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viii Be Brought Up For Discussion in the
Senate To-Day.
MANY Persons Predicting as an
Outcome Of the Contest That
Action on the Resolution Which
Passed the House Last Week
Will Be Postponed Until a Fixed
Day in the Next Session.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-The Ha-
waiian question comes to the nont
again in the Senate during the present
week, but under somewhat different
circumstances from those which at
tended it's presentation at the beginning
of the session. The purpose was then,
as it is now, to secure the annexation
of the islands to the United States,
but the effort at that time was To Sc
cure these results by means OF treaty,
whereas the present course was
through the instrumentality of a joint
resolution. On the first result the mat
ter was considered in executive session,
with the public excluded, while nov
the doors are to be thrown open and
the world invited.
What the outcome of the question
may be, or when the vote may be
reached, no one will undertake to say
positively The leaders on both sides
are full of prophecy, but there is SUCH
discrepancy between their opinions as
to render it necessary to discard one
in order to accept the other. The
friends of annexation assert that there
is no possible doubt of their ability
to pass the resolution, and say they
have forty-siX Senators, or one more
than a quorum, pledged to remain in
the Senate until the question can be
decided, while the opposing leaders de-
clare that forty-eight Senators have as
sured them they will vote to adjourn
in preference to remaining in session
indefinitely for the consideration of the
Hawaiian question.
The supporters of the proposition eX-
press confidence that action will be se-
+, dow hi
position contend that it will be found
to be impossible to secure a vote dur
ing the present session of Congress.
The advocates of annexation declare
that they will not make any speeches,
leaving the opponents to occupy all the
time to be consumed by this means.
The opposition say they are willing to
make the speeches, if compelled to do
so, but that if forced to do thi; they
Will insist that the friends of the meas
ure maintain a constant quorum in the
chamber. They also predict that the
annexationists viii find themselves
compelled to participate in the pro-
ceedings. as they expect to advance
points which will demand refutation,
or at least reply.
In view of this generally contradictory
condition one can only base prediction
upon general conditions There is no
doubt in the first place that the an
nexationists have a majority in the Sem
ate. if q vote can be reached # a
vote could gotten now the result
would be about fifty-four for annexation
to thirty-five against, in a full Senate.
OF these fifty-four Senators there are.
however, quite a number who are not
Jealous. and in whose minds all doubt
as to the policy of acquisition Of out
side territory has not been overcome
These Senators. as a rule, are indis-
posed to remain in session for any
length of time during the hot summer
months to consider Hawaiian annexa-
ton.
Most of the Senators of this class are
Republicans, and there is probably a
sufficient number of them under normal
circumstances to join with the Demo-
Gratis TO force an adjournment. They
find themselves confronted however.
with the request of the Administration
TO remain and pass the resolution as a
war measure, and some of them are
disposed to sink their own preference
IN obedience to the Presidential wish.
The gossip as to the probability of a
postponement until a fixed day in the
next session increases, and many per-
sons are predicting that this will be