Kuokoa Home Rula, Volume VII, Number 29, 16 July 1909 — The Claim of Liliuokalani, Former Queen of Hawaii. [ARTICLE]

The Claim of Liliuokalani, Former Queen of Hawaii.

Statement of George B. McClellan Before The COMMITTEE. The Cha.irman, JudgeHatch and these other revolutionists must have'been keeping the Government of the United Slates pretty closely in touch with what was going on. Mr. McClell'AN. I did not say Judge Haleh w« there, but possibly there were other gentlemen there in close touch with the ardent American minister. From the time he went there he was constantly advocating the po!icy of aanexation. As to whether it would be consistent that a minister accredited ta a foreign government should be eonstantly writing to his own government methods of Uildngpossessīon of thai govemmentj I leavethe eommittee to Judge--1 hen, on page 1002 of the report, Mr. Stevens goes on: One u{ t\vn C(uirsi'a awinw t« īne nbsolutely UL'Ct'SHary to lu> folU)\ved -oit.her bolil aiul vigonnis ineasure for aune.\ation or a "eustoiiiß iiniun,'' an oeoan eable t'roin tlie Oalilomiii eous t lo Llonolulu, Pearl Harbor pei].etually eeded to tho United Wtate with iin iiuplieil but not n<>eosmvily slipuluted Amoi'iean proteetoi'ate over l.lie island s 1 believe th« fornier to be the heUiM' That is, of the two he prefers the policy of annexation. On the next page he says; I ean not refrain fi oui expreisin(s the opinioa \vith eiupliasis thut the golden'hour 1S ne:ir at hand. And this expression of minister Stevens is finally followed up after the overthrow of the rnonarchy, by a statemenl that the"Hawaiian pear 'is now fully ripe, and the golden hour for its plucking is at h.-ind." It seems to me"to read these extacts from the statement of the minister to show his attitnde at the time, and to show a little light on the apparent c!ose relationship whieh existed between the then existing American minister and the advocates of annexation. The Chairman. What was the date of letter? Mr. McCLELLAN. November 20, 1892. The CHAIRMAN. When dtd the revolution actually occur? Mr. McCLELLAN. January 17, 1893. fhe CHAIRMAN. That letter would not here before when? j Mr, McCLELLAN. It would reach here in the early days of December, about a moinh and a half, possibly be!ore the revolution. The CHAIRMAN. And the reply would have gotteu back there about the time of the revolution? Mr. McClellan. No; the reply if sent at that time would have reach there considerab!y before. Now, according to the statement of the President of the United State made on the basis of this examination— and I shall refer largely to that because I was not there, and prefer to make no statement in regard to that matter— but the statetnent made on page 1256 of this report by the President after an examination had been made is to this effect: It is suflcient to note the f.iet. nnil to observe that the projeet was one wluoh wan zealously promoted bv the iiiinister represnting the United Stntea in that country Hp evi»lently luul hii Wde«t eleau-e that it shouhl heoonie a fo c t «monmpliahea b V his agency and during lus ministry, iuie] was iiot inooveniently BorHpulous as to 11,0 .ne ;V ns empluyed to tb»t end. O» tl.e 19lh day of Noveinbor, 1892, nearly two n,oi,tbß before the first overt act tendi»g towartl the snbveraioii of the Hawaiian guvern ment and thc aUuiupted LraiiHfur of llnwaiian territory tu United atatea, he ad(lreased n lonnletter t.«, t.be Sereetary oi Stat- ™ in whiel, U,c ««» f,„. „„n„x,a„„, „„ nionil, ]iolitical, aml eeononueal groundH, The President quotes from the minister's letter as saying " In truth the monarchy here is an absurd anachronisr«." The CHAIRMAN. We will now have to stop by li mitation ol time and you ean put into the record anything you may want to, and there may be a further hearing in this n)atter. Mr. McClellan. 1 would be very glad to beprsent a t your next session that I may go on with the statement. fhe Cf]:AIRMAN. Is there anyone here from Hawaii that vyaat s to speak? If there is, we might try to gi ve them §ome time to-day because \ye wquld i)ot want to keep them here.. The people tha t will renmin *}ere ean 'be heard at any time. Mr. HatcH. I tq state at tl)is tinr)e I unable to agree with the confentiqn of Mr. McClellan I was present and took part in that reyolution. I want my s,tatemen(: to go on record most emphatically that we revo- - received no advice, aid, or comfort iroaf any offi■cer of the Umted States. It was purely a loeal revolution. We had to fight oyr own fight for four years against hostil e demonstrations f r oni all sides r