The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-16
THE INSTRUCTIONS no WILLIS.
What 1t Is Believed They Contai ned TIL
Queens Original Right.

queens OTlSl0d1 h1SllLs
Washington, Nov. 15.-The chief in
tertst in the Hawaiian situation now
surrounds the instructions given to
Minister Willis, and the contents of
the cipher message which was received
after the arrival of the China A num-
Der Of outside people are now quite
familiar with some of the important
features of the instructions. No doubt
Minister Willis was instructed to make
the restoration of Lilioukalani condi-
tional on full amnesty being granted
the men who engaged in the revolu-
ton and the overthrow of the queen.
Minister Willis was told to say to the
members of the provisional govern
ment that the president felt he ought
to protect them to this extent, as he be-
lieved the authority of the United
States and Minister Stevens led them
into the revolution.
1t is thought the minister was in
structed first to call upon the queen
and tell her the president desired she
should placaJe those who have been
instrumental in her overthrow, and
sustain herself in authority without
the assistance of the United States.
1t is believed the state department has
been informed that these conditions are
satisfactory to the queen, and had been
accepted by her at the time the China
sailed
To President Dole, it is understood,
Minister Willis was instructed TO say
the president felt it necessary TO de-
eide the matter as if a dispute had
been referred 10 him. and in restoring
the queen. the president hoped to have
the hearty cooperation of the Dole adj
ministration. After having righted the
wrong done by this government, the
United States would assume its policy
of non-interference
A belief is growing that Minister
Willis instructions did not inclu lie the
employment of force. The rather cor
dial reception accorded Yesterday by
Secretary Gresham to Minister Thur
ston's official call, and the formal
acknowledgment of answered rela-
lions between the legation and the
government, makes it incredible that
instructions nave been given TO land
marines in Honolulu for the purpose
of aggression upon the government
which Mr.. Thurston represents.
The original right Of Queen Liliuo-
kalani to the throne of Hawaii was by
the nomination of her brother, Ka-
laLua. The Hawaiian constitution
provided for this mode of succession.
w men the llO1dINI ldll1u 10 lIONIO6 a
successor. the choice reverted to the
upper house of the legislature. When
Iunalclo died in 1873, after a brief
reign, he had named no successor. The
house Of mobiles chose David Kalakaua.
He had been a police court lawyer in
Honolulu and played q banjo at dances
for a consideration. His wife, Kapio-
Iani, had been the widow of a South
Sea Island missionary. At one time
she helped TO support her husband by
washing clothes. Kalakaua's mother
was of the blood of low chiefs, as was
his reputed father. It is notorious,
however. that Kalakauas real father
was a negro barber. Kalakaua and
his full sister, Lii sokalani, show wide
divergence from clle Hawaiian racial
type Their noses are f1atter their
hair kinky, and their lips much thicker
than the pure native type. The late
princess. like her mother. Princess
Kaiuiani, half sister to Liliuokalani.
was Of pure native blood and her ap-
-pearance is in marked contrast to that
of her brother and sister.