Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-25
Interest Felt to Learn More Details
Of the Conspiracy.
ADMINISTRATION ENCOURAGING REVOLT
What Admiral Walker Feared Has
Actually Come to Pass.
CONGRESS EXPECTED TO ACT

Later news from Honolulu Is awaited
with interest and some apprehension. The
dispatch received Saturday announcing the
arrest Of parties in Honolulu, the principal
of whom was an Englishman. charged
with conspiracy against the. government.
indicates q situation there the development
of which Admiral Walker apprehended on
his being compelled to leave the island by
order Of the department in August. Wheth-
err the Hawaiian government, by the
prompt measures for the arrest of con-
spira tors announced in the latest dispatch
es, has put an end to all danger is a mat
ter of uncertainty. The absence of Amer
lean vessels from that port affords an OPP
portrnity for trouble to be made by the
enemies of the government. and this evil
take advantage Of opportunity gives rise
to the apprehension that they may have,
or already have mad. serious trouble.
Had the News Reached Here Earlier.
Had the dispatch published Saturday
afternoon been received at the Capitol be-
fore the adjournment Of Congress immedi-
ate action on the resolution introduced by
Mr.. Ledge would have been demanded. and
1t il doubtful whether the adjournment
for the recess would have been permitted
had an objection to the consideration OF
the resolution been insisted upon. The
news conveyed in this dispatch was eight
or ten days cid before 1t was received here.
Officials are in ignorance Of what may nave
happened since then, and should the next
dispatch convey information of an upvis-
ing the fact of Congress not being In SEES
sion would be favorable to any conspiracy
against the Hawaiian government.
With no American vessels at Honolulu.
the American Congress In recess ana the
American government unfriendiy 10 the
Hawaiian republic. every possible encour-
agement Is given to those friendly to the
interest Of England and the defunct mon
archy of Liliuokalani.
Encouraging Revolt.
With five or six naval vessels in the
Pacific ports doing nothing, and reserved
for no possible service. the fact OF their
being kept from Honolulu seems to war
rant the assumption on the part Of the
royalists that the American administration
Is Intentionally encouraging revolt or con-
spiracy against the new republic. Admiral
Walkers letter. written on shipboard on
his way home, discloses by the ctrcum-
stances under which II was written, more,
even, than by its language, the apprehen-
sion which the admiral felt at leaving
Hawaii with no vessel of the American
navy in port. The fact that he was willing
to run the risk of seriously displeasing
the administration shows how important
for this state OF affairs should be definitely
fixed upon the administration, and that it
should appear If trouble came from his
absence that he had given due and COM
plete warning of the danger involved in
his obedience to the orders of the depart
ment.
A Significant Fact.
1t was regarded as certainly very sig
niflcant that the conspiracy should have
been started Immediately after the with
drawal OF the Philadelphia. and 1t Is re-
garded as most extraordinary that with
the information which the administration
has, Mr.. Cleveland will persist in leaving
the American interests in Hawaii unpro-
tected, while so many able vessels are
lying idle in Pacific ports. II anything
should happen within the next ten days
to even threaten the new republic 1t would
be very serious matter for the admins
tration, in view OF the warning given by
Admiral Walkers reports. II vessels are
not sent to Hawaii before Congress re-
assemblies the question will be taken up
seriously in both houses