The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
SCHEME OF HAWAIIANS
ANTI-ANNExATIONIS PLANNING TO
INFLUENCE AMERICANS.
Mass Meeting for the Benefit of United
States Senator's Who Will Soon
Visit Honolulu.

HONOLULU, Aug. 81, via Victoria, b. c.,
Sept. S.-The annexationists are very much
worried over the discovery of an alleged at
tempt on the part of the anti-anneXation-
lists to influence Senators Morgan and
Quay, who are expected TO arrive here soon
on a tour of investigation. They say that
Senators White, of California, and Thurs
ton, Of Nebraska, who will lead the. fight
against annexation in Congress this winter,
will also visit Hawaii and attend the mass
meeting of the natives, which, it is alleged
by the annexationists, has been called for
the purpose of convincing the senators
that the natives bitterly oppose annexation
1t is stated that Senators White and Thurs
ton will superintend the drafting of a mon
ster petition to Congress in which the Ha-
waiians will assert that the government
was torn from them through the action Of
American Minister Stevens. 1t is also al
legged that the mass meeting will be con-
Quoted entirely by Hawaiians and win be
made as dramatic as possible The idea is
to work upon the sympathies of Senator
Morgan and persude him, If possible, that
the natives have been deprived of lands and
power by handful of rich and powerful
whites, backed by treacherous American
minister. 1t is believed that the ex-(eueen
may arrive on the same steamer as the
senators and that she will address the
people at the mass meetings.
The second card of the antt-anneXation-
lists will be played on the arrived here. late
in September, of Senator Pettigrew, of
South Dakota; Lee Mantle, of Montana,
and Frank Cannon, of Utah. They are now
in Japan and China, studying the silver
question Before they sailed on the En-
press from Victoria, B. c., they secured re-
Doric due here from Yokohama on Sept.
"a. and announced their intention of re-
naming over a week in this city TO study
the annexation question.
The ambition of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company people Is TO extend
their lines on all waters, and they will,
sooner or later, make a bid for Honolulu
business Already the company has issued
a large number of charts and maps which
have been distributed freely about the city,
containing the proposed routes from
Yokohama to San Francisco via
Honolulu, Australia to San Fran
Victoria, B. c. Some of the company's big
steamers now traversing the Atlantic have
been found too slow for the service on that
ocean. Boats are now being built which
will make twenty-three knots an hour The
North German Lloyd Company people. are
equipping the Atlantic service entirely with
pable OF going from fifteen to seventeen
knots an hour, it is said. will be brought to
the Pacific ocean to establish the Austria
lian-V Victoria Honolulu and San Francisco
The Supreme Court has decided that the
iEcome-tax law passed by the last session
of the Hawaiian Legislature Is unconsti-
tutional.
Alvin r. Hawkins, a young man from
Salesville Tex, died in this city yesterday
morning from blood poisoning. The de-
ceased was a nephew of the Governor of
Tennessee.
The United States steamer Marion left
for Mare island on the 9th
President Dole has issued proclamation
calling the Senate to meet in special ses-
sion on Sept. s, instead of the 14th, as
previously announced In an Associated
Press dispatch. After the annexation treaty
is ratified the Senate will adjourn until the
regular session.
An attempt to bring negro laborers to this
country has failed. The matter was re-
ferred to some Southern senators for an
opinion. A telegram brought here on the
26th by the steamer knocks the scheme In
the head. The Southerners, including SEN
ator Morgan. object to any attempt to take
their labor from them.