New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-14
REPLYING TO GRESHAM.
TX. COMMISSIONER CARTER ANSWERS THE
- ':'. 'sECRErARY'S LETTER.
MANY or DIOUNT's ASSERTIONS FLAILf Di''H'
ry ONE WHO TOOK PART IN THE REVoLU'
crrcIuAM NOE BIOI'NT

MANY or MOUNTS ASSERTIONS FLATLY DENIED
rv ONE WHO TOOK PART N THE REVOLT
r1oy-NrITIIER GRESHAM NOE BLouNr
WOULD HEAR 10th sIDFs.
San Francisco. Dec 13.-Followng Is an open
letter on the Hawaiian question 10 oecie'"''
Gresham by ex-Commissioner Charles H. carter
who visited the United States shortly after the
revolution in the interests OF the froVialoNa'
Government:
Honolulu. II. l.. Nov 30, 1888:
To the Hon. W. @. Gresham, secretary % "'a'''
Washington, ID. c. .
Str. Win the consent Of the Government
which Be.had the honor to serve as a Spe.id,
Conr,issoner to the Government OF the tnilcd
States 7 have the honor to address you In reply
IN vour d,spatch to the President dated OCTOBER
49, containing recommendations that .he treaty
of annexation be not resubmitted' anu susbest
ing the restoration of what you term the leSti-
mate Government OF Hawaii, by which you mean
the monarchy in the person Of eX-oueen LII
uokalani. IT,, Ait, o,,,r,,co
tion publicy and | beg YOU to attribute my
action to the apparent Discrimination OF youi
department to full exposition OF the matter
bearing on your questions, which mas been al
your disposal.
| regret that up to the time of our latest adj
vices my distinguished colleague, the chairman
If the Special Commission. Mr.. Thurston, mas
been constrained by his present position as rep
regentative Of this Government near your own
from making any public declarations, ms ms
fact and because after your installation In the
DEPARTMENT Of state, and until shortly BEFORE MI
Thurston's appointment as Minister was tne
only representative of Hawaii actually IN WASH
ington gives me freedom to speak and Gualify
me To- address you on some Of the matters III
your dispatch.
Your communication to the President contains
twenty seven paragraphs ana thirty charges,
which I can meet, and which in this, my iliSt
and probably only opportunity. snail feiute.
7 shall for convenience. take them up IN sue
cessive order.
III4roKALANrs PROMISE OF BETTER BEHAVIOR
% You aver therein that the opposition Of Her
Ma,esty's Cabinet and others induced the Queen
speedily to change her purpose Of prpclaiining a
new Constitution and that she made public an
nouncement Of the fact. The fact is that after
a most violent alteration with her Ministry the
Queen publicly announced that for the present
she deferred action on the matter or now
Constitution. II was pretended that she wished
to take the action as a consequence Oh peti-
ton to that effect by her native SUBJECTS cred
liable persons present in the throne room our
ing almost the whole Of that SATURDAY afternoon
state that the humble petitioners waited with
their unread petition up to the time that the
Queen made her declaration OF postponelneht
and she had not read the document, which mas
since disappeared.
The evidence obtainable indicates that the
proposed Constitution by its terms was an ag-
gression upon the constitutional rights OF the
white residents OF Hawaii whether born here
Of parents also Of Hawaiian birth, or set
tied and established here by long residence.
No announcement Of an absolute change Of pur-
pose was made until Monday. two days later,
when her advisers discovered that the popular
wave OF Indignation was sweeping toward the
throne. and hoped to stay the just wrath OF the
people.
Should not the Queens other political crimes
of that same Saturday be considered by you?
Was there nothing offensive. not only to us,
but to your people. in the Lottery and Opium
bills? Nothing characteristic in the dsap-
pearance Of the Chinese Registration act? These
things and the removal OF the Jones' Wilcox
Cabinet are part Of the Nations charge against
her For my own part, ! can never forget or
forgive the spectacle Of the deciding vote Of the
Lottery bill--a member who up to this date was
pledged against the measure. too drunk to hold
,Ip his hand during the debate with a wreath
OF flowers about his neck. said at that time to
have been placed there by the ex-Queen at the
moment OF his promise to support her plans,
after having been piled by her with intoxica ting
drinks voting unsteadiy In favor Of indefinite
postponement until corrected by his neghbors
because he had promised to vote Eyes" and was
not I'm 1T condition to follow the course Of leg
islative action. Her offences cannot be brushed
aside in a paragraph nor recited in one.
THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
(2) The meeting In Honolulu which appointed
the Committee OF Public Safety on my motion
TO that effect consisted Of those persons who
had gathered at the call Of Her Majestys Cab
met and had pledged their lives In writing in
the defence Of that Cabinet against the proposed