Arizona republican., 1898-06-17
HAWAII IS SURE.
There Is No Doubt of a Further Tri-
 umph in the Senate.

Washington, June 16.-(Special.)- Now that the friends of Hawaii have overcome the opposition in the house and the annexation resolutions have been adopted they are determined to stick to the fight until the question has been permanently disposed of by con- igress. The decisive vote yesterday has greatly discouraged the anti-annexa- tioniStss In the senate the majority in fay0r of annexation is relatively as large as thatin the house. The sup 1 p0rteFs of the administration in ths matfer are now thoroughly organized, and it is determined that there shall not be an adjournment of congress un-
 til the resolutions have been. voted on by the senate. The opposition hoped
 that Mr. Reed would be able to hold
 the house in check until all other nec- essary business had been disposed of
 and that an adjournment resolution might be adopted before the Hawaiian
 resolutions could be got before the sen-
 ate. The action of the house, has up- set their plans. There will be ample time now that the resolutions have gone to the senate to get them through the committee and ready for consider ation before the remaining appropria- ticn bills can be disposed of so as to
 admit of adjournment.
 Some of the senators and representa- tives who called on the president to- day gave him considerable encourage
 ment, assuring him that if the advo- cates of annexation, supported by the administration, maintained a firm at- titude the opposition would have to give way. Some very determined men, persistent and hard fighters, have got
 to be cOntended with, but it is a tra- dition in the senate that small minor
 ity, however determined, cannot hold
 out long after they have ceased to re-
 ceive secret encouragement from the
 lukewarm and indifferent men of the
 majority The friends of annexation say that when it is made manifest that
 under no possible circumstances will
 the majority permit congress to ad
 jOurn without voting on this question the flibusterers will have to give way. The principal danger in a fight of this sort lies in the action of men who, be- ing professedly with the majority, dis courage the continuance of the fight, and argue that the majority cannot ac- cOmplish this purpose, and should give way before an inf1exible minority.
 It is understood that there are a few men in the senate who give this luke warm support to annexation, and who may secretly assist the minority by repeatedly advising as the contest pro- ceeds that compromise should be adopted and the question be permitted to go over until next session. It is by such methods as this that the sugar trust expects to be aided by such of it's friends as may not be willing to come out into the open. The danger from this quarter, however, IS Iessened by the fact that the administration and it's supporters, who are sincere in this matter and can rely on a majority in both houses, equally sincere, are deter mined to carry the fight to a finish, and not to hearken to any advice contrary to this purpose, whether inspired by weakness or ulterior motives.
 The fact that so great champion as Speaker Reed was compelled to