The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-12-14
SOLDIERS UNDER ARMS,
HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT WILL Re-
SYST DISCRIMINATION.
Eleven Hundred Soldiers Ready to Prevent
the Queens Party Entering Govern
ment Buildings and Will Yield On
ly to Superior Force.

Thurston. before leaving for Honolu-
, lu, told some of his friends of the pro-
visional government, that plan of &C.
ton had been agreed upon by the gov
eminent and would be carried out.
The provisional government has HOO
men under arms who are ready to res
pond at signal of bell. This force
will not be permitted to fire on the
United States marines if they are land
ed. Neither will the provisional gov
eminent lay down their arms and
leave the government building upon
request of Minister Willis, even after
the marines are landed. The provis-
ional government will remain until its
members are arrested and taken out
1t will resist any interference other
than the armed force of the United
States. With its military force at
command it will not allow the supper
tiers of the queen to enter the palace
or disturb the peace of Honolulu.
That is the program outlined by
Minister Thurston to his friends here
before departing for Honolulu. 1t is
also positively asserted that Thurston
is going to Honolulu whatever may
have been said regarding his visit to
Chicago and San Francisco to look
after Hawaiian affairs in these cities.
This statement as to the plan of the
provisional government is in line with
the advice Thurston sent the provi-
sioual government Immediately after
he had read Gresham's letter to the
president exhorting President Dole to
stand firm and yield to nothing but
actual force. This proves to have been
D1le's attitude before he heard from
Thurston. Frieds of the provisional
government feel confident that he has
peen firmly entrenched in this deter
mination by what he has heard from
Thurston and il view of the latest de-
velopments as to the administrations
policy it seems altogether unlikely
that the provisional government has
been disturbed in its hold on the
Hawaiian government,
A gentleman entitled to speak With
authority says Gresham's famous let
ter to the president, which stated the
Hawaiian excitement was published
only in view of a contingency that
threatened at that time and this con
tingency has not occurred. What the
contingency was cannot be def
nitely learned, but the inference is the
administration was confident moral
suasion alone would effect the restora-
ton of the queen. This expectation
was based on explicit statements in
Blount's report. In view OF authorl.
tative statements that the administra-
ton has no intention of using force, it
may be concluded the chances of the
queen yet being restored are small.
1t is likely to be several days
before the whole history of the
Hawaiian matter will be laid
before the senate. The navy depart
ment is having copied all correspon-
dence relating to naval matters in Ha
waiian waters since 1889. This will
occupy sometime. The exhibit to be
offered to the senate will be complete.
Failure to secure exact advices as to
Minister Willis course leads TO some
embarrassment as to the transmission
of Hawaiian correspondence to con-
gress, as the tenor of the message &C.
companying the the papers will neces-
sarily be influenced by the condition
of affairs in Hawaii at the tune of
writing
The cabinet meeting today lasted
two hours and Attorney General Oh
ney and Secretary Morton remained
long beyond that time with the presi
dent. The Hawaiian situation came
in for share of the attention, but ow-
ing to the meagre news from the islands
the discussion was necessarily short of
definite results. No exact time is fixed
for sending to congress the correspond
ence and papers relating to Hawii.
The departure of Minister Thurston
was not commented on at the cabinet
meeting, AM the indifference felt as
to the minister's movements was
shown by a remark of a cabinet Of
ficer at the meeting that he had not
even heard of the minister's leaving
Washingt n. 1t can be stated ex-
pllcitly that there was no understand.
ing arrived at between Gresham and
Thurston before the latter's departure
from Washington as to the course the
United States would pursue in Hawaii