The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13
UNDER MARTIAL
 LAW TWO HOURS Soldiers on the Rampage
 at Honolulu. BREAK OF TWO LIEUTENANTS LIVELY TIMES UNTIL GENERAL KING INTERFERED. Oficious Young Army Officers Cause Much Disorder and Are
 Now in Deep Dis
 grace.
BREAK OF TWO LlEUTENANTS
LIVELY TIMES UNTIL GENERAL
 KING INTERFERED.
Correspondence of The Call.

o'clock last night martial law was de
 clared in Honolulu. Announcement O.
 the new dispensation was made by Sec
 ond Lieutenant Merriam, U. 5. A, sor
 Of Major General Merriam, command
 ing the Department of the Pacific, II
 which is included the Hawaiian Islands
 With Merriam was First Lieutenant
 Wheelock,r New York First Regiment
 U. s. A.
 Martial law was actually enforced by
 Merriam and Wheelock for two and half hours. This was done without any
 authority whatever, with utter dlsre-
 gard TO the civil laws and with an ig-
 noring. or worse, Ot the police.
 Merriam and WheelOck conducted themselves in a manner most astonish- | ing. Wheelock was provost marshal in charge of the mounted infantrymen Merriam may or may not have been or durv At any rate the officers assumed 1 entire control, ordered citizens off the streets, then off the sidewalks and en- ] forced their mandates through the mounted men. Army men, for manage ment of whom 1t is supposed that al least WheeIock was detailed, kept away from the neighbOrhood.
 
 tatorial to the point of insulting citi- zens who happened to be about Wheei- ock engaged i'll a braWl With some SdlI- DTS from a merchant ship. He followed them clear down to the docks and had a pair of his patrolmen chase two h. ter-island steamer captains to DoA plies on the wharf A customs officer was also made to scramble for safety.
 About l o'clock General king was
 -I Hawaiian Hotel and told of what was going on. He seemed genuinely sorry and was angry to white heat In re1a- ton to Merriam General King Salu thd' the young man had no OfueTS What ever and that he (hlng) would not have had the affair happen Tor S-U'oVV Merriam had used General King name a ,umber of times, saying that the commander in chief had ordered hlIn to ..take charge" at 11:30 o'clock and Keep the streets clear.
 General King had the two ofncers rounded up and their martlaI law or der was declared off. Both men were drunk. They will be cOurt-martlaled.
 Concerning the affair General King said ar noon to-day: T have hardly words to tell you how ineXpresslDiy sorry am that such an occurrence should have happened. My friend, Commander Taussig of the Bennlhg- ton. was kind enough to come 10 my room some time after midnight and let me know what was going on. at once sent Captain SaXton, my aid, to inYes- tigate, which he did. This morning l have had both officers before me and Captain Bowers of the police has told me what he witnessed. You must un- derstand that no complaint has been made to me by any one, nor have the civic authorities taken any action. My investigations show that Lieutenant Wheelock was alone to blame. It is true Lieutenant Merriam was with him, but he was not on duty and cannot be held responsible. WheeloCk was on duty and if Merriam was drunk and disorderly he should have arrested him. As I said before the responsibility was on WheelOck, and l believe him to have been 50 drunk that he was not ac- countable for his actions. Having thus decided, I have ordered that WheeloCk be relieved from duty and another man put in his place"
 What does that amount to, general, as a punishment?" was asked.
 Loss of pay and prestige for one thing, besides the disgrace" was the answer No, a court martial does not necessarily follow, nor is it likely in this case. Unless some further complaint is made the matter may be considered as ended. I shall. of course, send report of the affair to Washington"
 While the Hawaiian planters have not made any OVertuTeS to the sugar trust, the latter has made overtures to the planters, and is now openly in the field with an offer to contract for the Hawaiian sugar crop for the next three years, expressly stipulating that the present arrangement with the new Cal ifornia refinery shall continue, which means that the Port Costa refinery is to get 50, 900 tons annually and the bal ance goes to San Francisco or New York, as the trust may decide The present contract with Howard & Co of New York by which some of the sugar goes over the Southern Pacific and some via Cape Horn expires on January 1 next, and it is understood that they waive any rights they have to a re- neWal In favor of the trust. Howard & Go. have sold their sugars to the trust ct a profit this year, but why the trust has allowed this is a rnys- tery.
 This offer was under consideration al a recent meeting, but nothing was decided, owing to the absence of two prominent planters. It was decided. Sugar and Refining Company, in other words the new refinery at Port Costa will receive the same quota of sugar next year from Hawaiian plantations as it has from the present crop, and more of it if required. Another sub ject under discussion was whether the present contract with the new refinery should be allowed to run on for an other year or whether another new one should be entered into for two or even three years more. An agreement was reached for next year and will likely be consummated in a few days, but as to the advisability of extending the contract for two or three years, no de- cision was arrived at, and the matter is still in abeyance.
 Private Clarence H. Porter of Com pany H, First New York died at the hospital Sunday night and was buried from St. Andrews Cathedral at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon in Nuu- anu Cemetery. Rev. c. Schwartz con-