Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — WILL APPLY FOR STATEHOOD. [ARTICLE]

WILL APPLY FOR STATEHOOD.

Delegate Wilcox to Present Bill for Hawaii at Next Congress. Delegate Wilcox is managing a movement at Honolulu toward securing the admission of Hawaii to the American union as a state. This movement has already counteracted the plan for the annexation of the islands as a county or number of counties to the state of California. Hawaii will apply through Delegate Wilcox for statehood next winter. He sees no reason why Hawaii should not become a state along with Arizona and New Mexico. From the main standpoint of population and wealth her claims are better than those of the other territories. There will a clause in the bill for the exclusion of Chinese from Hawaii. As steamship and sugar companies wish to have a cable laid between the United States and the new territory md as the delegate has it in his power to prevent the laying of the cable for some time he is able to insist upon the support of the companies to his proposition of excluding Chinese. In consequence of the agitation for statehood pie prices of sugar stocks are going down still further, as the prospects ’or a relief of the labor stringency are lestroyed in the discussion. No ar■angements, temporary or permanent, :an be made to supply Hawaii with aborers until the political status of the country is determined upon.