The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-02
A ONE-SIDEl
Senate Sub-Coml|
tigating the /
Mattd
WASHINGTON, Jan.

last week Today an 81 & Il 81
guard at the outer door 4 s
room, and no one was per-
who had not been bidden to M
the Committee. As soon aNN24
tlemen did appear they were hur5
the ante-foom and kept there u 8
had given their testimony and
missed with a caution to say absolut
ing about their testimony or the
asked by the committee. = #
| !, sAbout fifteen minutes after tenE5'cl0cE
| Mr.. Hastings, Secretary of the HswaiiaH
| Legation and Charge d'Afaires during tbs
absence of Minister Thurston, reached tho
| Capitol, accompanied by Mr.. P. C. Jones and
| Col. q. Spaulding, two new witnesses whom
| he desired to present to the committee, and
Rev. O. P Emerson, who gave the testi.
mony at the last meeting. 1t is not at all
probable that the committee will require Mr..
Hastings to give his testimony, as such
proceeding would be without all
! precedent, the statements of the represents
| tiveS of q foreign government being always
| convened to this government through tha
medium of the Secretary of State.
Mr.. Emersons testimony had, during ths
| interim since the last meeting of the COM
mittee been reduced to writing, and after
being asked one or two unimportant quesr
tions, he was requested to sign his evidence,
which he did before leaving the committees
4
will Illustrate the care with
which the committee appears to be
handling this subject, for it is understood
that each witness will, in addition to being
sworn before going on the stand be required
| to subscribe to their testimony after being
| written out, under oath and duly certified.
| BOTH CONTRADICT BLoUNT.
| The testimony of Mr.. P. c. Jones was OF
| an important character and gave to the COM
| mittee, from the standpoint of of a friend OF
| the Provisional Government, at least, a fuD
and complete history of the intrigues ON the
| Islands and the events that led up to the dis
| position of the Queen. Mr.. Jones is a resident
| of Boston and member of the firm of
| Brewer &c Company, which mas large
branch house in Honolulu under the manage
ment of Mr.. Jones. He is said to be as
largely interested financially in the islands
as any American there, and among his in
| terests is that of the purchase and handling
of sugar in large amounts.
Mr.. Jones was followed by Colouel Spauld-
ing, who went to Honolulu shortly after the
war. Both Colonel Spaulding and Mr..
Jones disputed the statements of Commits
sioner Blount regarding the feeling of the
people on the subject of annexation.
and they took direct issue with him as to
the facts relative to the overthrow of the
Queen, asserting that the conduct of Minister
Stevens was not censurable, and that
the American troops were landed only
to preserve the peace and protect the
lives and property of Americans on the
islands They denied that they had taken
any part in the revolution.
/ The committee viii meet again tomorrow,
that being the regular day, at which time
Prof Alexander, the Surveyor General Of
the islands will be one of the witnesses.
THE PRESIDENTS AUTHORITY.
Several of the republican members of thd
committee have expressed a determination
to bave the committee pass upon the questiof
of the Presidents authority in delegatinM
his constitutional prerogative as commande
in-chief of the army and navy
which they claim has beeiS
done in the letter of the Secretary of the
Navy to Admiral Skerrett, placing Mr..
Blount in command of the forces under that
naval officer. Whether the missing letters
from ex-Minister Stevens and Minister
| Willis, to the State Department. with
held from the communication sent to Con-
gress, have been supplied to the COMMITTEES,
| is not known, but the indications are that
the committee is still in ignorance of the sub
iect matter of those documents