The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-14

az necessary 10 the United states. He
devoted considerable tine TO the sr,nor-
| iance Of the Nicaragua canal which could
rot be maintained unless Hawaii was
ourA FRYE thought this was an impor-
tart epoch In our history and IL we sit
nos annex the Islands now we could rot
cornnIasr II they were annexed 10 any
Other nation. or K any other nation should
take them.
Morgan made the principal speech OF the
6aw ard occupied the time OF the senate
until il adjourned. He will continue to-
morrow He began by referring TO sug-
gesrgon made ny Hoar that the committee
on foreign relations bad made no report.
and thar he FToarp was without sufficient
frsforf,,a tior. concerning she subject Of Ha-
wall and annexation Morgan then pflsi
upon his desk numerous printed xclarnes.
Including reports before various congress
sionai committees reports Of the officers
or the Hawaiian government and other
documents relating 10 Hawaii He then
said:
s-Trne senator from Massacsuse-4s IL wei
come 10 these documents. and If he viii
give them the attention which ne usually
gives 70 public questions, he viii have all
the information necessary on this subject.
MORGAN then went into a detailed his
tory Of the Hawaiian islands. frem the
time OF their discovery to the present. He
believed X was the intention of President
Cleveland 10 have restored Queen Liliuo-
kalani TO her throne and after that trans
action To have opened negotiations for the
annexation Of the islands under her reign.
This assertion brought Chandler TO bis
feet with the question as To wha. author
ity there was FOR the assertion
Morgan replied that there was no spe-
eial authority but that he was expressing
his opinion. and that such course would
have been in keeping with the logic of
events.
White asked il this treaty was not a
trade with the provisional government,
and what was 10 be done regarding the ma
tives and their rights
Morgan said that he had fully answered
that question in a previous portion Of his
remarks, but he would review the subject
for tho benefit OF the California senator.
In the early part of the present century. he
said, Vancouver went to the islands, and
on his third trip the then king OF the ISL
ands, native, sad he wouid cede them TO
Great Britain and acknowledge the SOW
ereignty OF England. But Vancouver new
er returned. As 10 the oft-repeated asser-
rion that the United States was trying to
absorb the Islands without the wish of the
kanakas Morgan said that for the last hun
dred years the government of the islands
and the people of the islands had been anx-
ions to secure the sovereignty OF a strong
power and secure local self-governnent
a
his visit to the islands last summer and
related his own personal observations and
in reply to q question, related why the
Portuguese could not vote. He then turn
ed his attention 10 the kanakas He said
that they were picturesque people. who
would be much better OF under govern
ment by the United States. He spoke of
the ladies going barefooted along the
streets in loose gowns. which he called
Mother HUbbards." and the men with
little clothing. but strong and nanly-Iook-
ing fellows
White asked Morgan why the islands
were not annexed in iSi3 and how il was
that the proposal for annexation had to
wait until the islands We're in the posses
sion of the land grabbers. who were trying
to further their personal fortunes.
Morgan said that If attention had been
given TO his remarks on the subject OF
annexation in 1si3 the senators would have
understood what interviewed. The history
OF that time WAS Documentary evidence
which had been printed and discussed
often before. He believed that the islands
should have been annexed at that time
and believed that they should be annexed
now, and the reasons which existed then
for annexation had multiplied a hundred
times What a former authority should
nave refused 10 do was no excuse why
the United States should refuse now. as
1t was evident that annexation was best
both for the people ofsthe islands and for
this country.