The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

Palace gates, and in the grounds
near the great flight of steps, and
natives were also gathered in large
groups in the Government Build
ing yard and elsewhere in the
neighborhood. The Queen retired
to the Blue Room and summoned
the Ministers.
THE CABINET MENACED.
The Ministers repaired at once
to the Queen in the Blue Room.
She was seated at a table, still
dressed in the magnificent costume
Of the morning, and sparkling in a
coronet of diamonds. She at once
presented them with the draft of
the new Constitution, demanded
their signatures, and declared her
intention to promulgate the same
at once. Acknowledgement Peter
son and Minister Of Interior Col
burn decidedly refused to do so,
and Ministers Cornwell and Parker,
though more hesitatingly, joined
their colleagues in their refusal.
All the Cabinet now advised and
even strongly urged Her Majesty
not to violate the law, but she was
not to be dissuaded from her revo-
lutionary course. Bringing her
clenched hand down upon the
table, Queen Liliuokalani said,
Gentlemen, l do not wish
to hear any more advice.
l intend to promulgate this
Constitution and to do it now"
Proceeding she told the Cabinet
that unless they abandoned their
resistance at once, she would go out
upon the steps of the Palace and
tell the excited crowd there as
sembled that she wished to give
them a new Constitution, but her
Ministers were inside the Palace
hindering her from doing it. The
Ministers remembered the riot at
the Court House, and the fate OF
the unlucky representatives who
fell into the hands Of the mob
They knew what the threat meant,
and before it could be put into exc.
cution they fed for their lives.
THE APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS.
From the government building
the Ministers Immediately sent
word down town, asking the citi'
zens what support the Cabinet
could expect in its resistance to the
revolutionary movement begun by
the Queen. Leading citizens Of
every political complexion hurried
together at Hon. w. 0. Smiths
office, and while their numbers
were every instant augmented by
fresh accessions, held a hurried
consultation as to the course to be
pursued. There was but one mind
among all those gathered together
tradesmen, lawyers, mechanics
merchants, were of one opinion :
unanimity of sentiment I.Ignt
such as.h-z-.s not been witnesse
ha-a Tor years, and it was agree
without dissenting voice that
was the duty of every got
citizen without distinction of par
; to support the law and the libe
ties of the people, and to resist Il
revolutionary encroachments
the Queen. A message to tn
effect was at once dispatched
the Cabinet.
A NEW STRUGGLE WITH THE QUEE
The Ministers now revisited tt
Palace again, not without Il
apprehension that their person
would be taken into custody eve
if they suffered no bodily harr
Great pressure had been brougl
upon Her Majesty to induce her
60 no farther and to retrace Il
revolutionary steps she had alreac
taken. While her troops stot
drawn up before the Palace, wal
ing for the final word of comman
the Queen hesitated and hesitate
The conference in the Blue Roo,
lasted for a long time while tt
, result trembled in the balanc
She could not be induced to gi,
up her unlawful project, but final
consented with bitter reluctance
, a temporary postponement of Il
} premeditated coup.
) THE QUEENS SPEECH.
The Queen was a very angl
woman, when at 4 P. NJ. Saturda
she returned to the Throne Roo
where were assembled the Hui X
laiaina with most of the natl,
members of the Legislature, II
Cabinet, the Governor of Oah
the young Princes, Chief Justit
Judd and Mr.. Justice Bickerto
the Staff, ladies of the Court, k
hill bearers, etc. She assembled Il
dais and spoke substantially /
follows:
PRINCES, MOBILES AND REPRESENT
TIvES:
I have listened to the thousands
voices of my people that have cor
to me-, and 1 am prepared to gra
their request. The present Cons
tuition is full of defects, as the Chi
Justice here will testify, as questio
regarding 1t have so often come
fore him for settlement. It is