The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-03-12

| menu 10 dQ appropriation Dlll. LII II
understood that it has been deemed
wise by the authorities of the United
States, Great Britain and other ma
tions having large number of theil
citizens employed on the Panama
Canal, to arrange for bringing then
home, in case of wholesale dis
charge, and not to suffer them to re
main on the isthmus in destitutior
and want To provide for this, the
amount OF the appropriation was in
creased from 100000 to S250,000
There was but Slight opposition to
the passage of the bill.
| General Alger states that he does
not expect to go into President Har-
rison's Cabinet; that he has not so
licited the position, and does not
know that General Harrison has seri.
ously considered his name at any
time.
Mckinley of Ohio thought the
next Secretary of the Treasury would
be Ex-Governor Foster of.Ohio. Elk
Senator Plat told friend that he
thought New York would be passed
over in the make up of the Cabinet.
The Navy Department has been
informed of the death of Rear Adj
miral Chandler, commanding the
Asiatic Squadron, at Hongkong, of
apoplexy.
The Samoan Trouble.
It is not believed in Berlin that
the Samoan conference can meet be
fore the end of April, as it is unlikely
that the American commissioners
will be chosen until after Harrison is
inaugurated.
The statements of Sewall, Ameri-
can Consul at Samoa, with regard to
the affairs in those islands, have met
with little more than contemptuous
Indifference in Berlin.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT SeWall at
Washington talks freely in regard to
the proposed Samoan conference.
Among other things, he says: "Con-
slider the genesis of the conference it
is proposed to renew. 1t was sum-
moned by our Secretary of State,
assembled at our capital on an ac-
knowledged basis Of the equality of
rights of the three treaty powers, of
which we were the first. Its object
was the preservation of Samoan
autonomy, upon which all our ma
tional and commercial interests in
Samoa depend. While the confer
ence was yet unconcluded, with no
notice to this Government, German
ships went to Samoa and took pos
session of the islands, in violation of
the understanding on which the
pending negotiations were proceed
ing If the conference is to be re-
newed at all, it should be renewed |
under conditions as favorable to us
as those which attended its initia-
ton. The status ante conferendum |
should be first restored, and Male
toa, for whose deposition we are
responsible, should be re- |
turned from exile, and it should |
meet here, where it was interrupted, |
and where our representative would |
be free from the peculiar influences
now at work at Berlin.
But were the suggestions of Sec
rotary Bayard in his letter to the
German Minister made conditions
precedent to the reassembling of the
conference, we might even then enter
upon the conference with something
Of our national dignity saved. He
a truce in Samoa, but does
not insist upon it. The position
maintained in the conference by
Bayard has not, l believe, been
That the independence
If the islands should be maintained,
md equality of rights of commerce
md navigation secured for the sub
ects of the treaty powers, was agreed
Upon. Our rights are not enlarged
by this, but only confirmed. But,
having secured this recognition of
,ur rights, Bayard rested, and it is
of this-because pending the
conference he submitted to viola
ion of these rights-that he has
,een criticized"
That willy old fox, Sir John Mac
Lonald, has a scheme to beat the an
Knowing that if he
watts for the regular election in 1892
he progress of the annexation seuti-
lent will overWhelm him, he has de-
ided to appeal to the country at
nee on this question, knowing he
an secure an easy victory, under
over of which he can retire from
be government with flying colors
nd with the annexation party ban I
aging very black eye. To furnish
n excuse for this one Of his adher-
nts will demand of the Liberal Que
&c government to know what 1t pro-
oses to do about Ben Butterworth's
nnexation resolution in the United l
tates Congress.
Recently Congressman Milliken
Maine and his cousin, Seth Mil
ken of New York, who is a large
manufacturer and has investments T
| the South, called on Mr.. Blaine Z
n private business. During the /
the merchant asked
i'm if he was in favor of the annex. G
ion of Canada. Mr.. Milliken says I
lat Mr.. Blaine replied that he was, F
ut that he did not think it would c
> brought about by agitation. In ],
lie course of time he thought the =
ominion would naturally grayitate a
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