The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-02
THEY WERE MISREPRESENTED
Biount Omitted and Distorted Some
of the Evidence.

Blount Omitted and Distorted Some
of the Evidence.
WASHINGTON. November 24th.-Pro-
fessor William ID. Alexander, for twenty
years Surveyor-General of Hawaii and
for long time President of Oahu col
lege at Honolulu, has been already
quoted in these dispatches as one of the
most trustworthy and unpre JUDGED
witnesses of the events which led up to
the Hawaiian revolution last January.
Professor Alexander is the son of one
of the early missionaries at Hawaii, and
was born on the Islands. He is gradu-
ate of Yale, having been in salutatorIan
of the class of go. He is a fellow in the
Royal Geographical Society, is the
author of Hawaiian grammar and of
standard history of Hawaii, and is con-
sidered one of the abest and best-in-
Hawaii. Mr.. Alexander was one
of the authorities consulted by Mr..
Blount for information to embody
in his now famous report, but the ven
cradle Hawaiian scholar was astonished
to find when the report appeared that
nearly every thing he had furnished had
been suppressed by Cleveland's para
mount commissioner" Speaking of Mr.
Blount's report, Professor Alexander
said to-night: the long expected re-
port of Blount on Hawaiian affairs has
Just been laid before me. it is impossible
at SO short notice to review a state docu-
ment of such Importance, but justice
demands that some statement should be
made in regard TO the attitude of the
Provisional Government toward Col
onel Blount. Confident of justice of its
cause, the Provisional Government af-
forded the commissioner every possible
facility for obtaining information, and
spared neither time nor money in furn-
ishing him with full details on every
subject under investigation. While it
was supposed by the Provisional Gov
eminent and its friends that the chief
object of his mission was to report upon
their offer of annexation totthe United
States, he has carefully concealed his
real object, which seems to have been
to make out case against the character
of the former representative of his own
Government,
with the approval of the Cabinet
and at Blount's request | prepared full
and careful statements on the past his
tory and present ownership of lands in
the country, on the Constitutional his
tory of the Government, on political
events of Kalakauas reign and the
causes that led to the revolution and
treaty of 1854. He has printed an &C
count of the treaty of 1854, compari
lively unimportant matter of ancien
history, but has suppressed all other in
formation which l furnished him, sub
stituting therefor statements of thu
Royalist Cabinet and sympathizers
Under the direction of the Minister o
Finance, other officers of the Hawaiian
Government made elaborate and accu
rate reports for his use on variety of sub
jects. He never, however. offered t
have my testimony taken down in re
gard to the facts of the late revolution
of which he knew that | had been al
eyewitness. While / do not question
his honesty of purpose, his method
were those of "a prosecuting attorney
and his report IS an astonishing piece o
special pleading 1t is pervaded from
beginning TO end with strange hostilit.
to the American colony. built up am
fostered by the policy of the Unite'