The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-12-14

ducts and industries in the worlds CHIEF
markets. The preliminary report OF Moses
=. Handy. who, under the act approved
July 10, 1897. was appointed special COM
missioner with view TO securing all at
tainable information necessary to full
and complete understanding by congress
In regard to the participation Of this gov
ernmenS III the Paris exposition. was laid
before you by my message of Dec. 6, 1897,
and showed the large opportunities to
make known our national progress in
manufactures, as we'll as the urgent need
OF immediate and adequate provision to
enable due advantage thereof to be taken.
Mr. Handy's deith soon afterward rem
dered IL necessary for another to take up
and complete the unfinished work, and Oh
Jan. II last Mr.. Thomas ". Cri,ler, third
assistant secretary Of state. was desig-
mated to fulfill that task. BY provision
IN the suudry civil appropriation act Of
July /. 1898. q sum not to exceed $3.50, 600
was allotted for he organization Of a COM
mission to care for the proper preparation
and installation Of American exhibits and
for the display of-suitable exhibits by the
several executive departments, particu-
larly by the department of agriculture,
the fish commi mission and the Smithsonian
institution. in representation OF the gov
ernment Of the United States. Pursu-
ant to that enactment, | appointed Mr..
Ferdinand W. PECK of Chicago commits
sioner general, wlth an assistant commits
sioner general and secretary. Mr.. Peck
at once proceeded to Paris, where his sue
cess in enlargipg the scope and variety Of
the United States exhibit has been most
gratifying. Notwithstanding the COM
paratively limited area of the exposition
site-less than one half that of the Worlds
Fair at Chicago--the space assigned to the
United States has been increased from
the absolute allotment of Isl, ,4O3 square
feet reported by Mr. Handy to some 2o2.-
600 square feet with corresponding aug
mentation Of the field for truly charac-
teristic representation of the various i'm
portant branches OF our country's devel-
opment. Mr.. Peck's report will be laid
before you. In my Judgment its recon-
mendations will call for your early con-
sideration, especially as regards an in
crease of the appropriation to at least
81, 600, 900 in all, 80 that not only may the
assigned space be fully taken up by the
best possible exhibits in every class, but
the preparation and installment be on so
perfect scale as to rank among the first
in that unparalleled competition Of artis-
tic and inventive production and thus
counterbalance the disadvantages with
which we start as compared with other
countries whose appropriations are on a.
more generous scale and whose prepara-
tions are in state Of much greater for
wardness than our own.
Annexation CT Hawaii.
Pending consideration by the senate of
the treaty signed June 10, 1897. by the
Observation-Disclosures Of the United States and
of the republic of Hawaii, providing for
the annexation of the islands, joint reso-
luton to accomplish the same purpose by
accepting the offered cession and incorpo-
rating the ceded territory into the Union
was adopted by the congress and approved
July {. 1898. thsreupon directed the
United States steamer Philadelphia to
convey Rear Admiral Miller to Honolulu
and entrusted to his hands this important
legislative act to be delivered to the presi-
dent of the republic of Hawaii, with whom
the admiral and the United States minis
ter were authorized to make appropriate
arrangements for transferring the islands
to the United States. This was simply
but impressively accomplished on Au-.
- by the delivery Of certified copy Of
the resolution to President Dole. who
thereupon yielded up to the representa-
tives Of the government OF the United
States the sovereignty and the public
property of the Hawaiian Islands.
Pursuant to the terms of the joint reso-
luton and in exercise of the authority
thereby conferred upon me, l directed
that the civil, judicial and military pow
ers heretofore exercised by the officers Of
the government OF the republic Of Hawaii
should continue to be exercised by those
officers until congress shall provide gov
ernment for the incorporated territory,
subject to my power to remove such Off
GERS and to fiji vacancies The president,
officers and troops of the republic there
uDon took the oath OF allegiance to the
United States, thus providing for the un
interrupted continuances of all the admin
istratiye and municipal functions Of the
annexed territory until congress shall
otherwise enact.
Following the further provision OF the
Joint resolution l appointed the Hons
Shelby NJ. Cullom Tof Illinois. John I.
Morgan OF Atabama, Robert +. Hit OF
Illinois Sanford B. Dole of Hawaii and
Walter F. Frear Of Hawaii rs commission
ers to confer and recommend to congress
such legislation concerning the Hawaiian
islands as they should deem necessary OF
proper.
The commissioners having fulfilled the
mission cor nfded to them their work Will
be laid before yol at an early day. IL ~
believed that their recommendations VIII
have the earnest consideration due TO Tue
magnitude of the responsibility resting
upon you to give such shape to the rela-
tionship of those m;:ipacific lands 10 our
home Union as will benefit botn IN the
highest degree, realizing the aspirations
of the community that has cast It's loL
with us and elected to share our polltlcai
heritage while ut the same time justify
ing the foresight OF those who for three
quarters of Il century have looked 10 the
assimilation Of Hawaii IA natural anu
inevitable consummation in harmony
with our needs and in fulfiiiment OF our
cherished traditions.
Cn,ier the provisions Of the joint reso!u-
tioas the existing customs relations OF
the Hawaiian Islands with the lnlted
States and with other countries remain
unchans>d until legislation Shall other
wise provide. The consnls of Hawaii
here ard in foreign countries continue I"
fulfill their commercial agencies. while
the United States consulate at Honolulu
is mlintainel for all proper services per-