People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — THURSTON GIVES UP. [ARTICLE]

THURSTON GIVES UP.

The Hawaiian Commissioner Abandons Hope of Ratification of the Annexation Treaty UntU the New Administration Takes Hold. Washington, Feb. 27.— The chances of annexing Hawaii during the present session of congress are at an end. This can be announced on the authority of Commissioner Thurston, who is at the head of the Hawaiian delegation. Mr. Thurston was seen by a correspondent with a view to ascertaining what steps would be taken during the coming week to push the treaty to confirmation. For the first time Mr. Thurston admitted that all hope of confirming the treaty had been abandoned- Said he: “No further steps will be taken until President Cleveland’s administration has begun. It Vill be useless to push the subject further during the present administration, as the effort would have fallen short of securing a confirmation of the treaty, and it might have Increased certain antagonisms There Is reason to believe that some of the opposition is due to a feeling that a subject of this magnitude ought hot to be undertaken by an administration 04 the eve of its retirement This opposition is not against the treaty itself. For that reason it is best to let the matter rest until after Mr. Cleveland’s administration begins, as It will dissolve the opposition.” Commissioner Castle was with Mr. Thurston at the time the foregoing statement was made, and fully coincided with it. They made it clear, also, that they were not expressing a mere opinion as to what would be done, but were speaking from positive information as to a programme fully agreed upon. Under the new arrangement the entire subject goes over to President Cleveland and his secretary of state. It is probable that the treaV will be withdrawn and the subject presented to confess anew by Secretary Gresham, as the senate would no longer be subject to the recommendations of a president who is out of office. This course would be pursued even though the views of Mr. Cleveland and Judge Gresham were known to be the same as those expressed in the communications already laid before the senate. The treaty itself will probably be reexecuted, in order to give it the additional prestige of an act wholly per* formed by Mr. Cleveland’s administration.