St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
WANT ANNEXATION
Under a Territorial Form of Gov
y ernment.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28.-Charles l..
Carter. one of the commissioners to
Washington appointed by the provis-
ional government at Hawaii, made the
following statement to the Associated
Press:
1.-The object Of our visit to Washing
ton is to have the United States take
possession of the Hawaiian islands; we
want to join the Union. Not as state,
however, but under territorial or dis
trict form of government. A govern
ment like that of the District of Colum
bia, with the addition of governor ap-
pointed by the president, is preferable
for many reasons. There is such large
number of Chinese and other cheap la
borers on the islands who can
not be trusted to vote in
teligently that. if universal suf-
frage were declared, the whites.
who represent almost the entire buSi-
ness interests of the country, would be
outyoted and powerless. An entire new
system of government must be built up,
aud the only way is to have the United
States take charge. 1t must come to
this or the whites must leave the island.
The interests are too great, however,
for them to give up without struggle,
new constitution which was brought out
by the queen granted her almost abSo-
lutte power and disfranchised the white
voters. The natives themselves, as a
rule, are not in favor of the eX-queen's
plans. She is supported by certain
clique of about twenty. who are anxious
for political power. The queen is jeal-
Gus of the power of the whites, and
is an ambitious. scheming woman,
badly advised. Under the old regime
she had no cause to complain. She en-
jOyed an income OF between seventy
five thousand and sone hundred thou
sand dollars with no responsibility. but
she undertook to mix in politics ana got
the worst of it. The queen was sup
ported by her favorite, K. Is. Wilson, the
marshal of the kingdom. and the gov
ernment troops. Wilson sWore in
number OF deputies, and in all the
queens forces amounted TO about 400
men. The queens plan was clever, but
she lacked nerve to carry 1t out. She
waited until after the legislature had
adjourned and then got twenty natives
and dressed them up in long tailed
coats. She gave them petition for
new constitution, which they did not
understand. Everything went accord
ing to programme, until the members
of the cabinet refused to be dis
missed. The revolution was almost
bIoodless one. Only one man was hurt,
a native policeman. who was shot by
Mr.. Good. Good was in charge of a
wagon containing supply of ammuni-
ton for the revolutlonists, and the
police attempted to capture it. Good,
who is man of great firmness and res
olution, shot down one of the policemen
and took the ammunition to a place
where it would do the most good to the
men who were resisting the queen.
Fortunately there was no necessity for
a resort to arms, and further bloodshed
was avoided. Our commission" con-
tinued Mr.. Carter, Twill call on the
president and secretary of state at
Washington and will do its best to ne
gotiate treaty Of annexation. We do
not have power to make treaty. but
will have to refer all such matters to
the provisional government at Homo
lulu. The commission will leave either
tonight or tomorrow morning for Wash
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