The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-14


and hearing of their intention to send delega-
tion of their number 10 present their side of
this conflict before you, l requested the favor
of sending by the same vessel an envoy TO you,
as the facts appear to myself and my loyal sub
jecis.
This request has been refused and now
ask you that in justice to myself and to my peo.
pie no steps be taken by the Government OF
the United States until my cause can be heard
by you.
l shall be able TO dispatch an envoy about the
I'd of February, as that will be toe first avail
able opportunity hence, aud he viii reach you
with every possible haste that there may be no
delay in the settlement Of this matter.
| pray, therefore, my good friend, that you
will not allow any conclusions TO be reached by
you until my envoy arrives.
l beg TO assure you of the continuance OF my
highest consideration.
LILIUoKALANI, r.
Honolulu, January is, 1898.
If any understanding had existed at that
time between her and the Government to
submit the question of her restoration to
the United States, some reference 10 such
understanding would naturally have ap-
peared in this letter. as every reason
would have existed for calling the atten-
AiOh VI tHC W lUdt ldCI. especially
as she then knew that her attorney would
be seriously delayed in reaching Wash
ington. But there is not a word from
which such an understanding can be
predicated. The Government sent its
Commissioners to Washington for the sole
object of procuring the confirmation of the
recognition by Minister Stevens of the new
Government, and to enter into negotiations
for political union with the United States.
The protest of the ex-Queen made on
January II is equally with the letter
devoid of evidence of any mutual
understanding for a submission of her
claim TO the throne to the United States.
1t is very evidently a protest against the
action of Minister Stevens as we'll as the
new Government, and contains a notice
of her appeal to the United States. The
document was received exactly as it
would have been received if it had come
through the mail. The Endorsement OF its
receipt upon the paper was made at the re-
quest of the individual who brought it, as
evidence of its safe delivery. AS to the
ex-Queen's notice of her appeal to the
United States, it was matter of indiffer-
ence to us. Such an appeal could not have
been prevented. as the mail service was in
operation as usual. That such a notice
and our receipt of 1t without comment
should be made a foundation of a claim
that we had submitted our right to exist
as a Government to the United States had
never occurred to US until suggested by
your Government. The protest Is as fol-
lows:
l. Liiuokalani. by the grace OF God and un.
der the constitution OF the Hawaiian kingdom
Queen, do hereby solemnly protest against any
and all acts done against myself and the consti-
tutODal Government OF the Hawaiian kingdom
by certain persons claiming TO have established
Provisional Government of and for this king
dom.
That i yield 10 the superior force OF the
United States OF America. whose Minister
PlenIpoientiary. his Excellency John l.. Ste
vens, has caused United States troops to be
landed at Honolulu and declared that he would
support the said Provisional Government.
Now to avoid any collision Of armed forces.
and perhaps the loss of life, do under this pro-
test and impelled by said force yield my author.
ity until such time as the Government of the
Unied States SHALL upon the facts being pre-
sented TO IL, undo the action OF its representa-
tive and reinstate me in the authority which
claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Ha-
waiian Islands.
Done at Honolulu. the 18th day OF January.
A. ID. 1893. LILIUOKALANI r.
SAMUEL PARKER,
Minister OF Foreign Affairs
WILLIAM III. CoRNwELI,
Minister of Finance,
JOHN F. CoLBURN,
Minister of the Interior.
A 2. PETERSON,
Attorney General.
s. b. DOLE AND OTHERS, composing the Pruvi-
sional Government of the Hawaiian Islands.
lIndorsed:l Received by the hands Of the
late Cabinet this 18th day Of January, A. ID.
1893. SANFORD b. DOLE
Chairman of Executive Council OF Provisional
Government.
You may not be aware. but such is the
fact, that at no time until the presentation
of the claim of the President of the United
States of his right to interfere in the in
ternal affairs of this country. by you on
December 19, has this Government been
officially informed by the United States
Government that any such course was con-
templated. And not until the publication
of Mr.. Gresham's letter TO the President
of the United States on the Hawaiian
question had we any reliable intimation of
such policy. The adherents of the ex-
Queen have indeed claimed from time 10
time that such was the case. but we have
never been able TO attach serious im-
portanca THAR rDmnra IN that adnot