The age-herald., 1897-09-23
Hawaiian Senate Votes to Ratify
 the Treaty.
NATIVES ENTER PROTEST
Monster Mass Meeting Called to this End Senator Morgan Declines to Talk
 Until He Has Investigated.


 steamship City of Picking. which arrived l from Honolulu last night. brought in the
 news that the annexation treaty had 1 been ratified by the Hawaiian ssnate on l the eighth instant, no details were ob- Hainnble until this morning, the mails
 having been delayed in quarantine for twelve hours. From zdvices she brought
 under date of the 14th 4nstanl, the fol-
 lowing parttcualns are obtaIned:: l The Hawaiian senalt met in extra ses- sion on the Sth instant. When the sen at was called to order the presidents
 message urging ratification of the treaty 1 was read, as was also protest on be-
 half of the Hawaaans who opposed ths measure.
 l The presidents message stated that under the authority conferred upon him
 by the constitution and win the approv- l al of tbA cabinet he had negotiated
 treaty of political union with the United l States of America and the republic of
 Hemaii, which wss signed by the pleni- | potentiaries of both governments in l Washington, June Is, 1897. He trans l nlitted the same to the senate for con l s.daration of the ratification thereof un-
 der 8ts constltutionallty and called at l tention to certain significant events which bore upcn the matter. He touch- | ed upon the adoption of the policy of an-
 nexaton by the provisional government
 on June IF, 1S93 and stated that the
 reasons which then necessitated that pol
 icyq still existed and that subsequent l events had emphasized their importance. l Both papers were referred with the text
 of the treaty ito Hhe foreign relations committee for cons,daration. On the fol- 1 lowing day that committee reported fa- 1 vorably and upon it's recommendation
 the senate adopted the following reso- 1 lutfonv by unanimous vote: | Be it resolved by the senate of the re-
 public of Hawaii that the s"nale hereby
 ratifies and advises and consents to the ratification by the president O. the treaty between the republic of Hawaii and tlie 1 United States of America on the sub | JSCL OI dIlIleAdtlUu Ol tHC SloHoiieth | islands to the United States o. America, concluded In Washington, June Is, 1895. which treaty is worded as follows | The text of the treaty :nen followed. In answer to the Hawal;i.n protest | adopted at a mass meeting held on the | 6th the committee. in parts. says: The legislature of the republic has at l it's last two sessions passed joint resolu- l tions favoring annexation and the an-
 nexation of the islands to the United 1 States was one of the fundamental l grounds for the establishment Of this l government We recommend that tf:e protest be laid on the table and in doing I so deem 1t our duty to say that In our l opinions the protestants arep rotesting
 more on the ground of sentinen, than | that they fully believe annexation world not promote the best and most lasting I prosperity to the islands and all classes 1 of people residing thereon.
 This report was unanimously adopted | by the senate.
 DeSplLe Iulc aCplOui OI tfe St>ihtAt6 tItc opponents of annexation are continuing | their fight and the leaders of the move | ment express the utmost confidence in | their ability to defeat annexation. Before the Picking left call sad been l issued for an immense mass meeting to be held on the 18th and the indfca tions were that it would be one of the largest ever held in the island. Some of the annexationists hoped to have been able to have Senator Morgan address the l meeting with the object of changing the sentiments of the natives. but there was Mttle likelihood Of heir plan meeting with success. The steamship Australia, alaving on board United States Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, Congressman A. S. l Berry, J. G. Cannon. H. G. Loudens'ager | and J. A. Tawney arrived in Honolulu l on the 14th. They were accorded @ warm reception. Senator Morgan stood the voyage exceedingly well and was in
 excellent health.
 
 day published this interview with him: I have nothing of definite nature to 1 say to the newspapers now as I must | first have an opportunity to study the | situation from a new point of view. You I may say that am predisposed In favor I of annexation. I have been an annexa- | zionist practically for thirty years, ever since the question had been agitated. The following translation of an article | winch has been published in the Usox, the organ of the Portuguese residents. shows the alarm with which that sec tion of the population regards annexa- l ton:
 If perchance the annexation should be consummated. which we doubt, the Por- a0 fan