The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-30
Hawaiian Matters.

WASHINGTON, March l8.-Hawai-
ian matters were again discussed at
the Cabinet meeting. The result took
the form of two typewriter pages of
additional instructions to Commits
sioner Blount. The most that can be
made out of it is that additional in
structions were made necessary in the
light of the last news from Hawaii.
1t is believed the reports indicating
increased activity on the part of the
English have prompted a change in
previous instructions, so as to offset
any inroads that may be made upon
the influence maintained up to that
time by the American representatives
in Honolulu.
1t is reported to-day that the in
structions which Blount was expected
to convey to Minister Stevens cOntem-
plated the withdrawal of the Boston's
battalion from their station on shore,
| and explicit disapprOval of Minister
Stevens act in establishing tenn
porary protectorate.
CHICAGO, March ia Washing
ton special says: English intrigues
in Hawaii may cause change in the
administrations policy. There was a
raising of eyebrows in official circles
over the dispatches which told how
the royalists were looking for support
| from English interests, and how Maj
or Wodehouse, the British Minister,
was seeking to discredit the Provis-
ional Government. His meddling was
natural enough, for he all along has
been in favor of the Queen. 1t does
not seem to have occurred to some
officials here that there was any med
ding by another Englishman.
Davies, the guardian of Princess
Kaiulani, in coming to Washington
on self-appointed mission, has been
given plenty of unofficial encourage
ment here, and has shown his delight
at the apparent unfriendliness of
| Cleveland's administration to annex
| alton. Davies is the agent at Homo
lulu of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
1t was he who secured the rejection of
the treaty negotiated by Blaine, but
his present intrigues are not so dan
gerous as those of the British Minister
in Honolulu, and the administration
seems to recognize this.
The Hawaiian Enjoys.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Castle
and Thurston of the Hawaiian Com
mission and Paul Neumann, attorney
| for Queen Liliuokalani, left Wash
| ington tonight. Mr.. Castle is en-
route home, intending to sail from
San Francisco for Honolulu on the
31st. The others will return to Wash
ington and await the outcome of
Biount's visit to the Hawaiian ISL
ands..
Calls on Mrs. Cleveland.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-Princess
Kaiulani, with chaperone, paid a
social call on Mrs. Cleveland.
CIeveland's Hawaiian Policy
| The somewhat extraordinary intel
| ligence comes from Washington that
President Cleveland has discovered
that his Hawaiian policy is blunder,
| SAYS the San Francisco Call of the Goth
| inst. He is even said to have added
| two pages of instructions to the Origi-
nal amount thought necessary for the
| guidance of Commissioner BlOunt.
The secret of all this is that the Eng
lish party exulted somewhat too open
| ly. They counted Cleveland as ire
vocably on their side as if he had been
in birth an Englishman. All the eX-
| Queens retainers eXtOlled Cleveland's
sagacity in sending commissioner to
the islands. 1t was exactly what they
wanted. In fact it was the policy they
had marked out for him. There are
business as we'll as political interests
| to be served. Davies, the guardian
of the Princess Kaiulani, is the
Honolulu agent of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad. 1t is
quite natural that the Canadian Paci-
fic Railroad Company should prefer
to see the islands under an English
protectorate than to see them part
of the United States. Davies cannot
be censured in working for his COM
pany, but there are a good many
| Americans who do not see why Cleve-
land should assist. The appointment
of commissioner, says Davies, is the
very thing we want. Of $4,000 votes
in Hawaii he does not think that
more than 1000 will be cast in favor OF
annexation. After the snub Mr..
Cleveland has administered it is quite
likely that the majority will be
against annexation. What then?
Suppose under the native and Eng
lish combination the vote should be
adverse to annexation. Suppose even
that it should favor an English pro.
tectorate? Does Mr.. Davies suppose
that England will be allowed to take
possession of the islands without pro-