The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-10
May Return to Washington as Law
Advisor to the Legation.
HAWAII TO BECOME a TERRITORY.
Annexation Only temporarily Checked
by Opposition OF Cleveland Govern
ment-Future Hope of tho Island
Republic Lies In the United states.

Mr.. Thurston, Minister Of Hawaii,
said last night:
81 notified Secretary Gresham this
afternoon that j should start for Ha-
wall tomorrow" Mr.. Thurston smiled
as he said this. He added little
later: 81 am little sorry that am
not TO stay here long enough to see
how the Government would deport
me, and where they would send me, II
there is anything in the newspaper
story that such plan has been in con-
temptation. I do not suppose, seri-
Ously, that any such purpose has been
entertained by anyone. shall leave
for Boston at once to attend to some
business matters, and shall then pro-
ceed directly to San Francisco. / am
due in Honolulu April IL. 1t is only
five days and half running time now
to San Francisco, and the best steam
ers make the journey from there TO
Honolulu in six days. If we had the
speed of the Atlantic steamers we
should be able to reach Honolulu in
four days and half from San Fran
OiIlpS Vi IDdO SD6cu Will pun
on the line, undoubtedly, in a few
years. My wife will go for time to
visit some friends in the west. She
will not go to Hawaii with me. There
is absolutely nothing to be done here
just now by me, and there is much
that / can do at home, in q public and
private capacity, for the present"
Mrs. Thurston is an American lady,
formerly from one of the western
states. There seems to be no disposi-
ton in the Thurston household to
abandon Washington. Certainly the
house is not dismantled, and no orders
have been given to dismantle it or
cancel the lease. 1t is the expectation
that Mr.. ThurstOn will return to
Washington in few months-possi-
bly, in the capacity of chancellor or
law advisor to the legation. Mr..
Thurston, it is understood, will leave
Washington this afternoon.
Nearly all of the great legations
have such an officer, and it is no con-
Germ of the government here who he
is. It is the general belief of the
friends of Hawaii here, who are the
friends of Mr.. Thurston, that he will
be back in Washington certainly by
the time Congress shall meet.
To friend who suggested that many
would be glad to have him return to
Washington as a United States Sena-
tor from Hawaii, Mr.. ThurstOn said,
gravely:
"There are many in Hawaii who are
in earnest in favor OF annexation who
doubt the wisdom of endeavoring to
come in as a state. 1, myself, believe
that it would be wiser to become
territory of the Union"
Mr.. Thurston is clearly of the
opinion that the cause of annexation
has only been temporarily checked by
the opposition of the Administration.
Like most of his conntrymen, he
looks to the United States as the hope
of the future of his country.
It is possible that the little Republic
of Hawaii has outwitted the United
States in diplomacy. The Secretary
of State has not yet said that he has
demanded the recall of Minister
Thurston. But Minister ThurstOn (and
it is the first time that he has said
anything about his recall) announces
that he will leave Washington at once
for Hawaii. He also said that he had
heard nothing of the reported demand
of the United States for his recall.
1t Is barely possible that Mr.. Thurs
ton, as q member Of the Hawaiian
Foreign Office, may himself pass upon
Secretary Gresham's demand for his
own recall. The probability, at all
events, is that Mr.. Hastings will re-
maiR indefinitely in charge of the
legation, and that Secretary Gresham
will not have the satisfaction of Civ
ing to Minister Thurston q final audi
ence TO receive from him the presenta-
tion of his letter Of recall.-Washing-
ton Star, March 9th.