The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-28
DOLE SNUBBED BY WILLIS.
THE PRESIDENT NOT INVITED TO
THE MINISTER'S RECEPTION.

II Was Given in Honor of the Admiral
and other ORicers of the Cruiser
PhiIndeIphia-TheP President to At
tach No Importance 10 the
Incident and Denies Strained Re-
IatiOns With the Minister-POrtu-
guese Immigration.
san Francisco, March 27.-srhe steamer
Australia arrived from Honolulu shortly
before Q o'clock this morning. She left
Honolulu March 20.
President Dole. on March IS, declared
martial law to be at an end, and the
writ of habeas corpus restored.
United states Minister Willis gave a re-
ception last week to Admiral Beardslee
and the officers OF the Philadelphia, for
which large number of invitations were
issued. President Dole and his wife were
not invited. and only two members of the
cabinet. This caused a sensation.
interviewing President Dole upon the
subject, he said; Il attach no Importance
10 the reception. which was very infor-
NAL affair"
To a question whether his relations with
Mr. Willis were strained, the president
replied: Not at all; not in any way"
1t was further learned from the attor-
ney general that Mrs. Willis gave the
invitations by telephone in a most in
formal way.
The stories published in San Francisco
to the effect that the government is op-
posed to annexation and has quarrelled
with the American League, which is ur-
gent for annexation, and that being afraid
of the league and it's leader, Tim Murray
the government is enlisting 300 men in
San Francisco to fight for it; and also
that w. O.. Smith, the attorney general,
had severe alteration with Tim Muir
ray on the subject of annexation, have
no foundation whatever. No one in Hon
olulu needs to be assured that the govern
ment has always been thoroughly and
heartily in favor of annexation, and con-
tinues so. William Smith denies that the
government IS enlisting men abroad or
has thought of doing SO. 1t has no differ
enees whatever with the American
League. Mr.. Smith did have sharp words
with Murray on Jan. II upon a totally
different subject.
The attorney general expressed much
vexation at the release of the schooner
H. c. Wahlberg three days before his
lawyer and witnesses reached the coast,
although they were sent for with the
knowledge Of the United States officials.
He thinks the Wahlberg will be seized
again.
The ex-queen was observed yesterday
morning sitting at her window in the ex-
eeutive building listening to the govern
ment band playing in front. She is as
comfortably situated as possible, aside
from her confinement TO one part of the
building.
H. B. NJ. gunboat Nymph arrived here on
the 18th, from Santiago, Chile. She will
sail in a fortnight for Esquimault
A battalion of marines and sailors from
the Philadelphia landed on the 18th for
shore drill, and will do so every Tuesday.
The German steamer Braunfels is due
about April l. from the Azores, with 600
able-bodied Portuguese laborers and 300
women and children. This immigrant ton
will steadily continue as the result of Min
lister Thurston's visit to Lisbon.
Nine hundred Japanese immigrants ar
rived on the 14th. on the steamer Inde-
pendent. Seven hundred were contract
laborers. 1t is expected to supplant this
Japanese immigration by that of Portu-
guese.
Nine native rebels were sentenced OF the
18th inst, to five years each. These were
the last cases before the military COM
mission.
n Ati 80 uullAbeI VI pOllllCdl prisoners
have been put to work on the roads in
Hawaii. Among them are the leaders.
Wilcox, Greig, Widemann and Marshall.
The Englishman Rickard and Seward Ash
ford and Gulick will be kept in prison for
the present at least. Seward is said to
be quite i'll.
The Honolulu Iron Works have been
awarded the contract for repairing the
engine of the Philadelphia
The Honolulu advices per the steamer
Australia contain no reference whatever
to Minister Thurstons recall.