Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-14
NEWS BY TELEeRlPH.
 From All Quarters. GRESHAM IS ANSWERED.. Charles L. Carter is Out
 With an Open Letter. FAMILIES WITHOUT FOOD OR FUEL. Extreme Distress Prevails
 Among Mill Workers. PETITIONS SENT TO W0OLEH MEN, Strong Opposition to the
 Wilson Bill.
PETITIONS SENT TO W0OLEA MEN
HE ANSWERS IN DETAIL.

Charles L. Garter, the Ex-Commfs. sioner of the Provisional Govern. ment at Hawaii to the United States, Denies Statements Made to the President by Secretary Gresham. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 13.-The Oceanic, which arrived last night, brought an open letter from Charles L. Carter, ex-commis sioner to the United States of the provi- sional government of Hawaii, to Score tary Gresham, in which he denies the statements made by the latter to the presi- dent and answers in detail Mr. Carter also gives statements in support of Minis ter Stevens and the provisional govern ment. He says:
 "For my part can never forget nor for give the spectacle of the deciding vote of the lottery. A member who, up to this date was pledged against the measure, too drunk to hold up his head during the de- bate, with 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 intoxicants, voted uneteadily in favor of indefinite postpone ment until corrected by his neighbors because he had promised to vote yes, and was not in fit condition to follow the course of legislative action"
 The use of the troops during the revolu- tion is referred to by MT. Garter as follows:
 "While Mr. Stevens on the Sunday be- fore had consented to allow the queens cabinet to use her forces when the cabinet violated it's pledge and clove again to her majesty and her cause he positively de- clfned to allow the committee of public safety, which then became 8 revolutionary body, any support or assistance, and this was the understanding of the committee from noon of Sunday, the 15th."
 MT. Garter continues: 'I saw the troops landed at 5 o'clock Monday, and 1t was not until nearly o'clock that evening that they secured quarters and were instslled in Arion hall. It was midnight before even nasty and inadequate sanitary pre- cautions for their comfort were completed. know by my own knowledge that at Captain Wiltse to secure other accommo- dstions and that no attempts were made to secure any accommodations until after the troops were landed and the necessity for their remaining on shore over night became apparent.
 The old armory might possibly have been used, but that has already been se- cured from it's owners as the rendezvous of the revolutionary forces of the commit tee of safety, although circumstances which arose later rendered the very mod crate use of it sufficient for the purposes of the provisional government. That there was no particular reason for locating the forces at that place ought to bs apparent xLn R.o% -xEa dious premises, afterwards known as Camp Boston, could be arranged the men were moved"
 Again Mir Carter writes: "There were no manifestations of excitement or alarm in the city on that night. Up to the moment of their landing the uncertainty was in- tense. If any of MT. Blount's witnesses have made statements to the contrary I would like an opportunity to cross-examine them. As 1t was, there were were two at tempts at incendiary fires at different times in different parts of the city, which, but for the prompt ap- pearance of Lieutenant Swinburne and squad of men, might have increased troops landed at p. m. on the 18th and the committee of safety seized the govern ment building on the 17th. It was who entered the building half an hour before the committee because 1t had been rumored that there was guard concealed therein. I found none. There were eight govern ment officials and clerks In the building, which ordinarily teens with ministers, judges and some forty or fifty clerks. I was told that the cabinet had left the building. The queens adherents had nei- ther character nor ability to resist.
 'I was told by Marshal Wilson, then in charge of the queens civil forces, that they had left the building because they were afraid of their lives, we'll knowing that to be the point the revolutionary forces would attack, and that but for their cowardice or their treachery, the marshal did not know which, in refusing to allowing kim to send guard to that building, we would not so easily have secured possession; that he had concealed ammunition in the foreign office, which was indeed afterwards found there, and that it was his purpose So send men there prepared to use it,"