If it meets the approval of the Senate, peace and good order will be secured in the islands under existing laws until such time as Congress can provide by legislation a permanent from of government for the islands.
Message to the Senate Transmitting a Treaty to Annex the Hawaiian Islands
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Only two courses are now open--one the establishment of a protectorate by the United States, and the other annexation full and complete.
If this article of the treaty is in force, the obligations assumed by the United States should be fully and honorably observed
The correspondence which accompanies the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the Executive.
The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.
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