St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
Liluokalanii Had Ambitions to
Become q Vepitable Des-
pot.
The Hawaiians Object and
Promptly Bounce the
Lady Politician.
A Republic Established and
Annexation to Uncle Sam
Desired.
Bloodless Ending to an Ex-
citing Day on the Little
Island.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2s.-The down.
fall of the Hawaiian monarchical gov
ernment has finally occurred. Yes
terday a provisional government was
organized. composed entirely of white
residents, and it assumed control of all
the functions of government, and
awaits the decision of the United States
government whether it will accept the
Hawaiian islands as portion of its do
main. The events which led up
to this situation commenced i'm
mediately before the departure of
the steamship Mariposa for San
Francisco, on Jan. II, by the passage
a bill which gave concession for the es-
tablishment of a lottery in the kingdom,
franchise being given to six people on
promise Of the annual payment of
haif-million dollars. This proposition
the ministers would not support, and
the proposition had the vote of only
one white man. the other twenty
votes necessary to carry it be-
ing contributed entirely by ma
tives and half-castes. This act
was followed on the afternoon of
Jan. ~, after the departure of the
Mariposa, by springlng vote of want
of confidence in the ministry. and
which after but little argument was
passed by vote of %. the exact num-
Der necessary. The defeated ministry
had had the confidence of the public
and of capitalists and the business COM
munity and as the propagation of
parliament had been set for
Jan. 21, by
The Queen Herself,
their tenure of office was expected to
run until 1894. Considerable excitement
dents of the islands, which was height
ened on Jan. Is by the appointment of a
ministry in which there was no con-
fidence, and by the fact that the queen
on the morning of the 18th signed
the lottery bill. The climax was
reached OH Jan. Is by the queen
attempting to promulgate the new
constitution guaranteeing to her
absolute authority, in which act her
new ministry declined to indorse her.
The queen made her appeal almost en-
tirely to the natives and half-castes to
sustain her. She declared to the popu-
lace that her ministry would not carry
out her commands, and it appeared for
time that some Of the excited native
leaders would kill the members of the
cabinet for refusing to carry
out her wishes. On the afternoon
of Jan. 16 nearly 1900 natives
assembled on Palate square as support
ers of the queen. On the platform were
j. A. Cummings, j. E. Bush, j. A.
Nawhl, W. White. e. r. Kamauoha, A.
Rosa, r. W. Wilcox, G. l.. Hopkins and
others. Resolutions were adopted de-
claring confidence in the queen and
giving her assurance that all present
would give her cordial support and in
d0rSe her outlined policy. Speeches
were made by those present in sup
port of these resolutions, after
which the meeting adjourned. A mass
meeting of tine whites on the same aft
ernoon was attended by about 1,200 de-
termined men. The meeting was ad-
dressed by Mobiles, ThurSton aad Bald
win and Representative Wilder. of the
revolutionary party of 1887, and since
then members of
The Legislature.
Thurston declared that the promises
OF the queen were worthless. and it
was not her fault that the streets had
not run red with blood. He declared
that the time had come to establish
free government. He read a report
drawn up by committee OF thirteen
declaring the establishment of pro-
visonal government and offered res0lu
tons ratifying such action and empow
ering the committee to further devise
such ways and means as might be nec6s-
Sary to secure a permanent maintenance
of law and order and protection of
life, liberty and property in Ha-
wall. Speeches were made by II. f.
Glade, Mr.. Young, c. BoIte, j. Emme-
leuts, II. Baldwin and r. NJ. Green,
sustaining the resolutions. On the same
afternoon an executive order was issued
as follows:
sit is hereby ordered and decreed that
until further ordered, the right of a
writ Of habeaS corpus is hereby sus-
pended and martial law is hereby de-
clared throughout the island OF Ohu.''
This was signed by Sanford B. Dole,
minister Of foreign affairs; j. A. King,
minister Of the interior; ?. G. Jones,
minister Of finance, and William V.
Smith, attorney general, the four coll
stituting the executive council of the
provisional government of the Ha-
waiian islands. Simultaneous with
/ this proclamation another was issued
dismisslrg the existing ministry and
marshal, and at the same time a guard
of thirty armed men took charge of
the government building, placing the
ministers of the queen under arrest.
5:15 o'clock 200 sailors and marines
from United States S. S. Boston landed
and proceeded to guard the American
consulate and residency, and also took
up position near the residence of j.
B. Atherton, short distance from the
place where the provisional government
was in session. Late in the afternoon
the following was
Issued by the Queen:
81, Liliuokalani, by the grace Of God
and under the constitution of the Ha-
waiian kingdom, queen, do-hereby SOL
emnly protest against any and all acts
done against myself and the constltu-
tional government Of the Hawaiian
kingdom by persons claiming to have
established a provisional government
of and for this kingdom. l yield to the
superior forces of the United States of
America, whose minister plenipoten
tiary, his excellency, John L. Stevens,
has caused United States troops
to be landed at Honolulu and has de-
elared thrt he would support said pro-
yisional government. Now, to avoid
any collision Of armed forces anq per-