The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-03-07
ALL TURNING ONE WAY.
Everybody on the Islands is Now
For Annexation.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The follow
ing dispatch from the Minister tc
Hawaii was made public by the State
Department to-day:
"United States Legation, Homo
lulu, February l, 1893 received Feb
ruary IA, PM.
ITO John w. Foster, Secretary of
State-S1R: Everything is moving on
here quietly. The Provisional Gov
eminent is dischsrging its response
bilities with firmness, discretion and
in spirit of Cancellation and mag
nanimity. The annexation sentiment
has constantly increased since the de-
parture of the commissioners for
Washington, and with healthful earn.
estness is taking possession of all
classes. Nearly all the German, the
larger proportion of the respectable
and responsible English and almost
the entire Portuguese population are
for annexation. This inclination of
the Portuguese is quite important,
for they number 1000 or 5000, and
are among the most industrious and
saving people in the islands. As to
the terms Enumeration, l still adhere
firmly to the opinion expressed in my
dispatch No. "a, that the sugar
bounty to be paid to the Hawaiian
sugar planters should be limited to
6 mills per pound-S12 per ton. SO
long and only so long as the United
States bounty system shall be main
tanned. To the objection that this
allows only S12 per ton on Hawaiian
sugar, would say that the Hawaiian
planters get twice the amount per
acre that the Louisiana planters do
on the average, and, as [ said in my
dispatch No. "a, the consensus of
opinion among the leading planters
here, obtained by me five or six
months since, was and is that Slipper
ton bounty will place all the planta-
tions worth maintaining on the road |
to financial safety and success.
AS to the form of government for
the islands, l now only vary from the
views expressed in my dispatch
"a as to incline strongly to the opin-
ion that the beginning should be
substantially like that of President
Jefferson and Congress in respect of
Louisiana in the Act of 1904 UNITED
States Statutes at Large, page 1881, /
only differing from that by provid
ing in addition to the Governor an
Attorney-General, a Commissioner of
Finance, a Commissioner of the
Interior and a Legislative Coun-
Gil of thirteen or fourteen, all to be
appointed by the President unless
it should be deemed best for the
Governor to appoint the Attorney
General and the Commissioners of
Finance and of the Interior, who
would be practically a Cabinet of
three to aid the Governor to carry
On the government. This plan and {
method of government could be !
as a transition govern
nent until experience should prove {
t best to change to more popular s
,orm. In the meantime the respon- '
'ible voters would rapidly increase &
md American ideas and interests
would gain in force and value. :
My private consultations with the ..
Provisional Government since the
departure of the Commissioners for q
Washington has led me to think c
highly of the Jefferson act of 1904 f
or Louisiana as transition expe
lent for Hawaii This would allow a
Iffairs to move along on safe and |
lines until time and ex-
,erience demand something better. I
t would be fortunate to have such
nan as Sanford B. Dole, the present
lead of the Provisional Government, a
or the first American Governor of
laval. 10
As to the liquidation of all the a
'olitical claims of the fallen Queen C
nd the Crown Princess I may be +
flowed to suggest that the spirit r
I'D import of the March treaty plan +
f 1854 had better be adopted. This =
Ian authorizes the expenditure of
100000 for like purposes. there q
ore suggest that if a liquidation of
his kind be now under consideration a
4cO,OOO 6uOu1u Do dllOWeu DIS II
total sum for this purpose. OF this @
10000 should go to the fallen Queen v
$4,000 to the Grown T
'rincess Kaiulani, and $4,000 to each =,
I the two young Princes. The last =,
AIMED two Princes are harmless q
Dung persons OF little account, not D
hiefs by blood, but were made Il
rinces by the late King Kalakaua
ithout any constitutional right or IL
over to do so. They were then boys, a
cling the nephews of his wife Kapio f.
mi. Should the entire sum granted =,
II these purposes be greater or less :,
ian S150,000, l advise that the above u
,ecified proportions be maintained. "
As to the native Hawaiians and is
leir native leaders, at this time things tt
e tending favorably toward annexa-
on. Mr.. Kauhane, for many years a
ember of the Legislature, and who -
sheen regarded for many years as p
e best native in the islands in pub ~
, life, Noble in the last session of =
at body, is earnest for annexation. o ..
, is Mr.. Kauhi, q member of the u
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