Show TO ANNEX HAWAII AGITATION OF THE QUESTION HAS AGAIN BEGUN anti and friend of Anne annexation in alib country see the an and dArano for ft a closer cloger union wahington Wn hington larch 27 it is saul said that formal form al application for annexation to the un united ted states probably will be made soon by the government of hawaii through its mi minister rister to the united states the application will be presented to the stats department rind it is expected that it N it 11 be transmitted congress ex ec minister thurston at torney general smith arid and jen gen hurt hart well of hawaii have been lie resi the inauguration in the interests of annexation sir mr halcli the hawaiian minister arid and sir smith saw the president yesterday andimo bened attentively to the arguments argument they had to present in favor of annex annix aaion bratch and smith have also seen secretary sherman in regard to the question of annexation and presented s their ar arguments in its favor they decline to discuss tile the attitude of the president or ili his premier on the subject except to say that the situation is encouraging m everything livery thing said minister inister hatch is as yet in a tentative shape and nothing formal has been done lion hon john IV foster formerly secretary of state lectured here tonight on the subject of lla hawaii wail sir mr foster was premier during the latter portion of president ll arrison s administration tra tion when the treaty of annexation of the hawaiian islands was sent to the senate and the expectation that he would have something to say on that feature of the subject attracted a large audience including the cepres representatives enta of the Ila hawaiian walia n government now dow in this city the ex secretary crime came out in emphatic terms in favor of the annexation of tile the island ile he asserted that the americans of hawaii are loyal and patriotic sons of the fatherland and declared it would be a cruel and undeserved f fatto abandon them to the rule of some home forein foreign n power annexation presented no political nor administrative difficulty and the objection advanced that there iva was no authority in the constitution to annex territory not contiguous did not seem to have had any weight with the executive or with congress when Alas alaska kaivas was admitted nor will it he added with enlightened statesmen today |