I sympathize with much that the gentleman from Connecticut has said in apprehension of doing something today that would involve statehood hereafter for Hawaii. The gentleman referred to what I said on this floor years agoabout Hawaiian statehoodthat I was averse to the prospect and thought well of the proposition to make it a county of California. I am sorry to add to what I said then that upon inquiry I found in California that there would be unanimous opposition in that State to the incorporation of Hawaii. with its population of an Asiatic character. and in the Hawaiian Islands there was *not a soul who ever expressed approval to me of the suggestion made here of its becoming a county of California.