The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-06-16
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
An Unexpected Delay in the Sign
ing Of the Treaty.
SENATE ACTION ONLY NECESSARY

After the Document Has Been For
maliy signed-Tne House Can Only
Refuse an Appropriation to Pay the
Debt of the Islands.
Washington, June 16.-Bt was the ex-
pectation that the Hawaiian annexa-
ton treaty would yesterday afternoon
receive the formal signatures Of the
negotiators, Secretary Sherman for the
United States government, and either
Minister Hatch or Lorin Thurston, as
q special commissioner for the Ha-
waiian government. The document it.
self had been prepared and every
thing was in readiness, when 1t was
the presidents final inspection and re-
view. Secretary Sherman remained at
the department later than Is his Gus
tom in order to receive the Hawaiians,
but finally, at O'Clock, the attempt
to secure the signature of the treaty
yesterday was abandoned This may
prevent the submission of the treaty
to the senate today, as was the inten-
ton of the cabinet, but the delay in
any case will not be material.
At the cabinet meeting in the course
of the discussion of the treaty, 1t was
decided that its tendency In the SEN
ate would not necessarily cause any
considerable obstruction to the pro-
gress Of the tariff bill, and while there is
every disposition OH the part of the
president to avoid any interference
with the rights Of the senate in the
matter it can be stated that the treaty
will not go in with any idea that 1t
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
foreign relations OF on the calendar of
executive business, it is the expecta-
ton 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 expected, there Is
an overwhelming declaration for an
nexation, it is believed the senate will
be quick to respond to the demand. In
this case the treaty it is believed, can
be taken up and ratified in the course
Of one or two executive sessions, while
the regular tariff debates are in prog
rels daily.
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 in
It's adoption. Irrespective and before
t,ytl ia 10 ha
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
a future complication, but the ratjh-
cation Of the treaty by the senate will
annex the islands.
The treaty which made Alaska
part OF this country carried with 1t
an appropriation Of several million dol
lars. There was a most bitter con-
tention in the house about making the
appropriation, but the senate had by
treaty ratified the agreement. OF
course, if congress had finally refused
to make the approximation then Rus
STA would have held possession Of
Alaska. The case of the refusal CT the
house to appropriate for the interest
of or the debt of Hawaii will not, it
Is said, prevent annexation, but the
payment of the debt or the interest
would be q subject Tor future con-
sideration and question between the
province, colony or territory of Hawaii
and the holders of the debt il congress