The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-19
COUNCIL OF WAR
Cleveland and His Secre-
taries Have a Talk
Over Hawaii.
THE UPRISING SUPPRESSED
President Dole Is Glad That No
American Warship Was at
Honolulu.
THE UPRISING SUPPRESSED

House at ten o CLOCK TINS morning IN re-
gard to the Hawaiian complications and
entered upon a discussion of the situa-
tion, which was protracted for some
hours
Secretary Gresham took with him a
despatch from Minister Willis at Homo
lulu. containing a detailed account of
the uprising.
Mr. Willis :-"President Dole ex-
pressed to me his qualification that no
National ship has been in port during
this disturbance"
FRYES BUNCOMBE.
In the Senate today, Mr.. Frye Rep.,
Maine), offered the following resolution;
Resolved. That the Senate learns with
profound Indignation of the attempt to
restore deposed Queen to power in the
Hawaiian Island, and exprezses to the
young Republic the warmest sympathy
in her effort to suppress the rebellion.
Resolved, further, That the President
of the United States ought, at once, to
order to the Hawaiian waters ships OF
war for the protection of the lives and
property of American citizens resident
in said islands.
The second of Mr.. Frye's resolutions
was objected to by Mr. Gray Oem.,
Del), who said that he had no objec-
tions to the first. Mr.. Frye thereupon
withdrew the second.
Mr.. Hill Dem, N. W, suggested the
use, in the first resolution, of the words
with great regret" instead of the words
with profound Indignation; and Mr..
Frye reluctantly made the modification.
Finally, however, Mr.. George Oem-,
Miss.), objected to the consideration of
the resolution, and it went over, Mr.,
Frye remarking that God might forgive
the man who made such an objection,
but that the American people never
would, and Mr.. George making the re-
tort that he was not responsible to Mr..
Frye for his conduct.
DESPATCH FROM DOLE.
Mr.. Lorin M. Thurstcn, the Hawaiian
Minister at Washington, received Off
cial notification of the Hawaiian trou-
bic in a despatch from President Dole,
delivered to him at an early hour this
morning. The telegram says
rebellion broken. Leaders and re-
naming followers fugitlves in noun
''B. B. DOLE"
Mr.. Thurston had very little to say
about the abortive attempt at revolution
when a United Press reporter called on
him this morning. His information was
based wholly on the press accounts from
San Francisco. but he was enabled to
give a better understanding Of the series
of skirmisheS and re1eVent happenings,
cality and of the conditions prevailing in
Honolulu.
Gas nearly as can be predicted within
the range of possibility" said MIR. Thurs
ton mo local revolution in Hawaii will
be any more effective than this one has
it is of the greatest improbabiity, that
thrown through any internal influences.
The government is stronger than any
by its enemies In addition to between
a hundred and a hundred and fifty reg
ular soldiers, and the police force, there
are about 300 volunteers organized on
precisely the same lines as is the militia
of the United States, exactly similar, 1
believe, to the National Guard of the
State of New York a large number
of these men are sharpshooters and will
average at 200 yards 40 out OF possible
80 in target practice.
Besides these forces we have in Homo
800 of the best citizens All the business
men of foreign birth or descent are
members Of 1t. They are so trained that
bers of the citizens guard repair TO their
proper rendezvous with a thorough
knowledge of what is expected of them
their orders. The assembly places are
situated about every three blocks and
about forty men-a sufficient number TO
keep the streets clear-are assigned to
each. We have an admirable system of
telephones in Honoluhs and little time
is lost in summonlnG meters of the cit
a phone. You can see, therefore. how
well prepared the government of Hawaii
Is to cope with e any internal ore Ge%enue
ed men-regulars, police, volunteers or
militia, and citizens guard-it is ridicu>
lous to suppose that the existing author
unframed, undisciplined royalists, total
ly without organization ana lacking con-
fidence in their leaders"
WILCOX'S POSITION.
AS to Wilcox, Mr.. ThUrston said he
was an advosate Of anexation to the
born resident broached the subject and
swas Vice President of one of the an
nexation clubs after the Qneeu was
he was not given an office under the Re
public Wilcox became a Royaiist and
has since that time been an active enc
my Of the Government. lie and hirke
the latter of whom is now in PRISON on
charges of being concerned in plot
to verthrow the Republic, fought the
papers which they established-little
sheets resembling circulars and costing
abont slS Week the 10 ofber leader Of the
recent attempt" said MIR. Thurston. rs
a saloon keeper. He is an intense Roy
iis guards of the ex-Quen,. His character
Is that of the average keener Of gin
mill Nowlion is q half white.
from the Hawaiian Consul in San
francisco saying that MIR. r. 3. Hatch,
the Hawaiian Minister for Foreign Al
fairs, would sail for Honolulu on the
Australia on Monday next. MIR. Thurs
ton said that he had no information taet
Mr.. Hatch had concentrated coming to
Washington in an official capacity in
connection with Hawaiian affairs.
A HALF-BREED'S CAREER.
r. w Wilcox, the leader of the frus-
trated revolutionary uprising IN Hawaii,
is briefly described by Minister Willis in
a despatch to the State Department.,
dated Honolulu, November 49, 1893, He
savs:-"R w. Wilcox is the notorious
half-breed who engineered the revolution
Among the afidavits submitted by
Commissioner Blount is one from Samuel
Nowiien (as his name appears TO be and
not Nowlein, as telegraphed from San
Francisco), the associate of Wilcox in his
uprising Nowhen appears to have been
lani He was the 'capt1n commanding
The household guards, who was lin con-
troll of the Royal Palace on the 18th and
l7th DAYS of January, 1898, when the
government of the Queen was over
thrown. He informed Mr.. Blount in an
affidavit that he had under his command
at that time a total armed force of
272 men of all ranks, of which Y men
were regulars of the household guards
and 200 men were native Hawaiian
volunteers, fully armed and equipped with
70 breechloading rified cannons austrian
make) and one Ga Ing. Ill Springfield
rifles Gu. S. A) and 155 Winchester re-
peating army rifles, with 2l,5S0 rounds of
amunition.
All these he turned over to ]. H: Soper
who is now the Commander-in-Chief Of
the Republic.
Wilcox himself was one of Blount's
witnesses.