIIAN TREATY SIGNED.
And Sent to the Senate by the Presl- dent-Thera Is Very Strong
 Opposition.

Washlrgtonb June 16.-The treaty for the annexation of the Hawaiian islands reached the senate chamber at 5 o'clock tonight. The senate at once went into executive session, and as soon as the dors were closed the message <f Presi- dent Mckinley, accompanying the treaty, and the treaty itself, were read to the senators. They were attentively listenzd to. In one part of the. senate there was a group of senators who will bitterly op- pose the ratification of the treaty. Among them were Senators Gray, Mills, Pasco, White, Caffery, Pettigrew and Mitchell. As soon as the reading q the documents was completed Senator Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, moved that the treaty be pulp hshed. Senator Gray objected to the motion, and under the rules a single ob- jectfon carried the motion over until to- morrow.
 Senator Davis gave notice that on next Tuesday he would press the motion for publication as all the essential facts and almost verbatim copies of the treaty had been published in the press of the city.
 Thene was some discussion as to when the treaty might be considered, and Sena- tor White asked if it was the intention to push 1t alt this session, and upon the reply being made that 1t was possible the CalifcrI1ia senator said:
 q desire to announce that I am pre- pared to stay here all summer to prevent the ratification of the treaty, which consider a very bad proposition"
 .T'll join you" said MT. Pet igrew, of Soul.h Dakota.
 The message was not very long doc ument. It dealt with historical facts concerning the island and showed that the United States and Hawaii yearly grew more firmly bound to each other. This was mot merely an annexation, he said, but the continuation of existing re- lations wfdh closer bonds between people closely lelated by blood and kindred tl5s. Since 1892, said the president, the pre- dominance of the United States has besn known. The sending of the first envoy there brought the islands in close re.a- tions with the United States and those relations had grown more firmly by sue ceeding events.
 The annexation of the islands, said the pressidene, was in accordance with ihe es- tablished policy of this country.
 The treaty was signed at 9:30 a. m. at the state department by Secretary Sher- man for the United States and Messrs. Thurstom and Hatch Kinney for the Hawaii government.
 The treaty proved to be a simple doc ument on six articles based in it's main provisions on the treaty negotiated by Secretary John W. Foster in the admin istration of Jresident Harrison.
 The first article reads as follows:
 "The government of the Hawaiian islands hereby cedes from the date of ex- change, of the ratification of this treaty, absolute and without reserve, to the United States forever all rights of sover- eighty over the Hawaiian islands and their dependencss, rencuncing in favor of the United States every sovereign right of which as an independent nation 1t is now possessed, and henceforth said Hawaiian islands shall become and be an integral part of the territory of the United States"
 The islands are for the present to con stitute territory of the United States, their local laws remaining in force until new ones are enacted, A local legisla- ture is provided for, but the veto power is vested entirely in the president of the United States.
 A commission, of five persons, consist ing of three Americans and two Ha- waiians, to be nominated by the presi- dent and confirmed by the senate is pro vided for the purpose of formulating the mode of government for the island.
 The trea.ies of the United States with other countries are substituted for the tr5aties of Hawaii on behalf of the is- fand,a
 The further immigrat ton of Japanese into the islands is prohibited and the laws prohibiting Chinese immigration into the United States are made to apply to pre- vent Chinese removing from Hawaii 10 this country.
 The United States agrees to assume the debt of the island republic to the etxent