Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-04
HERE FROM HAWAII.
Talks With the Commissioners From
Honolulu.
AFFAIRS ON THE ISLANDS.
Arrival of the Anne Ration Commission
Their Chats With q Star Reporter on Their
Way to washington-The Ex-Oueen and
the People of the Islands.

1t was O'Clock yesterday afternoon when
the train bearing the Hawaiian annexation
commission bowled into the 9th street station.
The train was two hours and a half late owing
to the fact that it had been held back in Chi
cago in order that it might bring on the COM
missloners, who were behind time when they
arrived there from Omaha. With the party
was also STAR reporter, who joined them at
Baltimore, having gone ever earlier in the day.
The commission were two hours late when
they arrived in Chicago on Thursday, and they
then expected to take the night express over
the Pennsylvania road for this city. They
found on their arrival, however. that the rail-
road officials had detained the Keystone express
for them. and they hurried across the city and
boarded the train. which at once pulled out for
a fast run to make up much as possible Of
the lost time.
MEMBERS OF THE PARTY.
The members of the commission who have
come on to press the claims Of Hawaii to annex
alton are Mr.. Lorrin A. Thurston, the chair
man: Mr.. VIM. r. Castle, Mr. Charles L. Carter.
Mr.. Joseph Marsden and Mr.. W. C. Wilder OF
the hve three are lawyers, one is the president
Of steamship line and railroad and largely
interested in other corporations in the islands,
while the fifth is sugar grower. By nation
atty three are Hawaians by birth, though Of
foreign parentage. one is a Canadian and one an
Englishman. With them was Mr.. VIM, A. Kin
ney. a Salt Lake lawyer, but a Hawaiian by
birth. He met the party at Ogden and came
on with them to lend them any aid that might
be in his power. Mr.. c. f. Peterson of Homo
lulu is the secretary Of the commission. Miss
Andrews. relative of Mr. Thurston's. was
originally with them. having left Honolulu on
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sion TO San Francisco. She was the only one
besides the commission who was allowed to leave
the islands on the first steamer to sail after the
deposition Of Queen Liliuakolani. She sep
arated from the commission when they passed
through Harrisburg and went on to her home
in Brooklyn.
MET IN BALTIMORE.
The Keystone express should have left
Baltimore yesterday afternoon at 130 for this
city, but it was two hours later when she drew
into the union station. Mr.. r. A. Parke, the
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania road, ard
THE STAR reporter were waiting on the plat
form and they stepped aboard as soon as the
train came to stop. Mr.. Parke had gone over
to meet the party 20 see that every courtesy
and convenience was shown them on their ar
rival after their long journey. 1t was a long
and tircsome journey that they had made, for
they had come on from Honolulu in fifteen DAYS,
The members of the commission were found
in the sleeping car in which they had travelled
from Chicago They looked tired and dusty,
but they evidently ready for ANYTHING
that might turn up. even an interview at the
State Department. though one of them said
that he was going to have a bath before he
would talk annexation with any one. Even the
sight of a newspaper man could not rattle them,
though they had been bombarded with uues-
tions all The way from San Francisco to Wash
ington. The first question this time, however,
came from a member of the commission.
ANXIOUS ABOUT CLEGHoRN.
elias John NJ. Cleghorn reached Washington
vet, and if SO who is he?"
They seemed rather relieved when they were
told that nothing had been heard Of the gentle
man in this city up to noon and that no one
knew just who he was anyway. The members
of the commission all told The STAR man that
they had never before heard OF such man and
that they could not understand why he should
have been in such hurry to reach Washington,
as if the first man in was sure of having every
thing his own way. 81 have known Mr.. Cleg-
horn, the father Of the Princess Kaiulani. for
many years and very well. but never heard of
his having a brother in this country until we
saw by the newspapers that he had stolen q
march on US in San Francisco, said Mr.. Thur
ston to the reporter. GAS soon as We learned
that he was hurry;ng on to Washington to lay
before this government the claims of Kaiulani
to the throne OF Hawaii we thought we had
better hurry on, too, and so we left San
Francisco as soon after rs could, .and
we have not been lingering along the
way either. SO far as We can make out the
whole thing looks very much like a colossal
fake, although there would seem to have been
somebody travelling east and posing as the rep
resentatiye OF the princess, for he has been
heard from at.various points along the way. He
could have had no further information from
Hawaii or instructions either. for he had no
way of learning anything definitely beyond
what was in the San Francisco papers on the
morning Of our arrival there. He must have
started off at once on his own account; that is,
on the supposition that there is any such per-
son. The most curious thing about it all is that
he tells such straight story. That is to say,
he puts the claims of the princess in just the
way one would expect OF her uncle. He says
that the people of Hawaii would not be willing
to see Liliuokalani back on the throne. He is
perfectly right in that, but he might have gone
step farther and said that we would be no
better satisfied with Kaiulani.
The truth Of the matter is" continued Mr..
Thurs ton, that things had come to such pass
in Hawaii that something had to be done and
that right away. The lottery business and the
efforts Of the queen to Dust the members OF her
cabinet brought matters to a head, and almost
before we realized it the whole thing was over
with. You can hardly call it a revolution. 1t
was simply an uprising. simultaneous and un-
expected, and we were almost as much sur
prised over it all as was the queen herself"
Then the conversation took a more general
turn. for the commissioners were all anxious to
know what attitude the press and the people Of
Washington were taking on the matter. When
the train started ont from Baltimore, little
before o'ciock, the chairman Of the commits
sion was busily engaged IN debating to his
rotary. who had typewriter out on the table
between the seats and was adding sheet after
sheet to pile that was already formidable
enough. The work was kept up almost until
the time that the monument came into sight.
All the members of the party seemed very glad
that their long journey was SO near an end and
spoke hopefully of the work they had come to
do. They are q substantial and prosperous
looking Get of men. The youngest member Of
the party is Mr.. Carter. who is the son Of the
late minister from Hawaii to this country. He
is a graduate of the University of Michigan and
though but twenty-seven years of age is already
a prominent lawyer in Honolulu. Mr.. Mars
den and Mr.. Wilder were sitting together when
The STAR men joined them, and the CONVERSE
ton that ensued lasted until the train reached
the capital.
TALKS WITH THE CoMMIssIONEDs.
1--WE are here to secure annexation as you
probably have heard a good many times
already" said Mr.. Msrsden, who is q heavy
sugar raiser. ''Two days after the deposition
Of the ex-queen we sailed from Honolulu on
the CiAudne, a small island steamer belonging
to Mr.. Wilders company, that was chartered
by the provisional government to carry us to
San Francisco. Notwithstanding the fact that