The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
ANHEXATOH TREATY CANNOT BE RATIFIED
 BY THE SENATE.
And the Chances Are That AH Bills and Joint Resolutions for Taking Hawaii
 Mil Be Showed Under.
Call Office, Riggs House,

Call Ofhce, Riggs House,
 Washington, Jan. r.
 It is quite apparent now that even Chairman Davis of the Foreign Rela- tions committee realizes the Hawaiian annexation treaty will fail to be rati- fled by the Senate. The probabilities are that he will soon abandon the eff fort, and that a bill for annexation, or Senator MOrgan's joint resolution, will be taken up. The anti-annexationists are confident that the joint resolution will not pass the House, although it would only require a majority vote in- stead of twO-thirds. It is believed that Speaker Reed will oppose the admins tration both as to the annexation of Hawaii and the Cuban policy.
 Congressman Amos Cummings of New York said in an interview to-day: The legislation decks are clear, and each house of Congress Is settling down to its work. The big committees have divided themselves into sub-commit- tees, and the process of grinding out bills for the consideration of the House is already in operation. On January , 54SS bills and 1O7 joint resolutions had been referred to the House committees
 
 to Senate committees. The calendars are hoppers into which the grist of these committees is thrown. The House has already sent two of the great ap- propriation bills over to the Senate. They carry $162, 000, 900; eleven others follow, These appropriation bills are the essential of legislation. Without them the Government is blocked. When the differences concerning them have g+- and they have passed both houses and received the signature of the President, Congress will be ready to adjourn. It is evidently the intention of leaders in the House to scale the general appro- priatiOn bills as closely as possible and to force an adjournment at an early date. Under the rules other bills car rying appropriations can be buried without allowing them to come before the House. An appropriation bill is a privileged measure, and it is frequent ly used to shunt offensive legislation from the track. It has the right of way at all times, except when con frOnted by contested election case or by a special order from the Committee on Rules. An appropriation bill can switch a contested election case from the track at any time by a vote of the House, but it requires unanimous con- sent to set aside a special order after 1t has once been sanctioned by the House.
 Bearing this in mind, the question of annexation of Hawaii becomes inter esting. If the Senate fails to ratify the treaty by a two-t1irds vote, a bill pro- viding for its annexation will undoubt- edly pass that body. If the leaders of the House are opposed to such a bill they can easily prevent it's considera- tion by the House. It may be buried in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and if reported from that committee there is no way in which the House can con- sider it except by a special order from the Committee on Rules. In ether words, if Speaker Reed favors the bill it will pass the House; if he is opposed to 1t the House will have no opportuni- ty to vote on it. This aptly illustrates the eccentricities of a purely represent ative government. The Cuban ques- tion is in a similar situation. The House is held up by an application of it's own rules. If three-quarters of the mem bers favor the recognition of Cuba they would have no opportunity to vote for it. The Senate resolution is still buried in the House Committee on Foreign Af- fairs. If this committee should report it favorably to the House, it is lh the condition of Lord Lovell's wife, who Jumped into a box that closed with a spring. It could not come up for con- sideration without the usual special or der. Once on the calendar, it might be called upon suspension day, provid- ed the Speaker would consent to recog- niZe a member of the committee for this purpose. Then a two- thirds vote would pass it.''
 Replying to @ resolution of inquiry. Secretary Wilson sent to-day to the Senate statement concerning the pro- duction of sugar in this country, and his opinion of the effect of the iuporta tion of Hawaiian sugar on the produc- tion of beet sugar in the United States. He gave the average importation of sugar to this country for the past seven years as S101,575, 293 worth, of which the Hawaiian importation was s9.973. .e24 He concludes that Hawaii will not ser iousIy compete with sugar producers in the United States. and says that when the people of those islands come to consider the possibilities of coffee production it will be found that they wiz have a monopoly with which no State in the Union can interfere"
 MT. Wilson also expresses the opinion that Hawaii would be a very proftable acquisition. because of its fruits.