The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-09
QUEEN ILLS FRIEND.
President Cleveland Will Do
Nothing for Hawaii
THEY ARE CONVINCED At LAST.
Recent Reports seem rnsredfbie. Bat
Thsy Are xss DsnIsd-A Prees-
asns fsr Annsxsffoa.

prominent Americans residing IA Hawaii
White rot an cfacer Of the provision al
goysrnmsat. ne probably has more lnaa-
eaes with the faen ia control there ns legal
adviser than any other man. Speaking
CT Published reports Of President
Cieveisnd's intention 10 restore
Queen LEiinokaiaBi 20 the throne this
gentleman. while not saying so directly,
hints that the Americans in Hawaii will
make despsrats rssistznee 20 sny attempt
20 turn the islands over 10 nssIve rule
again. After predicting that hloodshsd
would surely follow any sneh attempt. be
says:
aThs provisional government has now
been Ia control neariy year end has been
recognized and encouraged BY the United
States government Is il reasonable TO
expect that those who have incurred such
grave responsibilities IN the revolution
and who have given time and money TO
the uIaintenanee % security and justice
will willingly submit 90 being placed ~
the mercy Of those who are known 10 be
unfit 90 govefn aud 20 whose sense OF JUS
ttce they would fear 20 intrust themselves
and their interes.s7"
HoSoLrLu. Nov. Especial to Posr-Is-
TKEIsGEzcKR via Victoria Chief Justice
ide and Land Commissioner Chambers.
who passed on the Mariposa en- route TO
Samoa, stated that Cleveland's Pacific
policy Is not 20 let go OF either Samoa or
Hawaii. In the case of the latter they
say be will send protectorate treaty to
the senate in December, and
will recommend provisional ac-
ton To have an election to
settle the form Of permanent government,
only persons with an income qualification
OF 1000 10 vote At this election. Presi-
dent Dole and his ministers say such an
arrangement would be satisfactory. On
the other hand the Royalists claim to have
authentic adviees from Washington City
that the queen will be restored within q
short time.
The Planters Labor and Supply Com
pany are agitated over interference with
Chinese labor which would result from an
ncxation, and at their meeting next month
they will discuss this question.
Capt. MetcaIfe, agent of the American
Lioyds. Is now directing the attempts to
float the Miowera, and is having piles
driven on her broadside, by the aid OF
which he will try 10 pull her of. The
agents Of the boat are not hopeful of the
success Of this plan. Capt. Mcdowell
Sampson posts. Metcalfe claims that Nc
Dowell erred In towing from the bow. and
that the vessel can only come of as she
went on.
WAsHrxsroS crrr, Nov. s.-Some sensa-
tionai dispatches published yesterday
afternoon and this morning TO the effect
that LiliuokaIani would be restored to the
throne OF Hawaii by the United States
government broughta food of inquiries 70
the state department. The officials of this
department ridicuied the proposition,
which Is considered by them as absurd.
This Is the nearest to any statement that
has been obtained from any one In en-
official capacity connected with the state
department with regard to the Hawaiian
matter.
An interesting fact has been developed
bearing on the Hawaiian annexation ques-
ton in the records of the navy department.
The brooks or Midway islands, which are
considered part OF the Hawaiian group.
were on August 2s 1867. formally taken
possession Of by Capt. William Rey
nolds, commanding the United States
steamship Lackawanna, on behalf
Of the United States. The islands
had previously been discovered.
Jnly 5. 1889, by Capt. III. G. Brooks, of the
Hawaiian bark Cambria, who formally
took possession of them in the name of the
Hawaiian government. The United States
was actuated by request to Secretary OF
the Navy Gideon Welles by Allan McLanc.
then president of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, who desired to
use the islands as q coaling station.
Secretary Welies thereupon issued orders
20 Rear Admiral Thaeher. commanding
the North Pacific squadron, TO take formal
possession of the islands. Capt. Reynolds,
In reporting the ceremony of taking pos-
session of the islands to Rear Admiral
Thatcher, saws:
at is exceedingly gratifying 10 have
been concerned I'm taking possession of
the first islands ever added to the do
minion OF the United States beyond our
own shores, and l sincerely hope the in
stance will be by no means the last of our
insular possessions"
In view of much that has been said and
written on the lack OF precedent for the
assumption by the United States of do
mlnion over detached islands, such as the
Hawaiian group, this record in the navy
department bears on the question With in.
,erest
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
a nefNaa fn the Ruraa a.