The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-06-17

: tonight because he believes am aite
5 that Station,
| The Minister Of the Interior is grieve,
, because | was not present any night a
the Police Station He saws | did every
thing i'm NV power to prevent the plaS
, heinS Suariea. All | did was what
: have told YOU Ii / had gone and trie,
to break up the guard it would hav,
, been used as an argument against m,
and so kept away My highest objec
WAS the preservatiun OF the public peace
The Minister OF the Interior complain:
that l WAS not there on the night OF The
I7lh Of April. He complains that l wa:
comfortably in bed, whereas he had Il
turn out at A. ". Ii is true | WAS
much more comfortable and much more
sensible, trust. The whole thing was
- conspiracy plot and put up job e
render useless \ man who Was doing his
duty 10 his king and country in order to
carry through bastard treaty, and the
Minister OF the Interior WAS at the bot
tom of it, Therefore claim and charge
that whatever excitement existed WAS
the result not the cause of the action OF
the Minister OF Interior. Not all who
Scied with him were his co-conspirators.
| NOnc VI tuSlu pcAlSNS "S2S hiS UutCS.
The Ministers policy is to deprecate
the prominence OF the guarding. did
not get up any excitement. Ii was the
fault Of peoples nerves.
| l advised the member from Koolau-
poke to advise people in his paper to be
| quiet and stay at home nights not to
| gather in knots on the streets or give
any color TO the conduct of the Marshal
The Msrshsl's brother-in-law had led
| party which had 3 terrible race out in
| the PalSms taro patches TO catch phan-
! tom which thew could not find any more
than the Minister of the Interior could
find any one on the night OF the 26th.
Ii they had really expected any attack
they would have had forty men there or
more. The fact that they only had 5
or shows conclusively that they were
shsmming. l deny Mr. President b.
fore God or man having any Information
or reason to believe in that any attack
was contemplated on those nights Mr.
President if am classifying in this mat
ter may | never see the smile OF that
God whose word is truth.
| submit that l have disproved both of
their statements that they had reason to
suspect myself ". V Ashford or r. W.
Wilcox. charge them with conspiracy,
and leave it to the dispassionate judg-
ment of this House to Judge between us.
Noble Widemann-I move this speech |
be translated and printed and referred |
to special committee.
Rep. Bush-The Acknowledgement has |
mentioned certain persons high in Gov
eminent position who were engaged in |
conspiracy, | think.
The President-There is q motion be-
fore the House.
Noble Baldwin amends by making
committee of seven.
Rep. Brown-Are the other documents
to go 10 this committee too. We have
got entirely beyond the original question.
We have got into q disgraceful Cabinet
fight that is the truth of the matter The
reply ought to take its course and when
it is printed, it can be disposed OF with
the other matters. | so amend
Minister ThurSton-i propose to make
no speech now in reply to the Attorney
General, but 10 make 4 few specific de-
mails. 1t is difficult for me to find lang
lage in which TO express my opinion of
he statements of the Attorney General
Il 1t were parliamentary | should say he
: the most cold flooded falsifier it was
.yer my misfortune to meet. As it is ;
lot parliamentary viii not say so l
lesire now to make the following specific
lenials: s
/. DENY that l urged Daniel Foster |
s President of Hawaiian Republic, or 6
Iusrreled with Wv. Ashford concerning '
,. deny that at q meeting at my 2
Iouse suggested, or it was agreed, that |
My members of the league should be
ppointed 10 office. I
3. deny that | was ever a party to I
ny plot, plan or arrangement to compel I
r secure the abdication OF the King and Y
he enforcement of his sister. il
1. L deny that the Attorney General r
yer offered to tell the Cabinet what he |,
i'd in Canada. II
D. deny that the majority OF the Cab Il
let ever advised the King to sign a $
'eaty with the United States. s.
8. deny that there was ever any con- il
or attempt to conceal any d
ing from the King concerning the treaty is
latter. II
:. deny that any proposition to allow c,
reign troops to land on Hawaiian soil, re
SIS ever considered by the Cabinet ex- al
.pt TO unanimously and absolutely de- NJ
de such question in the negative. ce
Minister Diamonds an honest man. l III
L deny the statement of the Attorney of
eneral with regard to nv interview "
lth His Majesty. l read the whole. W
ne Attorney General stated that took III
e treaty to the King intending not to II
him see that last clause l took that or
aaty TO him OF which | retained the &c
iginal copy, and read it word for word, di
I'd when l came to the last two clauses, be
aid, your Majesty, the Cabinet imme- fr,
ately when this was put in type on the &
liter SO that we could see it, We decided M
should not be part of the treaty, and no
nave read it word for word so that your as
slesty may see not merely what we tn
We approved but what We have disap- ar,
owed as well, and there was not one tel
nd uttered in the Cabinet meeting but cb
lat Your Majesty should know. His en-
,lesty said to me why do you leave the De
t part off; and l said because it is he
part OF the treaty, and l say it hon. SD,
ly in the face of every Hawaiian here SOL
lore me. lApplause.) ma
Attorney-General thought his Excel ms
cY had misunderstood He had not ar