Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-29
n AIIAN INVESTIGATION.
Dr.. William Shaw Bowen, a Newspaper
Correspondent, a Witness.
He Pays Attention to Some Statements
Made by MIR. Blount and
Denies Them.

The Senate committee investigating the
Hawaiian affair had before it this morning
as its principal witness DIR. William Shaw
Bowen, the correspondent of the New York
World, who went to Honolulu shortly after
the revolution. Mr.. p. s. Reader of Cedar
Rapids. Iowa, a witness on the administra-
tfon side of the question, was expected to-
day, but failed to appear, as did also Ad-
mira1 Belknap. Mr.. Bowen was present for
the purpose of denying some statements
made by Mr.. Blount. He said that he went
to Honolulu on the Alameda, arriving there
April last. DR.. Bowen was accompanied
by DIR. Harold NJ. Sewall, and in his report
to MIR. Gresham, under the date of April
26. Mr.. Blount pays some attention to these
gentlemen, and 1t was for the purpose of
refuting such statements and others, which
the witness understood were made before
the committee. that DIR. Bowen appeared
as witness.
Denies Mr.. Blount's Statements.
Mr.. Blount. before the committee, 1t Is
understood, gave out the impression that
Bowen had, for a time. represented himself
as representative of this government.
Bowen and Sewall had refused in San
Francisco. he said. to say they we're not
joint commissioners with Blount TO Homo
lulu.
Biount said DR.. Bowen represented him.
self to him correspondent of the New
York World, and said he would be glad
to give Blount any information he could get
there. the Sunday before the revolution,
Mr.. Blount says, Bowen told him that he
and Paul Neumann were arranging meet
Ing between President Dole and the queen,
the object being to pay her a sum of
money In consideration of her formal alb
dication of the throne and lending her in
provisional
view to annexation to the United States.
Further along in his report Mr.. Blount
says he informed President Dole that he
had understood there We're two gentlemen
claiming to be representatives of the United
States. and that Mr.. Dole replied that he
was Informed they did represent the
United States government. Mr.. Blount
stated that after his interview with Dole.
Bowen was asked in an interview in one
of the papers IL he represented the Presi-
dent. but declined to answer. saying that
all would be revealed, and Mr.. Blount fur
ther stated in his own behalf that Bowen
represented himself as the personal friend
Of the President, and he believed that DR..
Bowen and Mr. Sewall pretended they
knew the opinions of Mr.. Cleveland and
assured the queen that annexation would
take place, and that she had better come
to terms at once.
Why He Went to Honolulu.
DR.. Bowen denied the intimatioas con-
tained in Blounts report and asserted that
they grew out of newspaper statements.
The relations Harold Sewall held toward
Mr.. Cleveland were, he said, well under
stood at Honolulu. as he had been the
United States consul at Samoa under Mr..
Cleveland. So far as he was concerned, DIR.
Bowen said. he never did thing from
which Mr.. Blount could reasonably draw
the conclusions he had reached. He in
formed the committee why he went to Hon.
olulu, saying that 1t was for the sole pur-
pose of getting the bottom facts for the
paper he represented.
DIR. Stalker Of Des Moines. Iowa, was
recalled, briefly.