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HAWAII. 



to the throne and absolved her former sub- 

 jects from all allegiance to herself an.l her heirs 

 and UCHJMtnm. donNnnj: h.-r intention to live 

 henceforth to absolute privacy an.l retirement 

 u- affairs, mi.l .tT.-riinr t.. take an oath 

 to support the r- i never emoofsjp Of 



MSistdini t!y <.r uiilirvrtly in tin- re.stora 



DATOhksJ form of government. Attorney- 

 General Smith accepted the renun. -iat i.-n of sov- 

 ereign i ;''' "f allegiance, on tin- un- 

 derstanding that the . A-^iueen \\a- in n<> d 

 exempt from liability to pum-hmcnt for com- 



1 with tin- reset 



T sovereign rights cease, i M .Fan. 



;l, when she refused to be longer hound 



by the fundamental law, and promised to give 



. rail m to i.' r un-eMMi appeal for 



clemency for those who took pan in the in-ur- 



oo. 



The trial of the supposed instigators of the 

 g II.-PIII on .Ian. 17. Wileoxand 



M pleaded guilty and gnvr information 

 regarding the conspiracy. The prisoners were 

 (niliek. Rirkard. ,ker, Seward, Bowler, 



Berth Irox, Nowlein, James Italic and 



A i-iili-inaiin. and Marshall. 

 John Ciimmings. Kalakaua's la-t Premier, was 



. i. I. I'. Walker pleaded guilty, and 

 for t hat reason was not sen tcnced to death . ( ; u - 

 ; guilt emphatically. A new royalist 

 Constitution had t>een drawn up and a Cabinet 

 selected. with \i. W. Wilcox at its head. < I, \\ '. 

 Ashford. a Canadian, who was named Attorney- 



d. was sentenced on trial to a year's im- 

 i>riM>nment and $1,000 fine. John S. Bowler, an 

 Iri-h-Amcri< an. was sentenced to five years' im- 

 and $5,000 fine. Of 70 natives and 

 half whites who were tried for treason or u\i-*- 

 prision 28 were convicted and sentenced to im- 

 prisoninetr .ring from five to ten 



years. Whilo the trial proceeded fresh arrests 

 were made daily, 700 in the course of a month. 

 American newspaper correspondents and local 

 journalists were arrested to prevent undesirable 

 news from beinp published. J. B. Johnston, J. 

 Cranstoun. and Alfn-d Muller were taken from 

 prison and against t h-ir protest placed on board 

 a steam- r iN.und for Briti-h Columbia: 17 .th<-r 

 accepted the privilege 



of leaving the country in preference to standing 

 trial. Chariest o-m-ral un- 



der the Queen, and other old officials, were re- 

 leased from prison and allowed to sail for the 

 United States. In all, 284 were banished. The 

 pmoui condemned to death by court-mart ial 

 were retried by the military commission. Gulick, 

 Scward. Rickard, Bertl. ...ann. Nowlein, and \Vil- 

 .. \. an 1 imprison- 



ment and fined $10.000 eac h . \ 1 1 < . 



Orry. Louis Marshall, and Judge Weidemann to 

 thirty years' impri.oi. -wlein and li<-r- 



Ucmann were released in <-oi,*id.-rati.n of their 

 oiidosures to the Qovmm<-nt. their sentences 

 baiagsttspeoded. The tria l.iliuokalani 



Docninis, the ex-Queen, for miprision of treason, 

 resulted in her conviction. SU was condemned 

 to imDtisontnent for fire years, it having been 

 proved that she had ministers selected for the 

 event of her restoration, but not that she knew of 

 the intended rebellion or the secreted arms. The 

 military commission adjourned on March 18, and 



martial law was suspended. Th.- I'nited States 

 and British (lovernmt nts hoth rrfu-i-cl i 

 fere in behalf of those of th< c. in\ irt< (! : 



\\llo claimed to |ir their eili/elis l.lit li.i 



(1 the rights of eiti/eiiship in I , 

 The sentences of the convicted leaders wei 

 muted on July -1 to twenty year- of im; 

 meni. The British Government, after inquiry, 

 represented that Kirkard and Walk.' 



their alle.i: >" at Britain. I 



ment was not willing to recogni/*- in tl.. 

 the principle Of dual ili/en-liip. an<l oil 

 Mibinit the rights of the matter to ai 



I'olili. .il Ml.iir*. 1 I raoopri 



lein< complicated the political si: 



a<lde<l to the perplexities i.f the . 



After the ( t )ii,-rn'- f..rmal al.dieati,.n th. 

 little disposition on the part of tl,. 

 i"-llion. When HP 

 neither the Tinted States 

 tervened to rescue the impri-oi.. 



illy followed the ex-Queen's ad 

 the best of their lot under the win- 

 public, although individual plotter- still end.-a\- 

 ored to recruit fililnisterin^ r expeditions and pro- 

 cure arms in the I'nited States an: 

 a fresh uprising. The Government i 

 military position SI-CUP- by t hnmu^lily traiflfll 

 and efjuippin.LT standing army of l,2('i 

 manv of them from the 1'nit. 

 A. Thurston. minister to the t'nited 

 recalled, having become persona non ffrjjH 

 through discussing state papers pr. 

 newspaper interviews, and puhlishiiiLT reflect ion- 

 upoii the iliplomatic attitude ..f the ( >\ ernrueiit 

 to which he was accredit e: \ (ire-ham 



requested his recall : h was. 



sent to Washington in his place. The GoTemJ 

 raent made new repressive laws to < I 

 pressions of discontent. Any om- \\ In. criticisel 

 the rulers could lie tried under an act agSjflfl 

 persons suspected of unlawful intentions. VMj 

 act provides that any person susj>ected < 

 less intentions, hostile to public order or 

 Government, may he summoned before a OOJHI 

 and summarily examined, and. if the in 1 

 be shown to nave existed, this pet- 

 sentenced to expulsion from the II. 

 lands. If the judge be not fully convin 

 may put the person under bon '''^Kfl 



tun- having yet. been convoked, le- 

 remained in t ho hands of t he combined ! 

 tive and Advisory Councils, the p.- 

 formed the original Provisional <. 

 The President introduced an act gi 



1 1 ment power to suppress for a 

 exceeding four years any offending IH\ 

 or any journal started in the place of 01 

 has been suppressed. The wealthv suj <. 

 of the Government were very m 

 .lapai, .il ready 111;; 



male population, and were coming in ino 

 numbers, who were clamorini: for t 

 ami who were aggressively independent. 

 united that the authorities refrained fr 

 resting them for the same offenses tha 

 foreigners had to suffer for. or released > 

 were arrested at the truculent demand ol 

 fellow-countrymen. The Government 

 posed to discourage the further immigra; 



