Why was the u. s. annexation of hawaii delayed with william mckinley became president

1. desired to become more internationalistic and imperalistic sothey keep their eyes on the european powers who were developingtheir colonial powers 2. wanted to possess a naval base of operations to see aftertheir possessions at the time , namely the philippines, guam etc.astheir protectorates 3. hawaii was an important stop for whaling ships and agrowing sugar producer . to ensure the us maintainedpreferred market access and not france or the uk, they took it. hawai'i was never legally annexed to the united states. annexationinvolves "cession", which is the transfer of dominium(sovereignty/authority) and domain (real estate). cession is alwaysa bilateral transaction between two sovereign states, which isachieved through a treaty of cession or treaty of annexation. inother words, it's just like transferring the title of a car fromone person to another; a contract needs to be created and bothparties need to sign/agree to it in order to transfer a title fromone individual to another. there were two attempts to annex theislands by treaty in 1893 and 1897; both failed. the second faileddue to political activism for hawai'i did not want to beincorporated into the u.s. when the spanish-american war began in1898, the united states then had a heightened interest in hawai'ias a military outpost. america then passed a joint resolutionclaiming to annex the islands. however, an american jointresolution is not a treaty of cession; the joint resolution is apiece of american legislation that is limited by u.s. borders, notlegally capable of annexing foreign territory or extinguishing theexistence of a foreign sovereign country. and since hawai'i wasnever legally annexed, the islands were seized regardless, makingthem occupied.