The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-09-09
Resolutions and Message
Referred to Committee.
Adjourned Out of Respect to God
frey Rhodes - Brown, Water
house and Holstein Active.

| The Hawaiian Senate convened a few
| minutes after noon yesterday for the
| purpose of ratifying the Hawaiian
treaty of annexation with the United
States. There was no demonstration of
any kind, such as was customary in
the days of the monarchy. The mem
bers dropped into the hallway one or
two at a time, gathered in groups
around the stairway, and finally, as
the hands on the clock neared the
meridian, went inside and took their
places. Additional chairs had been
placed in the room by r. J. Greene for
the accommodation Of visitors, and
these were all occupied, many stran-
gers being noticed.
When the members were called to
order President of the Senate Wilder
announced that the meeting was in
accordance with a proclamation issued
by the President, calling the members
together in special session. J. F. Clay,
Secretary, called the roll, and the fol-
lowing responded: Horner, Holstein,
Wright, Baldwin, Brown, Northrup,
McCandless, Schmidt, Lyman, Wilcox,
Rice, Waterhouse and Wilder. In the
absence of Rev. H. w. Peck, Chaplain
EdmondsOn of the u. S. S. Philadel-
phia invoked the blessing of God on
the members and the work they were
called to do.
President Wilder appointed Senators
Lyman and Wilcox to wait upon Presi-
dent Dole and inform him that the Sen
ate was in session and ready to receive
any message he might have to present
Shortly after the return of the COM
mittee to the hall Secretary Potter Of
the Foreign Office entered, bearing a
red plush portfolio, containing COM
munications This was handed Min
lister Cooper, who said: 81 have here
a message from the President of the
Republic to the Senate" 1t was then
handed President Wilder, who gave it
to the Secretary, who read as follows:
Under the authority conferred upon
me by the Constitution and with the
of the Cabinet, | have nego-
tiated a treaty of political union be-
tween the Republic of Hawaii and the
United States of America, which was
signed by the plenipotentiaries of both |
governments in the city of Washing |
ton on the 10th day of June, A. D. |
1897.
l herewith transmit the same to the |
Senate for the consideration. of the |
question of the ratification thereof, |
under its constitutional authority.
In this relation l desire to call your
attention to certain significant events |
which bear upon this matter
The Provisional Government which |
succeeded the Hawaiian monarchy on
the 18th day of January, A. D. 1898, |
was organized for the administration |
of public affairs until such time as
terms Of union with the United States !
Of America should have been agreed |
on. Unexpected delays in the con-
of such union having oc-
Cured, the Republic of Hawaii was
organized and proclaimed on the 4th |
day of July, A. d. 1894. The fUnda-
mental law of the new republic con-
tanned the following words: ''The |
President with the approval of the |
Cabinet, is hereby expressly author
zed and empowered to make treaty
Of political or commercial union be-
tween the Republic of Hawaii and the
United States of America subject to the
of the Senate"
The Legislature of the Republic at
both of its sessions passed joint reso-
utions endorsing the annexation poll
" of the Provisional Government and
If the Republic of Hawaii
The grounds for the adoption of
his policy on the 18th day of Janu-
ary, A. D. 1893 were, first, the exist
ng local conditions under which the
of stable government
was beset@ with great and increasing
and the growing menace
% the small Hawaiian population in
7olved in the impending immigration,