Show VILL lEETTHE PRE IDENT The Hawaiian Commission to Be Received Today AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE One of the Members Sanguine of a Speedy Termination Representatives of the Deposed Queen I Will Also Be Given a Hearing Before Be-fore Final Action Is Taken Late Developments WASHINGTON Feb 10Tbis afternoons I after-noons developments in the Hawaiian the I matters are important Tonight commissioners from the island are hopeful j hope-ful if not confident that tomorrow will I see the practical i not formal conclusion of their labors This afternoon alter I office hours Secretary Foster held a conference con-ference with the commissioners at the I state department which lasted until 6 oclock In the course of proceedings the commissioners were informed that arrangements had been made for their reception re-ception by President Harrison tomorrow probably at noon This announcement of course gave them much pleasure as it marked a determination of the administration adminis-tration to recognize them officially and enter on formal negotiations regarding the object of their mission In previous conferences the whole situation situa-tion has been considered orally with only a memoranda in writing of the point to be covered Officials of the state department depart-ment and commissioners have prepared from these texts agreements which maybe may-be exchanged tomorrow That there will be practical uniformity in the documents is shown by statements of one of the Hawaiians this evening who said he hoped to get through with the business tomorrow The probabilities upon this latter point are however that he is too sanguine for it is not considered likely that any determination deter-mination will be reached by this government ment until reprssentatives of the deposed queen shall have presented their side of the case This of course cannot be done before the latter part of the week The published interview with Paul Newman the queens commissioner to the United States give representatives of the provisional government much satisfaction sat-isfaction I disposes of the sentimental sentimen-tal side of the question said one of them this evening of which the opponents of annexation made so much According to Newman he bears an agreement prepared pre-pared in triplicate in which the queen proposes to sell the island t the United States We propose to give them this country Thepublished statement tallies precisely with what men told us half an hour before we sailed Mr Caste one of the commissioners speaking of the annexation of the Gilbert islands by England and the moral involved in-volved said Great Britain made no attempt at-tempt to get possession of the Gilbert islands until after publication was made that the United States declined to annex the territory or establish a protectorate over it She is now waiting Castle said for the United States to act on the application of the Hawaiian government and i nothing is done continued he we have no doubt but Great Britain will take some steps to get control of the islands And did you ever think he asked when it was that Great Britain Germany Ger-many and Spain entered upon a campaign of seizing every available island in the Pacific Look back over the history of their recent actions in this direction and you will see they begun with building anew a-new navy by the United States Now that navy Is approaching a condition of effectiveness effec-tiveness as compared with those of European Euro-pean powers Our group is the only important im-portant one left |