Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-01-10

restoration TO the United States.
some reference to such understand
ing would naturally have appeared
in this letter. Thirdly speak king Of
the Queens Protest, he ssys,
HAT il Is devoid OF evidence OF
any mutual understanding for q
submission of her claim to the
Throne, to the United States.
And that, the document was
received exactly as ii would have
been received if it had come
through mail.
Did Mr.. Dole expect that the
Queen should have an under
standing with him and his
satellites regarding the subject
matter. OF submitting the ques
ton of her restoration to
the United States7 Why
should she have done sol Were
nc; the following clauses in the
Q s.een's protest sufficient
L, Liliuokalani, by the grace OF
God and under the Constitution OF
the Hawaiian Kingdom Queen. do
hereby salemnly protest against
any and all acts done against my
self and the Constitutional Govern
rnent of the Hawaiian Kingdom by
certain persons claiming to have
established Provisional Govern
rnent of and for this Kingdom"
Now to avoid any collision of
armed forces aud perhaps the loss
Of life, do under this protest and
impelied by said force. yield my
authority until such time as the
Govern ment of the United State s
shall, upon the facts being present.
ed to it, undo tue action OF It's
representative and re-instate me IN
the authority which | claim as the
constitutional sovereign of the
Hawaiian Islands"
And when Mr.. Dole>as Chairman
of the Executive Council of the
Provisional Government, endorsed
that protest, received by the
hands of the late Cabinet, this 18th
day of JAM, A. D. $685." that was
notan ordinary Foreign Office rub
Der stamp letter receipt, but was
undoubtedly an acceptance of the
terms of the Queens protest. Is
not that evidence enough. of a
mutual understanding?
So far as the Queens letter to
President Harrison is concerned
there was no occasion for her to
mention anything "of mutual
understanding on the SUBJ
iect to restoration, her pro-
test and its acceptance by Mr..
Dole for and on behalf of the
Provisional Government was all
that was necessary to cover. that
point.
The fact, that Mr.. Dole's en-
dorsement on the Que en- protest
might prove to be an acceptance
OF its terms and be regarded as
such, must have been an after.
thought, hence the refusal to give
her Commissioner passage on the
Claudine, although. she had
been assured, that every
facility would be given her to
lay the subject matter before the
authorities of the United States
at Washington. But the Execu-
tive Council were of the opinion
that under the circumstances
they felt it incompatible with the
public interest to allow any
representative from her to take
passage on their dispatch boat. =
Mr.. Dole's memory seems
to have failed him on two
or three occasions. Here
is one instance, ''As to the ex-
queens notice of her appeal to
the United States, it was a matter
of Indifference to US. Such an
appeal could not have been
prevented, as the mail service was
in operation as usual" Does
Mr.. Dole not recollect, that it
was not until sometime during
the afternoon of the 18th that
the P. G. decided to allow a
mail to go forward by their.
dispatch boat and which closed
at an hour during the night, and
also that he informed the Queen
that all dispatches en-
trusted to the care Of