I am now endeavoring to analyze this resolution for the purpose of asking those Senators who favored the ratification of the treaty by which annexation necessarily follows. and who do not favor the permanent annexation of those islands. whether or not they can support this resolution. And thus going. through the analysis. dividing this resolution into its four distinct declarations. I have endeavored to present the view which I think is conclusive. that there is nothing in the first declaration which looks to that which the opponents of annexation desire. which desire is. that there shall be no permanent connection between those islands and this country. that they shall neither be States nor shall they be vassal Territories. but that in the proper manner. to be hereafter determined. if you please. we shall cut loose from this Asiatic territory and resume our former status. attending to our own affairs at home. As to the next declaration. the second declaration of this resolution. it is: Nor is it intended to permanently annex said islands as an integral part of the territory of the United States. That declaration comes nearer making such a declaration as those of us who are opposed to permanent annexation might desire. and. upon first blush. if it stood alone. we might say that that was the intention. but an analysis of this second deblaration will show that such is not the plain. unambiguous meaning of this part of the resolution. in other words. it is not the simple language which would be employed if the intent were that those islands should not in the future continue as a part of the territory of the United States.