The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-12-28
GREAT UNEASINESS FELT.
Over the Reports of the attempted
Uprising,

Reported in Hawaii-significant Comment
on the Action of the Administration
ia Withdrawing Our Vessels,
Washington December 27.-Later news
from Honolulu is awaited with Interest
and some apprehension. The despatch
received Saturday announcing the arrest
of parties in Honolulu the principal OF
whom was an Englishman charged with
conspiracy against the governments 'ndl-
Gates situation there the development
of which Admiral Walker apprehended
on his being compelled to leave the ISL
and by order of the department. IN Au-
gust, Whether the Hawaiian govern
ment Eby the prompt measures for the
arrest of conspirators announced in the
latest dispatches has put an end to all
danger as an end is matter of uncer-
tainty. The absence of Americansvessels
from that port affords an opportunity Tor
trouble to be. made by the enemies OF
the government and this evidence tnae
they were very ready to quickly take
ADVANTAGE Of the opportunity gives rise
to the apprehension that they may nave
or already have had serious trouble
Had the despatch published Saturday
afternoon beer. received at the Capitoi
before the adjournment of Congress, i'm
mediate action on the resolution lntIo-
duced by Mr.. Lodge would have been &C.
manded, and it is dou btful whether Tn
adjournment for the recess woulo have
been permitted, had an objection to the
consideration of the resolution been In
sisted ON.
The news conveyed in this despatch
was eight or ten days old, before l5 was
received here Officials are in Ignorance
of what inay have happened since then,
and should the next despatch convey tue
information. of an SSprislpg the Iacs OIL
Congress not being % Sesslon would %
favorable to any oonansracy agaihsU ene
Hawaiian government.
With, no American vesEel at honolulu,
the American Congress IN recess. anu
the American government uulFlenuIS w
the Hawaiian Republic, every posi- PIE
encouragement IL given TO those friendly
to the interests OF England and the oe-
funct monarchy of Liliuokalan1.
With five or six naval vessels IN Ine
Pacific ports doing nothing, and reserved
for no possible service, the TACT OF thelr
being Kept from Honolulu seems to war
ran the assumption gu the part OF tne
Royalists that the American adinlnlstra-
ton is Intentionally encouraging revoltor
conspiracy against the new. reEu DIG. "A
miral Walkers letter, written on ship
board, while on his way home. discloses
by the circumstance under which IL
was written more even than by its Ian
guage, the apprehension which the Ad-
n,iral felt at leaving Hawaii with no
vessel of the American navy III port.
The fact that he was willing to run the
risk of seriously uispleasing the admin
istration shows how important, to MIN
self he deemed it that RESPONSE billty Tor
this state of affairs should be definitely
fixed upon the ADM Illustration, and that
it should appear, if trouble came from
his absence that be had given due ana
complete warning of the danger involved
in his obedience to the orders OF the de-
partmenr.
1t was regarded as certainly very Sig
nifioant that the conspiracy should have
been started Immediately after Ihe With
drawal of tho Philadelphia, and lt is re-
garded as most extraordinary that with
the information which the admin1stra-
ton has, Mr.. Cleveland will persist in
leaving the A erican interests In Haw-
ali unprotected willie SO many able yes
sells are lying idle in Pacific ports. II
anything should happen within the next
ten DAYS to even threaten the new re-
pu bic, it would be a very serious mat
ter for the administration, in view OF
the warning given by Admiral Walker 8
report. If vessels are not sent to Hawaii
before Congress reassem hles, the ques-
tion will be taken up seriously in both
houcps