Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-17
THE NEW TREATY
Message Of the President to
The Senate.
Mr.. SHERMAN'S REPORT
Account of the Recently Completed
Negotiation.
FULL TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT
No Vote Likely to Be Taken This
Session.
FULL TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT
VIEWS OF CONGRESSMEN

The following is the full text of the mos
sage sent to the Senate yesterday by Presi-
dent Mckinley. to accompany the Haw;,-
iian annexation treaty:
To the Senate of the United States:
transmit herewith to the Senate, in
order that. after due consideration. the
constitutional function OF advice and con-
sent may be exercised by that body,
treaty for the annexation of the republic
OF Hawaii to the United States. signed i'm
this capital by the pleaipotentiaries of the
party on the 10th OF June Instant
For better understanding of the subject
transmit in addition, a report of the Sec
rotary of State. briefly reviewing the nego-
tiation which has led to this important re-
suit
The Incorporation Of the Hawaiian Is
lands into the body polite OF the United
States is the necessary and fitting sequel {.
the change of events which from a very
carly period of our history has controlled
the intercourse and prescribed the asso.
citation of the United States and the Ha.
waiian Islands. The predominance OF
American interest in that neighborIng ter.
ritory was first asserted in 1S2O, by sending
to the islands representative agent of the
United States 1t found fureher express
sion by the signature of treaty of friend
ship, commerce and navigation with the
king in 1S26-thc first interna tional COM
Pact negotiated by Hawaii. 1t was s:gnally
announced in 1913, when the Intervention
of the United States caused the British
government to disavow the seizure of the
Sandwich Islands by a British naval COM
mander, and to recognize them by treaty,
as an independent state, renouncing forever
any purpose of annexing the islands or ex-
ertinS protectorate for them.
In 1851 the cession of the Hawaiian king
dom to the United States was formally Of
fered, and although not then accepted, this
government proclaimed its duty to preserve
alike the honor and dignity of the Unitec
States and the safety of the government
Of the Hawaiian Islands. From this time
until the outbreak of the war in 1861 the
and of the Hawaiian sovereignty toward
the United States was exemplifed by con-
tinued negotiations for annexation or for a
reserved commercial union. The latter al
tentative was at length accomplished by
the reciprocity treaty of 1873, the pro-
panded by the convention of 1884, en-
bracing the perpetual cession to the United
States of the harbor of Pearl river In the
Island of Oahu.
In 1855 a proposal for the joint guaranty
of the neutrality of the Hawaiian Islands
Britain was declined on the announced
ground that the relation of the United
States to the islands was sufficient for the
end in view. In brief, from 1890 to 1893 the
course of the United States toward the
Hawaiian Islands has consistently favored
sion of all foreign influence save our own,
to the extent Of upholding eventual an
nexation as the necessary outcome OF that
policy.
Not only is the union of the Hawaiian
territory of the United States no new
of the relation steaofastly maintained with
that mid-Pacific domain for three-quarters
of a century. Its accomplishment, despite
successive denials and postponements, has
been merely a question of time. While its
failure In 1893 may not be cause of con-
graduation. it is certainly proof Of the
disinterestedness of the United States, the
delay Of four years having abundantly suf-
feed to establish the right and the ability
of the republic Of Hawaii to enter. as a
sovereign contractant upon a conventional
union with the United States. thus realizing
q purpose held by the Hawaiian people and
proclaimed by successive Hawaiian govern
ments through some twenty years Of their
virtual dependence upon the benevolent
protection Of the United States. Under
such circumstances. annexation is not
change: * IL a consummation.
The report of the Secretary OF State ex-
hibits the character and course of the re-
cent negotiation and the features Of the
treaty itself. The organic and administra-
tive details Of Incorporation are necessar-
lily left to the wisdom of the Congress- and
I cannot doubt, when the function Of the
treaty making power shall
have been accomplished. the duty Of the
national legislature In the case will be per-