Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
No Change in Present Instruct
ions Regarding Hawaii.
Story That Old Glory Was to Be
hoisted, Monday, Is Denied.
Fernandez chaquello's cass-Ths Daunilsss
Naval Review Tor Newport.

Washington, Aug. 3.-It is declared
positively at the state department that
there has been no change in the in
structions given either to Minister
Sewall or to Admiral Beardslee touch
ing their attitude toward the Hawaiian
question. The admiral's instructions
We're to protect the American interests
at all points and to establish q protec-
torate only in the event of serious dis
turbance or the commission of some
overt act. 1t is not understood that the
execution of this action was all depend
ent upon the action or nonaction Of
Congress upon annexation.
AT the navy department an even more
explicit denial of the story that the
flag was to be hoisted. yesterday, was
obtained. 1t was said that Admiral
Beardslee's orders only contemplated a
landing in an emergency to preserve
the status quo and that the landing in
that case would not be for longer
period Of time than was necessary to
restore conditions to their former shape.
1t was said that as President McKin-
ley had referred the whole matter to
Congress along with the annexation
treaty it would not be courteous to that
own volition until. Congress had ex-
pressed it's WILL 1t was further said
that there was no truth in the oft-re-
peated story that the battleship Ore
gon was under orders to go to Homo
lulu.
Consul General Lee at Havana has
been informed by judge OF the mil
itary court that Fernandez Chauuelo.
convicted of rebellion, has been sen
fenced to life Imprisonment, and il the
sentence We're carried out it would re-
suit in his being sent to Central Africa.
This would dispose of his testimony
as a witness in the case of Gown, an
American who was killed by the Span
ish troops. as effectively as if he had
been shot. The fiscal at the trial asked
for a sentence of death. Gen. Lee had
addressed a note to the governor gem
eral asking for positive information az
to what decision the Spanish govern
ment has reached in the case.
The treasury officials have received
intimation that the tug Dauntless now
at Jacksonville, Fla, was preparing
to leave port. presumably. 1t is said, on
a filfbustering expedition. The local
officials have been warned to be on the
outlook and to prevent any violations
Of the navigation or neutrality laws
Admiral Sicard has arranged to lani
the entire force of the North Atlantic
squadron, Wednesday. at Newport, II.
l., where the sailors will have process
sion and be reviewed by the Governor
Of Rhode Island.
1t is said at the state department that
no special commissioner has been sent
by President Mckinley to Hawaii, as
is stated in San Francisco dispatches.
and that any person representing him.
self as such has no authority to do So
George E. Eldridge is on his way to
the Gilsonite lands of Utah to investi-
gate for the navy department. If his
report is favorable it will mean that !.
Uncle Sam will float a navy that will
hold the seas for years without dock
ing, and will therefore be the most
in the world. Experiments
With mineral substances from the Utah
mineral lands lead the navy depart
ment to believe that il the bottom OF a
ship is coated with X, it will withstand
the attack of submarine animals
which bore into the steel, and which
costs the nations of the world millions
Of dollars Not only this. but IL will
De impossible for fungi to gather on the
bottom of the ships. fouling them, and
will render docking unnecessary except
n the event of an accident.