Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 41, 4 November 1893 — WHERE IS ANNEXATION NOW? [ARTICLE]

WHERE IS ANNEXATION NOW?

The reference drawu from a talk with Albert S. W'illia, the new Minister to Hawaii, is that the islands will uot be annexed during President Cleveland’s administration. Minister Willis arrived on the overland train yesterday and registered at the Occidontal Hotel. He isaccompanied by Mrs. Wilhs and tlieir little boy. As a dip!omat| accredited to a foreign land he was very gnarded in his statements as to the policy whieh this Government would pnrsue toward Hawaii. W’hen asked if it would not soon be necessary for President Cleveland to annonnoe his policv with reference to the Hawaiian Islauds, Minister W’illis replied that the time was near at handso near. in fact. that the decision of President Cleveland won!d j probably be mnde known npon Lis arriv»l in Honoluln. Miuister Willis carries definite : instroctions on tbe uuue\atiou question, and as he and his ī fami)y intend to reside in the Hawaiian Islands for an e\tend©il period, gomg there with the appoiutineut of Minister, it is evident that the instructions are adverse to the bopes of the anne\ationists. Mr. Willis declined to make a I statement with reference to the Washington dispatch whieh ■

state<l that Presideot Cleveland 1 favcred a protectomte. “I know that the feeling on th is coast is strongly in favor of annexation,” said be. • Tbe i conimerc:al relations between San Francisco aiul Honolulu arcsnch that annexation mnst have ardent advocates in this citv. Then t'ie desirabi!ity of the 1 session of the is!an<ls f r naval r<urposes appea s strong’v to . mnuv Americ;ins. As the accre- j ditetl M:nister, bowever. it voald i be nnwise for uie to oniliue in i advance the policy whieh the j American Government may ;<ur- ! sue toward Hawaii.” Mr. Willis has long been a ; resident of Louisville, Kv. Ho | was born in Sbelby conntv, tiu>t 1 Stato, on Jannarv ‘22 1S43. His j earl\- eduction was received in j the eominon scbools of Kentncky. i He graduated at fho Louisville Male Higli School ia 1860- For four years he taugbt schooI. aml in the intervals of his employment studied law. graduatiiig from the Louisville Law School in 1866. He was elected Attorney of JatFerson county, of whieh LouisviIIe is the countv seat. in 1870. In 1872 be canvassed his his State in the interest of the Democracy, aud served as a presideutal elector on tho Democratic ticket. In 1874 he was re elected Attorney of Jetferson conntv. and served iu that capacity until sent to the Forty*fifth Congress. He was retnrned to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh. Forty-eighth and Forty-uinth Congresses as a Demociat, and during Speaker Carlisle’s regime filled the important post of ehaimian of the Committee of Rivers and Harbors. Mr. Willis enjoys the distinction of being one of the first if not the first RepresentHtive ia Congress from a state east of the Mississippi to eome out strongly against Chinese immigration.