Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 60, 27 Nowemapa 1893 — Commissioner Blount's Report. [ARTICLE]

Commissioner Blount's Report.

May Be Made Publtc. Chioago. Nov. 14,—A Wash- I ington special to a loea! }>a|>er : s;ivs; fhe U ibinet is eonsiderinir • O t ;•> a ivisability of giviog Commi>s:oner Blount’s report to tbe press. iesterdav it was thonght best £ >say nothing more of&ciallv about the Hawmian sensj»tion till the next steamer arrived from Honolnlu, but in view of the pnblic clamor for evidence of the truth of the assertions made bv Socretan* Gresham there is a belief that it may be wise to satisfy the clamor. If the Cabmet decide in favor of auother olneial utterance. an abstract will be made of the evidence gathered by Blount. togethor with his report or jiart of it, and it will be given out. Blount s evidence covers about 5000 pages of type-written matter. The testimonv was taken in shorthand aud verified. A verv large number of people were examined. They comprised prettv nearly everv proraineut person on tbe islands, from the Queen down, including royalists aud aunexationists. The trend of the testimonv is all one way, to wit: The Queen woukl not have been overthrown but for the intervention of the American Minister. The evidence e >ntains the original lotters of 8teveus aud Dole. Dolo s letter is particularlv intere-ting. It shows bv the date and text that it was writteu and seut to Stevens beforo the Provisional Government had read its proclamatiou. īn it Dole says he 1 tcks control of several important bnildings and asks that un American naval officer, with marines, be placed in charge of the provisional troops. Th> re is also 8tevens’ original letter asking for the use of the hall in whieh to house the troops. and there is a!so Stevens’ !etter recoguiziug the Provision.il Governmeut before it was a Governmont de facto. 8tevens claims that the troops were landed to protect American interests. If so, one mightsnpp>se Le would have stationed the troops near American iuterests. The map of the citv shows that the American troops were so placed that were the Queeu’s troops to fire on the provsiouai troops thej' wouhl have to fire over the heads of the United Sta:es troops and be apt to Lit them. The storv aboat Dole giving Willi; his passports wss received this morning. A rrtired naval officer said, that ia such an event, the Ameriean Admirul wouhl not recognize Willis. for up>oa receiving his passports Willis would cease to be Minister and wonhl be slmp!v a private citizen. This. it is :,.>serted, has been provi<’ d against. Willis wou d n . ta :e his pa=sports if otfored jto him. Eieu if he should, Le wouhl still be tbe sj>ecial agent of the Government. He has his commission in his pocket. He has also an order to the American naval officer at Hawaii instrncting Lim to obev wai sin everything and under I any cir> nmstances. M illis will eall on the Qaeen

as well a» on D.ile. an.l L s pn>b.tbly airaatlv «lone >■ There is lalk alH>nt his h.»vini: crv>leutial» to both 1 ar..l the Q .eea. Tne ialk bts no , fouiui.itiou in fact. Hū> cre<lent..»is acere«lii hiiu to the t*ovi erument of Hawaii. au.i ti; «t Govemmeot bv this time is. i<i ‘ the opinion of CIeveiuml, pr-—i 1ed over by Liliuoka! .ui, Ilum«trs that we were g>ing to be blesseil with a Republie toilay that the trcojxs w« r»- t*i l»e ealle»! out. an«l th.it >IHist:r W ;llis will be presented wttu his passport were num«r this morning. As v-e ■• >to j>re>s none of them have mat« r ilize«l: Tlie general and only e\pivssion in the city thi> inoruiiig was ‘ that the iueeting and tho -nnliments there voieed, was a »iire> t insult to President Clevel«u.l aud his administration: to t!:e Aiuerieau nation; and to the Representative of the United Sb»t« - of America ioHawaii.” To-raorrow is Indepeu«lenee Diy being the fiftieth auniver sary of the formaI iee guitiou of tho lndependence of H «waii. The day has herotofore ’io.-u celebrated as a puhiie h >!\!.t«, bqt we hardly snppose that tlie preseut government ‘ consisteutly’ ean rejnice over the r«<raiuiseen -e « f that oeea- on. Th *v are i • hardly in a mood to rejoice over anythrng just at preseut. l'he following t?ersons rriv iiu tle city yesterday. From M; :i — C l>olte, S Louisson, A b \u. C K C*>e, J 0 In6eoa, W H Cornwell. Miss WidJifieId..In > Kiciiurdson. R V»n Terapsky, H CeuUr, TheoWoiff, J L Diimas. L Fri« -1 lainder, Mrs Peterson, F G C rm«, and Bro Bertram. From K vii— A I)rier, Dr J K Sraitii, M..-> Juliette Smith, Mr Markes, Rev H Isenberg an J wife, Miss ]5.>mpke, Miss Auhager, J Keaoni, and (i Makagao. The Tiser says this morniug, that there were l‘2fK) people present at the indiguation meeting last Saturday evening. The Tiser man raust haveseen «louhle. It is stated ou good authoritv that there wero not over 700 persons present nt any one time bv actual count: of whom 200 or more were members of W. G. Smith’s “latin race with a record,’’ aboot four bundrtd members of the P. G. militury and anne\ationgaugs. a:ul the r«:-t curiositv seekers.