The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-12
PROSPECTS GOOD
Friends Of Annexation Are Conf
dent Of Victory.
SENATOR WHITES RESOLUTION
President Dole Is Received With
Due Official Ceremony By
Pres. Mckinley.
SENATOR WHITES RESOLUTION

| WASHINGTON, February 8.
| Friends of the Hawaiian treaty are
more confident as the debate on the
| treaty progresses, and there are no
declarations of opposition from the
doubtful list. The poll of the Senate
made by the Evening Star puts its
conclusions thus: AS it stands today,
the friends Of the treaty are counting
upon the solid vote of the Republicans
in the Senate with IL others, as fol-
lows:
Turner, Kenney, McLauren, Hatfield,
Morgan, Pettus, Kyle, Murphy, Harris,
Teller, Cannon, Mantle, Stewart, Jones,
| German, Rawlins and Mooney.
Adding Turpie this will give 81 votes
in favor of the treaty and one or two
more may be added when a vote is
reached.
While this is taken by many friends
OF Hawaii as indicating the exact sit
uation, other advocates of annexation
| cannot reach the result by the same
route. AS matters stand Thurston and
Morrill, are counted against the treaty.
Thurston said he would stand by his
declaration made in his utterances in
Baltimore last night when he indicated
his unalterable opposition to the treaty
and Senator Morrill, continues his op-
| position, though his friends say he
will not go so far as the Nebraskan
| and vote against his party
This would leave, on basis of the
remainder of the poll being correct,
| SO votes, which will carry the treaty
| if Morrill, is silent, but there is still
| a doubtful list, the proportions of
which no one can really tell. Senator
Bate is said to have declared that his
mind is open and will so continue until
Senator Morgan has concluded his ar
gument. Senator Tillman has not said
that he will vote against the treaty,
and friends of annexation have hopes
of landing Senator Butler on their side.
With this number from which to draw
| to fill the place of any man named
who may change his mind, there is
| reason to believe there will be suffi-
cient votes to carry the treaty when a
vote is reached
| Senator Whites proposition to have
passed his resolution declaring hands
| off, the Island Republic is not taken
! seriously, as it is believed there will
surely be debate upon the resolution.
ono fOr~ Il
| Producing his resolution for non-inter-
vention in Hawaiian affairs by other
powers, that he would call the resolu-
| ton up tomorrow and ask the Senate
to pass it without debate. He added
that it was his opinion that our in
tention to defend the independence of
the Islands has been made sufficiently
clear in the past, but that it would do
no harm to reaffirm the doctrine by
Congressional declaration at the pres
ent time. The resolution is as follows:
Resolved, That of right it belongs
wholly to the people of the Hawaiian
Islands to establish and maintain their
own form Of government and domestic
policy; that the United States ought in
no wise to interfere Herewith, and that
any intervention in the political affairs
of these Islands by any other govern
ment will be regarded as an act un-
friendly to the United States.
The resolution was passed by the
Senate on May 81, 1894, having beer
reported by Turpie of the Committee
on Foreign Relations. White asked
that the resolution lie on the table.