The morning call., 1893-02-10

0OFCtHHltul.
Late tonight Secretary of State Foster
received the following dispatch from Min
lister Stevens:
HONOLULU, February -.
The Provisional Government is gaining in
power and respect. Every thing is quiet.
Inc annexation sentiment is increasing.
Inc dead monarchy and the opposition to
annexation are supported chiefly by the
lottery and opium ring. To-day, at A. NJ.
In accordance with the request Of the Pro-
visional Government, placed the Govern
ment under United States protection dur
ing the negotiations, not interfering with
the execution of public affairs.
STEVENS
Secretary Foster said that Stevens action
had been taken without instructions from
the State Department.; In fact. the move
;nent for change Of government was un-
expected. and had not been anticipated by
Instructions from Washington. Stevens,
therefore, had been compelled to act on his
own Judgment as emergencies had arisen.
There was 10 conference to-day between
tho Secretary and the Hawaiian commits
sloners, but ii is understood that they will
see him tomorrow.
Commissioner Carter said tonight that
among some members of the Provisional
Government sentiment prevailed before
the departure of the commissioners for the
United States that protectorate should be
sought He and Thurston, believing the
Government should stand upon its own
bottom pending negotiations with this
country. had opposed this. Thurston and
his associates said the hites who made the
trouble to which the Honolulu Advertiser
referred comprised what was known as the
opium gang OF politicians and their associ-
ates. who would be known in this country
as ward-strikers or "heelers."
Kinney of Salt Lake. who accompa nies
the commission in the capacity of counsel,
said the most significant item of pews in
the dispatches from Honolulu was the
statement that there have been indications
OF dissensions existing among the members
OF the Executive Council. This" he said,
'betrays the greatest danger which now
threatens the Government. The members
OF the council are men who have been
clothed with authority without any pre-
vious experience in the exercise OF II. and
without the restraining force OF pr0tec
torate they would inevitably have divided
into factions and worked at cross pur-
poses"
This evening Commissioner Thurston.
with the consent Of his colleagues, made
statement in reply to the letter from j. f.
ColburD. ex-Minister OF the Interior of
Hawaii. In 1t lie says:
THE charge that the whole movement was
a preconceived conspiracy in favor Of an
nexati0n has already been denied by the
commissioners, but as Colburn reiterates 1t,
probably more specific denial should be
made. The uprising" he says. took place
at the express request OF the Cabinet Of
which Colburn Is member in response to
a call from the Cabinet to citizens to sup
port them with arms against the demands
of the Queen, which demands she was pre-
pared to enforce with the entire military
and police force of the kingdom, and after
she had threatened the lives OF the members
OF the Cabinet themselves. If there was
any conspiracy to precipitate matters in the
Interest OF annexation. then the Queen and
the Cabinet were the principal members of
the conspiracy, for the Queen was the one
who initiated the action and the Cabinet the
ones who first requested the people to take
up arms against the Queen"
Thurston proceeds at length to give
further facts to disprove the conspiracy
theory, ana says tnAL tHeEs WAS no puOHc
acknowledgment of the Provisional Govern
ment by the American Minister until after
the abdication of the Queen and the slr-
render of the barracks and police station.
together with all the forces and munitions
of war located therein.
''As to the action Of the Provisional Gov
arnment requesting a protectorate," con-
tinues the comm isslcneT, land the United
States Minister acting In compliance there
with and establishing such q protectorate
pending the result Of negotiations In Wash
ington, l would say, having every con-
fidence In the men composing the PrOyi-
sional Government, that l do not believe
they would have taken this action unless
they deemed it necessary for the preserya-
ton of life and property. The protectorate
in no manner interferes with the regular
progress of public business under the
Provisional Government nor with the nego-
tiatiOns with the United States Govern