Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-26
THE HAWAIIAN INVESTIGATION
One Of the Committee of Safety Further
Testifes.
He Denies the Statements of wun-
denburg ON Whom MIR. Biount
Seems to Have Relied.

The meeting this morning Of the Senate
committee engaged in investigating Ha-
waitan affairs was very brief the only wit
ness being Mr.. McCandless, who was called
to finish his evidence given day or two
ago. D.. Stalker of Des Moines, Iowa. who
was before the committee yesterday, was
also present for the purpose of reading over
his testimony. A democratic member Of
the committee said this morning that d.
Stalker was republican; that his evidence
was conservative. but upheld all the con-
clusions reached by Mr.. Blount. The testi-
mony Of Mr. McCandless was in direct con-
hict with much Of that found in the report
OF Commissioner Blount, and special atten-
ton was paid by this witness to the testi-
mony of F. Wundenburg, found in Mr..
Blounts correspondence. This witness tes-
tilted to the time when the station house
which was held by the queens troops was
surrounded, and said that it was not until
after the American troops had landed and
the queen had been forced to yield owing to
their presence.
Mr.. Wundenburg's Statements Denied.
Mr.. McCandless. as a member of the COM
mittee or safety was at the station house
ana denied the accuracy of Wundenburg's S
statements. MIR. Wundenburg. although
not member Of the committee of safety,
appears to have been in attendance at
many OF its meetings. In statement he
made to Mr.. Blount he made certain ref
erences to the committee that McCandless
denied In toto, and with much emphasis
Mr.. Wundenburg said to Mr.. Blount: Dur
ing all the deliberations of the committee
and. in fact, throughout the whole proceed
ings connected with plans for the move ul
to the final iSSlR the hq SiS n acfiou uyas
the general understanding that Minister
Stevens would keep his promise to support
the movement with the men from the Bos-
ton, and the statement Is advisedly made
with a full knowledge of the lack Of arms,
ammunition and men, also the utter alb
sence of organization at all adequate to the
undertaking, that without the previous as
surance of support from the American min
lister and the actual presence of the Uniteo
states troops no movement would have
been attempted, and, II attempted II would
have been a dismal failure. resulting in the
capture or death of the participants in a
very short time.
No CollusfOn With Minister Stevens.
that his position as a member Of the COM
mittee of safety-in which he took a some
what active part. enabled him to speak
with an understanding of all the facts.
He denied emphatically that there was
collusion between the committee of safety
and Minister Stevens and denied that Mr..
Stevens had made any promise that
could be construed to mean that he would
help the committee. Had the troops not
landed. the result, he said. would have been
the same, although MIR. McCaudless admit
ted that 1t might not have been quite so
easily accomplished. In support of this
statement Mr.. McCandless referred to the
revolution Of 1887. when the citizens had
arisen in a like manner and made demands
upon the king. with which he had COM
piled.
This last uprising. Mr.. McCandless said,
was the long postponed wrath of a people
who had been unjustly dealt with, and the
overthrow Of a government as corrupt and
incompetent as that of the queen and her
legislature vase bound to be, sooner or
later, secured.
Mr.. McCandless denied that wundenbnrs
was possessed Of sufficient knowledge to
Know all that the committee was doing. and
said that his statements were based upon
his feelings and sentiments, which were in
clined In the direction Of the queen and the
royalist party. '''e
The committee adjourned until Nonjsy
next, when among the witnesses viii he ene
or more prominent naval officers.