Evening journal., 1897-02-19
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII.
The Treaty Which She Offers
the United States.
GIVES US COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY.

@ $4,000 Year While She Keeps Quiet
SAN FRANcIsco, Feb 19.-William o.
%@ Smith, President Dole's attorney general,
% whose arrival from Honolulu to negotiate
3 treaty for the annexation Of the Hawai-.
s& ian islands was reported in these dispatch
81 es yesterday, is now on his way to Wash.
s# ington.
VII 1t was with the knowledge of his pur.
& pose that Queen Liliuokalani has visited
81 the national capital, and her continued
d stay there is to prevent il possible the con
8 summation of such treaty. If she cannot
70 kill the enterprise, she hopes by her pres
M ence to be able to secure a larger indemni
n ~ from the parties to the annexation con.
il tract than it was originally proposed to
pay her
Attorney General Smith timed his visit
j. so as to be here with the organization OF
the new administration and one of the
first questions for President Mckinley and
r. his cabinet to decide is whether they will
: complete the work mapped out by Prcsi
Il dent Harrison.
Mr. Smith has the draft Of the treaty
Il which he will propose in proper form to
offer All that is necessary to complete IL
& is the insertion Of certain figures, showing
8 the debt Of the islands and some minor
n details. 1t lacks also the names Of the per
and the Hawaiian islands as plenipoten
tiaries to conclude the arrangement.
The following IS the agreement which
Mr.. Smith is authorized to propose
The long continuance Of their exclusive
reciprocal commercial relations whereby
their mutual interests have been develop
ed, and of the preponderant and para
mount share thus acquired by the United
States and their citizens In the produc-
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lands, and especially in view of the desire
expressed by the said government of the
Hawaiian islands that those islands shall
be incorporated into the United States as
an integral part thereof and under their
sovereignty, in order to provide for and
assure the security and prosperity of the
said islands, the high contracting parties
have determined to accomplish by treaty
an object so important to their mutual and
permanent welfare That this may be
done the high contracting parties have con-
ferred full power and authority upon their
respectively appointed plenipotentaries
And the said plenipotentiaries, after hay-
ing communicated to each other their re-
spective full powers found in good and
due form, have agreed upon and concluded
the following articles;
Cedes Sovereignty Rights.
The government Of the Hawaiian islands
hereby cedes, from the date of the ex-
change of the ratiflcations of this treaty,
absolutely and without reserve, to the
United States forever all rights Of sover-
eighty of whatsoever kind in and over the
Hawaiian islands and their dependencies,
renouncing in favor of the United States
every sovereign right of which as an inde-
pendent nation it is now possessed, and
henceforth said Hawaiian islands and
every island and key thereunto appertain-
ing and each and every portion thereof
shall become and be an integral part Of
the territory Of the United States.
The government of the Hawaiian islands
also cedes and transfers TO the United
States the absolute fee and ownership of
all public, government or crown lands,
public buildings or edifices. ports, harbors,
Notifications. military or naval equip
ments and all other public property of
every kind and description belonging to
the government of the Hawaiian islands,
together with every right and appurte-
nance thereunto appertaining. The exist
ing laws of the United States relative to
public lands shall not apply to such lands
in the Hawaiian islands, but the congress
Of the United States shall enact special laws
for their management and dispositions
provided, that all revenue from or pro-
ceeds Of the same, except as regards such
for civil, military or naval purposes Of the
United States, or may be assigned TO the
use of the local government, shall he used
solely for the benefit Of tho inhabitants of
the Hawaiian islands for educational and
other public purposes.
The existing government and laws of
the Hawaiian islands arc hereby contin-
ued. subject to the paramount authority
Of the United States. until congress shall
otherwise provide. The president, by and
with the advice and consent Of the senate
shall appoint commissioner to reside in
said islands. who shall have the power to
veto any act of said government, and an
act disapprOved 10y him shall thereupon he
void and OF no effect unless approved by
the president Congress shall within one
year from the exchange OF the Publications
of this treaty enact the necessary legisla-
tion to extend to the Hawaiian islands the
laws OF the United States respecting the
duties upon imports, the internal revenue
commerce and navigation, hut until con-
gress shall otherwise provide the existing
commercial citations Of the Hawaiian is
lands, both with the United States and
foreign countries shall continue as re-
CARDS the commerce of said islands with
the rest Of the United States and with for
eign countries but this shall not be con
strued as giving to said islands the power
20 enter into any new stipulation or agree
ment whatsoever or to have diplomatic
intercourse with any foreign government
The consular representatives Of foreign
powers now resident in the Hawaiian is
lands shall be permitted TO continue in
the exercise of their consular functions un-
til they can receive their exequaturs from
the government of the United States
Chinese Immigration Prohibited.
The further immigration of Chinese 10
borers into the Hawaiian islands is here
by prohibited until congress shall other
wise provide. Furthermore Chinese Der.
sons of the classes now or hereafter ex-
eluded by law from entering the United
States will not be permitted to come from
the Hawaiian islands to other parts of the
United States, and if so coming shall be
subject to the same penalties as if enter
ing from foreign country.