The San Francisco call., 1899-07-01
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The Admiral Followed the Lead
Of the English Too Closely to
Suit Consul Osborn.

The programme was to collect these
guns on the same afternoon that the
Mataafa guns were secured, but the
Tanu people were not SO willing 70 part
with thene4 sfte. rriUell persuasion,
however, they began to turn them in
about midnight at the English guard
house at MuliRuu, and for several hours
until daylight there was incessant fir
ing going on, starting rumor after
rumor down around Apia of an out
break. The men, however, were merely
firing off all of their cartridges into the
air before giving up their highly priced
weapons. By noon 1900 of their own
guns had been surrendered by the Ia
nus, and up TO date they have surren-
dercd in round numbers 1850. The 700
English guns have also been returned
to the ships.
On the afternoon of June I a procla-
nation was issued, printed in both Sa-
moan and English and signed by the
three Commissioners, giving notice that
all arms and ammunition still in the
hands of natives must be delivered to
the Commission before June 20, that re-
ceipts would be given for all arms and
ammunition so received, and that the
same will be returned to their owners
after the restora tion of peace, or full
compensation made therefor; but that
all arms and ammunition remaining in
the possession OF the natives after June
20 will be confiscated and the person
in whose possession the same may be
found will be punished by a fine not
exceeding s100 or by Imprisonment aot
exceeding thirty days, or both such fine
and imprisonment.
On June 3 large crowds of natives
from the islands of Tutuila and Savaii
were returned to their homes by the
warships, and the next day Mataafa
and a few of his relatives and chiefs
embarked in their own boats for Au-
MALE, on the coast some twenty miles
east of Apia The natives being well
scattered and presumably unarmed, the
few marines and sailors then remaining
on shore were withdrawn to their re-
spective ships and the work Of estab-
fishing a civil government was begun.
The first step was an attempt TO
organize a municipal council. but there
were found to be difficulties in the way.
Apia comprises two municipal districts,
each of which elects three councilmen,
the President and three members max
ing a quorum. Previous to the war an
EleCIlOn
trict and two tickets were put in the
field The returning officer, however,
a colonial who made out the official
list of candidates, neglected TO give the
full names of the anti-Tanu candidates,
but merely gave the initials and last
names The Chief Justice is openly
charged with having been aware of this
fact, if not indeed responsible for it.
However this may be, the law COM
pelling the full names of candidates to
be given, not having been complied
with, the Chief Justice decided the
Tanu candidates were elected, there be-
ing no opposing ticket. After the war
began one of these men left the country
temporarily, leaving but two council
men in the district. The counclImen IN
the western district refused to sit with
these two men, alleging that they were
fraudutently put in office, and DR.. Solf,
the newly appointed President, with all
his persuasive powers, is unable to Sc
cure a quorum. The only way out Of
the dilemma then, is to elect men in
the western district who will sit, and
the Commission in pursuance OF this
plan has ordered an election in that
district TO take place on June Y.
AS predicted in special cablegrams to
The Call. sent from here June 1 via
Auckland. the Commission has abol-
ished the kingship of Samoa, and has
deprfyed young Tanu of all authority
over the Samoan Government. 1t is not
known what sort of a government will