The San Francisco call., 1898-01-14
HAW ATS . PRESIDENT l; !
 IS COMING Sanford B.. Dole in the Role of a
 Lobbyist. Thinks He Can Aid the Tottering Cause of
 Annexation. On the Way to Washington to Take Charge of the FOrlOrn
 Hope Brigade. WHAT HIS TOUR COSTS. Ten Thousand Dollars Appropriated to Defray the Expenses of the Chief
 Executives Junket.
WHAT HIS TOUR COSTS.
Ten Thousand Dollars Appropriated to Defray the Expenses of the Chief
 Executives Junket.
Correspondence of The Call.

HONOLULU, Jan. 6.-And now the fair city by the Golden Gate should prepare to salute the President of Ha- waii with all due honor and courtesy, for he is the first, and perchance the last, President of the Republic of Ha- waii. Once before Hawaii sent you a King, but you treated him too fospita- bly and royalty, and we lost him. The ruler Hawaii sends by the steamship Peru on the 7th is man cast in a diff ferent mold. He, too, is a son of the soil and of an honored and noble mis- sionary father, and man of very pleasing and charming personality. As man and a gentleman his bitterest political opponents have no words of dispraise or in detriment of his per sonal character. As politician and statesman he will be on trial before his peers in Washington.
 The Council of State at its delibera- tions late yesterday afternoon decided by a unanimous vote that Sanford B. Dole, President of the Republic of Ha- waii. should be authorized to proceed with all haste to Washington to labor in the cause of annexation. This ac- ton was taken after a preliminary
 
 trnmert with Chief Justice Judd, Gen. eral A. s. Hartwell, John Ena, F. J. Lowrie, Henry Waterhouse, William C. Wilder, Colonel W. F. Allen, w. A. Kinney, P. c. Jones, James A. Ken nedy, c. B. Ripley, Albert Wilcox, Cecil Brown, George w. Smith, J. B. Ath- erton, w. R. Castle and others.
 It was thought at this meeting that a tidal wave of enthusiasm would fol- low in the Presidents wake in his journey through the United States, un- til it would overwhelm all opposition and carry the bark of annexation through Congress at a thirty-five-kno run. But then the dignity of the toga of our chief magistrate is to be pre- served. According to the official organ it was expressly stated that he was not to appear before committees to be subjected to questioning and cross examination like an ordinary witness. Neither was it the intention that he should travel about addressing meet ings or bodies indiscriminately or mis- cellaneously. His conduct was to be dignified, of course, and his goings and comings from day to day would be left to his own judgment and discretion. The Cabinet then met and approved, and then the great Council of State also approved, and Minister Cooper, he who rules over the Foreign Office and Board of Education, will, after Satur- 1 day next, be the Acting President of Hawaii, an honor earned through read | ing the revolutionary proclamation of | the Committee of Safety" which | formed the Provisional Government in those early days of January, 1893, from the threshold of the Government build ing under the protecting arms of United States Minister Stevens and Captain Wiltse, U. s. N.
 It is said by annexationists who | claim to have inside information that this bold stroke of policy-one in the nature of the end justifying the means