The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-31

| under the constitution of the Hawaiian
| kingdom. Queen, do hereby solemnly
| protest against any and all acts done
against myself and the constitutional
| government of the Hawaiian kingdom by
certain persons claiming to have estab-
lished provisional government of and
! for this kingdom.
81 yield to the superior force of the
| United States of America, whose Minis
ter Plenipotentiary, His Excellency John
l.. Stevens, has caused United States
troops to be landed at Honolulu, and de
clared that he would support the said
| government.
''Now, to avoid any collision of armed
forces, and perhaps loss of life, 1, under
this protest and impelled by said force,
yield my authority until such time as the
governm ent of the United States shall,
upon the facts being presented to it, undo
the act of it's representative and reinstate
me in the authority which claim as con-
stitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian
! Islands,
s.Done at Honolulu this 18th day of
January, A. D. 1898.
To S. 3. Dole and others, composing the
Provisional Government Of the Haacaiis:
| A provisional government having been
duly constituted in place of the recent
government of Queen Liliuokalani, and
the said provisional government being in
full possession of the government build
ings, archives and treasures, and In con-
troll of the capital Of the Hawaiian
Islands, hereby recognize said provis-
ional government as the de facto govern
ment of the Hawaiian Islands,
JOHN L. STEVENS,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the United States.
On the Pacific Coast.
VALLEJO, Cal, January 3O.-U. S. S,
Adams, now at Mare Island navy yard,
which received orders to sail for Homo
lulu tomorrow, will not be able to on ac-
count of the time required for coaling.
She will probably sail Wednesday. The
orders are to divide the crew of the coast
defence vessel Monterey between the
Adams and Ranger to give them full
complement. The Ranger will probably
get away in few days.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 30.-Rollin
M. Daggett, ex-minister to Hawaii, says
it is well understood in the British for
eign Office that there is to be no serious
opposition to annexation of the islands
to the United States. When Lord Palmer
ston was minister of foreign affairs he
advised England S representative at Homo
lulu that the contiguity of Hawaii to and
it's close commercial relations with the
United States would ultimately justify
closer American relations.
The Partisan View.
PARIS, January 31.-The Paris dailies
taunt England with inconsistency be-
cause she objects to American agg res
sion in Hawaii, while she herself ex.
cludes other powers from Egypt. The
Moniteur Universal says the great Amer
ican people are not of a sort to be intimi-
dated by British bluster.
The British Protest.
WASHINGTON, January 30-The Brit
ish government has instructed Sir Julian
Pauncefote, it's minister here to protest
against the action of the United States
extent the protest goes cannot be stated
now.
The German Press,
BERLIN, January 30.-The Vossische
Zeitung, Radical, Says of the revolution
in Hawaii: The restoration of the
queen is certainly preferable to tripar-
tite control of the country. Our expert
ence with Samoa by no means recon-
mends a repetition of such an expert
ment. Germany has no reason to med
die further with South Sea affairs.
America and Great Britain might better
be left to settle relations as they think
proper.
BERLIN, January 31.-The Berlin press
is practically one in the opinion that the
Hawai- revolution concerns England and
America alone.
Decline to Talk
VICTORIA, B. c., January 30.-Naval
authorities here and at Equimault de-
cline to state whether they have received
any instructions from the home govern
ment bearing on the situation at Homo
lulu.
Views of the English Press.
LONDON, January 40.-The question of
the proposed annexation of Hawaii by
the United States continues to be a
prominent subject of discussion in polit-
ical circles and in the newspapers. The
Evening Globe, Tory organ, says this af-
ternoon that the annexation of Hawaii
may result in bringing the United States
into foreign relations that are at vari-
ance with the whole of their traditional
policy, and cause friction and conflict
between them and the colonies. Gamer
lean aggression in the Pacific" adds the
Globe, ''would occasion Australian re-
monstrance, to which the British govern
ment would be compelled to listen. The
internal affairs of Hawaii will settle
themselves the sooner, the sooner it is
more clearly understood that they are
not to be made temptation to the
United States to commit most nnchar-
acteristic act of folly.
The St. James Gazette, Tory. says that
President Harrison's Cabinet would do
we'll not to arrive at hurried decision
on the question of Hawaii. ssIt must.
not be assumed that because the United
States have been nursing Hawaii they are
best entitled to effective interference in
the affairs of that country. The:American
party in those islands IS by no means so
strong as we are asked to believe"
The Pail Mall Gazette, now also Tory
organ, is neutral in its remarks on the
question of American annexation of