The morning call., 1893-11-30
followed the exact course followed under
the monarchv

the monarchy"
referring to Blouut's assertion that he
put an end to Hawaiian anxiety about
Japanese encroachments. Stevens recites
In detail numerous interviews with the
Japanese Minister prior to Blount's ar
rlVal. and says Blounl's claim is pure
assumption.
I'm Blount's report as given to the
press, he continues, 81 find the following:
Two leading members of the committee,
Messrs. Thurston and Smith, growing un-
easy as to the safety of their persons, went
TO Minister Stevens TO know if he would
protect them in the event Of their arrest
by the authorities, to which he gave his
assent 1t is enough to say there is not
the semblance of truth in this assertion of
Blount, made by him without his ever
having hinted 1T to me or made any in
quiry of me on the subject He thus gives
the signature of his Endorsement to
charge that never even heard of until l
found it in Blounts printed report.
He says the response to the call of the
committee of safety to land men from the
Boston does not appear in the files of the
legation The meaning of this insinua-
ton is obvious. Enough to say that there
never was any such document. / received
the invitation of the committee of safety
for what 1t was worth. as | received other
information on the same subject. [ should
have requested Captain Wiltse to land his
force even had not the committee re-
quested it. BlOunt squerely asserts that
promised to aid the committee of safety by
force. This is emphaticaly and cate
gorically untrue. In reply to rival parties
at different times, whether representatives
OF the Queen or her opponents, my answer
was always the same-that force should
not land until danger should be plainly
Imminent, and then only to protect Ameri-
can life and property. and to DO one did l
ever hint that | could or would recognize
any but the de facto Government whether
mOnarchlal or republican.
LAS l said in my letter TO Secretary
Gresham here reaffirm that the royalists
and their opponents had equal access to the
legation and to its official head. The best
answer 20 the baseless charge that l prom
ised to use force against the Queen is the
order of Captain Wiltse to his officers and
men to remain passive. and that no force
was used. although the Queen, through
her ministers, strongly requested il hours
before the Provisional Government was
recognized by me and by the other diplo-
matte representatives in Honolulu"
Stevens states that he had no knowledge
of the meeting of the committee of safety
at the residence of Henry Waterhouss on
January 16, and that his first Information
as to the persons at that meeting was OBJ
tained from BlounPs report
Regarding the expectations and hopes of
the Queen and her representatives on the
exciting days of January II and II, and
the views and hopes of her opponents,
Stevens quotes the Queens letter to him,
the report OF Captain Wiltse to the Navy
Department, and the order OF Captain
Wiltse TO Commander Swim nburne, TO show
that the landing of troops was 10 protect
the Legation and the lives and property of
American citizens and to preserve order.
Stevens goes on: The copy of the call of
the committee Of safety, which BlouuG in
sinnates wished to conceal from him, had
been promptly forwarded to Washington
in January. and was in a printed pamphlet
of State Department documents ordered
published by the Senate. copy of which
l suppose Blount must have brought with
him when he came to the islands.
''As soon as this astute commissioner
ascertained that Neumann was in full ac-
cord with Spreckels and Blount for
Liliuokalanrs restoration to the throne at
once BlOunt Immediately learned that
Neumann was right down good fellow.
SO much for conclusive evidence that
Spreckels, Neumann and Blount were
then and are now rowing in the same
boat and closely linked in the conspiracy
to damage the action of the Harrison ad-
ministration and the Senate Committee of
Foreign Affairs on tie question of aDnexa-
tiOn."
Stevens devOtes considerable space to
showing the disreputable character OF the
persons furnishing affidavits to Blount.
being especially severe on John f. Col.
bourn, a. P. Peterson, Charles L. Hop
kins and DIR. FrOsseau. He says: 1.-The
testimony of hundreds of such would not
counterbalance the words of Minister
Thurston, President Dole and Henry
WSterhouse among honest men who know
the respective parties. AS to Wilson, the
Queens favorite for many years, whom
BlOunt attempts TO whiiewash, L will not
soil these pages by giving even the notori-
Gus facts in his record.
"As to my recognition of the Provisional
Government, [ reaffirm what | said In my
recent latter to Secretary Gresham. Queen
Liliuokalani inaugurated the revolution
attempting to destroy the constitution by
revolutionary means. From Saturday aft
ernoOn, January Il, to January 16, there
was no Government in Honolulu, except
in the united and self-possessed attitude
OF the citizens. who assembled in the
great mass meeting of January 16 and
consummated the efforts for law and
order by the establishment OF the Pro-
visiOnal Government on the 18th, which
was promptly acknowledged by all the
foreign repres entatives who were familiar
with the circumstances of it's creation. 1t
was nearly fifty hours after Liliuokalani
and her favorites had destroyed her
throne by a revolutionary outbreak when
the men of the Boston landed"