Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-30
THECOUP D'ETAT
Affairs in the Hawaiian Is.
lands.
They Want to Join The UiIon as a
Territory or District.
Naval Omc'Fs fnthusinsiir over the
New, FROM the Pacific
Kingdom.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2s.-willi an
q. Wilder, onc Of the commission
eTs, explained tho situation OF attain
to anAssocia,ed Pfcsi representative
Mr.Wilder is president OF the Hawaliai
lnter'lslanj Steamship, company, and
has large interests In Hawaiian prop
~. He said:
"If tho United States wants In,
Hawaiian islanJ0 It can have them now
ana on terms more favorable than evcl
before offered or will ever be Offered
again. All the Americans on the is
lands are unit Tor annexation mn
the new provisional government and III
aims ars supported 10y nearly nil IA.
English there anu all OF the Germans
The foreign interests In Hawai-
amount TO about 81, 900, 600, $50, OOO, OOC
OF which are IN the hands of Ameri.
cans. Honolulu IL as much an Ameti.
can city az San Francisco ITSELF"
"If the United States government
should refuse 20 annex the islands, dc
you think Great Britain would step In
and take pos,esslon2" was asked.
"Thst question cannot answer"
said Commissioner Wilder, "but this !
DO know. The queen Is strongly In
favor Of Brl,lsh rule, and N allowed
would, have no doubt, apply TO Great
Britain for protection"
"Why was the British government
the only one Of the powers represented
In Honolulu that did not recognizes the
PROVISIONAL government"
"That | DO not know. Queen Lii
iiuokslini," continued Wilder, az
allowed 10 carry out her plans, would
hsve become an absolute dcspOt OF the
Islands. No whites we're to be allowed
10 vote; the mobiles would have been
abolished; the supreme court Judge,
who are now appointed for lie, would
have been appointed for a ak years'
term only, pnd would have hOep u,b-
Ject to dismissal at any within OF tue
queen. We were glad TO have tho
United States ship the Boston Ia
Honolulu harbor. she was the only
man.oi-war there, and she did nothing
beyond landing armed sailors and
marines who patrolled the streets, yet
the moral effect was good and probably
quelled any disposition 10 fight on the
part OF the natives"
The commissioners this morning re-.
ceivei nn invitation from the San
Francisco Chamber OF Commerce to
meet the directors OF tnat body and
discuss tue situation OF affairs with
the merchants. The Invitation wan
aecop'eu, anu 'ne onamoeI OF oom-
me,co WIN IVuhoIy alolt resoIu1lons
nsAiHs the ohiteu S'a'es government
TO ANNEX HAWAII.
r,
Lotilnh ihutslon, chairman OF the
ha"aiiah oohnhissioh' taiu this even
ing' ,
ihlnRs are III such posi.Ion now
tnnt no parry o. elhis 0l iesluehts are
luiy capnp.o =, eehpilsning shDle
government; ihey must LOOK outside,
anu naturally come 10 the United
STATES Iho eonuI,loh OF AFFAIRS ~
mucn more threatening than Indicated
~ tne puoIisnei statements IN tho
hawaiihn papers IL was the declared
intenuon OF tho queen 10 ultimately
expei nIi loIe,Bher,,IIom tue isiands.
rhs uisiIahcnlsemeht OF MI except
n',ooo VIZ W W ,no n.st s'op'
,nete Wouiu nave oeeh piooisnei anu
uesiueuon OF ptoperty' anu after OK
peihhs M Ioteigheis heir property
wouiu nave peen eonnsoNeu,"
Inc ola treaty between france anu
Ehsiahu, thaue in lo1I, recognized inc
Independence OF inc isianus anu bound
esoh natioh NOT 10 take possession OF
the islanus. ~ 10 eiear IN the view OF
those wen p0s,ou that England under
,ne treaty Gnhno' annex nor can
france. me oniteu states ~ the tmo
inc treaty was negotiated refused TO be
bounu ny OK JOIN IN INC treaty, or In
oueI "orus ~ Ieiuseu W peuse itseii
moi 10 take possession OF 'he Islands,
but Simply recognized 'he ihuepend-
ehce OF me government
Following Is tnc petsohnel OF the
hawaiian commission: Lorrin A.
ihurston, chairman, was premier OF
OF the mrs, revolutionary cabinet OF
HAWAII IN 1851 ne isn Ieauihg law
yer OF Honolulu ne was Dora ut
hhwaii, MS parents oeihg American
missionaries lilo mas been connected
WIN the government n solns capacity
ior years. Wliilam =; wider IN the