Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — TREATY RATIFIED. [ARTICLE]

TREATY RATIFIED.

Hawaiian Senate Adopts Annexation Measure. The treaty of annexation with the United States has been ratified unanimously by the Hawaiian Senate, sitting in extraordinary session. There was. but one opinion on the subject, and the result wa? that the vote on the ratification was unanimous;* There was never any difference of opinion as to what the Senate would do. This body was elected after the revolution with the one idea of working for the annexation of the islands to the United States. From the time in 1893, when the queen was dethroned, there has been no subject on which there was more unanimity and there has been nobody with more of the feeling than the Senate. The meeting at which the ratification of the treaty took place was the most largely attended of any in the history of the government, not excepting the trying time of revolution. There were always in the senate chamber large crowds of the best people of the islands, for the call for an extra session was made the call likewise fbF an assembling at the capital of the leading people from all the islands, and the social side of the republic was at its best. Aa soon as the fact was made known

that the Senate had agreed to the ratification there was great enthusiasm all through the city. It had been planned to make the occasion the excuse for the most elaborate ceremonies that have been carried out since the republic came Into power. There was nothing lacking to the appropriate celebration and the people joined in the ceremonies and jollification freely.