The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-11

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DID. first Secretary u State Hon
Thomas D. Bayard On Septgw
Deer %. fSS.. 100 answer t0 o note o.
inquiry hy Hon ll A p C1rt,r
late Hawaiian Ministerial Washing
ton NJ Bayard WROTE "Th-
amendment relating t1 the haruol
at Pearl river was adopted 300 it
ENccutyc session by the Senate
no ambiguity or obscu
ity iu that amendment is obscrv-
able and ! can discern therein no
subtraction from Hawaiian SON.
ereiguN over the harbor To which
il relates. can see no
cause for misapprehension by your
Government as Go the manifest ci-
feet and meaning of the amend
mcnt in question Obviously for
Mr. Bayard's successor, under the
same President, to now hold that
Pearl Harbor belongs TO the United
States, without reference to the
compensatory terms of the agree
ment of cession, would be to assert
the power Of might over right and
the virtue of inconsistency when
backed by force.
Hawaii wants the United States
to have Pearl Harbor fast enough,
but it has a right to insist upon the
maintenance of the reciprocity
treaty which il received in return
for the grant. This matter should
be cleared up before anything
further is done. Possibly it is al
ready being attended to by Con.
gress.
Under this head it is interesting
to recall the protest which Great
Britain made to the Pearl Harboi
convention in February 1883.
Major Wodehouse, by instruction
Of his Government, then wrote a,
follows:
In fact that it (the convention
/ does not confer any exclusive righ
to Pearl River harbor further thar
the right Of the United States under
it to establish a coaling station, We
in view Of the actual text of III,
convention, and the fact of tho
non-publication OF these notes, a
forming part of the treaty, ! am de
t sired to remind His Majesty's Gov
eminent (Kalakaua's) OF the term
I of the treaty between Great Britain
and these Islands of the roth c
= July 1851.
d The second article Of that treat
! stipulates that the subjects Of eac
d of the two contracting parties re
spectively, shall have liberty, freel
and securely to come with the
: ships and cargoes to all place.
r ports and rivers i'll the territories {
d the other where trade with othe
+ nations is permitted" and it
- stated i'll like manner that "shir
Of war Of each contracting part
u respectively shall have liberty t
d enter into all harbors, rivers an
T. places within the territories of ii
n other, to which the ships of war
o other nations are or may be pc
mitted to come to anchor there an
U to remain and reft.
u The growing importance of Il
d Hawaiian Islands as a coaling al
IF provision station for ships nav
10 eating the Pacific, make it highl
desirable that the harbors of Il
Group should at all times be ope
IL equally to the ships of all nation
e and as Her Majesty's Governmei
fl cannot consent to forego the RICH
and privileges which were e,
pressly conceded to them by II
o above mentioned treaty Of 1855
y they must still look to the Cover
e ment of the Hawaiian Islands
h maintain unimpaired the righ
. accorded to Great Britain by tn;
treaty.
1t is not unlikely that this col
tention will again be set up b
Great Britain and that we al
:, about to enter upon an era Of sti
ring international diplomacy. II
position of the present Coy
eminent in the premises h;
70 not, so far as the STAR know
> been defined; but it will probabl
: be that of the preceding Cover
ment as formulated, in answer t
the British note, by Hon. Jonatha
Austin, then Minister of Foreig
- Affairs. Mr.. Austin said:
8 The only thing which mas bee
:, granted to the Government of tn
d United States is the right to max
r harbor at its own expense at
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