The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-06-06

90 not propose 10 20 INTO any Ine-
toric here, or use lot Of ad)ectives.
l will only make plain statement
Of facts, and allow gentlemen here
to draw their own conclusions.
The reasons upon which we acted
involved considerable amount of
the history of Hawaii for the last
three years. / do not propose to
state any facts other than l consider
essential. There are large number
of facts which / think do bear upon
the subject but / have stricken them
out because there are sufficient left
for the information Of the House. l
have arranged the statements not
chronologcally but point by point.
Why we had reason to suspect
X. w. Wilcox to be contemplating
disturbance of the peace of this
community. Il. w. Wilcox was a
ward Of the Hawaiian Government
and he returned TO the country in
1887. A fact not generally known
is that while the special session of
that year was in progress he organ
lied conspiracy to dethrone the
King--to compel him to abdicate--
and to overthrow the Government.
One Of the men who assisted
him in drawing up the Consti-
tuition is now in this room. A NUN.
Der of his co-conspirators are now
in this room. The Constitution was
actually engrossed, and one night
Wilcox and others went to the Palace
and demanded that the King abdi-
cate, land that his sister replace him on
the throne. Ii it had not been for
the faithful services that night of
Robert Parker, the affair that came
to a head July 80 would have come
to head in the latter part Of 1887.
The tactics which he porsued that
time were almost identical with
those adopted in 1889, except that
he drew in with him q number of
Hawaiian volunteers making them
believe that, with his superior mill.
tary knowledge, they could bring
about more satisfactory condition
of affairs. AS soon as | learned Of
it sent for the conspirators one
after the other, and got sworn state.
ments from them, and | have those
written confessions to-day. The
object of that movement was simply
to compel the King to abdicate.
There were no halfway measures
about that as in July, but it was q
straight-out measure to have Inn
abdicate, and they had the abdlca.
ton papers made out for him tc
sign. Within day or two after The
matter came to my knowledge nearly
a. the conspirators knew that
knew of it. The wife of II. w
Wilcox came to me with tears ant
begged that / would allow her hus
band to leave the country, and sale
they would go back to Italy, ant
that that would be the last of it. l
may be said that the Cabinet shoult
be condemned because they did no
bring that matter out then. Per
haps they did right and perhap
they did not. We were just re
covering from season of disquiet
business was just beginning to re
vive, and many of those implicate
in the conspiracy regretted that the
had been brought into it. The da
after his wife came II. w. Wilco
himself came to me. He sal
that he had become despera,
because the King had nj
given him an Office as he had pre-
missed, and if let off he would g
back to Italy, and go down wher
they were fighting the Arabs, an
get promotion there. The Cabinet
after mature deliberation, consider
ed that was the best thing to dc
The matter was kept secret and " i
cox was allowed to 90 scot free
He Immediately went away, abot
the latter part of January. Thing
went along quietly, and continue
so until Wilcox returned in I'll
spring of 1889. He had scarcel
arrived in the country before |,
common with other members of til
Cabinet, received information TIL;
he was again trying to bring abo'
the same thing he had tried befor'
There is no necessity for my brins
ing July 80 up again, as the matte
has all been before the courts. No
outstanding all that had happene
in 1887, Notwithstanding the expo
ures and admissions, we see him con
back and do the same thing agai
and to-day he has the blood of SIEVE
poor kanakas on his head. He W;
tried and acquitted by jury of h
countrymen. He went out in II
country and, instead of eXpressiI
contiriton for what he had don
he gloried in it and said that il
had chance he would do it agai
Things went on unfit election tim
where there were rumOrs on Il