The morning call., 1893-06-19
HOLDING THE FORT
The Provisional Govern
ment at Honolulu.
OCCUPATION OF THE PALACE.
Sequels of the Dynamite Plot-Pro-
pOsal to Raise the British Flag.
The "Call" Confirmed.
Special Correspondence of The MORNING CALL.

HONOLULU. Fl. l.. June 10.-The find of
dynamite near Washington place, where
the ex-Queen resides, has resulted in ex-
posing an extensive conspiracy within the
ex-Queen's party, which is all but run to
earth.
1t has been known to the Government
for some time that prominent royalists
were constantly schemiDg in the hope that
some unexpected event would give them
show to urge the ex-Queen's restoration
on international grounds. Among these
royalsts were Samuel Parker. half-white,
F. H. Hayselden, English. Antoine Rosa,
half-Portuguese, and A. P. Peterson,
American. with some others of less note.
On last Tuesday, June G. Samuel Parker
the ex-Queen's right-hand man, succeeded
in convening a meeting of the Consular
Corps at which were present Wodehouse,
(England), ViZzona France), and Canavarro
(PortugaD. Mr.. Parker appeared before
the corps and, it is reported on very good
authority. urged that the powers as
sembled take some action favorable to
the royalist cause. After persistent in
qures of the Government and elsewhere
| have learned that the real object Mr..
Parker had in getting the Consular Corps
together was to submit proposition that
Major Wodehouse, English Minister,
should hoist the British flag over WASH
ington place. the ex-Queen's residence,
and declare it the British Legation. The
Consular Corps absolutely refused TO in
terfeIe in any manner.
Marshal Hitchcock in the meantime has
been drawing the web around the conspi-
rators who were carrying out the details
of the dynamite plot. Within the last few
days the chain of evidence has been CON-
pleted, except one link, which the Govern
ment knows exactly where to put its finger
on. | had a conversation with President
Dole this morning about the contemplated
arrests, but he would say nothing definite.
The men who will be arrested for conspi-
racy, if arrests are made, are believed to
be Colonel Y. V. Ashford, Canadian; Sam
Nowlin, half-white; Tom Walker, English;
E. c. Crlck, English, and J. F. Colburn,
half-white.
Since the discovery of the dynamite the
Government believes it has located a store
of dynamite In Washington place, and the
house is kept under constant police sur
veillance, so that the explosive cannot be
taken away. The royalists are badly
scared and attempted to raise sympathy
by starting rumor that the ex-Queen was
| to be depOrted on the City of Peking, and
another that conspiracy was on foot and
her assassination had been actually at
tempted by dozen or more masked men.
The Provisional Government sent for
Mr.. Samuel Parker very promptly and in-
formed him and published a statement
positively denying the truth of the minors,
as far as they affected the Government.
The royalists on the other hand claimed
Liliuokalani and her friends were actually
scared.
On the day and the day after the
Alameda left here last the Government
paid the $4,000 due Mr.. Spre ckels, and
to-day send by the City of Peking the
$4,000 due in London on the national
loan.
On last Monday. June 5. the Provisional
Government formally moved into the new
executive building (the old palace), which
was so named at special session of the
councils held the Saturday before This
act broke the tabu which the native priests
had laid on the building and has had a
demoralizlng effect on the royalists. The
natives are deserting the cause all over the
Islands and declare that God is evidently
with the foreigners, as none of them have
been destroyed as the priests promised US:
we can now never regain the palace
without killing every foreigner and this
we cannot do"
This state of things has been turned into