The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-03-01
UNITED STATES LEGATION, !
HONOIIrIr- Enhrnary [ 1909 (

UNITED STATES LEGATION,
HONOLULU, February l, 1881
Hon. John w. Foster, Secretary of
Stote-S1R: Everything is moving on
here quietly. The Provisional Gov
eminent is discharging its RESPONSE
bilities with firmness, discretion and
in spirit of Cancellation and mag
nanimity. The annexation senti-
ment has constantly increased since
the departure of the Commissioners
for Washington. AS to the terms of
annexation, l still adhere firmly to
the opinion expressed in my des-
patch, that the sugar bounty to be
paid to the Hawaiian sugar planters
should be limited to 6 mills per
pound, or $l2 per ton, so long, and
only so long, as the United States
bounty system shall be maintained.
To the objection that this allows
only Sl2 per ton on Hawaiian sugar,
the Hawaiian planters get twice the
amount per acre that the Louisiana
planters do on the average, and as |
said in my despatch, the consensus
of opinion among the leading plan
ters here, obtained by me five or six
months since, was and is that S12
per ton bounty will place all the
Hawaiian plantations worth main
tanning on the road to financial
safety and success.
As to the form of government for
the islands, | now only vary from
the views expressed in my despatch
as to incline strongly to the opinion
that the beginning should be sub
stantially like that of President
Jefferson and Congress in respect to
Louisiana in the Act of 1910 (page
230, United States Statutes at Large)
only differing from that by provid-
ing in addition for a Governor, At
torney' General, Commissioner of
Finance and Commissioner of the
Interior, and Legislative Council
of thirteen or fourteen, all to be APP
pointed by the President, unless it
shohld be deemed best for the Gov
ernor to appoint the Attorney Gen
eneral and tho Commissioners of
Finance and of the Interior, who
would be practically a Cabinet of
three to aid the Governor to carry
on the Government. AS to the
liquidation of all political claims of
the fallen Queen and the Crown
Princess, may be allowed to sug-
gest that the spirit and import
of the March treaty plan of 1854
had better be adopted, which au-
thorized the expenditure of 100000
for life purposes. l therefore sug.
gest that if liquidation of this
kind be now under consideration
Sl50,O0O should be allowed as the
total sum for this purpose. Seventy
thousand dollars should go to the
ex-Queen Liliuokalani, $4,000 tt
the Crown Princess Kaiulani, anC
5000 to each of the two youns
princes.
As to the native Hawaiians anC
:, laborers, at this time things arr
tending favorably toward annexa
ton. Mr.. Kauhane, for many year
member of the Legislature ant
regarded for many years the hes
: native in the islands in public life
and Noble in the recent session o
that body, is an earnest advocate O
. annexation. So is Mr.. Kauhi,
member of the Legislature. job
: w. Kalua, the ablest native lawye
> in the islands, and for year
J, member of former Legislature
! from the important island of Mau
= thinks the fall of the Queen and tn
y extinction of the Monarchy boo
to Hawaii, and he is for annexation
=, Robert w. Wilcox, the half-whit
u native who led the Hawaiian revol
: in 1889 which came so near bein
. successful, is now for annexation
!, He was educated in Italy at mil
y tary school, is thirty seven years {
u age, his father being a citizen {
. Rhode Island and, it is said, is sti
u living in that State. Wilcox hi
- more fighting ability than any 9th,
% native Hawaiian, and will be prou
= to become an American citizen an
~ at future time to serve in the arm
% or civil service of the United State
. The main opponents of annex
>. alton are the lower class of nativ
~ led by INSCRIPTIONS foreigners
~ little property mostly from Ca
!: fornia, Australia and Canada, wi
~ wish to maintain the Hawaiian mo
~ archy for their own unworthy pu
poses, and who think their opport
mites for power and spoliation W
IS be gone if annexation becomes
IN fact. The Hawaiian pear is NJ
or full ripe and this is the golden no
he for the United States to pluck it.
he annexation does not take pla