The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-28
FULL STORY Of
THE ABDICATION
CCor-tuued from Page one.s

they 90 as witnesses TO the execution
OF the paper. and that they take Mr..
Stanley along as a notary TO take the
Queen 5 acknowledgment These three
men were sent for They wanted Mr..
Hartwen to accompany them. This he
demurred 10 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 il 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 fer the
purposes therein set forth.
The whole party, except the Queen,
then crossed the hall TO President
Dole office. now the Governors Of
fee. and presented the abdieation to
him. This was the first knowledge OF
the abdieation. 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 himselfl had
been appealed TO TO draft the appliea-
ton, and that the Queen had never
seen it until ii was presented to her,
and insinuation was made that there
was some underhand work in eonnec-
+ion with it. He could only say that he
was not the legal adviser of the gov
ernment: that what he had reeounted
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
DR.. n. B. Emerson expressed regret
that no stenegrapher was present SO
that Chief Justice Hartwell's state
ment concerning the matter might have
been taken down and preserved as
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 ne
had said he would send a stenographer.
The Chief Justice said he would De
verv glad TO do 50.
Tie changes from HartweI $ first
draft are verv few. In one section {
change IS madeso that the Queen says
she acts for the interest of the Ha-
waiian people, instead of for the IN
erests Of the Republic of Hawaii, as
the original had it. Another sector
IS eat out entirely, one in which she
makes her abdieation final and irrevo
cable. In a third place certain words
are cut out which. by implication,
make her acknowledge that she haze
had a part in the then late uprising.
The meeting last night was held
the University Club and was very large
Nv attended In opening the meeting
President Carter gave some outline of
the work in Hawaiian biblographys
which has been done by Mr. Howard
BaIlou. His photography of Hawaii
containing the titles of thousands of
books IN which reference IS made to-
Hawaii. is shortly to be published byI
the Congressional library. Mr.. Ballou
is also engaged in the preparation of
a list Of the books and pamphlets pHb
Iished In the Hawaiian language The
number of these runs into the thou
sands. and Is surprise to everyone
who learns of it for the first time.
Growing out of his research in these
lines Mr.. Ballou has collected an i'm
mense amount Of material concerning
the early history of the mission press
in Hawaii. and he read a paper
on that subject.
Mr.. Ballou 3 paper went very min
utely into the beginnings of printing
IN these islands, and traced the work
Of the mission press which was the
only press for many years. In his re
search IN this matter Mr. Balleu has
a number of quaint and
valuable publications OF the early days
Ia the archives OF the Hawaiian Board
Among other finds OF this kind are port
regulations which antedate by three
years what has commonly been ae-
cepted as the first printed laws Of Ha-
waii.
The paper Is full Of interesting mat
ter concerning the work of the early
printers and the early press.
A second and short paper By Mr..
Ballou gave an account OF the press
sent from here TO Oregon, which was he
first press west of the Rocky noun
tains, and corrected BIZ historical data
the erroneous statement made at the |
time of the Lewis & Clarke Expos |
ton that this press was the first pres.
brought TO Hawaii It was not tn |
first press brought to Hawaii, though |
It was one Of the early ones.
A. F. Judd read some very interest !
ing extracts from a newly discovered |
portion of the journal or diary of DR. |
g. p. Judd. 1t covers the period Of |
1880 and 1881, the death of Boki an6 |
the beginning of the controversy with /
the early Catholic missionaries.
An extract from the journal Of Cor
ham D. Gilman giving an account OF /
q journey IN canoe along the Kauai /
Pail IA 1s45 was not read because Of |
the lateness of the hour but viii be !!
published N the proceedings OF tn |
society.