Audubon Republican., 1897-09-30
rs FOR ANNEXATION.
Hawaiian Senate Unanimously
Ratif1es the Treaty.
Japan Is Opposed - Said to Have
Landed Over n Thousand Men
on IsIand-Uncle Sam Sends
Warships.

Honolulu, Sept. IA (via San Francisco,
CAL, Sept. %. 1.-The steamer Pekin car
rfes the news to the United States that
the annexation treaty has been unani-
mously ratified by the. proper legisla-
tive body. That it was done unanimous
ly, it is thought, will have big effect in
the United States, and remove all hes
itancy that may exist on the part of the
government at Washington. The ex-
traordinary session of the senate began
September Q, and the next day, when
the preliminary work of organization
had been done, there was nothing but
the work Of ratification to be accom-
plished, and this was rushed through,
not by agreement, but because there
was no desire on the part of anyone to
discuss the matter. There was but one
opinion on the subject, and the result
was that the vote on ratification was
unanimous.
There was never any difference of
opinion as to what the senate would do.
This body was elected after the revolu-
ton with the one idea of working for
the annexation of the islands to the
United States. From the time in 1898
when the queen was dethroned there
has been no subject on which there was
more unanimity, and there has been no
body with more annexation feeling than
the senate. 1t was the feeling that the
treaty was the best that could be had
and there was no objection to the rati-
fcation. The meetings at which the
ratification of the treaty took place were
the most largely attended of any in the
history of the government, not except
ing the trying time of the revolution.
AS soon as the fact was made known
that the senate had agreed to the rati-
fication there was the utmost enthus-
iasm all througlathe city. II had been
planned to make the occasion the excuse
for the most elaborate ceremonies that
have been carried out since the republic
was founded. There was nothing lack
ing to the appropriate celebration, and
the people joined in the ceremonies and
Publications as freely as the most ar
dent of the republicans.
Suspicious Movements of Japs.
San Francisco, Sept. 23. - If the
stories told by the passengers and
crew of the steamship City of
Peliing, which arrived here from
Hong Kong via Honolulu on Tuesday
evening, be true a state of affairs ex-
lists in Hawaii which demands the atten-
ton Of the state department. When the
City of Peking arrived at Honolulu the
attention of the other passengers on
board that steamer was attracted by the
remarkably symmetrical movements of
174 japanese steerage passengers who
were disembarking. Although classed
as laborers, their well-drilled and mill
tary appearance was too palpable to es-
cape observation and occasioned consid-
cradle comment. The japanese were
apparently under the command of a vet
eran sergeant and divided into squads
of 20 under nOncommissioned officers.
During the voyage a military discipline
was observed which created comment
among the other steerage passengers
and steamers crew, and many COM
lectures were hazarded as to the mean
ing of their being shipped to the islands.
j" was ScheIdlly DcIleNeu tildI Iuey were
sent to the islands for the purpose Of
lorcibly resisting annexation if neces-
saary. Rumors of the presence of the
IAikado's soldiers are not new on the
islands, and it is said that over 1000
we--drilled men have already been
landed there, and about 400 veterans of
the Japan-China war are expected upon
the next steamer.
q. S. Wnrships on for Honolulu.
= San Francisco, Sept. 25.-Every indi-
cation here points to the fact that the
government has information of an ex-
tremely critical state of affairs in the
Hawaiian islands. Within ten days
President Mckinley will have at Homo
lulu the Philadelphia, the Bennington,
the Wheeling, the Yorktown and proba-
bly, the big battle ship Oregon. This is
fleet entirely without precedent in
those waters and is significant of d
crisis or something very like it.