The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-28
FULL STORY OF
THE AB0|CATION
ccop.inued from Page One,

tNDH lHucu ltbiil AXE NhCsJ
ed to Ncumann. Wilson and Parker
that the get Judge Widemann, w. G..
Irwin and Curtis p. Iaukea, and that
they go as witnesses to the execution
of the paper, and that they take Mr..
Stanley along as a notary to take the
Queen IS acknowledgement. These three
men were sent for. They wanted Mr..
Hartwell to accompany them. This he
demurred to doing, hut finally, on their
insistence, he assented.
Arriving at the Palace, they all went
in to the part of the palace reserved
for the Queen. There Paul Neumann
asked the Queen if she had read the
instrument and understood it. She re-
piled that she had read it and under
stood it. Then he read it to her very
carefully and very slowly, and she
again said she understood it. Parker
then took the pen and gave it to her
and she signed it, Mr.. Stanley then
took her acknowledgment of it in the
usual form-that is, that she executed
the instrument voluntarily and for the
purposes therein set forth
The whole party, except the Queen,
then crossed the hall to President
Dole IS office, now the Governors of
fee, and presented the abdication to
| him. This was the first knowledge of
the abdication up to that time no one
except those mentioned having any in
| formation concerning it.
The Chief Justice said it had been
stated, in a book published concerning
the matter, that the legal adviser of
| the Republic (meaning himself) had
been appealed to to draft the applica-
ton, and that the Queen had never
seen it until it was presented to her,
and insinuation was made that there
was some underhand work in connec-
ton with it. He could only say that he
was not the legal adviser of the gov
ernment; that what he had recounted
were the circumstances of the matter,
and that he had never received any
thing for drafting the abdication, not
even thanks for the stationery used.
| DIR. \. h. Emerson expressed regret
that no stenographer was present so
| that Chief Justice Hartwell's state
ment concerning the matter might have
| been taken down and preserved as a
/ part of the history of the matter
George r. Carter, president of the
society, suggested that if the Chief
Justice were willing to repeat what he
had said he would send stenographer
The Chief Justice said he would be
very glad to do so.
The changes from Hartwell's first
| draft are very few. In one section ,
change is madeso that the Queen saw
she acts for the interest of the Ha
waiian people, instead of for the in
i erests of the Republic of Hawaii, NJ
the original had it. Another section
is cut out entirely. one in which sht
makes her abdication final and irrevo
cable. In third place certain word
are cut out which, by implication
. make her acknowledge that she ha'
had part in the then late uprising.
!, The meeting last night was held a
, the University Club and was very larg
" attended. In opening the meetipi
. President Carter gave some outline o
D the work in Hawaiian bibliograph,
which has been done by Mr.. Howar
!, Ballou. His photography of Hawai-
!, containing the titles of thousands o
books in which reference is made
:. Hawaii. is shortly to be published b
!. the Congressional library Mr.. Ballo
{. is also engaged in the preparation O
}. list of the books and pamphlets pull
:. lished in the Hawaiian language. TIL
:, number of these runs into the thol
: sands, and is surprise to everyon
!, Who learns of it for the first time.
y Growing out of his research in thes
> lines Mr. Ballou has collected an in
mense amount of material concernih
> the early history of the mission pre-
: in Hawaii, and he READ pap'
- on that subject.
y Mr.. Balloons paper went very mil
4 utely into the beginnings of printin
= in these islands, and traced the woI
q of the mission press which was II
d only press for many years. In his 7
= search in this matter Mr. Ballou hi
I discovered number of quaint al
4 valuable publications of the early da
a, in the archives of the Hawaiian Boar
Among other finds of this kind are pc
o. regulations which antedate by thr
i. years what has commonly been a
ma eepted as the first printed laws of il
G. waii.
lie, The paper is full of interesting ms
10. ter concerning the work of the ear
It printers and the early press.