The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-02
NEW FOURTH OF JULY
Hawaiian Patriots Celebrate
the 18th of January.
WILLIS DECLINES TO ASSIST.


Ho~oIrIr. Jan. i7-fPer Brig ". q.
IrsIn TO San Francisco. The people have
prepared for . great celebration OF tie an
nlversary Of the establishment % the pro-
visiouaI government. which occurred .
year ago today. Notice Of this celebration
xas sent 10 the United States legation By
the provisional government, asking that
recognition be accorded il and that salutes
be fred from the United States garships
in port. Willis in reply declined TO take
part in such a celebration on the part Of
the United States. This answer caused
much indignation in govern nent circles.
Every preparation is now complete for the
celebration TO be con tinaed throughout the
day. and a mass meeting Is TO be held ut
Union square this evening. number of
prominent speakers will deliver addresses.
Chief among these viii be a speech by
Walter q. Smith. leader of the American
League and party of HAWAII. In his adj
dress. an advance copy of which has been
furnished the Associated Press, Smith
calls attention TO the fact that Oh the l7th
of January, 1873. the French people De-
headed despotic king. One hundred
years from that dav, here in Hawai-, the
last independent sovereign on the Western
hemisphere lost her throne. The 18th of
January has. therefore, gained . right TO
be known as one of the worid's democratic
holidays. In speaking of the provisional
governments recent defense to President
Cleveland in refusing to surrender power
to the queen, Smith SAYS:
There is nothing more inspiring in the
annals OF ITS than the unwavering front
which yon presented in your great emer-
gency. On one side was the chief of sirty
millions; here was an armed body of a
raitry thousand. There was the strongest
of modern powers. with its army and
fleets; here were a few lone rocks in the
ocean, without fort upon their pinnacles
and without gun upon deck. There
was great government whose president
had declared that our dethroned queen
should reign again; here was little band
of men who said she must pass over their
dead bodies rirst. There in our haroor
here on our shore was battalion
behind its sandbags. The odds were great.
but the patriots of Hawaii took them, and
II the American people. aroused by that
spectacle, had not placed themselves be-
tween Us and harm, | feel that here upon
this soil would have been q new Their
mopylS, not less consecrated To human
courage than that which made immortal
the memory of 800 Greeks"
be given up. but every energy should be
used toward that end. 1t annexation shall
be deferred, he advocates q government
on the American plan until such time as
Hawaii Is taken into the Union. He con-
Guides as follows:
standing here on ground once conse-
Grated to the pomp of monarchy. knowing
no tag so dear as the Stars and Stripes
We appeal to our country men TO open their
gates 10 us of kindred blood but We pledge
ourselves, If that cannot be done. 10 at
least be worthy of the service by the work
We shall do on this soil for the glory of
American principles.
CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-The Western Society
of the Army of the Potomac held BAN
quet last night. Col. II. G. Ingeroll was
one OF the speakers, Among other things
he said:
II believe in this country. | am so
young and so full of enthusiasm that am
believer in national growth. want this
country TO gain territory and to become
larger than any other. l want a coun-
try worthy of Chicago. want to gobble
up the West Indies and the Bermndas
and the Bahamas. They belong TO this
continent, and II j. impudence for any
other country TO own them. Such is the
extravagance of my ambition that even
want the Hawaiian islands,
WAsHINGToS CRY, Feb. l.-ISpecial. l.
Speaker Crisp and McCreary, chairman of
the foreign affairs committee, have held a
conference and arranged a programme for
the Hawaiian debate, beginning tomorrow.
The speaker has drawn a special rule
making Hawaii the order of business. Ii
provides for three days consideration.
closing Monday. McCreary will open the
debate in behalf of his resolution support
ing the administration. Hit of Illinois
will follow on behalf of the minority sub
stitute condemning the administration.
Rayner Of Maryland Hooker of Missis-
sippi and Everett of Massachusetts,, will
support the Democratic contention, and
Storer Of Ohio and Blair of New Hamp-
shire the Republican position.
There will be very few il any more wit
nesses before the senate Hawaiian investi-
CATION committee. Morgan, chairman of
the committee. said today that as far as he
knew at this time no Others would be sum
moned. Morgan said that no report would
probably be made for ten days or two
weeks. His estimate is more likely 10 be
too short than too long. What the report
will recommend 70 the senate no one can
say. it is not unlikely that there will be
two reports, perhaps three, for il hardly
considered probable that a patchwork
coald he agreed upon which would har-
monixe the views of all the me mbers of the