The San Francisco call., 1898-03-10
ANNEXATION
 A DEAD ISSUE A ctiOn on BacOn'S Am end ment to the Treaty
 Goes Over.
Not Likely to Be Pressed to a Vote During the Present
 Session.
Senator Davis Expresses a Willing ness to Yield to the Popular
 Desire.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House,
 XIrn ntnn March

Call Office, Riggs House,
 Washington, March 9.
 Acting In accorance with the instruc- tions of the Committee on Foreign Re lations. Senator Davis to-day moved an executive session of the Senate for the purpose of taking up the Hawaiian annexation treaty. After some nomi- nations had been considered he moved that the treaty be taken up, and that the Senate should proceed to the con- sideration of the amendment offered oy Senator Bacon, providing for the sub- mission of the treaty to a vote of the electors, of Hawaii. This amendment was as follows:
 That this act shall not be operative and of binding effect upon either the united States or the Republic of Hawaii until the same shall have been consented to and approved by the majority or the voters voting at an election to be held in the Hawaiian Islands, at which election all male natives of said islands of the age of 21 years and all naturalized male per sons of the said islands of the age or 2I years shall be duly qualified voters. The said election shall be held at a tune ana in the manner and under regulatlons 10 be prescribed by the FreSloent oA lHe United States.
 Senator Bacon objected to immediate consideration of his amendment, saying he had received no notice of the inten- ton of the committee to ask to have 1t taken up at this time, and that he de- sired some opportunity to prepare him. self for the presentation of the reasons for submitting the treaty to popular vote of the Hawaiian people. He pro- ceeded to say in a general way that he thought the Hawaiians should be con suited in a matter which concerned
 
 change of their government, and to show that they were opposed to annex alton he referred to a petition protest ing against annexation which had been signed by 30,000 natives of the islands, and which he said had been presented to the Senate by Senator Hoar He referred to the Massachusetts Sena- tors attitude in reference tc the treaty, and said that it must have changed since his presentation of this petition.
 This remark brought Senator Hoar to his feet with a declaration that there was nothing inconsistent between the presentation of the petition and his support of the treaty.
 Senator Bacon then asked for addi- tional time, and also put the question to Senator Davis, whether 1t was the intention of the Committee on Foreign Relations to press the treaty to vote. To this inquiry MT. Davis replied that he was not prepared to say what course the committee would pursue with re- gard to a vote on the treaty beyond the fact that it did not want to de. prive Senators who might wish to speak of an opportunity to do so. He said that while he was willing to submit to what appeared to be the popular de- sire that the Senate should adjourn after the passage of the $50, ,000 900 de- fense bill he would again tomorrow, if opportunity offered. move an executive session of the Senate for the purpose of going on with the treaty, and that he would pursue these tactics from day to day.
 The Senate then adjourned until to- n1nrrNW