St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-06-09
MINISTER CASTbE.
HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT AP-
POINTS A SUCCESSOR TO
THURSTON.
THE LATTER WAS BETRAYED
BY A WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER
MAN, so 1T IS REPRE-
SENTED.
AMERICAN LEAGUE is ACTIVE.
Annexation Is Advocated by Min
listers Hatch and ThurstOn at
Il Recent Meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June s.
The steamer Monowai arrived this
afternoon, bringing the following ad-
vices from Honolulu, dated June L:
William R. Castle has been appoint
ed Hawaiian minister at Washington
in place of L. A. Thurston. He will
leave for Washington Aug. l. Mr..
Castle was one of the commissioners
sent to Washington to arrange for
annexation as soon as the monarchy
was overthrown. The following dis
patch was sent from Honolulu under
date of May 2: fThe friends of Thurs
ton are indignant, because they say
he has been betrayed by an agent of
a press association in Washington.
He permitted the agent to read pri-
vate correspondence from Honolulu
for the purpose of making himself
familiar with the situation here, and
instructed him to publish nothing
which reflected upon the government,
as it might reflect upon his official
position. Thurston's friends say the
agent of the press association did not
publish anything taken from the cor
respondence rejecting upon Cleve-
land, but he went Immediately to Mr..
Gresham and informed him that he
had read at the Hawaiian legation
letters sent to Thurston, and furnished
Gresham with the substance of them"
Minister Thurston was seen in regard
to the foregoing, and admitted that it
was substantially correct. He de-
clined to go into details, saying he
had made report to his government
which would be given to the press in
a short time. This report would cover
everything relating to the recall.
The following is the text of Minis
ter Hatch's letter to Mr. Willis in
answer to Secretary Gresham:
Department Of Foreign Affairs,
Honolulu, May 8, 1895.-Referring to
our interview on the 30th ult., in which
you intimated that the president Of the
United States would be pleased if the
Hawaiian minister at Washington
should be recalled for personal rea-
sons, and upon which occasion you
read to me dispatch from the sec
retary Of state to yourself on the
subject dated Feb. q, but which had
been sent to Japan by mistake, have
the honor to inform you that Mr..
Thurston is now in Hawaii, and will
not return to the post Of Hawaiian
minister at Washington. I regret ex-
tremely that the presence in Washing
ton of the late minister is not agree
able, and that the matters referred to
by the secretary of state Should have
been considered of sufficient gravity
to call for the action taken"
Attorney Smith stated in relation
to Secretary Gresham's letter to Mr..
Willis, of May II, regarding the de-
portation of J. Cranston, that the
statement in the letter that the only
explanation made of the reason for
deporting Mr. Cranston was that it
was "in the exercise of the arbitrary
power conferred by martial law" is
not correct, for, in addition to that
reply to Mr.. Willis, and in further re-
the course pursued, he stated to Mr..
Willis that Mr.. Cranston had been ar
rested and charged with conspiracy to
overthrow the government; that
Cranston, with others, had been en-
gagged in a plot to use dynamite; that,
though no charge had been made in
court, the charge of conspiracy had
been made and entered in the police
records at the time of the arrest. Upon
Mr.. Willis protesting against the pro-
ceedings, and asking by what au-
thority the action was taken, Mr..
Smith replied, as set forth in the let
ter, that ''it was in the exercise of
arbitrary power conferred by martial
law" Summary proceedings, under
the circumstances, were deemed JUS
tifiable.
Henry L. Verlye, the French COM
missioner at this place, died suddenly
on the 31st.
The American league was addressed
on the 29th by Ministers Thurston and
Hatch, Attorney General Smith and
w. N. Armstrong, who all spoke
strongly in favor of annexation.
Thurston closed his remarks by say
ing: ITO summarize, I am an an
nexationist because I believe that a
greater progress can be achieved under
this than any other system of gov
ernment. The people of Hawaii will
secure peace, the establishment of the
Western civilization and material pros
perity."