The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-02
GREAT INTEREST SHOWN
Movements Of EngIand's W~arshlps
Cause But Little Fear. ,
WANT THE MATTER SETTLED.
Parties Interested In the Nicaragua Canal
are DESTROYS of speedy Action In Re-
gard to the Hawaiian Ouestion-what
Senator Frye says-Germany Passive.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The probability
IL that, IL there are any movements on the
part of English warships toward the Pa
cifc Ocean they are the usual annual
changes of stations and commanders which
occur at this time OF the year. There was
q dispatch from the Pacific coast yesterday
TO the effect that a British vessel had been
ordered to Esquinauet to take the place
OF one whose commanders term at that
sAtion had expired. The movements of
We vessels OF England are being con
stantly changed, and it is possible that
some British vessel may nov be on the
way TO the Pacific Ocean. But the navy
department has no information that such
movements have been ordered IA the re-
suit OF recent developments in Hawaii.
AS for our own feet, which was in Pa
cifc waters, il IL a matter Of public in
formation that nearly all of the vessels
were ordered to the Atlantic post inc are
now under the command of Admiral
Gherardi. IL was stated at the department
that Admiral Gherardi Is expected to ar
rive at the Barbados about Feb. b. While
no definite information would be given
on the subject, the impression was created
that the
Department IL Very Anxious
to be able to communicate with Admiral
Gherardi at that time. III that officer
shall receive orders there to send two
vessels to Hawaii, the action would, OF
course, be OF much significance. Great
Britain would doubtless interpret such
an order as indicating that the United
States intended to make a display of naval
forces. II is not improbable that as a re-
suit the British fleet, which is said to be
quite formidable, now stationed at Van
couver, might also be ordered to Honolu-
lu.
Those who are deeply interested in the
Nicaragua Canal are much in earnest in
their desire to have the United States
take speedy and definite action in the
matter. Ex-senator Warner Miller, who
was here in attendance upon the Blaine
funeral at the time the news from Ha-
wall arrived, soon after sought an inter
view with the President, and urged upon
the latter the importance, to the Nicara-
qua Canal, OF favorable action OF the
United States upon the proposition OF the
provisional government OF Hawaii.
Warner Miller is tbs president OF the
Nicaragua Canal Company. The Presi-
dent did not give him any definite infor-
nation as to what the policy of the gov
eminent will be.
Mr.. Miller is immensely in favor of an
nexation. He says, moreover,
From Personal Knowledge,
that the report that Klaus Spreckles has
been active in secLcing the overthrow OF
the Queen in Hawaii is u~nfounded. Mr..
Miller knows it to be q fact that within
about a month prior to the revolution,
Klaus Spreckles loaned to the Queen a
large amount OF money, and hat Ii is
hardly probable hat so careful a business
man "a Spreckles is would have done that
il he had been at that time conspiring to
bring about a revolution which would re-
suit in the Queens overthrow.
The lack of the cable facilities between
Hawaii and the United States is now
greatly felt. Those congressman who
have constantly opposed the bill to make
the appropriation necessary to establish
that cable line regret their action. 1t Is
possible that one OF the results OF thiz
Hawaiian complication may be the estab-
lishment OF a cable line between the Pa
cifo coast and one OF the islands Of the
Hawaiian group. 1t is known that the
British government and the Canadian Pa
cific railway were in negotiations for the
cable from Vancouver to Honolulu. That
cable was to have been laid within a few
months. 1t is not impossible that the
Hawaiian complication may assist in a
passage Of the bill which proposes to au-
thorize the construction by American
capitalists Of a cable from San Francisco
to the Sandwich Islands.