Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-12
HAWAIIAN REBELLION
Interesting Details by The Stars
Special Correspondent.
CLEVEIAND'S STULTIFYING ORDERS
He Was Animated by Blind Hate
for the Republic.
SENSIBLE BRITISH ORDERS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
HONOLULU. January 80. 1895.
Before this reaches you you will have
been informed with some detail of what
we have been doing in Honolulu since we
got the rebellion under. / will not attempt
to recount all those things, but will Offer
incidental remarks thereon. I fear my OBJ
servations Will lack connected sequence.
as l write under pressure for time.
The military commission has been hold
ing trials of rebels and conspirators for
nearly two weeks. This is the eleventh
days actual session. About forty persons
have thus far been tried. This includes
most of the military leaders and chief plot
ters of the rebellion. such as Nowlein and
Wilcox. with several of their leutenants,
and especially Seward Gul!cl> and Itickard,
who laid the plans. and Bertelnann and
T. b. Walker. who were active in executing
them. The methods of the court have been
deliberate and impartial. Every reasonable
latitude has been allowed to counsel No
decisions of the court have yet been an
nounced.
1t Is premature to anticipate what exer-
else there VIII be of clemency by the exec
utive. Much. 1t Is probable. 1t was nat
trail that when our citizens were hot from
their several days work in the defeat and
under the agitation caused by the great
peril which had threatened their homes,
there should have been a strong and stern
outcry for condign punishment of the reb-
els especially of all chiefly concerned.
Calmer thoughts will doubtless follow, and
II may be felt that there Is room for
leniency. even, to some prominent Offenders
without unduly imperiling the public Sc
curity.
The Military Court.
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In the former throne room. The president
of the commission, Col. w. A. Whiting, the
six associate officers and the judge advo-
cate, Capt. w. A. Kinney. all appear IN
full uniform, keeping on their headgear.
One week ago singular interruption
startled the court In terrifying manner.
A heavy mass of ornamental plaster, nine
feet long, crashed down upon the table
between the members of the court from the
ceiling. nearly twenty feet above. 1t pre-
cisely fitted the length of the table, and
injured no one. save a thrilling scratch to
Col Writings face. This is the first loos-
ening of plaster in the building, now built
fifteen years. 1t was doubtless owing to
a rather sharp earthquake the night be-
fore.
Hawaiian superstition very naturally i'm
puteS this strange occurrence in court, as
well as the earthquake, to the fact that
the former queen was at that moment on
the point of formally executing her very
complete and abject submission to the gov
eminent of the republic and remuneration
OF her throne. She had been for eight days
under arrest, and confined in one of the
former royal bed chambers upstairs above
the throne room. During the previous
week her condition at her own residence
had been one of pitiable fear. consequent
upon the failure of the rebellion, In which
she was thoroughly implicated Before ar
rest she had been consulting about making
terms with the government, and was ready
to submit TO any humiliation in order to be
exempt from punishment The government
would not arrest her until compelled to do
so by overwhelming proofs of her COM
plicty. She began making advances to
them, but they totally refused to discuss
the subject with her. Her action was en-
tirely spontaneous as far as any member
of the government was concerned. Proc
ably pressure from her own friends
was used or needed. She was eager to
make her submission
The Letter of AbdicntiOn.
BY the counsel of her trusted friends. C.
r. Wilson. Fl. A. Widemann and Paul Neu-
mann. she employed Judge a. 8. Hartwell
to draw W n document expressing her sub
mission and remuneration. which he did
in thorough manner. 1t Is a unique 9ocu-
ment and will undoubtedly become his
torical. Hawaii. although minute ip terri
tory, occupies, as sole center, an enormous
tract of ocean: and it has had the honor
OF contributing to history an unusual num-
Der OF peculiar incidents. such as the res
toration of the kingdom by Great Britain
in 1879; the continuance OF an aboriginal
monarchy for fifty years in the presence OF
q powerful white colony; and the freedom
of her former capital to a deposed queen
to live there and intrigue for restoration.
All those events were totally unique and
unprecedented. Now follows the unprece-
dented occurrence OF the fallen monarch
rendering her fullest submission and al
legiance to the republic which displaced
her from the throne.
1t Is too early to say what. IL any. bene-
fit may result from this formal abdcation
and submission. 1t will probably contrib |
ute to render more thorough the removal
which has already been felt, of the painful
incubus which has pressed down the souls
OF the native HawaiianS ever since March,
1898 when Ii was reported that Col. Bount
was going to restore the queen That i'm
preston grew more and more terrifying to
their minds until December. when Min
lister Willis demanded of MIR. Dole to re-
store her. From that time on she and her
adherents have been able to keep up in
the minds of the native people the expec-
tation that somehow she would soon re-
turn to the throne: and then woe to every
one who had opposed her!
To some persons engaged in personal
benevolent work among natives there has
come a really unexpected and startling
revelation of how. to many of them.
dreadful fear has been taken off. and their
lips have become unsealed. Many. who
have been extremely reticent about politics.
are suddenly open in their denunc ationS
of LiliuokaianI and her pretensions. They
are no longer afraid of her. She IS a cap
tive, AMI her adherents are being dealt with
for rebellion. The Illusion under which
Mr. CleVe1and's action has kept them for
nearly two years has now dissolved, and
these natives are free to speak.
The Ex-Queen's Following.
I have had opportunity during the last
few days to interrogate number of intel |
ligent and influential natives from differ |
ent districts on this Island. Their uniform
testimony Is that Lilluokalani has had but |
a small number OF warm partisans among
the people. "A majority, perhaps, were In
clined toward her and disaffected toward
the government. but were lukewarm In
their feelings. A large and intelligent mi
nority at heart favored the republic. The
others disliked II, because Ii was persist
entity hammered into them by royaltst pa
pers that the whites and the missionaries
had robbed them of their country and their
rights, although under the republic the
voting power of the common native Is
rather greater than 1t ever was under the
monarchy.
There are only about $500 males of Ha-
waiian blood all told upon this island. Yet
IL was the boast OF one Of the white con-
n month before the outbreak that