Nebraska Newspapers

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, OVER THE STATE.
i ’ *Tms new hotel at Oaklund Is about
ready for oeciipaney.
• Tbcvmsf.h has but few people In des
‘ titute circumstances.
The A. O. V. W. temple at McCook is
aoon to be dedicated.
Death has of late removed several
: pioneers in l'olk county.
Tint postmaster at I.yons is short in
Ida accounts and his uondsmen have
taken charge.
The international bri.'klavers' asso
ciation held their annual convention in
. Omaha last week.
At licatrice an attempted jail deliv
ery was frustrated last week by Deputy
Sheriff Kyd at the county jail.
Eastern capitalists are looking over
the ground at Beatrice with the view
of establishing a large shoe factory
there.
There are about thirty cases of
tneasies at Liberty. Two of them have
proved fatal—both victims being
adults.
Thr infant child of Mrs. Giffroy of
Seward swallowed some concentrated
lye and diet! after suffering for twenty
four hours.
Stimmki. & Co.’s seed house at Omaha
failed last week, catching many farm
ers who had delivered seed but hud re
ceived ho money.
Thr third annual meeting of the Elk
horn Farmers’ Vigilance association
was held at Elkhorn last week and offi
cers for the ensuing year elected.
A Bauer, the heaviest agricultural
dealer in Ponca, gave a bill of sale to
David Bradley on his stock of imple
ments, etc.; consideration 812,000.
Thr state board of agriculture will
have its annual meeting at the Lincoln
hotel January 10. Every member of
the board is expected to be present.
Hon. J. Stkwart Ouikr, an old and
esteemed resident of Hislng City and
M an ex-member of the state legislature,
"ft died January 4, after a lingering ill
ness.
Thebe is a shrievalty contest in Jef
"''farson county, where the republican
candidate had one plurality on the face
, of the returns, 11 iq contestant is a
populist
Wji.i.iAJt Hoyt of Beatrice, a broth
er-in-law of President Cleveland, was
: knocked down by a horse and severely
Injured. Fears for his recovery are en
tertained.
Tom Martin, a colored man of Ne
; braska City, was bound over to the dis
: trlct court for stabbing a man. Martin
■is an old offender, having served time
In the penitentiary.
Private Dudley Adams, of ,Co. A,
•tatioued at Fort Omaha, jumped from
r - a motor cur, fell under the wheels and
received injuries that necessitated the
’ amputation of a leg.
AN eastern firm has offered to oper
; ate a shoe factory at Beatrice if the
! citizens will raise 915,000 to put in the
j business The factory would turn out
-400 pairs of shoes daily.
John MCDukfy, a former resident of
Columbus, was killed at Needles, Cal.,
while at work on the Southern Pacific
road. His remains were brought to
V Nebraska for interment.
, . Frank Moore, aged nineteen, is in
jail at Lincoln awaiting the arrival of
’ a sheriff from Des Moines. Moore was
> arrested on suspicion of having seduced
an Iowa maiden, but he declares that
oil the years of his brief life have been
■pent on Nebraska soil.
M. 8. Smith of Gretna, Douglas coun
' Ay, a farm hand in the employ of
• ' George Snider, a wealthy stockman,
v' was accidentally caught in a corn
■ crusher and Itis hand and arm crushed
Ao a jelly. Doctors amputated the arm
above the elbow. He will recover.
Negotiations are pending with east
, era parties for the sale of the Beatrice
p\ overall factory, and have been practic
ally completed except as to minor de
' Mails. The new purchasers propose to
i arreatly enlarge the plant, and add other
- «lo thing manufacturing to its output.
At Ponca, while Walter Smith was
skating on the creek, he ran into, some
barbed wire that someone had put up
f - across the creek. The wire struck him
■sW is the face, cutting a gash about an
if- inch and a half long in his upper lip
and cutting almost through to the
’ <teeth.
Tue ladies of Holdrege gave a char
- Ity ball. They cleared about 940, which
■win go to the benefit of the poor of the
U city. This, with 8*15 raised by sub
■ acription daring the holidays, places
the charitable aid society in possession
? of funds which will greatly aid in its
:r Work.
• Alois Schinke of Hastings left last
H week for New York, whence he will
^ nail on the steamship Trave for Ger
; many. By the death of a brother lately
Mr. Schinke inherits an estate valued
ai 880,000. He will return to Hastings
it. as soon as he can get his affairs in *he
< old country fixed up
C H. Morlill, receiver of the de
f’ fuct Nebraska Savings bank, has sub
:.%) mitted a report to the state banking
‘ board. The report shows that the
p assets on the day of suspension aggre
ss gated 8107,287.5U, 86,13a 15 being con
: aidered good, 953,348.81 doubtful and
’ 947,803.53 worth lesa
Fred Osborn, who was committed to
4he reform school by the district court
{ : of Lancaster county some time ago for
Oi general all around cussedness, cannot
k:’■ outer that institution, as it is claimed
- be is too old and unruly for the mu
i'V agement to handle, and' the sheriff has
“5 been ordered to.bring him back. He is
» now confined in the county jail at Kear
wey.
*uo KU,CI u'-'* , ncuiciary ui siate a 11(1
Attorney general last week approved
' the bond of the Commercial National
. (bank of Omaha for $100,000 and desig
; Bated it as one of the state depositories.
. ’ Cither bonds will doubtless be approved
i - 'tea few days The fbor Omaha baftkr
- already designated as state deposito
ries are entitldfi to iiold $200,000 of state
, funds.
i>; . A Washington dispatch says: Con
' gressman Mercer had an interview with
.'-1 Assistant Postmasteq. General .1 ones
:; and with Mr. Scott of the general office.
; . with reference to the establishment of
a branch pottoffice in the city of Omaha
| and South Omaha. Upon the showing
Blade it was determined to establish
;>■ tee desired offices.
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Union Pacific passenger train No. I,
due in Clarks at p in , found a bad
•witch there an.l the rear ear left the
rails. One sleeper was entirely con
sumed by the tire which broke out.
Several of the passengers were badly
shaken up, but none were seriously in
jured. The train was held nearly three
hours.
Miciiaki. McKkowx, a bachelor .12
years of age, was found frozen slilf in
the road about a mile and a half from
his house, fourteen mites north of Oga
lalln.. He had walked to Ogalalla Sat
urday through the snow and left town
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon for
home, but became exhausted and laid
down to rest. It was a very cold night,
18 degrees below zero.
Burglars forced an entrance into the
postoffice at Ponca by prying open u
window in the south side of the build
ing. They blew the outer door of the
sate open, securing 342 worth of stamps
and 318 in money. The chilled steel
vault in the safe was too much for
them, and they left without securing
its contents, consisting of registered
matter, cash and a few stamps.
Tint farmers in the vicinity of Srnart
ville, a small village ten miles north
west of Tecumseh, have declared a boy
cott on the ISmartville grain and stock
buyers, it seems that buyers wt liurr.
Douglas and Cook pay much better
prices for produce than those at Smart
ville. In consequence the farmers
drive their loads through Kmartville
over to the first mentioned place.
A conscious-stricken' thief in female
form addressed the following note to
Van Cott, an Omuha jeweler, and re
turned through the post office a dia
mone ring and a lady s gold watch,
valued at $2:K); ‘‘I took this from your
store the day you moved and cannot
take any comfort wearing it. I send it
back to you.” The goods were stolen
more thun a year ago.
Three of the four prisoners in the
county jail at Tekamah effected an es
cape. When making their exit the one
remnining prisoner refused to go with
them, but instead called the sheriff,
who lives in the building, and he was
knocked down and bruised by the es
caping prisoners. Hot pursuit was
made at once and one was recaptured.
They went without any wraps and one
without even a cap or headwear.
Tuk Klkhorn railway company com
menced last week cutting and shipping
ice from Minnecahaduza lake for all
parts of the road from Omaha to the
Jllack Hills and the Mouth Platte di
visions. The ice is about twenty inches
thick and clear as crystal. It will take
40.) ears to supply the company. This,
with what is being taken from the lake
Tor Port Niobrara and other places, is
giving many laborers employment.
That part of the depository law re
quiring county treasurers to deposit
county money in some designated de
pository has been given at least a fair
trial during the past year and the re
sults are very satisfactory. Reports
are in from but few counties, but these
indicate.thnt the county treasurers over
the state have been more prompt in
complying with the law than the state
officials charged with its enforcement.
At Grand Island Wallace Beers no
ticed a suit of clothes for which he had
paid 318 last October on another man’s
back. His clothing had been stolen
from him out of his wagon. The man
was arrested and explained where he
had bought them for a remarkably low
price. David Vogel was the seller and
he in turn was arrested. He was found
guilty and sentenced thirty days in the
County jail.
The question of ditches more than
ever before is agitating the people of
the Platte valley. The experiment of
the Standard Cattle company with
beets on the very lowest lands that had
for ages been simply frog swamps, has
opened the eyes of the people to the
value of said lands, and those who are
possessed.of them are working earnestly
to create a sentiment in favor of gen
eral drainage,
Gurdon W. Wattles, of Omaha, was
at the court house in Lincoln last week
and secured a tract of land embracing
1,803 acres near Havelock. The land
was sold at sheriff Bale subject to a
mortgage of 330,000. The price paid by
Wattles was 330,000, and he assumes
the mortgage. It is said some of the
land is worth 3100 per acre, and Mr.
Wattles will make a neat sum out of
his investment. *
A peculiar case is being tried at
Pawnee City. In the fall of 1890 John
Glass of Burchard bought 32,600 worth
of fruit trees from an Iowa nursery.
The trees were duty delivered and set
out by Glass and his note given in pay
ment. The’note was afterwards bought
by the Burchard bank, or rather the
remaining part of the last payment,
and Glass is now trying to prove that
he was not in his right mind when he
gave the order. Each side has three
lawyers.
James McDowell, a railroad contrac
tor and grader, is wintering at Nemaha
City with his men and teams. A short
time ago McDowell went away for a
few days, leaving Simon Pierce, a
young man, in charge of the teams.
During his absence Pierce got drunk
and skipped out, it being supposed at
the time that he had been drowned in
the Missouri river at that place. Since
then forged cheeks on McDowell have
been turning up at various towns in the
western part of the state. Pierce was
arrested in Fairbury in the act of pass
ing one of the checks.
xue court nous* at Aurora was
burned the other morning about 3
o'clock. The building was frame and
burned very rapidly, so that it was im
possible to save it. Nothing was left
standing but the brick vault and a
small portion of the walls at one cor
ner. The records in the office of the
county elerk, county judge and clerk
of the district court are uninjured,
being in fireproof vaults. Those in the
offices of the county superintendent and
surveyor were in safes and it is not
known whether they are injured or
not. It is supposed burglars fired the
building.
Tills State University will celebrate
the. twenty-fifth anniversary of tbe
I gMnting of its charte^on charter day,
I February 15th, 1894. and the day fol
lowing. AH possible preparations are
being made to render this celebration
worthy of the high standing of the in
stitution and of the great and growing
reputation of the state school system,
of which it is an integral part and the
recognized head. A general invitation
to participate in these exercises is is
sued to all graduates of the university,
to all who have attended the university
one year or more, and to the press of
[ Nebraska.
LEFT TO CONGRESS.
THE PRESIDENT THROUGH
WITH HAWAII.
ALL CORRESPONDENCE SENf IN.
MinUter Willie* Action Approved—The
Reply of President Hole to Mr. WlL
1U Very Defiant—The Right of
This Country to Interfere De
nied—Mr. lUoum's Re
port Impugn ed.
Washington, Jan. 13.—The presi
dent to-day transmitted to congress
ail correspondence relating to the
Hawaiian complications since his
message of December 18. The mes
sage transmitting the correspondence
is as follows:
To the Congress—I transmit here
with copies of all dispatches from our
minister to Hawaii, relating in any
way to political affairs in Hawaii,
except such as have been heretofore
transmitted to congress. I also send
copies of instructions sent on January
12, 1894, being the only instructions
to him that have not been sent to
congress. «
In my former message to congress
I witheld dispatches numbering three,
under date of November 18, 1893, and
also dispatch No 70, under date of
October 8, 1893. Inasmuch as the con
tents of dispatch No. 3 are all re
ferred to in dispatches of more recent
date, and inusmuch as there seems to
bo no longer reason for withholding
it, the same is herewith submitted.
Dispatch No. 70 is still withheld for
reasons that seem to be justifiable and
proper. Grover Cleveland.
The last instructions to Minister
Willis referred to in the president's
letter of transmittal as the only in
structions cot sent to congress are
dated yesterday. , .
They were sent under cover of a tel
egram to W. A Cooper, the dispatch
agent at San Francisco, instructing
him to forward the following tele
gram. to Mr. Willis, by the steamer
Mariposa to-morrow (to-day):
MINISTER WILLIS' LAST INSTRUCTIONS
January 12, 1M11 To Willis, Minister, Hono
lulu: Your numbers, 14 to 18 inclusive show
that you have rightly comprehended the scope
of your Instructions and have, as far as was
In your power, discharged the onerous task
confided in you The president sincerely re
grets that the provisional government refuses
to acquiesce in the conclusion which his sense
oi right and duty and a due regard for our na
tional honor constrained him to reach and
submit us a measure oi justice to the people of
tho Hawaiian Islands and their deposed sover
eign.
While It Is true that the provisional tovern
ment was created to exist only until the
islands were unnexed to the United St.ites and
that ihe queen finally but reluctantly sur
rendered to an urrned force of this govern
ment illegally quartered in. Honolulu, and
representatives of the provisional government
which realized its importance and. anxious to
get control of the queen's means of defunse.
assured her that if she would surrender, her
case would bo subsequently considered bv the
United States, the president has never claimed
that such action constituted him an arbitrator
in the technical sense or authorized him to
act in that capacity between the provisional
government You made no such claim when
you acquainted that government with the
president's decision.
The solemn assurance given to the queen
has not been referred to os authority for the
president to act as arbitrator, but as a fact
material to a just determination of the presi
dent's duty In the premises.
In the noto which the minister of foreign
affair, addressed to you on the 23d ultimo it is
stated in effect that' even if the
constitutional government was subverted
by the action of the American minister
and an invasion by a military force of the
United Stktes, the president's authority is
limited to dealin r with our own unfalttt ul of
tlcials, and that he can take no steps looking
to a correction of the wrong done The presi
dent entertains a different view of his respon
sibility nnd duty. The subversion of the
Hawaiian government by an abuse of the au
thority of tne United States was in plain vio
lation of the international laws and required
the president to disavow and condemn tne act
of our offending officials and within the limits
of his constitutional power to endeavor to re
store the lawful authority.
On the Huh ultimo the president sent a spec
ial message to congress communicating copies
of Mr Blount's reports and tho instructions
given to him and to you. On the same day,
answering a resolution of the house of repre
sentatives, he sent copies of all correspond
ence since March!. 1889, on the political affairs
and relations of Hawaii, withholding for suffi
cient reasons only Mr Stevens's No TJof Octo
ber 8, 1892, and your No. s of November 15,
1891 The president therein announces that
the conditions or restoration suggested by
him to the queen not having proved accepta
ble to ber and since tho instructions sent to
you to insist upon those conditions he has not
learned that the queen was willing to assent
to them
The president thereupon submitted the sub
ject to the more extended powers and wide dis
cretion of congress, adding the assurance that
he would be gratified to co-operate in any
legitimate plan which might be devised for n
solution of the problem, consistent with
American honor, integrity and morality.
Your report shows that on lurther reflection
the queen gave her unqualified assent in writ
ing, to the conditions suggested, but that
the provisional government refused to
acquiesce In the president's decision.
The matter now being in the hands of
congress, the president will keep that body
fully advised of the situation and will lav be
fore it from time to time the reports received
from you. including our number 3, heretofore
withheld and all Instructions sent to you In
the meantime, while keeping the department
fully informed of the oourse of events, you
will until further notice consider that your
special instructions upon th s subject have
been fully complied with. Gresham.
DOLE TO WILLIS,
The Hawaiian ProvU tonal Executive
Denlaa AmerioVa Ri|(h( to Interfere.
Washington, Jan. Us.—The latest
dispatch received from Minister Willis,
enclosing President Dole’s reply to his
demand for the retirement of the.pro
visional government, is as follows:
IMr. Willis to Mr. Gresham, Na 1&]
Legation of the United States, Hono
lulu. Dec. 23, 1803. 12 Midnight. Sir: Presi
dent Dole has just delivered in person at this
hour (midnight) the answer of the provis
ional government declining, for reasons
therein stated, to accept the decision of
the president of the United States a
copy of which is herewith inclosed.
Ihe revenue cutter Corwin is under sailing
orders an i will leave here in a few minutes
for San Francisco The captain has been in.
strutted to slow up. if naccs* rv. and enter
the harbor of San Francisco at ni ht and to ,
deliver in person the dispatches numbered 14,
Ifc. ItS. 17, 18 and 11* to our dispatch agent at
that pi *co The object of this is to enable the
president to receive these official communica
tions before any intimation of their character
can be telegraphed.
* I will on Tuesday acknowledge the receipt
of the answer of the provisional government,
notifying it that the president of the
United states will be informed thereof, and !
that no further steps will be taken by me until 1
1 shall have heard from him. 1 shall !
deliver a similar communication to the queen
The very great excitement prevailing here, 1
and the peculiar conditions surrounding this j
people, prompt the above course.which I trust j
will meet with the approbation of the presi- i
dent and yourself i
I think it prop«r to acknowledge in this pub
lie way the efficient aorvi e« rendered to the
government of t ie United Staten oy oar con
sul general, Mr. Mills, &imae mv arrival ut this
Dlaco |Signed| albkht S. Willis.
President Dole’s reply to the United I
States minister’s demands is as fol
lows:
[Mr Dole to Mr Willis:]
Honolulu* Dec. 23. 189*.—Sir: Your Excel
lency's communication of December Ia an
nouncin; the conclusion which the president
of the United state* of America has Anally
arrived at respecting the application of this
government for a treaty of practical union
with th it couutry and referring also to the
domestic affairs of these islands, has had tne
consideration of the government.
While it is with deep disappointment that
we learn that the important proposition
which we have submitted to the government
of the United States und which was at tir>t fa
vorably considered by it has at length been re
jected, we have experiencid a sense of relief
that we are now favored with the Brst official
Information on the sunject that has been re
ceived through a period of over nine months
While we accept the decision of the presi
dent of the United States, declining further
to consider the annexation proposition as the
Anal conclusion of the present administration,
we do not feel inclined to regard it as the lust
word of the American government upon this
subject, for the history of the mutuad relations
of the two countries, of Ameiicun effort and
inAuence in building up the Christian
civilization which has so conspicuously aided
in i iving this country an honorable place
among independent nations, the geographical
position of these islands and the important,
and. to both countries, profitable reciprocal
commercial interests whloh nave long existed,
together with our weakness as a sovereign
nation, all point with convincing force
to practical union between the two
countries as necessary to gain the result
from the circumstances mentioned. This con
viction is emphasized by the favorable expres
sion or Amerioun statesmen over a long period
In favor of annexation, conspicuous among
whom ure the names of W. L Marcy, William
H Seward, Hamilton Fish and James G
Blaine, all former secretaries of state, and
especially so by the action of your last
administration in negotiating a treaty of an
nexation with this government and sending it
to tho senate with a view of its ratification.
We shall, therefore, continue the project of
political union with the United States as a
conspicuous feature of our foreign policy, con
fidently hoping thttf sooner or later it will be
cro .* ned with success to the lasting benefit of
both countries.
The additional portion of your communica
tion referrln • to our domestic affairs with a
view to interfering therein is a new departure
in the relations of the two government ». Your
information that the president of the United
States expects this government to ‘ promptly
relinquish authority” with the question: ‘ Are
you willing to abide by the dec sion of the
president?” might well be dismissed in a single
word, but fo'*tlib circumstanje that your com
munioatoin contains, as it appears to me, mis
statements, erroneous conclusion based there
on that are so porjudicial to this government
that I cannot permit them ta pass unchalleng
ed Moreover ihe importance and menacing
character of this proposition make it appro
priate for me to discuss somewhat fullv the
question raised by it.
t»We do not recognize the right of fhe presi
dent of the United States to interfere in our
domestic affairs. Such right could be con
ferred upon him by the act of this government
and by that alone, or it could be acquired by
conquest This, I understand to be the Amer
ican doctrine conspicuously announced from
lime to time by the authorities of your gov
ernment President Jackson said in his mes
to congress in 1806: ‘The uniform policy and
practice of the United States is to avoid all
interference in disputes which mostly relate
to the internal gove.nment of other nations
and eventually to recognize the authority of
the prevailing party without reference to the
merits of the original controversy.”
This principle of international law hat been
consistently recognized durin ? the whole past
intercourse of tho twa countries and was re
cently reconfirmed in the instructions given
by Secretary Gresham to Commissioner
Blornt on March 11.1893, and by the latter
published in the newspapers in Homlnlu in a
letter or his own to the Hawaiian public. The
words of these instructions, which I refer to,
are as follows " 1 he United States claim no
ri;ht to interfere in the political or domestio
affairs or in the internal conflicts of the
Hawaiian islands other than as herein stated
(referring to the protection of American citi
zens) or for the purpose or maintaining any
treaty or other rights which they possess.”
The treaties between the two countries con
fer no ri :ht of interference. Upon what then,
Mr. Minister, does the president of the United I
States base bis right of interference? Your
communication is without information upon
this point, excepting such as may be contained
in the following brier and vague sentences:
“She (the ex-quecn) was advised and assured
by her ministers and leaders of the movement
for the overthrow of her government that if
she surrendered under protest, her case would
afterwards be fairly considered by the
president of the United States. Tho
queen Anally yielded to the armed forces
of tho United States, quartered in
Honolulu, reiving on the good faith
and honor of the rresident when tnformed
of what had occurred, to undo the action of the
minister and reinstate her in the authority
which she claimed as the constitutional sov
ereign of Hawaiian islands ” Also, “it be
comes my further duty to advise you, sir, the
executive of the provisional government, and i
your ministers of the president's determina
tion of the question why our action and that
of the queen devolved upon him, and that you
are expected to promply relinquish to her con
stitutional authority.”
I understand that the Arst quotation is re
ferred to in the-following words of the second:
“Why our action and that of the queen de
volved upon him” (the president of the United
States), and that the president has arrived at
his conclusions from Commissioner Blount s
report. We have had as yet no opportunity of
examining this document, but from extracts
published in the papers and for reasons set
forth hereafter, we are not disposed to sub
mit the fate of Hawaii to its state
ments and conclusions. As a matter of
fact no member of the executive of the pro
visional government has conferred with the
ex-queen, either verbally or otherwise from
the time the new government was proclaimed
till now, with the exception of one or two
notices which were sent to her hy myself in
regard to uer removal from the palace, and
relatin r to the guards which the government
Arst allowed her and perhaps others of a like
nature.
1 infer that a conversation which Mr. Da
mon, a member of the advisory council, is re
ported by Mr. Blount to have had with the
ex-queen on January 17, and which has been
quoted in the newspapers, is the basis of this
astonishing claim of the president of the
United States of his authority to adjudicate
upon our right as a government to exist. Mr.
Damon, on the occasion mentioned, was al
lowed to accompany the cabinet of the former
government which had been in conference
with us. What Mr. Damon said to the ex
queen he said on his individual authority and
did not report it to us.
Mr. Blount’s report of his remarks on that
occasion furnishes this government its Arst
intimation of the nature of these remarks.
Admitting for argument's sake, that the gov
erment had authorized such assurances what
was “her case” that was afterwards “to be
fairly considered by the president of the
United States?" Was it a question of her
right to subvert the Hawaiian constitution
and to proclaim a new one herself,
or was it her claim to he restored to
av<viv.*inj ui MCI VIUIIU
a ulnst that United States for the alleged un
warrantable acts of Minister Stevens, or was
it all tnese In the alternative? Who can say?
But if it had been all of these or any of them
It could not have been more clearly and Anally
decided by the president of tho United States
In favor of the provisional government than
when he recognized it without qualltlcatlon or
received its accredited representatives and
successfully sent two envoys extraordinary
and ministers plenipotentiary to it, the ex
q cen in the meantime being represented in
Washin iton by her agent who had full access
to the department of state.
The whole business of the government with
the president of the United States is set forth
In the correspondence between the two - ov
ernments, and the acts and statements of the
minister of this government at Wash n.ton
and the annexation commissioners accredited
to it If wo have submitted our right to exist
to the United States, the fact will appear in
that correspondence and the acts of our min
isters and commissioners. Such agreement
must be shown as the foundation of the right
or your government to interfere, for an arbi
trator can be created only by the act of the
act of the two parties
. Tho ex-queen sent hen attorney to Washing
ton to plead ber claim for reinstatement in
power orAilinv in that for a money allowandk
or damages. This attorney was refused pas-''
su c on the government dispatch boat which
was sent to San Francisco with the annexa
tion commissioners and their message The
departure of this vessel wus less than two
days after tho new government was declared
and the refusal was made promptly
upon receiving the request therefor,
either on the d iy the government was
declared or on the next day. If an inten
tion to submit tho question of the
reinstatement of the ex-queen had existed
why should her attorney have been refused
passage on this boat
The ex-qxieen's letter to Mr. Harrison, dated
January IS, two days after the new govern
ment was proclaimed, makes no allusioi to
any understanding between her and the gov
ernment for arbitration.
President Dole here quotes the ex
queen’s letter, which has been hereto
fore published. He then proceeds:
If any understanding had existed at that
time between her and toe government to sub
mit the question of her restoration to the
United States, some reference to some such
understanding would naturally have appeared
in this letter, as good reason would have exist
ed for calling the attention of the president to
that fact, and especially as she then knew that
h-r attorney would be seriously delayed In
reaching Washington But there is not a word
from which such an understanding can be pre
dicated. The government sent its commis
sioners to Washington for the sole purpose of
securing the confirmation of the recognition
by Minister Stevens of the new uoverrment
and to enter into negotiations for political
union with the United States.
The protest of the ex-queen made on Janu
ary 17 is equally with the lettor devoid of
evidence of any mutual understanding for a
submission of her claim to tne throne, to thq
United States It is very evidently a protest
against the alleged action or Minister Stevens
as well as the new government and contains a
notice of her appeal to the United States
The document was received exactly as it
would have been received if it had come
through by moil • The indorsement or
its receipt upon the paper was made at
the request of the indiuidual who brought
it as evidence of its safe delivery. As to the
ex-queen’s notice of her appeal to the United
States, it was a matter of indifference to us.
Sneh an appeal could not have been prevented
as the mail service was in operation as usual.
That such a notice, and our receipt of It with
out comment, should be a foundation for a
claim that we have submitted our right to ex
ist as a overnment to the United States had
never occurred io us until suggested to us by
our government..
The protest of the ex-queen, already
published, is here quoted, and Mr.
Dole then proceeds:
You may not be aware, but such is the fact,
that at no time until the presentation of the
claim of the president of the United States of
his right to interfere in the internal affairs of
this country, by you on December 19. has this
government been officially informed by the
United States government that any such
course was contemplated. And not until the
publication of Mr. Gresham s letter to the
president of the United States on the Ha
waiian question had we any reliable intimation
of such a policy. The adherents of the ex
queen have, indeed, claimed from time to time
that such was the case, but we have never
been able to attach serious importance to
their rumors, feeling sure of our preseent
diplomatic representatives in your country
and relying upon the friendship and fairness
of a government whose dealings with us have
ever shown full recognition of our independ
ence as a sovereign power, without any tend
ency to take advantage of the disparity of
strength between the two countries.
If your contention that President Cleveland
believes that this government and the ex
queen have submitted their respective claims
to the sovereignty of this country to the ad
judication of the United States is correct,
then, may I ask. when and where has the presi
dent held this court of arbitration? This gov
ernment has had no notice of the sitting of such
a tribunal and no opportunity of presenting its
claims. If Mr Blount’s investigations were
part of the proceeding of such a court, this
government did not know it and was nevor in
formed of it: indeed, as I have mentioned
above, never knew until the publication of
Secretary Gresham’s letter to President
Cleveland a few weeks a. o that the American
executive hid a policy of interference under
contemplation
Even if we had known that Mr. Blount was
authoratively acting as a commissioner to take
evidence upon the question of the restoration
of the ex-queen the methods adopted bv him in
makin i his investigations were. I submit, un
suitable to such an examination or any exami
nation upon which human interests were to
be abjudicated • As I am reliably informed,
he selected his witnesses and examined
them in secret frequently uing leading
questions, giving no opportunity for a cross
examination, and ofteh not permitting such
explanations by witnesses themselves as they
desired to make as to evidence which he had
drawn from them. It is hardly necessary for
me to suggest that under such a mode of ex
amination. soma witnesses would be almost
helpless in the hands of an astute lawyer and
mi*ht be drawn into saying things which
would be only naif trttths and,-standing alone,
would be misleading or even false
in effect. Is it likely that an
investigation conducted in this
manner could result in a fair, full and truth
ful statement of the case in point? Surely
the destinies of friend y governments, admit
ting by the way of argument, that the right of
arbitration exists, m iy not be disposed of
upon an exparte and secret investigation with
out the knovvled e of such government or an
opportunity to be heard or even to know who
the witnesses were
My position is briefly this: If the American
forces illegally assisted the revolutionists in
the establishment of the provisional govern
ment, that government is not responsible for
their wrong doing It was purely a private
matter for discipline between the United
States government and its officers. There is,
I submit. no precedent in inter
national law for the theory that
such action of the American troops
has connferred upon the United States
authority over the international affairs of this
government. Should It be true, as you have
suggested, that the American government
made itself responsible to the queen who it is
alleged, lost her throne through such action,
that is not a matter for me to discuss, except
to submit that if such be the ease, it is a
matter for the American government and
her to settle between thems'elves. This
government, a recognized sovereign power,
equal in authority with the United
states government and enjoying diplomatic
relations with it. cannot be destroyed by it for
the sake of discharging its obligations to the
ex-queen Upon these grounds Mr. Minister,
in behalf of my government, I respectfully
protest against the usurpation of its authority
as suggested by the language of your commun
ication.
President Dole then gave an acqpunt
of the events in Kalakaua's reign
which led lo the revolution and con
stitution of 1S87, and detailed the
actions of Liliuokalani in her attempt
to override the constitution and vest
herself. with absolute power, and pro
ceeded with his argument as follows:
No man can correctly say that the queen
owed her downfall to the interference of
American forces. The revolution was car rled
through by the representatives, now largely
reinforced, of the same public sentiment which
forced the monarchy to its knees in 1887,
which suppressed the insurrection of
1889 and which for twenty years has
been laboring for representative government
in this country. If the American forces had
been absent the revolution would have taken
place, for suffleiint causes for it had nothing to
do with their presence J, therefore, in
all friendship for the government of the
United States which you represent, and de
siring to cherish the good will of the great
American people, submit the answers of my
government to your proposition and ask that
you will transmit the same to the president
of the United States for his consideration.
Though the provisional government is far
from bein/ a great power and could not long
resist the forces of the United States in a
hostile attack, -* we deem our posi
tion to le impregnable under legal
Srecedents, under the principles of diplomatic
itereourse and in the form of conscience. We
have done your government no wrong, no
charge of discourtesy is or can be brought
against us.
ifcupic uas oeen oe
cause we revered its Institutions of civil lib
erty. we nave desired to have them extend to
our own d stracted country, and because we
honor its flu* and deeming that its benefi
cent and authoritative presence would be
for the best interests of all our people we
have stood ready to add to your country a
new star to Its glory and to consummate a
unton which we believed would be as mu3h
for the benefit of your country as ours. If
this Is ofTense, we plead guilty to It
I am Instructed to injorm you. Mr Minister,
that the provisional ttovernment of the Ha
waiian Islands respectfully and unhesitntln.-ly
declines to entertain the proposition or the
president of the Unitec States that It should
surrender its autnorlty to the ex-qneen.
This answer is made not only upon the
prounds herein tofore set forth, but upon our
sense of duty and loyalty to tho brave men
whose commissions we hold, who have faith
fully stood bv us In the hour of trial and whose
will is the only earthlv authority we recOz
nize. Wc cannot betray the sucre.1 trust they
have placed in our hands, a trust which is the
cause of Christian civilization in the interest
of the whole people of these Islands
Sanford b Dole,
Minister of Foieign Office
THE MINISTER AND THE QUEEN.
The dispatch from Minister Willis
of November 16, which was held by
the president until now. drives an
account of an interview between
Mr, \\ illis and the queen No»
venpber 13, The oueen was in
formed of President Cleveland’s inten
tion» toward licr nnfl 'vasa*it„.i .. ,
would grant amnesty to thl sh<:
gaged In the revolution. She « v"'
negatively and said she believed ft'1'1'
worthy of being beheaded but a. o”
signified willingness ti> conL^l'1 v
their exile and the confceatinn to
their property. Liliuokala^ v°" "/
fered protection on a warshin f‘
the American legation, but decHm°d s
Except the Dole-Willis correal,I
ence the correspondence sent S'
gress to-day consists of disnS
from Minister Willi's which for T
most part are reports of event.
Honolulu of which the public hi. "
ready been fully informed b^S
press news dispatches. 1 11
QUIET ON THE ISLAND.
Llttls Change In the Situation fD ,,
January a_The Leugoe Active
San Francisco, Jan. 13—The ion*
declared City of Pekin? armed this
morn in?. As soon- as she was sighted
excitement was revived in the dtv
and everythin? was astir on the
Corwin. ltle
When the Pekin? arrived it was an
nonneed that nothin? startling Cl
developed at Honolulu up to January
5. Since the departure of the Crowin
the provisional ?overnment had de
cided that it was better to publish
the reply of the Hawaiian government.
The steamer Australia arrived here
at 1 o’clock this aftfernoon bringing
Hawaiian advices one day later thin
the Pekin?. These were that little
had transpired there.
Minister Thurston was closeted
with President Dole for several hours
before the Australia left' and barely
caught that steamer.
MEXICO'S EXPORTS.
Bulk or Them Were Sent to the United
States, England Second.
Crrv of Mexico, Jan. 13—Secretary
of Finance Limantour has made his
report of the exports of Mexico during
the last half of the fiscal year of lS'Jc
and 1893. The report is of particular
interest to the United Stages as show
in? that out of a total of 847,081,315 in
exports 836,411,680 worth were sent to
the United States. Next to the
United States comes En?land in the
amount of exports made, which
amounts to 86,385,330. The value of
precious metals exported from Mexico
during the six months was $26,647,
005, and of other articles, mostly agri
cultural products, including fruits,
830,440.150.
FREEBORN MAY SERVE NOW.
Mr*. Lease's Injunction Dissolved—Ilie
Case Set for February 7.
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 13.—By consent
of Eu?ene Hagan, Mrs. Mary E.
Lease’s attorney, the supreme court
this mornin? dissolved, without a
formal hearing of the defendant’s
motion, the temporary injunction re
straining J. W. Freeborn from acting
as a member of the state board of
charities.
Mr. Hagan did this, on the under
standin? that the case should be set
for a hearing on its merits at an early
day, and the court set it for Febru
ary 7, when it is expected that both
sides will be ready and will ask for
no furtner delay.
UOBNB LOWER'S NOMINATION.
Members of the Republican National
- Committee Want Him Confirmed.
Washington, Jan. 13.—Probably the
most unexpected development in con
nection with the Hornblower confirm
ation which has yet to come to light
is the action of the executive commit
tee of the Republican national com
mittee in officially seeking to secure ,
his confirmation. It was done at the .
suggestion of Mr. Bliss of New York,
who urged the confirmation of the
nomination, especially if it conld be
made to appear as having been ac
complished largely through Repub
lican instrumentality and would be to
the benefit of the Republican party.
Ex-Chairman Carter, Chairman Man
ley, Mr. Bliss and Mr. Hobart have
been laboring with Republican sen
KILLED AND CARTED OFF.
A St. Louis Lottery Winner Undoubt
edly Murdered for His Money.
St. Louis, Jan.' 13.—Just before
dawn this mornin? a police
man found a broad trail of clotted
blood on Morgan street leading to a
vacant lot, where was found the bul
let pierced hat of Michael Smith, a
recent lottery winner, with blood and
bair upon it.
Wheel tracks Indicated that a body
bad been thrown into' a wagon and
carted away. The blood has been an
alyzed and is human.
Just before the discovery a night
watchman beard the cry: ”Ohl Cod,
don’t murder me.”
Bogus Order* Cashed.
Caldwell, Kan., Jan. 13.—The post
office inspector, investigating the
shortage hero due to the dishonest?
of Assistant Postmaster Donaldson,
has found a large number of bogus
money orders issued by Donaldson to
imaginary persons in various parts
of the state and collected by himself.
The total shortage So far discovered
aggregate about 84,000. No trace has
been found of the absconder.
Wl ttrn McDonald Maj Be Appointed
Washington, Jan. 13.—It is hinted
here that, if the senate upholds the
commerce committee’s rejection of
Scott Harrison, for surveyor of the
port of Kansas City, the president
will nominate Witten McDonald, con
ductor of the Kansas City Times, for
the office.
Dwight Thatcher stricken.
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 13.—T. Dwight
Thatcher, ex-state printer and one of
the best known Kansans, was strick
en with apoplexy at noon and is still
unconscious. The doctors say he can
not recyver ^ y ^ ,,
BaCcfb «>» Comrurathfa.
Washington. Jan. 13.—Dr. Neely.
United States marshall for Kansas,
and each of the Kansas land officers
recently appointed were confirmed by
the senate yesterday in executive
session. _
Murder and Suicide.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Jan. 13.—Edward
Lewis, a young carpenter, waylaid
and killed his wife in a hallway yes
terday and then ended his own life
He was insanely jealous of his wile.