Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-16

bare majority. Another act was passed to
create a so-called Hawaiian board of
health, with power to issue certificates to
rative Kahunas to practice native med
icine.'' The meaning of this is well under
stood by any who have lived on the Sand
witch Islands. A s.. 0OO,0 loan bill was pass
ed September /. Two parties were develop
ed in the legislature the Spreckels party,
led by the ministry, and the kings party,
which favored placing the loan in London.
The inside of this was that the government
owed Spreckels about S70O 900, and he want
ed his money. When the decisive moment
arrived the ministry was defeated. and the
cabinet resigned that night. Gibson went
on his knees to the king and begged to be
reappolnted. The next morning, October Is,
to the disgust of his late allies, Gibson reap
peared in the house as premier, with three
native colleagues, but from this time he had
no real power, as he had neither moral nor
financial backing. Mr.. Spreckels called on
the king and returned all his decorations
and shook off the dust from his feet The
legislature appropriated 100000 for a gun
boat and 1900 to celebrate the kings fifth
eth birthday. By the terms of the loan act
the London syndicate was entitled to five
per cent as a commission, but they held up
$780, 900 in addition, which has never been re-
covered. From now on the king acted as
his own prime minister, employing Gibson
to execute his schemes and defend his fol-
lies. For the next eight months he went
lesser scandals was the sale of Offices
frauds against the revenue, the Illegal leas-
ing of land to the king, the sale of exemp-
lions to lepers. and misapplication of public
funds. Efforts to revive heathenism were
row redoubled under the pretense of Guilt
waiting national feeling. foreign fortune
teller by name of Rosenberg acquired great
influence over the king. In 1886 the Hale
Naua Society was founded. 1t appears 10
have been intended partly as an agency for
flav h. y, A.
to vice. and indirectly to serve as a polit-
ical machine.
Kalakaua's jubilee was celebrated with
immense pomp and ceremony, a distinguish
ing feature of which was the nightly per-
Torrance at the palace of the lascivious
and grossly indecent hulahulas. In pursu-
ance of the policy of the "Primate of the
Pacific" Hon. ]. f. Bush was commissioned
on December %, 1856, as envoy eXtraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary to the
King of Samoa and the King of Tonga and
high commissioner to the other independent
chiefs and peoples of Polynesia. A conven-
ton was concluded February IL between
King Malietoa and the Hawaiian envoy by
which both parties bound themselves to en-
ter into political confederation.
The signature was celebrated" says
Robert Louis Stevenson, "in the new house
Of the Hawaiian embassy with some orig
inal ceremonies. Malietoa came attended
by his ministers, several hundred chiefs
licemen. Laupepa CMalietoa). always decent,
withdrew at an early hour; by those that
remained all decency appears to have been
forgotten. and day found the house carpet
with slumbering g-andees, who had to be
reused, doctored with coffee. and sent home.
Still worse stories are told of the drunken
orgies that afterward disgraced the Ha-
waiian embassy"
The Opium Bride.
The opium law passed by the legislature Of
1856 was so amended as to make II I-early
unavoidable. A set of regulations was there
fore gotten up providing for The issue of
permits to purchase or use opium by the
marshal who was 10 retain half the fee and
the government the other half. A Chinese
rice planter named Tong Hce. alias Aki, was
informed that he could have the opium
license If he would give the king 10000. Aki
raised the money and paid Ii I'm three Install
ments between December and December s.
1856. Soon afterward he was Informed that
the king had been offered $4,000 for the
license, and would get IL unless Re paid
$1,000 more. Ah accordingly borrowed the
amount and gave II to the king personally
on the 18th. Shortly after his another chi
the king $4,000 for the same object, but Sc
cured the license before handing over tine
money. Thereupon Aki div,Ilged the whole
affair. Meanwhile '.".r the Kmg's
go-between, was appointed to the RESPONSE
bic Office of registrar of conveyances. These
exposures brought matters to a crisis. and
united nearly all taxpayers, not merely
against the king. but against the system
of government under which such iniquities
could be perpetrated.
A Secret League.
In the spring of 1887 secret league was
formed in Honolulu, with branches on the
other islands, to put an end to misrule and
70 licb otx da oil
sprang up all over the island. The league
numbered about 1000 men. Some members
of the league favored q sudden attack upon
the palace. but this advice was overruled.
and 1t was decided to hold a public mass
meeting and present specific demands to the
king. Accordingly, the afternoon of
June 80, 1887, all business in Honolulu was
suspended and an immense meeting was
held, composed of all creeds, classes and ma
tionalities, but united in sentiment A set
of condemnatory resolutions was passed
unanimously, demanding of the king the
dismissal of his cabinet, a pledge that the
king would no longer interfere in politics,
and several other reforms. A committee
of thirteen waited on him. His troops had
deserted him, and the native populace was
Indifferent He offered to transfer his pow
ers king to the representatives of the
United States, Great Britain, France and
Portugal. These representatives refused his
forming new cabinet and signing a new
constitution. Accordingly he sent a written
reply the next day conceding every point
demanded. The new cabinet was sworn in
the same day, July /. Autocratic rule was
at an end, and the suffrage was extended
to foreigners. Gibson was arrested July 1.
but was allowed to leave on the 9Th on a
sailing vessel for San Francisco. The cleo
ton for members of the legislature ordered
for September IL was the fairest in twenty
years, and resulted in an Overwhelming
victory for the reform party. During the
next three years, in spite of the bitter hos
tility and intrigues of the king, the contin-
ual agitation by demagogues, and repeated
conspiracies, the country prospered under
the most efficient administration ever known
The cabinet was now composed of Godfrey
Brown, minister Of foreign affairs; L. A.
Thurston, minister of the interior: W. L.
Green, minister of finance, and c. W. Ash
ford, attorney general.
The Royal Veto.
This preceding narrative ended with the
revolution of 1887. The remaining three and
a half years of Kalakaua's reign teemed
with intrigues and conspiracies to restore
autocratic rule. During the session of 1855
a contest arose between the king and the
legislature in regard to the veto power in
which the king won. During the following
session of 1883 the king vetoed a number OF
measures, all of which were passed over his
head by two-thirds vote, with one excep.
ton.
The kings sister, Liliuokalani, had charg-
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