Show TO ANNEX HAWAII A Proposition to Make tho Islands Part of California WASHINGTON Sept 20A quiet little dinner was given Claus Spreckels today There were present Spreckels Oxnard brothers the big sugar men Senators Allison Hale Gray Hawley White of Louisiana Perkins of California and Gorman After the dinner Perkins observed ob-served that it might be a good idea to annex an-nex the Hawaiian islands not to the United States as a separate state but to the state of California He pointed out several islands from thirty to forty miles distant from the coast that might be annexed an-nexed and suggested that were Hawaii to be annexed California would take care of it idea Allison said that he had some such an ideaGray and Hawley thought favorable of it and of another suggestion of Perkins that Congress micht pass a law annexing the islands to California and get the California fornia legislature to sanction such an act Spreckels is understood to have said nothing but as Perkins is his bosom friend it is supposed ho approves of i he did not suggest the idea Developments are looked for |