Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24
FROM HONOLULU
Reception Of Senator Morgan's Re-
port on the Hawaii Question.
ADMIRAL IRWIN AND PEARL HARBOR
The Ex-Queen's History and Some
of Her Good Qualities.
A NEW GOVERN MEN T

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
HONOLULU, March =, 1894
The Oceanic. on which your Mr.. Noyes,
MIR. Kaufman and party OF eight were
passengers, tied up to the wharf in the
early morning Of the 9th, SO giving her pas
sengers a full day for expiration ashore.
Honolulu is IN its finest green robing after
fifteen inches Of rain in February. large
party took an afternoon train twenty miles
to EVA sugar mill, favorite excursion for
passengers in transit. There is time to OBJ
serve the process of shaving up the cane
and making sugar, Of which forty tons
day are manufactured by the diffusion pro-
cess.
This train skirts the inland shores OF
Pearl harbor for twelve miles. The ride
gives good views Of the long reaches Of wa
ter, although the harborsis still better seen
from a steam launch on its waters. A fresh
impetus Is just now being given to hopes OF
development of this noble haven by the &C
ton of Admiral Irwin in making some
fresh surveys of it, The surveys already
made are very complete and minute. 1t Is
understood that the admiral anticipates
early action to be taken by Congress for
opening and improving the harbor and &C.
cupying 1t as naval station. Hence he de-
sires to be able to give opinions when called
I
and knowledge. He is to put up on t'ord's
Island, where he thinks the naval station
should be located. The owner of this Is
land, c. A. Brown, has summer cottage
thereon. Not only the admiraIs launch can
lie up to the low bluffs of the island, but
his flagship, the Philadelphia, could run a
plank ashore If she could get over the OBJ
structive bar mile outside the land en-
trance.
A Naval Station on Ford's Island.
A oxrnl etn l., I-1, M
well situated. 1t will be four miles from
the sea and five miles from the bar, outside
of which an enemy would have to lie. The
principal works of defense will be two miles
nearer the ocean, upon the point of Waipio
Wye-pee-o) peninsula. The island itself is
thoroughly salubrious. 1t is coralline HAT
of $50 acres. elevated about twelve feet
above the water. The soil is about foot
thick On the coral, sufficient for good gar
dens, as is shown on the similar adjacent
peninsula of Pearl City. Abundance OF ar
tesian water is easily obtained on the is
land. Enormous quantities of the sweetest
spring water are going to waste the
mainland one mile distant, where three
mills for hulling rice are driven by the wa
ter of the springs.
The channels surrounding Fords Island
are about half mile in breadth, with deep
water anchorage everywhere. The opposite
shores are somewhat sparsey clothed with
algaroba trees in which the island also
abounds The climate is quite dry, with av-
erage rainfall of 15 inches month, except
two or three wet months in winter. The
ccol trade winds constantly sweep over the
ground, but have been deprived of most of
their moisture by having previously crossed
the low sierra backbone of Oahu This
peauuful low mountain range splendidly
bounds the inland view, with the LONG
grassy slopes of its foothills in the fore
ground. The location is absolutely health
tul. No malaria is possible. Uncle Sans
men Will there have most charming bit
of our Paradise of the Pacific"
Directly west Of Ford $ Island is the sim
liar ground of the Waipai Peninsula upon
the southern tongue of which the fortified
defenses are proposed to be located This
tract, however, is warmer and drier than !
Fords Island, being farther to leewa I'd
The soil is poorer and arteSian water likely
to be somewhat brackIsh. Spring water
however. could be piped down four miles
with the aid Of pump. Mr. Brown the
owner, expects the United States to pur-
chase both the island and the 800 acres of
the peninsula. AS Pearl Harbor is the only
commodious haven of the North Pacific for
5000 miles west of North America, and is
in the center of a tract of open ocean much
larger than the continent of Asia. it is not
to be supposed that the United States will
long defer taking possession of 1t.
Satisfaction at Senator MOrgan's Re-
port.
The Oceanic brought us the summary of
Investigation, together with the substance
of the three minority reports. Our hopes
of the results of the inquiry are fully real
lied. All parties in the committee appear
to unite in sustaining the conclusion that
the American forces took no part in the
revolution. and that it was accomplished
solely by the citizens. So far are in
formed the committee all appear to concur
IN condemning the queen as herself the
cause of the revolution. So much seems
clear, and seems to justify a strong sense
of elation on our part, as Of innocence ac-
quilted and justified after full and fair
trial. 1t is the very first time that this
government has had the slightest hearing,
with any knowledge of the question at Is
sue. Had we been permitted to summon
all our selected witnesses and ourselves to
cross-examine those of the queen, we could
probably have made out even a stronger
case But are well disposed to be con-
tent with this as a fair trial of our cause,
with the help and care of able and impartial
Judges in the committee.
Perhaps our keenest satisfaction is in the
vindication of Minister Stevens conduct,
whom even the minority can only charge
with undue moral support and sympathy.
We knew and loved Stevens as one Of the
noblest of men. and a true and pure Ameri-
can patriot. All his sympathies and his
moral support were openly with us and had
ever been so during his four years presence
in our weary struggle against the blind.
semi-hea then despotism of kalakaua and
his sister. 1t was his duty thus to lend the
powerful moral influence of America to sup
port the effort to maintain representative
government against the constant aggres-
sions of the monarchy. His sympathy was
in the interests of the monarchy itself Had
our royalty needed him it would have been
on the throne today, and we should be en-
joyng moderately satisfactory government
under it.
Mr.. Stevens has undergone severe trial
Of Misrepresentation. He has come out
brightly, and the calumny and reproach
which have been heaped upon him from
high quarters, l feel assured, will only
serve to make more conspicuous the dis
tinction which he has earned, and to make
his name one not to be forgotten in Ameri-
can history.
The Ex-Queen's Conduct.
Senator Morgan's characterization of the
public and official conduct of the queen Is
not any too seOere. So also of the character
and attitude of the monarchy of late
years At the same time, in speaking OF
the personal character of Liliuokalani.
some serious qualifications in her favor are
due to her She has never been regarded
as a dissolute person, with whom respect
able ladies' could, on no terms, associate
To women like her, of aboriginal blood, GER
how To ha