The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-03-30
RESOLUTION NOW
Friends Of Annexation Look for
Successful Issue.
BACON HAS AMENDMENT READY
To Submit Question to Hawaiians.
Davis VIII Move to Lay On
the Table.
BACON HAS Amendment READY

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joint resolution providing for the annex
| alton of the Hawaiian Islands. This is
| an indication that the Senate committee
has not abandoned it's intention of making
the Islands part of this Republic.
| AS to the success of the measure in the
| House, there is more room for a differ
| ence of opinion, but the Senate is willing
that upon that body should be thrown the
responsibility for the success or failure OF
| the ADMINISTRATORS policy. If the ques-
| tion resolves itself into a struggle be-
| tween Speaker Reed and the President
| there is very little doubt as to the out
| come. The power of the Administration
| is vastly greater than that of the Speak
| er and the Speaker would be crushed in
| his efforts to overrule the Executive
Chairman Davis has indicated no time
when he will call the joint resolution up,
| but as soon as the Senate calendar is
clear of the appropriation bills that are
| pressing he will bring the resolution for
| ward and press it for continued consider
alton. Several members of the commit
| tee with whom The Times reporter talked
yesterday said that under no circum-
| stances would they be willing to vote for
an adjournment of Congress until the
subject of the annexation of these ISL
ands had been disposed of. Many of the
speeches that have been made in execu-
tive session will be repeated in open ses-
sion. The injection of this subject into
the business of the Senate will prolong
the session of Congress- whatever plan
may have been arranged by those who
imagine they are in absolute control of
the movements of Congress-
The text of the resolution providing for
the annexation of the Islands is as fol-
lows:
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled:
Section l. The Government of the Re
public of Hawaii having in due form sig
nified it's consent, in the manner provid-
ed by its Constitution, to cede absolutely
and without reserve to the United States
of America all rights of sovereignty of
whatsoever kind in and over the Hawai-
ian Islands and their dependencies, and
also to cede and transfer to the United
States the absolute fee and ownership of
public buildings or edifices, ports. harbors.
military equipment, and all other public
property of every kind and description
belonging to the Government of the Ha-
waiian Islands, together with every right
and appurtenance thereunto belonging.
Therefore,
Be it resolved and enacted, That the
said cession is accepted, ratified, and con-
firmed, and that the said Hawaiian ISL
ands and their dependencies be and thew
are hereby annexed as a part of the terri
tory of the United States and are SUBJ
ject to the sovereign dominion thereof.
and that, all and singular, the property
and rights hereinbefore mentioned are
hereby vested in the United States of
America.
The resolution then adopts the langu-
age of the annexation treaty, beginning
with the second paragraph of the second
section and taking all the remainder of it,
but does not cite it as a part of the
treaty. One hundred thousand dollars is
appropriated by the third and last sec
ton for the purpose of carrying the re-
solution into effect, and this sum is made
| Immediately available.
The report accompanying the resolution
| consists of lie printed pages, much of
which is made up of appendices of a
statistical and historical nature The re-
port proper deals with the conditions in
| Hawaii and is treated by Chairman Davis.
in an elaborate manner.
| The report deals largely with the sub
| ject of the policy of annexation as ap-
| piled to Hawaii, and the conditions more
recently existing between Hawaii and the
| United States, indicating the manifest
| destiny of those Islands as a part of the
great Republic of the Western Hemi-
| sphere.
The most fatal blow that could be in
| fiicted upon the people of the Islands, Mr..
Davis says, would be the refusal of the
| United States to welcome them into the
| Union.
After discussing the various races in
the Islands, the report continues: 1T is
| beyond question that as a factor in gov
ernment the united white race is indis-
| pensable to the safety of the people of
| Hawaii, and they could not control the
| Islands without the frequent presence, if
| not the constant attendance of the war
ships of the United States and of the