Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-06-26
MAY NOT BE RATIFIED.

Rough Handling Expected for the Hawaii
an Annexation Treaty in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, June 1S--A special to
the Chicago Post says:
Opposition to the Hawaiian annexation pro-
ject has broken out much more violently than
was anticipated by .he administration, and the
treaty will be roughly handled when it comes
up in the senate for ratification Whether
this opposition will be able to muster sufficient
strength in that body to defeat ratification is
speculative problem 1t looks now as though
the annexation larty might not be able to COM
mand the necess ary two-thirdS vote In any
event. it is now taken for granted that favora-
BILE action at this special session either in the
form of treaty ratification legislation Sus-
tanning the administration plans. will be i'm
possible.
The strongest and most dangerous opposi-
tior will come from two SourceS-those who
are against the acquisition of remote territory
by the United States and opposed on principle
to the embarkation by this government upon
colonization schemes, and second those who
will fight annexation on the plea that the
cheap labor of the Hawaiian islands will seri-
ously injure agricultural interests.
particularly checking the development Of
the beet sugar industry of the mid
die west, which gives promise OF
production of the soil throughout large sec
lions of the country There are many other
reasons which will be urged including. OF
course, the argument that, by taking in these
remote islands. the United States will no
longer find it possible to sustain its hitherto
impregnable position along the lines of the
Monroe doctrine. President Mckinleys mes
sage, which went to the senate with the treaty,
covers this point. but it will nevertheless be
brought in when the contest is being discussed
LILIUoKALANI PROTESTS
WASHINGTON, June 1S.-About three
o'clock yesterday afternoon ex-Queen
Liliuokalani filed a protest in the office
of the secretary of state against the
annexation treaty. 1t was delivered
into the hands of John Sherman by
Mr.. Joseph Helaluhe, representing the
native Hawaiians, duly commissioned
by two of their patriotic leagues. Mr..
Helaluhe was accompanied by Capt
Julius A. Palmer, the American secre-
tary of Liliuokalani. Mr.. Sherman
treated the bearers most courteously,
but gave no indication of his action in
the matter. The protest commences
as follows:
I, Liliuokalani. of Hawaii, by the will of God
named heir apparent the 10th day of April,
A. D. 1877 and by the grace of God queen of the
Hawaiian islands the 18th day of January,
A D. 1898 do hereby protest against the ratifi
formed has been signed at Washington by
MeSSrS- Hatch, Thurston and Kinney, pur
porting to cede those islands to the territory
and dominion of the United States declare
such treaty to be an act of wrong toward the
native and part native people of Hawaii, in
vaSion of the rights of the ruling chiefs in vio
lation of international rights both toward my
people and toward friendly nations with whom
they have made treaties the perpetuation of
the fraud whereby the constitutional govern
ment was overthrown and finally an act of
gross injustice to me-
long list of reasons to back up her pro-