Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-06-18
Draft Of the Hawaiian Treaty
In the Presidents Hands
for Final Review.
Will Go to the Senate lmme-
diately and Prompt Ac-
ton Is Expected.
House Will Also Get a Chance
to Express an Opinion
on the Question.

WASHINGTON, June l8.-The proposed
Hawaiian treaty of annexation was not
signed during the afternoon as had been
expected. The document itself had
been prepared and everything was in
readiness, when it was taken again to
the White House for the presidents
final inspection and review. Secretary
Sherman remained at the department
later than is his custom in order to re-
reive the Hawaiians, but at o'clock
the attempt to secure the signature OF
the treaty was abandoned for the day.
This may delay the submission of the
treaty to the senate for day or two,
but the delay in any case will not be
material.
At the cabinet meeting, in the course
of the discussion Of the treaty, it was
decided that its tendency in the senate
would not necessarily cause any cocsid-
cradle obstruction to the
Progress Of the Tariff Bill,
and while there is every disposition on
the part of the president to avoid any
interference with the rights of the SEN
ate in the matter, it can be stated that
the treaty will not go in with any idea
that it is not the wish of the executive
that it should be acted on promptly.
While the treaty is in the senate, either
in the hands of the committee on for
eign relations or on the calendar Of ex-
ecutive business, it is the expectation
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 predicted, there is an overwhelming
demand 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 execu-
tive sessions while the regular tariff de-
bates are in progress.
The Question In the House.
The manner in which the Hawaiian
treaty will come before the house is in
the paragraph which provides that the
United States shall assume the present
debt of Hawaii. This will not in any
way affect the treaty or interfere with
its adoption. Irrespective and before
any action will be submitted to the
house will come the ratification of the
treaty by the senate. If the treaty is
ratified no action by the house can
change the condition.. The failure of
the house to appropriate to pay the debt
or the interest on it may become fu-
ture complication, but the ratification
of the treaty by the senate will annex
the islands.
No Pensions for Royalty.
The one point Indifference in which
the treaty differs from the convention
negotiated by Secretary Foster in Presi.
dent Harrison's administration is 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 $40, 900 cash and the same amount of
money as a pension each year during
the remainder of her natural life, pro-
vided she in good faith submitted to the
government of the United States and
the local government of the islands.
The Princess Kaiualani, being the next
in line of royal blood, was to receive a
cash payment Of $3.50, 900 but no pension,
under similar provision as in the case
of the ex.queen.