The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-02-04
HAWAIIAN DELEGATION
The Commissioners to Meet
Secretary Foster To-day.
A FORMAL CONFERENCE MONDAY.

| w hfHlNGTDN, feD. A-lne COmmlS-
sioners from the provisional government
Of Hawaii viii make an informal call on
! Secretary of State Foster this afternoon,
| and an appointment will then be made
| for their formal reception on Monday
| when the discussion Of the question OF
| Hawaiian annexation will be begun in
earnest.
| Beyond the arrival Of the commission
ers there are very few, IL any develop
ments in this momentous and interesting
subject.
The commissioners reached Washing
ton last evening.
They made the trip across the conti-
| nent in fairly good time, and arrived
somewhat fatigued from the stress Of
| their long journey.
they were met at the station by DR..
! Mott Smith, who had just received the
| commission of President Dole, of the pro-
| visional government, appointing him the
! representative of Hawaii at Washington
under the new regime. The gentlemen
| were driven at once to their hotel where
! they spent the entire evening
| The commissioners received number
| of representatives Of the press at their
rooms, and talked freely and frankly Of
| their errand.
They brought with them copies of she
| Hawaiian papers of Wednesday, Jan. 49,
| which contained full accounts of the pro-
| cecdiugs in connection with the revolu-
| tiou, which was accomplished on the
| previous day the 17th-and the particu-
| lars Of which have already been made
public through interviews given by the
! gentlemen al San Francisco and at yari-
| Gus points en- route to Washington.
The personnel Of the committee is as
| follows:
Lorrin A. Thurston, Chairman, was
| Premier OF the first revolutionary Cabi-
| net of Hawaii in 1883 and is the leading
| lawyer in Honolulu. He was born in
| Hawaii his parents being American mis-
| sionaries. He has been connected with
| the government in some capacity for
| years.
! William c. Wilder is the head of the
| Wilder Steamship company, which does
| transportation business among the
| islands He has not held political posi-
tion until recently when he became
| member Of the Legislature.
| William r. Castle is lawyer largely
| Interested in real estate in the islands
and one OF the principal owners Of the
! Oahu railroad, which runs down to Pearl
| river hurbor. He is a native,
Jos, ph Marsden is sugar planter He
is an Fnglishman. He has lived in
| Hawaii about ID years.
Charles l.. Carter is the son of the
former Hawaiian Minister to Washington,
ii. F Carter. He is lawyer, was
born on the island and is 20 years old.
William A Kinney, is now a lawyer in
Salt Lake City, but a former resident of
the Sandwich islands ami one of the lead
ing participants in the revolution of 1887
| He met the members Of the committee at
| Ogden for the purpose of renewing old
acquaintance, hut was induced to ac-
company the body to Washington in an
unoh1ccl capacity as legal adviser.
The evening mail from San Francisco
brought to Dr. Mott Smith, the Hawaiian
| Envoy of Queen Liliuokalani, a most i'm
portant document 1t was nothing less
than his appointment and commission as
| representative and Minister of the provis-
! ional Hawaiian government to the United
States.
The document is a most imposing one,
and is signed by Sanford B. Dole, as Min
lister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Dole, who
is president Of the provisional govern
ment, is also the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, because there are but four mem
bers OF the High Council of Rule.
The commission of DR.. Mott Smith was
| made ont on the day after the revolution
and overthrow of the Queen and recites
the circumstances of the abrogation of
the constitution and the dethronement Of
the Queen 1t further states that the
provisional government had appointed
commission OF five to proceed to the uni
ted States and ask for annexation.
1t names the commissioners and then
commissions the new minister to unite
and act with them in their negotiations
with the President of the United States
and his Secretary Of State.
The appointment was despatched to
President Dole by the Annexation Com
mission on the Claudian and as soon as
the commissioners landed in San Fran
cisco they mailed it to Dr. Mott Smith.
The commissioners tarried "a hours in
San Francisco, but the commission came
direct, and that is why it got here ahead
OF the commissioners.
Tins, OF course, settles the status Of DR..
Mott smith in the negotiations, as the
minister has accepted the appointment
and will act with tle commissioners.
The despatch from LOud0u announcing
the reply of Sir Edward Gray Pallia-
mentary Secretary of the Home Office
to au inquiry iu tue House of Commons
as to Great EritNin's intention in the
Hawaiian matter, that the government
had made no protest and did not intend
to, bel ewing tu3t the lives aud property
OF British subjects in Hawaii were safe
under American protection, has caused
! a decidedly friendly feeling for England
among the radical anneNationists here.
H. l.. Brown Of Minneapolis who came
IN on the same train with the commits
sioners, and who had cOnversed with the
distinguished gentlemen in the Hawaiian
| party, said to a reporter;
These gentlemen know their own
interests are at stake and want a pure
annexation with the United States. From
what l learned l think the Queen is only
holding out for what Americans would
ask She is opposed to the encroachmeuts
of foreiguers, and wants the island to be-
long to native born Hawaians, or at least
to those who have some native blood in
their veins" "
Chairman Thurston said TO the inform
ant that the greatest objection to the rule
of the present nominal Queen, is that by
her influence the lottery company was
promised "a foothold The kingdom is
badly in debt, and the revenues from tho
lottery were relied upon to pay all of the