The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-08
Correspondents Of the Associated Press

treason against Robert w Wilcox I OF
Lane, r. Polau, John Brown, Kahoi-
waena and Keliikuewa have been dis
missed, and the prisoners were released
June 18th, after having been imprisoned
without bail for thirty-six days. One of
the so-called conspirators who received
the severest punishment is considered to-
be Colonel Nolney Ashford, who has vol
UNFAIRLY exiled himself from the country.
Concerning the trial the advertiser SAYS ::
On impartial survey of evidence it appears
doubtful what was the precise nature of the
organization (Hawaiian Protective League)
/ nat II was one OF dlsaHected persons is clear
mat It's talk was SeditiOuS and the counSeIs of
some of its members more or less treasonable
is, we think, sufficiently obvious But that
Inc dlstlnct and definite object of the Hui was
10 overthrow the Government by force of
arms, and chat this object was clearly under
STOOD and shared by members of the majority
| on them, cannot be made out from the evil
dence.
On June 9th Wilcox was sworn in as
a member of the Legislature from Waia-
lua and Koolauloa, Oahu, and took his
seat.
Hon. G. W. Ashford, Representative
from the Third District, and brother of
Colonel V. V. Ashford, has been thorn
| IN the side OF the Ministry ever since he
look MS seat IN the House.
HAWAII AND THE UNITED STATES.
Minister Widemann in the Legislature
read from the report of the Minister of
forelgn Affairs TO show the protest of
the late ii. A. z. Carter, while Minister
to the United States, against the action of
the latter country toward Hawaii in the
matter of the tariff bill. He character
lied the protest as the speech of the lamb
TO the hon, OF the little to the great, but
SAID 1t was necessary and did do some
| good. America was the nearest and dear
est neighbor of Hawaii, and the latter
should cultivate the friendliest of rela-
tons and retain its representative at
! headquarters.
Representative Kamanoha said he had
read In the newspapers that the Hawaiian
envoy at Washington was working in
favor OF annexation. If that were so,
| there was trouble ahead. The Ministry
apparently had no knowledge of the
matter, and the envoy seemed to be
! working on his own hook"
| Minister Wldemann replied that the
! present Minister to Washington had
! been known to him for over thirty years.
| He considered the latter too prudent a
man to have made the statements
ascribed to him in the published inter
I views.
Minister Parker said he had for
warded clippings of the alleged inter-
| views to the Minister at Washington and
| expected to receive a reply by the next
or succeeding mail. The matter then
went over.
There are various vital questions yet to
be considered bearing on the relations
between this country and the United
States, and one which has attracted con-
siderable attention is whether rice should
be admitted free or be taxed.
IMPoRTANf QUESTIONS.
x-Attorney-General Alfred S. Hart
well has published All article in which he
took the ground that the time had come
to negotiate with some foreign power or
combination OF foreign powers for the
! cession, or better still for long lease of
Pearl Harbor. The assumption of the
Hawaiian debt, an undertaking to es-
tabliSh q submarine cable communication
with the outer world, the making of
| Pearl Harbor a naval station and secur-
ing q good entrance to the harbor, he
considers among the definite considera-
| tons for Hawaiian interests. In closing
| his article, he says: The first offer is
due, as all will admit, to the United
States, then to England and Germany
/ coDjointly, and last to France and Russia
eoDjointly."
| Commenting on the article editoriaIly.
| the Daily Bulletin says: Then the
! United States shall have taken action to
| secure the completion and control of the
| Nicaragua Canal, there may be some
| sense In Supposing she will consider Sc
| riously the question of buying or leasing
| Pearl Harbor. The canal is OF infinitely
more importance to the United States
than naval station in Hawaii. Yet we
| see canal bonds being hawked all over
| the United States and met with aversion
| because there is Hack of confidence that
/ Congress Will give the work a national
| guarantee"
HER MAJESTY DECORATED.
| Her majesty, the Queen. received on
| the I'D inst, at the hands of his Japanese
majesty's agent, the decoration of the
| Grand Cross of the Imperial Japanese
| Order of the Crown. Ministers Parker,
| Spencer, Whitney and Widemann, Hons.
| Paul Newman, w. @. Irwin, s. NJ. Da-
mon and John S. Walker also received
decorations OF the Sacred Treasure.
Hereafter passengers from Japan and
China will not be allowed to land at this
port unless their vessel go into quaran-
tine.
The news of the Republican nomina-
| tons was received here on the 25th inst.
| by the S. G.. Wilder, fourteen days from
San Francisco. The feeling is one of sur-
prise at Blaine's defeat.
The flagship San Francisco is reported
rs liable to remain here until the 18th of
! July, then to be relieved by the Boston.
| Admiral Brown celebrated his fifty-sey-
| enth birthday on the 18th inst His
| service in the United States Navy is forty
| three years.
There is every prospect OF change in
the ministry in the near future. The
present states are: Refornl-Parker, Rob-
inson (both half-castes), w. o. Smith and
| Alexander Young. National Reform
! Peterson, Wilson (MarshaD. Godfrey
Brown and Robert Wilcox.
! SAMOA.
| The appointment by the King of Samoa
of Secretary of State (Thomas Maben)
! has naturally given rise TO some specula-
ton as to the future policy of the Govern
ment III regard to the creation of a Minis
try on recognized lines. We have made
some inquiries on this point, and have
come to the conclusion that the creation
| of the office referred to is not to be fol-
lowed, at any rate Immediately, by that
| OF other Offices of similar ministerial
/ nature.
| Up to the present Baron Senfft Won Pill
| sacht in his connection with the Samoan
/ Government, seems to have occupied nu-
/ merous positions: AS Adviser to the King,
| as Treasurer and as one on whom it was
/ incumbent to devote himself to the pro-
motion OF the peace, good order and civ
| iliZation of Samoa.
i These would appear by the Berlin final
/ Act to be the functions of his official posi-
| ton. To faithfully perform these onerous
duties it will be seen that the Baron has
] his hands exceedingly full, even without
his municipal obligations being taken
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