The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-19
THE PRINCESS FLITS.
Kaiaulani, Of Hawaii, Sails
Away to England.
GUARDIAN DAVIES Is HAPPY.
He Thinks That the Throne VIII BE
Restored to His Protege After
Commissionsr Blount Reports.

New YORK. March 1S.-Princess Kaiau.
lani and party arrived at 7:l5 O'Clock to-
night from Philadelphia and Washington.
The princess and party will remain in the
city until next Wednesday, when they
will return to England on the steamship
Majestic. Theo. Davies, who throughout
has acted and spoken for the princess.
said:
then ask the American people to look into these
Hawaiian matters. The appointment OF . COM
mission BY the president to go to Hawaii and
formally investigate the matter of the proposed
annexation is the thing we want There are
1900 votes in Hawaii. and OF these not over
1000 would be in favor of annexation. You in
America go by the popular vote, and We are sat-
isfed TO do the Same in Hawaii.
Then you are quite satisfied with the turn Of
affairs and willing to await the action of Preai.
dent Cleveland without taking further steps?
Yes. Within two or three months the father
Of Princess Ksiaulani will come to England and
he and the princess will then return to this
country to visit the Worlds fair and possibly
make short tour of the country.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 1S-English
intrigues In Hawaii may cause a change
in the administrations policy regarding
the question of annexation. There was a
raising of eyebrows in official circles over
the dispatches which told how royalists
were looking for support from English in
terests, and how Maj. Wodehouse, the
British minister, was seeking to discredit
the provisional government. His med
ding was natural enough, for he all along
had been in favor of the queen. But it
does not seem to have occurred to some
officials here that there was meddling by
another Englishman-D avies. the guar
dian of Princess Kaiaula ami, in coming
to Washington City on self-appointed
mission. He has been given plenty of
unofficial encouragement here and has
shown his delight at the apparent I'M
friendliness of Cieveland's administration
to annexation. Davies is agent at Homo
lulu of the Canadian Pacific railroad. 1t
was he who secured the rejection of the
treaty negotiated by Blaine. but his pre- 81
ent intrigues are not as dangerous as those
OF the British minister at Honolulu, and
the administration seems to recognize
this.
Hawaiian matters were again discussed
at the cabinet meeting today. The result
took the form of two typewriter pages of
additional instructions to Commissioner
Blount. The most that can be
tional instructions were made necessary
in the light of the last news from
Hawaii. 1t is believed that the report in
dicating increased activity on the part Of
the English has prompted . change in
the previous instructions. so as to offset
any inroad that may be made upon the IN
fiuence maintained up to that date by the
American representatives at Honolulu. 1t
10 tod hat h0
which Blount was expected to convey to
Minister Stevens contemplated the with
drawal OF the Boston's battalion from its
station on shore and the explicit disap-
prevail of Minister Stevens act in estab-
fishing temporary protectorate.
CHICAGO. March 1S-Prince David, of
Hawaii, ~ho went to Washington City to
intercede in behalf Of Queen Liliuokalani,
Is here on his return journey. He ex-
pressed the belief that the queen will be re-
stored to power.