The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-16
WILD RUMORS FROM HAWAII.
1t Is Said the ROyaIists VIII At
tempt to Restore the Queen.

1t Is Said the ROyaIists VIII At
tempt to Restore the Queen.
San Francisco. March 15.-Advices to
the Associated Press per steamer Mari
posa, arrived this morning from Homo
lulu. March 7. A rumor was ahoat on
Sunday night to the effect that the
government, in anticipation of last
desperate effort of the rOyalists to re-
store the queen, had decided to declare
martial law on Monday, the 5th, but it
was not declared: and has not vet
been. 1t is learned. however, that such
course was practically decided on and
not abandoned till the last moment.
The news that the report Of the
United States Senate committee on the
Investigation of the action of the
United States officials at Honolulu and
Iof the state department at Washington.
in connection with the overthrow of
the queen, practically endorsed the
course taken, was received by the an
neXation party with great joy, and
annexation, even before the close of
Clevelend's term, is sanguinely ex-
pected.
The royalists are more seriously af-
fected by it than any news before.
They fully expected that Stevens ac-
ton would be condemned.
The government is considering a bill
calling for the election of delegates to
a constitutional convention. The date
lis not fixed. but it will probably be in
May and at the conclusion its work
will be publicly proclaimed. The terms
of election are such as to give the
present executive and advisory council
control of the convention.
d. 3. Smith, the candidate of the
annexation league. has been elected to
| fill the vacancy in the advisory council
and the difference between the league
and the provisional government have
| been healed.
| At a meeting of the council held this
| AFTERNOON, a bill was presented provid-
ling for the calling of a convention.
! The bill provides that the convention
shall be held at the call of the presi-
Ident and shall consist of the executive
/ and advisory councils and eighteen
j delegates from the several islands
Every male resident of the island Of
| Hawaii. of American or European par
entage, who has taken the oath pro-
ivided by the act, and who is not dis
franchised. is entitled by the bill to vote
flor the delegates. Registration is re-
TOURED. and the enrolment of voters Is
to be posted and published previous to
the election. The form Of oath re-
Iquired is as follows:
Il do s0lemnly swear, in the presence
iof Almighty God. that 1 viii support
land bear true allegiance to the pro-
ivisi0nal government of the Hawaiian
islands and will oppose any attempt to
trestOre LilfOukalani to the throne or
to establish monarchy in any form in
1.-THE Hawaiian islands.
The election Of delegates will take
lplace III May, and as soon as a con-
lstitution is adopted republic will be
proclaimed. The new constitution is
lalready drawn up by the executive
Ic0urriI but its contents will be guard
ed until after the meeting Of tie con-
vention. The election of new members
of the advisory council took place at
the meeting of the council this after
moon. T. d. Smith, candidate of the
American League, who was defeated
lat the last meeting, was again nOmi-
mated and elected on his statement that
The has Withdrawn his oath to the
American League and goes into the
Icouncil bound to no secret organization
1t was only on these grounds that he
lcould nave been elected.
The question of plantation labor will
cause much trouble for the govern
lment. If it is nor satisfactorily settled
THE two factions of the nav union
lparty are making it a cause for dis
ipute, and it is thought, now, that a
lserious breach will BE- effected. The
planters claim they can not afford to
hire white LABOR at the present price
lof sugar, while the others insist that
. mo more aliens he admitted.
r c. Gwlnn, the Hawaiian minis tAT
PRESIDENT at Toxic, left for Japan IN the
lOceanic for the purpose of negotiating
flor the shipment Of 1,500 japanese
The plantations were never before in
lsuch straits for labor.