Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-02-03
DRAWING TO A CLIMAX
Hawaiian Question the Sole
Topic of Discussion.
THE COMM. sslONERs ARRIVE TO-DAY


tend to blake - Protest.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Diligent efforts
have been made this morning to find Mr..
John Nj. Cleghorn, of San Francisco,
who was expected to arrive here last
night to lay before President Harrison
the claims of his niece Princess Kaiulani,
80 the Hawaiian throne.
The registers of all the prominent no.
tells We're searched for his name, but
without success, nor has any word been
received from him indicating that he has
,rrived
II Mr.. Cleghorn has arrived here he
has Avoided the public hostelres.
According to the Chicago despatch,
as spon rs the news of the revolt be-
came known Mr.. Cleghorn packed his
sripland took the first train for Wash
lngten with the result that he arrived in
Chicago As hours ahead of the Commits
siouers and was due at the Capital that
much i'll advance of them.
HIS purpose is to present the claims of
mis- Niece to the United States Govern
| ment before the Commission appointed
by the Provisional Government arrives at
of A. S. Cleghorn, whose deceased wife
was sister of the deposed Queen Lii
liuokalani and whose daughter, the heir
apparent, is at fashionable school in
England.
He will lay before President Harrison
| the claims of his niece and will plead for
| the establishment of protectOrate with
the Princess as Queen.
This girl" he said, educated in
England, will be much more satisfactory
to the foreign element in the Sandwich
Islands than Queen Liliuokalani was. 1t
will be better for all concerned if the
| deposCd Queen be kept from the throne
| She hates foreigners and if her demands
had found favor it would only have been
| 4 matter OF few years before she would
have confiscated the property of aliens.
She did wrong in endeavoring to get the
| Cabinet to sign new Constitution which
| would disfranchise foreigners.
II do not think the provisional govern
| ment will last long, for l believe that the
| United States will establish Il protector
| ate instead of anneXing the islands.
| England will certainly not permit annex
| alton without making u vigorous protest
and perhaps a great deal of trouble. If
the United States will not see the justice
md right of the claims will lay before
t, shall go to England and appeal to
| Great Britain.
- The Princess Kaiaulani is strong
| Drained woman, capable of ruling Hawaii
| She is receiving the best of education,
| with the expectation of some day sitting
| on the Hawaiian throne.'
The commissioners of the revOlutiOnist
| government i'll Hawaii will not reach
| Washington until after the Cabinet meet
ing this afternoon, and will not be able
TO the Secretary of State before to-
| morrow morning.
| The telegram from Berlin to the effect
that if the United States should annex
| Hawaii Germany might demand Il slight
| compensation elsewhere, is discussed with
1 much interest in official circles.
But one construction can be placed
upon it, and that is that Germany will
/ insist upon the United States retiring
from its joint control with Germany and
| England of tie Samoan Islands.
| This is the only place where Germany
and the United States have the least i'll
tercsts in common, and, of course, the
only place where Germauy's demand for
Slight compensation" would have any
footing.
The situation of affairs in Samoa has
been the subject of considerable CORE
| |pOndencc between this country AMI Ger
many fer several months past Cedar
krantz and Won Pillsner, respectively
| thief justice and treasurer for Samoa, ap
pointed under the tripartite agreement,
gave proved unsatisfactory, and the APP
poiutmcnt of II SUCCESSOR to Cedarkrantz
has already been decided upon.
| There was II time. :. few weeks ago,
| when Samoan matters took on quite a
| serious phase, but turn for the better
has occurred, and all is now peaceable in
that region.
1t may be stated that the disposition OF
tie Hawaiian question will not i'll any
| wise depend upon either England's atti-
| tude with reference to Hawaii or Ger
manys attitude toward Samoa.
| The interests of the United States il
Samoa are relatively like those of Ger
many in Hawaii, being comparatively
nominal except for harbor privileges at
Page Page. If the right of the United
States to the undisputed possession OF
| that harbor and the privilege of main
tanning naval station there We're con
iirmed in Il satisfactory manner, it is in
| timuted that this Government might Dc
induced to forego it's share i'll the ar
rangement to govern the islands, which!
, so far, it is alleged, proved not alto
gether, satisfactory.
The action of the Navy Department
with reference to the Hawaiian situation
outlined i'll these dispatches yesterda!
will be adhered Ia. Preparation of nava
vessels for sea service will be uctivel,
pushed, but the naval force ut Honolulu
will not be augmented to any extern
unless affairs should take or have IL ser
} ious aspect. Vessels on foreign service
will be held within reach of the telc
| graph, and marines will be placed undo
orders preparatory to peedy departure
| ENGl AND Will NOT PROTEST.