Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-31
UNFIT TO RULE
What Mr.. G. L. Macarthur Saws of
the Deposed Queen.
HOW HE CHANGED HIS OPINION
Commissioner BIount's Report Sc
vereIy Criticised by Him.
BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE

c. l.. Macarthur, ex7state senator Of New
York and editor of the Troy Budget, was
before the Senate Hawaiian investigating
committee today. He went to Honolulu in
March for the purpose of investigating the
situation for himself. He told the commit
tee that he went there prepossessed in favor
of the queen. but that he came away en-
tirely convinced that the revolution was
justified, that the queen was unfit to rule
the Islands and that the men who are at
the mead OF the provisional government are
capable of giving the people far better
government than they have ever had He
said the revolution was over when he ar
rived. and the Dole government fairly we'll
established, but that the subject of the re-
cent change and the proper government of
the Islands was the only one discussed, SO
that he did not want for opportunity to get
at the facts in the case. Explaining the
reason why his sympathies had originally
peen with the queen. he said he had gone
tnere with the idea that she was being
robbed of her crown lands, but he soon dis
covered his error and learned that instead
OF having any vested right in the lands she
sifhpiy heid them In trust as sovereign and
was not entitled to them or to the revenues
from them after she left the throne.
flhulns ne had been misled in this matter
ne began thorough investigation, which
ended In his becoming an ardent supporter
OF the present government, as calculated in
every way to conserve the best interests of
the inhabitants Of the islands and of human.
ity at large.
The queen u Heather mt Heart,
ne said the queen was a woman of fair
intelligence, but that she was at heart a
neathen as were all the people Of the native
race race which, he said, was fast diving
out and one to which it would be an act of
1oily to entrust the government of these
fair islands
furthermore. he called attention to the
1act that Liliuokalani had not a trace of
royal blood in her VEINS being neither line
any nor coliaterally descended from King
hamehameha, and said that much svm
pathy was wasted upon her upon the eroynd
rule. "
MT. Macarthur was on the islands at the
tlme that Commissioner Blount was there
and stopped at the same hotel with him
lie declared that Blount's report was a ner-
version Of the facts as he had gathered
tnem. he also pronounced as absurd the
story OF Stevens conspiracy He then told
or the excitement during the sitting of the
legislature, when the Christian women had
prayed from day to day with the queen NOT
10 sign nor sanction the lottery and opium
Dlils, and of the queens effort to abropa 70
the constitution, which. he said, had brought
about the revolution. ''of which Stevens was
as innocent as an unborn child
How could it, he asked, be otherwise
He was absent from the islands when the
revolution began and was too seasick when
ne returned to give attention to the revo-
luton. Neither Stevens nor the United
States cruiser had arrived back in Honolu-
iu until after the revolution had been under
full head for fully forty EIGHT hours and he
and the officers of the vessel were in utter
ignorance of what had happened until
they landed. Then he and they acted
promptly. That does not look much like
a Stevens conspiracy. 1t was the fact
that the queens party took advantage Of
his absence to establish a new constitution
and to make revolution of their own,
and she lost her throne in the attempt"
Crtttctses BlOunt's Method of Getting
Information.
Mr.. Macarthur criticised Mr.. Blount's
method of getting information and declared
that the most ordinary newspaper man
would have gone into the subject far more
thoroughly. las 1 understand it," he said,
Mr.. Blount only visited the islands of
Maui outside of Oahu. and then only paid
a visit to see the great Spreckles sugar
plantation, the largest in the world where,
OF course, he was handsomely entertained.
What he should have done was to have
visited the great island of Hawaii, the gar
den island of Kauai and the island of Mo-
lokai, and to have seen the conditions Of
these islands for himself, and nave con-
versed with the leading men of all parties
throughout the group. instead Of shutting
himself up in Honolulu and getting most Of
his information at second hand"
Mr.. Macarthur took strong grounds In
favor of the annexation Of the Islands.
Mr.. Macarthur was followed by Dr. NJ b.
Delameter, DR.. F. r. Day and Rev. r. r.
Hoes, the testimony of all being favorable
to the provisional government