The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-11-07

come to San Francisco to get to the
Islands. Mr.. Davies states that he is
confident that the queen will soon be
restored to power. Mr.. Davies urged
some sort of compromise that would
allay the feeling between the annexa-
| tionists and the royalists. Some terms
of agreement should be reached to
prevent the foreigners from holding
the Hawaiians in bondage.
action Promised at Last.
A dispatch from Washington dated
the 9th says:
The leading members of the COM
mittee on foreign affairs in the house,
and those of the majority especially,
think Cleveland will send to congress
Immediately after the silver bill is out
of the way a message and the CORE
spondence in the Hawaiian matter. 1t
seems to be the impression that the
message is already prepared and that
| the president will make his recon-
mendations in it and give congress
something to do. One of the demo-
cratic members of the committee said
there were three solutions of the
trouble in Hawaii. One scheme was
the restoration of the old order of
things by placing the queen upon the
! throne, and another for annexation or
protectorate. That one of these
plans would be adopted was thought
very probable, but which would be
favored by the administration or con-
gress he could not say.
Hit of Illinois, formerly chairman
of the committee on foreign affairs,
says the difficulty of dealing with
the Hawaiian problem is one which
could not be overestimated. Annex
alton, with the peculiar conditions
existing in the islands, is something
that might well puzzle the wisest
statesman. With the Chinese
troubles we have in this country now
and the additional questions which
the annexation of the islands would
raise, not only in regard to the Chi
nese, but the japanese and the natives
of the islands, it would naturally
cause some deliberation before the
islands were annexed as territory
and intended for statehood.
IT would be the height of absurdity
to try and set up the old queen and
restore her to power, and to establish
a protectorate would mean to abandon
the republican form of government
for the islands. a protectorate would
not mean that this government was to
offer its protection alone, but that it
intended as well to govern the
islands as possession. If protec-
torate were established this govern
ment would have to have the affairs
g ;.Io lie oOn1T1ofad in Yo1arnar
which would be satisfactory to the
United States and not be governed by
what might be the popular will of the
people who now inhabit the islands.
Hit says it is necessary to have the
islands. They are worth more to the
United States than fleet of ten of the
best vessels af1oat. We build ships
for defense, and for the same reason
we ought to acquire the islands, as
they tare the Malta of the Pacific
ocean and are absolutely necessary to
the United States.
Hit, while presenting the difficult
ties in the way of securing the
islands, is not without scheme
which he thinks will be satisfactory.
He says the islands could be ac-
quired as q military and naval station
and governed as such by the United
States.
The reason the United States wants
the islands is the same that induces
this country to build war vessels and
establish military posts. They are
wanted for war purposes, and if ac-
quired as such could be governed
without disturbing the existing con-
ditions or submitting the islands TO
the rule of the most populous yet
ignorant classes of the islands.
Loss of the City of New York.
The steamship City of New York
of the Pacific Mail line went ashore
on the rocks near Point Bonita at the
entrance to the harbor, on the after
uoon of the Goth inst, and it is be-
lieved that she will prove total loss.
She is fixed firm on the rocks and
every effort to pull her off has only
resulted in tearing bigger hole in
her.
The steamer cleared for Japan and
China on the 26th and at 8 p. NJ. start
ed on her outward voyage. She was
in charge of Pilot Johnson who with |
Captain F. H. Johnson, the master, |
was on the bridge. 1t was clear on |
the bay but passing out the Golden |
Gate the steamer ran into an intense
ly thick bank of fog which had hung |
over the sea all day. Orders |
were given to slow down, and the |
steamer went ahead. A strong ebb |
tide was running and it is believed |
that Pilot Johnson lost his bear
ings. The two combined brought |
the vessel on the rocks and the
rapidly ebbing tide left her hard,
holes being knocked in by the trem-
endous weight of the ship.
The first intimation of the disaster
came to the city about p. NJ. the
Merchants Exchange observer at
Point Lobos telephoning in, that
large vessel must be in distress at
Point Bonita from the gun firing, and /
the fact that the fog siren at Point
Bonita was blowing signals not the
same as its set blasts.
Immediately there was race of
tugs to the scene. At first it was
that the helpless vessel was
the Monowai, she being due in, but
the tug J. H. Redmond returned
early in the evening with the correct
Meanwhile the tow