The age-herald., 1898-01-21
PREPARING FOR
 HAWAII'S PRESIDENT
Special to The Age-Herald.

Special to The Age-Eerald.
 l Washington, Jan. 20.-President Dole of | the Hawaiian Islands, will be given a royal welcome when he arrives in this city next week. The president has decided that he shall be considered as the nations guest and no means will be spared to entertain 1 him in lavish manner. The official tour of the Hawaiian president will begin at Chicago. The president will send govern ment officials to meet him en route. and all honor will be shown him as the guest of the nation. The United States govern ment will bear the expense which amount will be taken from the contingent fund of the state department MT. Thomas w. Grinder, third assistant secretary of state will be designated as the personal repre- sentative of the president The army and navy will also be represented. Maj. H. o. S. Hoistand will represent the army, while the navy will be represented by Lieut.. Commander Phelps. The latter is per
 sonal friend of President Dole, and will make the latter feel somewhat at home. When he arrives in Washington, President Dole will be quartered in the Arlington, where u Hung Chang, the Princess Eu- lalia and other distinguished national guests have been entertained. His comfort will be we'll looked after by the presidents representative and no efforts will be spared to make his stay pleasant. The president will give a dinner in honor of his brother chief executive, at which all the members of the diplomatic corps the cabinet and other distinguished guests will be present. It is not thought that the stay of Mir Dole in this country will be long one While his exact constitutional power is not known at the state department, it is believed that he comes here empowered to accept on behalf of his government, any amendments that the senate may propose to the annex ation treaty.
 Senator Lindsay said to me today that the anti-annexationists now have the treaty beaten by six votes, that is to say that the opposition will be that many short of a two-thrds majority. The sen ator said. however that he expected that they would loose three of these leaving the opposition still short three votes.
 If the treaty is defeated in the senate, and the general opinion now is that it will be, there is no doubt of the annexation of the islands by joint resolution. While it is doubtful if there is an overwhelming sentiment in favor annexing these islands, it is certainly a fact that there is a de- cded lack of enthusiasm among the people on this question Even here in Washing ton, where almost every one talks poli- tics, there is great amount of enthus- iasm displayed Some people want the islands annexed, others do not, but neither care very much either way.
 There is one feature of the Hawaiian question that has received little attention. Should resolution to annex the islands come up in the house there would be good deal of debate as to the currency on the islands. It is not generally known that the currency of Hawaii consists of something like a million dollars in silver, which was furnished by Claus Sprekles in the early eighties. Spreckles secured thority from congress to coin a million dol lars in silver, one-half in one dollars and the remainder in halves and quarters in the Philadelphia mint He furnished this to the government of Hawaii, which was then under the late King Kalakaua, and received therefor million dollars in bonds which he readily sold at a premium, the bonds drew per cent interest. As the price of silver bullion was then about 75 cents an ounce Spreckles cleared some thing like $25O,O0O from this little deal be- sides what he made from the bonds.
 Another unknown item in the matter of resources of these islands is the paper money in circulation. Each one of the paper certificates in circulation bears upon it's face the statement that it represents so many dollars deposited in the Hawaiian treasury, but those who know something of Hawaiian finances say that there two pieces of paper for every dollar in the treasury. So that in addition to the bonded debt of the islands of some four millions of dollars the United States in the event of annexation would have to assume several millions of debased currency, for even if the silver is made and admitted to be good as ours it will have to be recoined as soon as it gets in the hands of the treasury department and cannot be re-issued
 Senator Hanna has announced his inten- ton of building an immense mansion for home in this city. In the meantime he will rent a house, somewhere in the north west section, probably in the neighborhood of Senator Foraker. The site for MT. Hannas residence has not yet been de- termined upon, or at least not yet made public. Senator Foraker is building an im- mense mansion the colonial plan at the corner of Sixteenth and streets, and Senator Hanna will probably go in the same neighborhood. Both Hanna and For aker are known as brilliant entertainers, and they will certainly do their share in enlivening Washington socially during the six years they will reside here.
 HAROLD EVERETT CLAY. THE -RUsKIN-MILLAIS CODE.