14 tion; but until Congress shall otherwise provide, the existing com15 mercial relations of the Hawaiian Islands both with the United 16 States and foreign countries shall continue as regards the commerce 17 of said Islands with the rest of the United States and with foreign 18 countries, but this shall not be construed as giving to said Islands 19 the power to enter into any new stipulation or agreement whatso20 ever or to have diplomatic intercourse with any foreign Govern21 ment. The Consular representatives of foreign powers now resi22 dent in the Hawaiian Islands shall be permitted to continue in the 23 exercise of their consular functions until they can receive their 24 exequaturs from the Government of the United States. 2 The further immigration of Chinese laborers into the Hawaiian 3 Islands is hereby prohibited until Congress shall otherwise pro4 vide. Furthermore, Chinese persons of the classes now or here5 after excluded by law from entering the United States will not be 6 permitted to come from the Hawaiian Islands to other parts of the 7 United States, and if so coming shall be subject to the same pen8 alties as if entering from a foreign country. 2 The public debt of the Hawaiian Islands, lawfully existing at the 3 date of the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, including 4 the amounts due to depositors in the Hawaiian Postal Savings 5 Banks, is hereby assumed by the Government of the United 6 States; but the liability of the United States in this regard shall 7 in no case exceed three and one quarter millions of dollars. So 8 long, however, as the existing Government and the present com9 mercial relations of the Hawaiian Islands are continued, as here10 in before provided, said Government shall continue to pay the interest on said debt. 11 1 2 ARTICLE VI. The Government of the United States agrees to pay to Liliuo3 kalani, the late Queen, within one year from the date of the ex4 change of the ratifications of this Treaty the sum of twenty thousand 5 dollars, and annually thereafter a like sum of twenty thousand 6 dollars during the term of her natural life, provided she in good ! 7 faith submits to the authority of the Government of the United 8 States and the local Government of the Islands. 9 And the Government of the United States further agrees to 10 pay to the Princess Kaiulani within one year from the date of the 11 exchange of the ratifications of this treaty the gross sum of one 12 hundred and fifty thousand dollars, provided she in good faith 13 submits to the authority of the Government of the United States and the local Government of the Islands. 14 1 2 6 ARTICLE VII. The present Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United 3 States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the 4 one part, and by the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian 5 Islands on the other, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Honolulu as soon as possible. Such exchange shall be 7 made on the part of the United States by the Commissioner here8 inbefore provided for, and it shall operate as a complete and final conveyance to the United States of all the rights of sovereignty and property herein ceded to them. Within one month after such 11 exchange of ratifications the Provisional Government shall furnish 12 said Commissioner with a full and complete schedule of all the 13 public property herein ceded and transferred. 9 10 14 In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed 15 the above articles and have hereunto affixed their seals. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Done in duplicate at the city of Washington this fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. 1 List of accompanying documents. No. 1. Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster (telegram), January 18, 1893. No. 2. Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, January 18, 1893. No. 3. Mr. Dole to Mr. Foster, January 18, 1893. No. 4. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani to the President, January 18, 1893. No. 6. Mr. Foster to Mr. Stevens (telegram), January 28, 1893. No. 7. Mr. Tracy to Mr. Foster, January 28, 1893. No. 8. Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster (telegram), February 1, 1893. No. 9. Mr. Smith to Mr. Foster, February 3, 1893. No. 10. Mr. Tracy to Mr. Foster, February 3, 1893. No. 11. The Hawaiian special commissioners to Mr. Foster, February 3, 1893. No. 12. Credential letters of the Hawaiian special commissioners, exhibited February 4, 1893. No. 13. Commissions of the Hawaiian special commissioners, exhibited February 4, 1893. No. 14. The Hawaiian special commissioners to Mr. Foster, February 4, 1893. No. 17. Mr. Tracy to Mr. Foster, February 11, 1893. No. 18. Mr. Foster to Mr. Stevens, February 11, 1893. No. 19. Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, February 1, received February 14, 1893. No. 22. Statistical tabulated statements pertaining to the Hawaiian Islands. B. Property, real and personal. C. Schools: Number, attendance, and nationality of teachers. D. Public debt, as of March 31, 1892. E. Sugar plantations, value, area, ownership, wages. F. Taxation, internal, proceeds of, and per capita in 1882, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1890, and 1891. G. Revenues and expenditures, biennial periods from 1878-'80 to 1890-'92. H. Receipts, expenditures, cash balances, and public debt in 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1888, and 1892. I. Imports, detailed statement of, from 1883 to 1892; values. J. Exports, detailed statement of, from 1882 to 1891; quantities and values. K. Imports and exports, by countries, from 1884 to 1891. L. Imports and exports, and customs receipts, annual value of, from 1882 to 1891. No. 1. Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster. [Telegram.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Honolulu, H. I., January 18, 1893. Via San Francisco, January 28. (Received January 28.) Events in Hawaii in the past few days have moved rapidly. An eutire overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and the establishment of a Provisional Government in the interest of the whole people of the islands without the sacrifice of a single life. The new government is in full possession of the islands and was promptly recognized by all the diplomatic representatives. The four men of whom it is composed are of high character, one of whom resigned his position as one of the supreme judges to assume the place. Full dispatches by the mail leaving Honolulu to-day by special steamer. STEVENS, United States Minister. : No. 79.] No. 2. Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster. UNITED STATES LEGATION, Honolulu, January 18, 1893. (Received February 3.) SIR: In my 73 of November 8 I gave full information of the surrender of the Queen to the wishes of the legislature by the formation of a ministry composed of men of intelligence and wealth possessing the entire confidence of the business men and the more responsible citizens of the country. But this surrender of the Queen and of those surrounding her was only seeming. As soon as the principal appropriations had been voted and the legislative work was nearly concluded, several of the best members having already left for their homes, a remarkable conspiracy was revealed. The undersigned, for the first time since he has been at the head of this legation, January 4 took passage for Hilo and the volcano on the U. S. S. Boston for the benefit of the health of himself and of his daughter, it being also desirable that the town of the second importance in the islands should have this attention at the time the Boston was making a visit to Hawaii, the chief island in the group. Beyond all doubt, immediately after the Boston and myself had left Honolulu the unscrupulous adventurers around the Queen improved the opportunity to push through the legislature an astounding lottery franchise with the obvious intent to sell it out to the Louisiana lottery men. This was worked by some of the same parties supposed to be of the powerful opium ring whose four points of operation are Vancouver, San Francisco, Honolulu, and Hongkong. They distributed the lottery stock among the native members of the legislature in large figures. Notwithstanding the strong opposition of all the best people of the islands, including whites and natives, and the emphatic opposition of the chamber of commerce, the Queen and her palace favorite gave their warmest support to the lottery bill and signed it at once. She was to be immediately compensated by being allowed to proclaim a new constitution, restoring to the Crown the old despotic prerogatives in direct violation of the existing constitution, which provides for the only mode of change, which is by the action of successive legislatures. Returning on the Boston from our Hilo trip on the 14th instant, we found the legislature was to be prorogued at 12 a. m., one-half hour after my arrival at the legation. The prorogation completed, members of the legislature, diplomatic corps, judges of the supreme court, and other officials went to the palace by invitation. In the meantimé it began to be known in public circles the Queen's intention to proclaim the revolutionary constitution. This resulted in raising an excitement which alarmed her confidants and caused some of them to draw back. This consumed time, so that she could not secure the signatures of her new cabinet as she had expected. In the meantime the diplomatic corps grew weary and left the palace, realizing that the invitation to be present was a trick. As I had just returned, weary from my voyage, I had not received the invitation, the chamberlain knowing I was absent when he invited the English, Portuguese, French, and Japanese diplomatic representatives the day before. In the short meanwhile I had suspicioned the trick. Finally, the Queen appeared in the throne room, before the supreme judges and other officials, in an extreme passion of anger, and avowed her purpose to postpone her revolutionary constitution for a brief period, and then went upon the balcony and spoke with great passion in the same strain to those around the palace, principally her retainers and the royal guard, her determination to proclaim her constitution at another time. What I have described as to the lottery legislation, the forcing out of the responsible cabinet of November 8 and appointing the lottery cabinet, two of whom had been voted out of the ministry during the legislative session by a two-thirds vote for the best of reasons. It was the lottery bribe and the autocratic design of the Queen that quickly precipitated events. A mass meeting of the citizens was called to meet on Monday, the 16th, at 2 p. m., which assembled in the largest hall in the city. Short as was the notice, over 1,300 of the principal citizens of Honolulu and from other islands, who happened to be in the city, were in attendance. This meeting included merchants, bankers, professional men, the principal business men, and the mechanics, the chief German and some of the leading English merchants and other nationalities, as well as American residents. It is said such an assemblage was never before equaled in Honolulu. Intelligent American visitors here say that such a public meeting would do credit to a meeting of a similar class of citizens in our best American cities. The assemblage was a unit in feeling and purpose. The speeches and resolutions are on the printed slips I herewith inclose. This remarkable uprising of the best citizens, including nearly all of the chief property holders, the Tahitian marshal and palace favorite did not dare attempt to suppress. A committee of public safety was at once created to meet the emergency and to prevent anarchy and riot. It was fortunate that the Boston was in the harbor. The committee on public safety called on me for aid. I promptly addressed to the commander of the Boston, Capt. G. S. Wiltse, the following note: UNITED STATES LEGATION, SIR: In view of the existing critical circumstances in Honolulu, including an inadequate legal force, I request you to land marines and sailors from the ship under your command for the protection of the United States legation and United States consulate, and to secure the safety of American life and property. Very truly, yours, JOHN L. STEVENS, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States. Capt. G. C. WILTSE, Commander U. S. S. Boston. A copy of the call of the committee of public safety for aid is inclosed. Promptly the men from the Boston were lauded. Detachments were placed around the legation and the consulate, the principal members having marched to a central hall for shelter and headquarters; the night being at hand, the public anxiety being especially strong as to what might be done by irresponsible persons in the night, the landing of the men of the Boston so promptly gave immediate relief to the public anxiety. As soon as practicable a Provisional Government was constituted, composed of four highly respectable men, with Judge Dole at the head, he having resigned his place on the supreme bench to assume this responsibility. He was born in Honolulu, of American parentage, educated here and in the United States, and is of the highest reputation among all citizens, both natives and whites. P. C. Jones is a native of Boston, Mass., wealthy, possessing property interests in the islands, |
