Evening star., 1895-08-22
MARRYING HAWAII
A Worrying Demand Made by the
American Government.
HOSTILITY TO TIE DOLE GOVERNMENT
Evidence of Accord Between Great
Britain and Uncle Sam.
RUMoRs OF FILIB BUSTERS
pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HONOLULU, August 1, 1895.
For good while our city and govern
ment have been enjoying good degree of
peace and quiet. Our fears have not ac-
lively responded to the very lively rumors
sent down frcm the coast Of 1iibuster ex-
petitions said to be on the way: and Of late
such reports have excited only contempt
One of the latest reports Of the kind came
from Puget sound about large tern, or
three-mast schooner, the w. G. Watson,
which. it was said, was to lie outside and
throwing overheard her large load of lum-
ber. receive from steemer force of pi-
rates, with cannon and ammunition. to be
landed here to restore the queen. Last
week the Watson came peaceably in and
delivered her 5S5,oOo feet of lumber to her
consignees. The flibusters have all failed
to materialize Ashford, Spreckels & Co.'S
lie factory at San Francisco will have to
design some new style of their goods for
this market in order to alarm u.s. The fill
buster scare is played out.
Again, however, we are in serious dis
quiet-more serious than for many months
This disquiet proceeds from a source well
calculated to beget alarm, because one
from which we have heretofore expert
enced extreme hostility exercised in secret
methods. and we are unable to determine
how serious an evil is now planned against
us. There may be no very Injurious de-
sign. and yet past experience teaches uB to
apprehend that the worst is not unlikely to
be prepared for us. The thing has come
as a total surprise-an unheralded act Of
apparent hostility from Washington. 1t
comes quite as unexpected as the Presi-
dents manifesto against us In November.
ood In
tility as was that We can only surmise
what injurious Intentions 1t conceals or
what course of persecution it is designed
to initiate.
The Case of Dureell.
On July 81 United States Minister A. S.
Willis addressed to Foreign Minister F. NJ.
Hatch letter, in which he claimed "ade-
Quate reparation for an injured citizen of
the United States" one James Dureell Mr.
Willis letter is accompanied by an affida-
Wit, made in Honolulu last April by the
aforesaid Dureell before United States Con-
sui Mills. and then placed in the hands Of
Mr.. Willis for further action. In that affi-
davit Dureeii claims damages for injuries
done to his business, feelings and reputa-
tion to the amount of S25 GEO He had been
summarily arrested under martial law with
many others believed to be in active con-
spiracy on January 0, two days after the
outbreak OF the insurrection. He was kept
in prison for forty-nfne days and discharg-
ed on the 9th Of February, never. as he
says, having been at any time informed of
the cause of his arrest or of any charge
made against him.
This case is evidently one of a large num-
ber of those, chiefly Hawaiian citizens
who. having been arrested for the sake
of the public security good evidence
of their completely in the insurrection,
were mercifully released when the dan
erar CT will f,,r fha,.
ton. There were, perhaps, two hundred
cases of this sort, almost all like Dureell-
obscure persons. mostly native Hawaiians.
Their confinement for a time was essen
tial to the public safety in great emer-
eency, as being participators in a strong
conspiracy to destroy the government. At
heavy outlay OF money and labor the
more clear and conspicuous cases We're
convicted and sentenced by the military
commission. A majority were finally set
free, not from absence of evidence against
them, but from unwilingness to be severe
The marshal, who is looking up the case
has not yet reported the grounds of Du-
reelPs arrest, but it is understood that
he had been particularly under suspicion
before the outbreak.
"He declares that he has never by word
or deed forfeited his allegiance to. and his
right to protection by his government; that
he has neither done nor spoken anything
directly or indirectly against the govern
ment of Hawaii or its laws; that he has
that government or in any manner coun-
seled, encouraged, aided cr abetted it's
enemies, either in armed rebellion or secret
plotting, and that he never possessed any
information which, under existing laws, it
was his duty to report to your govern
ment."
Mr.. Willis Request.
Mr.. Willis makes no peremptory demand
He says "these statements establish in
the opinion of the President of the United
States a prima facie claim for substan-
tial indemnity" He Is INSTRUCTED to bring
this case to the attention Of the Hawaiian
authorities" He represents "the conf
dence felt in Washington that this govern
ment will not refuse or hesitate to make
reparation and free him from injurious
imputations upon his good name''
Dureall is very obscure individual. His
peculiar name is now heard by the public
for the first time. OF course, he is none
the less entitled to protection and indem-
nifty if wronged. When arrested he was
running a miik-shake and soda water
stand in a little shed on a street corner.
He had previously been a cook in a re-
spectacle small hotel Since the date of
his affidavit in April, as well as before,
he has remained unheard of, his name
never having appeared in the papers at
the time of his arrest or afterwards Min
lister Willis has had his case in hand for
nearly TOUR months, Dut mas never Dreathed
syllable about 1t to this government
whom he now charges with having
wronged the man. The minister's present
action thus has the effect of surprise, as
springing the case upon us. It raises the
question why before referring the case
to his own government, he did not make
investigation by inquiring of our author
tiles about the reasons of Dureelrs arrest
and detention? 1t is highly probable that
such inquiry would have shown him that
the complainant had no case but was
properly arrested and detained
What thus seems to be a peculiar course
taken by Mr.. Willis materially contributes
to increase a grave apprehension other.
wise created in the minds Of The president
and cabinet as to the real animus of this
action. Even in this letter the minister
does not intimate the possibility of any
doubt of the truth of Dureells allegations.
He seems to assume their truth as estab-
lished, and only to ask for reparation in
accordance with those assumed facts. He
does not suggest any inquiry or investiga-
ton as preliminary to the reparation called
for. All that possibly has no real signif-
cance 1t may be mere fnadvertence. 1t
may si1cply assume that it properly belongs
to this government to make demur and in
terpose inquiry. But coming from the
source it does, with the previous record of
their dealings with this government, the
peculiar course now taken does not inspire
confidence.
1t may be that your administration will
be kind and reasonable in this case Of