Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-04

down and Is moving along "a steadily as ever
The presence OF the marines in Honolulu gave
a feeling OF security. and on the night of the
revolution no one was allowed 20 be out on the
streets after $50 O'Clock without pass. This
was no, because any trouble was Anticipated.
but simply 20 prevent the gathering Of crowds
and to put stop TO anything like lawlessness,
Tor If the people had got together in numbers
that night there might have been serious
trouble, and we wanted 10 avoid that IL posi-
bic.
NOT IN THE INTEREST OF suGAR GROWERS
rs there any truth in the statement tina,
the movement toward annexation By the United
growers" asked the reporter
Mr.. Marsden. who is himself a sugar grower.
answered the question in q most emphatic man
ner. Not at all That statement Is as absurd
as some OF the others that have been made
about the matter. In point Of fact TIE sugar
men have opposed annexation all along. and l
was one OF them. We would have more 70 lose
DIV the abolition Of cheap labor than we could
possibly gain BY any union with this country.
ne sugar men were not even consulted and
nave had nothing to do with IT, The demand
Tor annexation was far more general than that -
LILIUoKALaSI's CHARACTER.
What sort of woman is the ex-queen?"
TO describe her briefly l should say that
sac is bad woman. She is not particulsrly
clever, but she is most awfully pig-headel.
Above all else she Is hater of the whites and
would do anything TO orive them away from
Hawaii. She wants everything for Liliuokslani,
and has even gone ~ the extent OF working on
the superstitions of the people in order 20 arouse
a feeling against the whites. She was going
ahead rs If nothing on earth could stop her.
and she had no idea that there was any danger
OF revolution in her kingdom She is an
agreeable woman, and has ALWAYS been rather
courteous TO strangers in the country But
she tricky. She was the prime mover in the
wilcox revolution, and afterwara. did all she
could TO have kalskaua killed in order that she
might rule by herself. In addition 20 her in
come from the state and from the crown lands
she has large allowance to defray the expenses
of her palace and establishment; but she WAS
not satisfied with that and was all the time
reaching out for more, as was shown by her
actions IN the matter of the lottery deal When
the provisional government went into effect il
left her unmolested. ard she was allowed TO re-
tain a portion OF her army as a guard of honor
One OF the FIRST things for the government "a
do now. L presume. is TO make some suitable
provision for her IN her capacity of q queen
out of q job"
DR. SMITH STILL MINISTER.
''What is the position of DIR. j. Mott Smith
in the present state of affairs? Is he still the
minister from Hawaii?''
''oh, yes. The proclamation Of the pro-
vlsional government stated that all the officials
OF the government not expressly named in the
proclamation should continue In Office. The
only ones named we're the queen and certain of
her advisers and the head of her army So DIR.
Smith is still our minister aud l presume be
will aid us in our efforts with this government
We have known him for a long time and he il
held in high esteem. But 1 suppose he knows
more about his status than we do, for 1 do no,
lra.Nv -,.l1 H. &.
case at all The steamer that brought us from
Hawaii also brought q quantity of mail that
should have reached Washington twenty-four
hours ahead Of us, and / take il that be had
some definite word from the new government
As to what our plans now can only SPEAK
in general way. We received a telegram on
the way stating that Secretary Foster had post
for US to do is to lay our request before the
State Department and hope for an early and
favorable answer. We will bring all the in.
fiuence We have to bear, and while we have had
no intimation of the spirit in which this gov.
ernment viii receive our request, beyond wha,
We have been able to gather from the news
papers, yet We feel pretty confident that our
mission will be a success
WANT AN OPEN DISCUSSION.
Mr.. Thurston told The STAR reporter tina,
they had been willing all along to speak freely
to newspaper men, for the commission had
nothing to conceal and they were Of the opinion
that the more the Hawaiian situation was under.
stood and talked about in this country the more
the people would be in favor of annexation He
said that in his opinion the day when diplomacy
consisted in the efforts on the part of one
country to get the better Of another by under
hand means Was past and that nowadays things
are best done openly and above board. He
seemed rather surprised when he was told that
the State Department would probably prefer to
consider the matter in secret and behind closed
doors.
As an instance Of the wav in which the COM
mission looks upon newspaper publicity il il
interesting TO know how the first story of the
Hawaiian revolution came to be printed On
the trip from Honolulu to San Francisco the
commission occupied the time in preparing a
statement in manifold Of the details of the
whole affair. The Caudine arrived at San
Francisco very early last Saturday morning
and Mr.. Ihurston was at once taken off by the
boat from the custom house. He called up the
newspaper Offices by telephone and found that
they had gone to press. However, when he
told them that there had been a revolution in
Hawaii the reporters lost no time in getting
down to the dock and there each one found n
typewriter account OF it all, SO that the whole
story was printed in later edition Of the morn
ing papers.
When the train that brought the commission
ers to this city arrived at the station yesterday
afternoon DIR. j. Mott Smith was on the plat
form waiting for them. Mr.. Smith Wormley
was just outside the station and the members
OF the commission were at once put into car
riages and driven off rapidly to wormley 9
Hotel, where they will make their headquarters
while in the city.