The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17
ANNEXATION BY RESOLUTION The Treaty Has Been Deserted by It's
 Friends. Concealed That It Could Not Get a Majority in the
 Senate. Williams of Mississippi Scores the Dole Carpetbag Regime in
 the House.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House,
 Washington. March 16

the Senate to-day was confined to the passage of a few bills, largely of local character. The national quaran- tine bill was not considered.
 The Committee on Foreign Relations to-day agreed to recommend that the Hawaiian Islands be annexed by legis- lafion in open session and also agreed upon joint resolution for the accom- plishment of this purpose, which Sem ator Davis was authorized to report to the Senate.
 The following Is the text of the joint resolution
 Section l. The Government of the Re public of Hawaii, having in due form sig nifled it's consent in the manner provided by its constitution to cede absolutely and without reserve to the United States of America all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies, and to cede to the United States the absolute free owner | ship of all public or crown lands, puD-.c buildings or edifices, forts, harbors, mili- tary equipments, all other public property | of whatever kind and description belong l ing to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands. together with every right and l appurtenance thereunto appertaining, | therefore be 1t
 Resolved, That said cession is accepted ratified and confirmed and that the said | Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies i be and they are hereby annexed as part | Of the territory of the United States, and l are subject to the sovereign dominion | thereof, and that all and singular, the property and rights hereinbefore men | t1oned are vested in the United States of America.
 Senator Davis submitted with the | joint resolution an extended report to | the committee. The report states that | the joint resolution brings that subject within reach of the legislative power of Congress under the precedent that was established when Texas was an- nexed, that circumstance being referred l to at length.
 | The report says: This important, clear and far-reaching precedent es- tablished by the annexation of the re- public of Texas is sufficient guide for 1 the action of Congress in the passage l Of the joint resolution herewith re- ported. If, in the judgment of Con- gress, such measure is supported by a | safe any wise policy, or is based on a national duty that we owe the people l of Hawaii, or is necessary for our na- | tional development and security, that is enough to justify annexation, with l the consent of the recognized Govern ment Of the country to be annexed" The report then discusses the argu- ment for annexation, declaring that the policy of annexation as it applies to Hawaii has been exceptional and clear since their earliest diplomatic relations l
 From the beginning down to this | date the idea and expectation has con- stantly been entertained by the people | and Governments of both countries that whenever the conditions should be such as to make annexation of mutual advantage it should be consummated, :" it is said.
 "On the part of Hawaii this purpose has been sustained by two facts: First, | that no ruler of Hawaii since the time l of Kamehameha 1 has believed that these islands, so tempting to the cu- 1 pidity of commercial powers, could maintain an autonomus government without the support of some great maritime nation.
 'Second-That the rulers of Hawaii on each occasion when the islands have been threatened with foreign interfer- l ence or domestic violence, have at once appealed to some foreign power for help"
 The postoffice appropriation bill, which was the subject before the House, was practically lost track of in the debate to-day As on yesterday, numerous topics were discussed, but to-day for the first time the Cuban Spanish situation, which had been kept in the background heretofore, forged to the front Cochran (D.) of Missouri brought the question into the arena, and in the course of the debate that followed Grosvenor of Ohio took occa- sion to deny emphatically the stories af1oat to the effect that the President desired an early adjournment of Con- gross in order that he might effect a settlement without Congressional in terference.
 Williams (D.l of Mississippi, in a speech of forty minutes, replied to the speech made by MT. Tawney yesterday in favor of Hawaiian annexation. Will Hams is a member of the Foreign Af- fairs Committee, and his remarks re- ceived close attention. He directed his attack particularly against the conten- T tion of MT. TaWney that the traditional policy of this Government was not op- posed to annexation. He thought there was no occasion for war, even if 1t were true that if we should not take the islands some other country would. The idea of the foreign ownership of a group of islands 2000 miles from our shores had no terrors for him. He said the Hawaiian Islands were now in the control of a carpet bag oligarchy." The States of the South had undergone a bitter experience with carpet bag government and did not desire to in- dorSe it anywhere
 The Hawaiian Islands would be a menace instead of a safeguard to the United States He asked his friends who recently played in the interna- tional chess match against the British Parliamentary team what they would think of accepting a pawn in the mid dle of the board from their adversaries on condition that they should defend it
 throughout the game. Great Britain had given pawn for peace in the shape of Canada. Why should we weaken our already strong position? This country already had a race prob lem. To take the Hawaiian Islands would be to annex another race prob lem and pay $4,000,000 for the privilege of doing it. In it's remote effects Will Hams said he regarded the correct set | tlement of this question as more inpor- tant than all the others before the American people. The currency, the coinage question. the tariff question, all important questions in themselves, if settled wrongly could be reconsider ed and settled right. But the mistaken ctara of Fla 1uaiian annexation once