The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-21

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Ihe use OF servants, carriages, horses, etc,
furnished by the provisional government,
paying whatever / wanted for it, from
nothing up He also notes the refusal
OF tenders from the eX-queen and others.
Appended to letterof April s, in which
Mr.. BlOUnt deplores the perverted influ-
ence OF Minister Stevens and Consul Gen
eral Severance, to which he ascribes the
existence of the provisional government,
is stenographic report of an interview
between Mr.. Blount and Admiral Skier
rett. In which the following occurs:
ADMIRAL Skerrett.-I called at the navy
department on Dee. 30 to see Mr.. Tracey. the
Secretary of the Navy, to ask him if he had
any maj Instructions for me, as l was going
TO leave the next day for San Francisco to
assume command of the Pacific squadron.
lie replied: Commodore have no instruc-
tlOnS 10 give you. You will go there and per-
form your duty, as / know you will and every
thing will be satisfactory" 1 remarked:
Mr.. Tracey, want to ask you about these
Hawaiian affairs When l was out there
tlons with the then United States minister
Mr.. Pierce, on the subject of the islands. 1
was told then that the United States govern
ment did not wish to annex the islands of
Hawaii. - He replied: Commodore, the
wishes of the government have changed.
They VIII be very glad to annex Hawaii" He
said as matter of course, none but the
ordinary legal means can be used to persuade
these people to come into the United States.
REFUSED TO ALLOW TROOPS LANDED.
On April 21 Mr.. Blount, for the second
time, disapproved of a request of the pro-
visiOnaI government that the American
forces be landed for drill. "The landing
of the troops, pending negotiations be-
tween the queen and President Dole, " the
commissioner says, might be used to i'm
press the former with fear that the
troops were landed to lend force to the
provisional government in bring her to an
adjustment. ] did not think proper to
communicate the reason to Minister Ste
vens, or any other person save Admiral
Skerrett."
Mr.. Blount, in a subsequent letter,
fOrestalled the visit of Paul Neumann to
Washington, in stating that he lis gener-
ally regarded here as a bright, plausible,
unscrupuous person. and suggests that
if the administration should receive any
proposition from Mr.. Neumann in connec-
UiOn with the contract between the queen
and the provisional government in the
matter of her abdication, it would be far
better to decline to entertain anything.
A CALL ON THE QUEEN.
Mr. Blount says he called on the ex-
queen and informed her that no person
was authorized by President Cleveland
nor himself to place the government of
the United States in the attitude of de-
SlElDR ANY dU JUS IlLlGub UtGNGtu utIotll
and the provisional government, and the
queen replied that she did not intend to
enter into any negotiations until the
Washington government had taken ac-
tiOn on Mr.. Blount's report
On May 4, Mr.. Blount wrote:
At this time the indications are un-
mistakable that a large, majority of
terly opposed to annexation. I do not look
for any change from this situation through
future information. There is a strong dispo-
sition on the part Of the annexation element
to suppress expressions against annexation
by social and business hostility.
BITTER ATTACK ON THE QUEEN.
In the third part of the correspondence
is printed a statement of MIR. Volney "
Ashford, dated March s, 1893, in which
he says he has put IN writing certain in
formation in regard to Hawaiian affairs
at Mr.. Blount's request. This statement
refers to Queen Liliuokalani as "a
sulking sovereign who has at least
twice striven to supplant her
brother even at the expense, if necessary,
of walking over his mangled corpse to the
throne, woman notoriously loaded with
the grossest social vices, such as had con-
tributed so largely to the late kings
downfall in 1887 but still strongly upheld
by the majority of the native people, who
believed her professions and promises to
restore them to an equal franchise"
WILSON HER PARAMoUR.
In another part of his extraordinary
communication, MIR. Ashford said:
Wilson's pull on the queen consists in the
fact that for many years he has been her
favorite paramour. (she has several The
queen had private gateway cut through the
palace wall Immediately contiguous to her
apartments in the bungalow that he might
alone enter by near and more convenient
E1raT tab
the native people drew the line. The pair
openly lived together in the queens cottage
at Waikiki "a suburb of Honolulu during and
succeeding the "S1ndrag' episode at the
palace, just preceding the descent
upon the league. This palace was
formerly an assignaton house, built by the
queen and openly used for that purpose, un-
der the personal charge OF her business man
ager, formerly her native cOachman. All
these, and many other equally scandalous
acts are matters OF public noCoriety at the
capital, and nave been aired and commented
upon in scathlng terms by the native press
of Honolulu; but the English press were
either gagged y the palace party or kept 81
lent to avoid the effects of the scandal
abroad.
The statements against the depo sed
queen are discredited by Mr.. Blount.
CONCLUSIONS OF FACTS.
Mr.. Blount's conclusions of the facts
are embodied in his report to Secretary
Gresham, dated July IL. 1t is very
long document, filling thirty-seven large
printed pages, and indicates very clearly
that he understood that he was TO confne
himself to plain statement of facts, for
nowhere does he make the slightest sug-
gestion or recommendation. Refusing all
proffers of hospitality on his arrival on
the islands, he says, he took up his
quarters at the Hawaiian hotel
where he passed several days in
receiving calls and soon became
aware that all minds were quietly and
auxiously looking to the action Of the
United States government. The troops Of
the Boston were doing military duty for the
provisional government with the American
flag floating over the government build
ing and the minister says, within it the
government conducted it's
business under an American prOtectorate.
to be continued according to the avowed
purpose of the American minister during
the negotiations of the United States for
HAULING DOWN the FLAG.
This brings the story down to the Incl
dent which created such stir, of haul
ing down the American flag, which Mr..
Blount describes as follows:
NV instfustion directed me to make in
ouiries. which in the interest of candor and
truth. could not he done when the minds of
thousands of Hawaiian citizens were full Of
uncertainty as to what the presence OF Amer
lean troOps the American flag and the Amer
ican minister implied. 1t was necessary that
all these influences must be withdrawn before