Show U LllNDERO1JR t V FLVALI i Hawaiians So Declare By Legislative Enactment ANNEXATION V RATIFIED ACTION OF HAWAIIAN SENATE WAS UNANDIOUS 1 Stubborn Opposition of the Portuguese Portu-guese Senator Morgan Arrives at I HonoluluHe Is Predisposed to j Favor Annexation Strange Con I duqt of the Japanese American I Union Party V Sam Francisco Sept 22 Although the steamship City of Peking which arrived ar-rived from Honolulu brought the nans that tsia annesaWon treaty had been ratified by the HawacOam senate on tlhe 8th inst no details wens obtainable until this mcrmllns the malls havibsr been delayed la auairamSiie for 12 hours From advices tins brought under date of the HUh last tna roOowtag par tlcuaairs were obtaIned Tire Hawaiani senate met te extra i Bsccicun cia the 8th nsL Viasn the senate iua caflad to order tQis ores iderJs message urgIng tire rajtufica J of ths treaty was read as was also a purest on bUalf of Hawauans who opposed op-posed the measure I Tae presjiints message stated that mrJiar the auftowty conferred upon him by tha oorntui1ia and witlh The approval ap-proval of toe cabinet he had aegzytaited a treaty of political unton ultra the Unitcd Spa i > s of America ana the republic of Havai which was ained by the pempoitenili1urj5 of bobi guy eTinmeinits at WashuneriCin on June 16 1S97 He transmitted the same to the I senate for consnaairatiOTi of lisa ralifi catton thereof uiidfeir its oonslbtuLtcal I authority and called attention to cer thin eisMiiificanit events hlclh bore upon I the matter He touched upon the adop ttoin of the policy of nnrexattcin by the I provisional government on Jun 17 1893 and eitated the reasons wihtah ttoen nececsitated that policy still exited I and that subsequent events had em plhasisd itsvair importance In ecnclus he called partbiiilair attentiioin to the fact that the treaty cointalnsd an Cm portanit provision regarding tihs maHn teoanoa of the extsting HawauUia laws and customs not inconsistent with the treaty nmd the fact tlhat the d N hem time was aesurud as to this uiUmatQ torTi of glvernmaTit for tithe tesrtirj of Hawaii and that the snjury Tvttioh JTI evtably foIiwvB sudden political changes vas precluded Bath papers wens rsferxtad whit the text oil tttia treaty to the foreign r la ticns ccenimitte1 for conatdcratfcn On the following clap tihat asinrndittee rated pCT > ra-ted favorably and Upon its reocon mierdatioia tae senate adapted tilts lcd low Jg resoJuton by an umaniLmcUfl votsB Be it rcoohxd by the senate of tihe Republic of Hawaii That true senate hereby juitlfles and advjlses and consents to the ratWlcalMcxn by the president of the treaty between the republic of HawaiI sized ties United States Of America Amer-ica on the subject of annexatIon of tiTS Hawaiiiaia Islands to the United Stales of AmerIca coindudteid at Washington Washing-ton 001 June 20 1897 which treaty sword s-word for word as follows Tina test of the treaty then tolloiw dIn d-In answer to the Hawaiian prcltelrt adopted at a mass meeting held on the 6th the committee said in part Tins legislature of the republic has at its last two sessions possefl joInt rtsoJu dons favoring annexatIon and the annexation an-nexation of the islands to the United States was one of the fundamental grounds for the establishment ot via govemnimuJt We reccmrnand that the protest be afd upon the taM and in doihs eo datim it our duty to say text ill out opirJLcaii the protestants are pi t > testing mcTis on tins gzvourjaj of SCIDJI ment than tit they ready behave ann an-n > weutd not promote the best I and meet JoatLU prospSsrJty to tinner Islands and all classes of people near resiling tiTeruii V This report was unanimously adopted by the osnaite OPPOSITION BY PORTUGUESE Despite the action of the senate the opponents of annexation are continuing their fight and the leaders of the move meat express the utmost confidence in their ability to defeat annexation Before Be-fore the Peking left a call had been Issued for an immediate mass meeting to be held on the 18th and the indications indi-cations wee that i would be one of the largest ever held inthe islands Some of the annexationiets hoped to be able to have Senator Morgan address the meeting wit the object of changing chang-ing the sentiment of tie natives but there was little likelihood of their plan meeting with success line steamship Australia having onboard on-board United States Senator John T Morgan of Alabama Congressmen A S Berry J G Cannon H C Louden sInger and J A Tawney arrived in Honolulu on the 13th They were accorded ac-corded a warm welcome Senator Morgan Mor-gan stood the voyage exceedingly well and was in excellent health The Hawaiian Ha-waiian Star of the following day published pub-lished this interview with him I have nothIng of a definite nature to say to the newspapers now as I must first have an opportunity to study the situation from a new point of view You may say that I am predisposed in favor of annexation I have been an annexaUonit practically for 30 years ever since the question has been agitated agi-tated The following translation of an art cle published in Lust the organ of the Portuguese residents shows the alarm with which that section of the population popula-tion regards annexation I perchance the annexation should be consummated which we doubt the Portuguese colony as a political factor ceases to exist because in the foregn press both here and in the United States it has been indicated with sufficient suf-ficient clearness that they fear the influence in-fluence of the Portuguese vote in case this privilege should be conceded to them Independence and a good government gov-ernment for Hawaii means prosperity for the colony but annexatlon without ruin the privilege which we speak of means rn AMERICAN UNION PARTY The delegates who wars chosen to the American Union party convention have completed their platform which was r be presented for adoption at the convention to be held on the even ing of the 13th The platform as arranged ar-ranged was short and applied solely to island affairs One of the planks pledged the party to annexation first last and all the tIme T B Murray has issued a call for a meeting of the American League on the ittn I was the purpose to reorganize re-organize the league Mr Murray has announced his determination to retire anounce determlnaton from the presidency t retre The Hawaiian annexation treaty Wihlch was submitted to the United States senate on June 16 but has not ye been acted on provides for the cession to the United States of all rights of sovereignty over the islands and all public land and property Un der I the islands would constitute a territory of the United States with a local legislature subject to a veto power vested in the president AH the treaties of the Unit States with other countries would be cuntres would substituted for those now in force with Hawaii The further immigration of Chinese to the Jslaaids is to b proTaiiteiced arid cur o CU laws on the subject are t be extended to Hawaii V When the City of Peking arrived at Honolulu the attention of the other passengers on board that steamer was attracted by the remarkably symmetrical symmet-rical movements of 17 Japanese steerage steer-age passengers who were disembarking Although classed as laborers their well drilled and military appearance was too palpable to escape observation and k V occasioned considerable comment The Japanese were apparently under the command of a veteran sergeant and divided into squads of 20 under noncommissioned non-commissioned officers During the voyage voy-age a military discipline a observed which created comment among the other steerage passengers and the steamers crew and many conjectures were hazarded as to the meaning of their being shipped to the Islands I was generally believed that they w resent re-sent to the islands for the purpose of forcibly resisting annexation if necessary neces-sary Rumors of the presence of the mikados soldiers are not new on the V islands and it Is said that over 1000 well drilled men have already been landed there and that about 400 veterans vet-erans of the JapanChina war were expected ex-pected on the next steamer pec 4 |