The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-13
WORKING FOR ANNEXATION
HAWAIIANS HAVE NOT GIVEN UP
HOPE OF UNITED STATES
ATTACHMENT.
The EX-QUEEN WILL PROBABLY
BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE
HER COUNTRY.

VICTORIA, B. c., March 12.-The Miowera
arrived at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon,
seven days from Honolulu. She brought
no deported revolutionists. 1t is under
stood that there were some offered, but the
| company desired to take no risk in the
| matter.
| Honolulu advices to March are: Work
| consequent to the rebellion so far as the
military organizations are concerned was
| practically completed on Friday, when
the judge advocate OF the Military Com
mission announced that the Government
had no more cases to bring before that
! body. All cases have been acted upon and
sentences of only few minor offenders
have yet to be made known. Natives con-
victed have as a rule been sentenced to five
| years imprisonment at hard labor, the
usual fine of $4,000 being RENTED by the
! President.
The ex-Queen has been sentenced to five
years imprisonment and to pay fine of
| $4,000. She is still confined in the room in
the executive building where she was
placed on the day of her arrest and is
under guard of the military. Just what
| is to be done with Liliuokalani is a ques-
ton which the Government has not yet
be kept in the executive mansion for five
years or placed in the Oahu prison.
| Undoubtedly before the end of the month
some proposition will be received from the
ex-Queen's representatives whereby she
will either take up her residence on one of
the other islands or leave the country,
doubtless to go to England. She has
private income of $4,000 year which will
not be interfered with by the Government.
1t will not be the policy of the Govern
ment to assume an arbitrary attitude
should the eX-Queen make a reasonable
proposition.
| Though the work of the military COM
mission is completed, that body will not
be dismissed nor martial law declared off
until all those who have signed agreements
to leave the country have departed. The
last batch is due to leave March IS. Should
any of these men show disposition not to
comply with the agreement they will be
promptly arrested, put on trial before the
commission and sentenced. The restric-
tons of martial law have been raised to
| great extent. Citizens are allowed on the
streets at night without passes, and the
police have discarded their rifles.
| The attitude of the Government in the
| deportation of Cranstoun, Mueller and
| Johnston is expressed in this mornings
| Commercial Advertiser, which says:
"The discussion arising from the deport-
ing of three political prisoners to Van
couver, while attracting more or less atten-
ton, is not causing Government officials
any fear from possible derogatory results.
The position of the Government, briefly
! expressed, is:
| "First-The act was justified by the laws
of Hawaii.
"Second-The act complained of was
done by order of the Government of
| Hawaii
! The movement for annexation is gaining
ground among the natives, and the forma-
ton of an annexation league by Sam Park
er, one of the ex-Queen's Commissioners
to Washington, and other prominent native
Hawaiians and half-whites, will doubtless
result in monster annexation petitions
| from all parts of the islands. A remark
reported to have come from a prominent
British official, that he expected 'this thing
would be repeated in short time" shows
that while the superficial attitude of the
| English may be friendly, they have no
| deep-seated love for the republic or the
possibility of the United States controlling
| this territory.
Stories published in American papers of
tortures practiced upon political prisoners
to bring about confessions are denied here
An act was passed in the Advisory Conn
Gil appropriating 900 to defray the ex-
penses of the rebellion, making the whole
expense up to the present time $4,000.