Show S OPENLY CLAiM THEiR I RIGHT TO f AU1I1I A Japs Putting in Their Oar at Hawaii 1 VICTORIA SEALERS I ABE BADLY ALARMED I ALY eJ Exchange of Courtepics Between J William and Humbert I Cheers from Multitudes of People Mingled with the Hoar of Cannon I Greet the Arriial Speculation as to the Cause of the Meeting of the Monarch > bald to Hate No Practical Prac-tical Significance Whatever Other Oth-er Foreign Flai ics Honolulu March 31The Japanese question is of most absorbing interest here since the arrival of the new Japanese Jap-anese warship the Takachiho The Japanese have taken on a much more independent air than formerly and are openly claiming the right to a voice in the affairs of the government The warship Niniwa went to Hilo on the I coast of Hawaii recently carrying the Japanese minister to Fiji The minister min-ister has not yet returned and is said to be conferring with Japanese contract laborers As there are many thousands j of them on the islands the people are I f becoming alarmed as to what the outcome S out-come may be I is surmised that i the Japanese insist on the voting franchise I fran-chise and are refused they will try to I take things into their own hands and compel the provisional government to I recognize them Should such a contin contn gency occur it is likely that the Chinese Chi-nese would join forces with the Japanese Jap-anese A prominent Japanese official connected connec-ted with the legation here said to the I Associated Press correspondent a few days ago The Japanese here want v i the franchise and are going to get i > A 1 they cannot our government is going go-ing to take a hand in the matter We have big menofwar here and are not going to let our interests be trampled I upon by the provisional government i The Portuguese have also made a demand de-mand on the minister for a warship They are in fear of an uprising in the near future and that in case of victory for the royalists they would be disfranchised dis-franchised Politically matters have been quiet since the last advices and nothing important im-portant has transpired The American union party that has taken the place of the old Annexation club held an election on the island of Oahu for the purpose of appointing delegates to the central committee regulating the affairs of the party A number of extreme radicals have been elected to this committee A com-mittee and it is anticipated that the 4 new orearization will be a thorn in the side of the government The AmerIcan Amer-ican league which was supposed to nave amalgamated with tne union parIty I parI-ty still holds independent meetings The registration of voters for the I registrton o coming election of delegates to the constitutional con-stitutional convention has commenced The natives are not registering and it natves regsterng is said are being made to think that I in be case forfeited of registration their lives would |