The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-13


Ipntched Colonel James II. Blount Of
Macon, Georgia, as his special commits.
.siohor TO investigate the situation IN
|the Hawaiian Islands. ClevelandJs
.commissioner arrived in Honolulu
March 20 and was immediately dubbed
u" Pafhmount BlountU because he ID.
lover that Of al other American authoti-
ty In the Islands
ordered rag Down
Two days after arrival, Commits.
sioner Blount ordered the United
States flag hauled down from the GOV.
ernment building and commanded the
United States troops, who had re.
manned ashore since January 10. to re-
turn aboard their ships, thus ending
the american protectorate over the
Islands.
Commissioner Blohnt remained in
Honolulu until July, 1903, when he re.
turned TO Washington with yolumin.
.oue report on the situation President
cleveland construed the controversy
between Queen Lilfuokalani and the
Provisional Government TO have been
Submitted to him for arbitration, and
adopted the conclusion Of Commits
sioner Blount's report--that the late
revolution had been brought about by
the aid Of United States Minister Btev.
ems. who had ordered the troops ashore
from the Boston. e
Accordingly PRESIDENT Cleveland
sent Albert s. Willis, Of Louisville,
Kentucky, to Honolulu as United
Estates minister to replace Stevens.
willis was instructed first to inform
the Queen Of the Presidents decision,
|and then, If she would promise TO grant
full amnesty 70 oil who had taken part
N the revolution, Willis was to de.
mand of the President and ministers of
the Provisional Government that they
..promptly relinqhish 70 Queen Liliuo-
Gallant her constitutional authority" .
Defisd United States
Minister Willis arrived in Honolulu
November 4. He obtained with diff
guilty Queen I.ihuokalani's consent to
grant amnesty TO the heads Of the Pro-
yisiopal Government. On December
9, 1898, he made formal demand on
he; Provisional Government for the
restoration Of Queen Liliuokalani. The
provisional authorities refused to listen
10 the demand.
On December %, President Dole sent
the reply of his government to Minister
willis, refusing to surrender its author
Iity TO Liliuokalani, the deposed Queen.
willis reported the situation to Presi-
.dent Cleveland who in turn referred
THE matter Htto the wider discretion of
congress. y There was little sympathy
in congress with the restoration propo-
Ssition, and a committee Of the senate,
under Democratic control, after investi-
gatioh, repudiated the Blount report
land reached a conclusion adverse TO
the Presidents recommendation. No
Further action was taken by the Cleve-
land administration. Hr
ESTABLISHMENT Of Republic
All hope of early annexation to the
United States was now abandoned by
tnoee who had dethroned the Queen,
Steps were Immediately taken TO estab-
.llsh an independent Republic In Ha.
.@aii A. constitutions slhvention was
yealled TO meet May 80, 1894, for the
Npmpose of framing a constitution for
the Republic of Hawaii. The conven.
ton completed its labors July 8 and
on the following day the republic o.
Hawaii was proclaimed, a year and g
half after Queen Liliuokalani had
'been deposed. Sanford b. Dole was
Nnhmed first President of the new Re-
public. esaa | %.. f..
Liiuokalani still retained big fol-
blowing of native Hawaiians ana her
home, Washington Place became the
RENDEZVOUS Of the "royalist" sympa-
thizers, who for one reason or another
8desired the restoration of the monar-
Nchy. E.-, kali H-'+.
Acounter Revolution .g..
Toward the end of 1894, this faction,
ylargely instigated by agitators Of for
leign birth, who could lay no special
Helaim to monarchial sympathies but
3who succeeded in misguiding the ma
tives, entered into q conspiracy to over.
tthrow the existing government. Arms
Sand ammunition were brought from
San Francisco. Sunday January 8,
Uses, the royalists assembled, at Dia-
hond Head, planning to enter the city
THAT night and with the aid Of allies
lin Honolulu to launch their uprising"
premature movements exposed the plot
land after night Of diminishing with
the military companies and the citizens
Nguard which had been called out, the
ATTACKERS retreated to the hills, where
they were broken up and captured after
,soveral days Of guerilla warfare. All
1.-THE leaders Of the conspiracy were
ttaken. p. ~"
Queen Iiliuokalani was arrested Jan.
uary is, 1895, as a participant in the
'plot, certain evidence having been
Found in her home. The arrest was
made quietly and she submitted grace
fully. The former Queen was conveyed
tby carriage to the executive building
land confined in an upstairs room with
Iher lady waiting. She was charged
with " misprisioh Of treason, Z the least
kserious of the counts placed against
THE 100 persons who were brought to
trial before a military commission and
convicted, some pleading guilty.
denounced Her Throne
Queen Liliuokalani, eight days after
her arrest, formally renounced all
claims 10 the throne, appealing to the
government for clemency toward all
those who had taken part In the in
4surrection. After nine months reten-
Rtion in her former palace, Lilioukalani
and forty eight others were granted
conditional pardons, September 2, 1898,
land on the following New Years. Day