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Show The Miiuduicli Isluinls Treulj. Chicago, 10. A Washington special says: By a special clause it i the Hawaiian treaty made at the special meeting of the eenate last spring the treaty will have Ij be submitted sub-mitted (or the final ratification ot the house of representatives, as it ullects the revenuts. It is now regarded as doubtful whether the house will concur con-cur ia the action of tbo senate. Senator Booth, of California, says the treaty appears to him to be 'made entirely in the interest of a tew suar planters in the Sandwich Islan.ls, uuii that all tbo betiefils that will acme to the United Staten are purely mythical. mythi-cal. The most potent arguments tiaul in tho senate lost fall were that we migiit ultimately acquire possession ul the islands. This, Mr. Booth says, contains nothing but disadvantage. The United Stales can gam nothing by acquiring possessions of this sort, so faraway. The islands are loo remote, their dUtanco completely destroying what little value they might ultier-wise ultier-wise possess. |