The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-07
NOW PLAIN MRS. D0M|N|S
Queen Lii Divested Of Her Yellow
Feather and Other Symbols.
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TAKEN
The Coffee Blonde Has No Further Desire
to Govern the Sandwich Islands.
Sensation at the Trial of the
Rebcls-Sprccklcs Accused.
BY the United Press.

san francisco, rep. O.-IHe Aus
tralia, which arrived this morning from
Honolulu, brought confirmation of the
reported capture of Wilcox and Now
lein, the leaders of the recent revolt,
and also the arrest of the eX-queen, who
is prisoner in the palace,
The ex-queen has renounced all her
sovereign rights. The military COM
mission is still trying the rebels, but
no decisions have yet been rendered.
The ex-queen, in her letter to Presi-
dent Dole, asks clemency for those un-
dergoing trial for treason and concludes
the document by taking the oath of
allegiance.
A sensation was created at the trial
of the rebels when John A. Cummings.
ey-premier of King Kalakaua, testified
that he was told by another conspirator
when he inquired where the money to
pay for the arms used in the recent up
rising was to come from that he (the
other conspirator) had been given a
letter by the queen to Rudolph
Spreckles, who would furnish the ne
cessary funds.
The Governments Reply.
reply to the eX-queen was as follows;
Executive Building,
Honolulu, Jan. go, 1S95.
Madam--A document by you, purporting
to contain an abdication and remuneration
of all sovereign rights heretofore claimed
by you, has been delivered on your behalf
to the president. AS you were under ar
rest at the time the instrument was
signed it Is desired before accepting and
placing the same on file to make clear 10
you, in order that no misunderstanding
may hereafter arise, the views of the gov
ernment in the matter.
First-The execution of this document
cannot be taken TO exempt you in the
slightest degree from personal and indi-
vdual liability for such completely as due
investigation and trial may show that you
had in the late conspiracy against the
government and the consequent loss of
life, which position is recognized by you in
your letter.
Second-lt cannot be conceded that such
rights and claims as you now voluntarily
relinquish have had any legal existence,
since Jan. II, 1895, when by your public
announcement that you had no longer
considered yourself bound by the funda-
mental law of the land under which you
took office and by your action in attempt
ing by the mere exercise of you own will
to establish q new system of government,
the contract existing between you and the
people was dissolved and all sovereign
rights therein invested in you We're lost.
The statement by members of your then
cabinet that they could not control your
action and their appeal to the citizens Of
Honolulu for assistance was the next
step which led to resumption by the
people of the rights of the government.
'Thrd-So far as your communication
may be taken as q notice to the disaffected
that it is your desire that the republic
shall be recognized by them as the sole
and lawful government of the country is
fully appreciated. In this connection your
unselfish appeal for clemency for those
who took part in the late insurrection will
receive full consideration.
| BY order of the executive council.
| (Signed) William o. Smith,
Attorney General.
To Mrs Liluokalani Dominis.
The above reply was made to the
communication Of Mrs. Dominis by
special advice of f. NJ. Hatch, minister
of foreign affairs.
Admiral Bcardslcc's Instructions.
| The instructions to Admiral Beardslee
reached Honolulu some days before the
admiral, who arrived on the Philadel-
phia last evening. Much comment has
been made upon the words refusing
protection to American citizens par
ticipating in attempts to maintain as
well as to overthrow any existing gov.
ernment" Nearly every American cit
| izen in Honolulu has taken an active
part on one side or the other in this
unpleasantness. The general opinion
is that the admirars instructions leave
him with nobody to protect and little
to do here
British Commissioner Hawes takes al
entirely different view about affordina
protection to British subjects. The
editor of the Bulletin, until lately d
Royalist. consulted the commissioners
on the subject, and was explicitly in
formed that it would be highly proper
for him to render active support to the
government, and that he would moi
forfeit his protection as British sub
ject by doing so.