Show I QUEEN LIL OBJECTS Protest Against the Proposed Ratification Ratifi-cation of theTreaty Washington June 17About 3 oclock this afternoon jexQueen Liluokalanl filed the following in the office of the secretary of state I was delivered into the hands of SecretnI John Sherman by Mr Joseph Jo-seph Helaluhe representing the native Hawailans duly commibioned by two of their patriotic leagues I thi Helaluhe was accompanied by Captain Cap-tain Julius A Palmer the American secretary retary of Liluokalani Mr Sherman treated the bearers most courteously but gave no Indication of his action in the matter < I Liluokalanl ofHawaii by the will of God named heir apparent on the 10th day of April A D 1S77 and bI the grace of God queen of the Hawaiian Islands en the 17th day of January A D 1893 do hereby protest against the ratIficatIon of a certain I treaty which I am so informed has been signed ih Washington I by Messrs Hatch Thurston and KInney purporting to cede those islands to the territory and dominion of the United States I declare such treaty to be an act of wrong towards the native and part native people of Hawaii an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs in violation of international rigtits both towards my people and toward to-ward frlendlr natiors with whom they have made treaties the perpetuation of the fraud whereby the constitutional government gov-ernment was overthrown and finally an act of gross injustice to me Because the official protests made by me on the 17th day o January 1S33 to the socalled provisional government w resigned re-signed by me and received by said government gov-ernment with the assurance that the case was referred to the United States of America for arbitration Because that the protests and my communications to the United States immediately im-mediately theeafter expressly declare that I yielded my authority to the forces ot the United States in order to avoid bloodshed and because I recognized the futility of a conflict with so formidable a power Because the president of the United States the secretary of state and a envoy en-voy commissioned by them reported In official I documents that my government was unlawfully l coerced by the lorces dip I lomatic and naval of tne United States that I was at the date of those investiga tions constitutional la ruler I fo in people I 1 4 Because such decision of the recog nized magistrates of the United States i yes ofrciMly communicated to me and to i Sanford B Dole and said Doles resigna tion requested by Albert S Willis the recognized agent and minister of the gov I ernment of tOe United States i Because neither the above named commissioner com-missioner nor the government which sends it niro ever received such authority from I the registered voters of Hawaii but de HawaI I rIvcs its assumed powers from the so called committee of public safety organ Ize on or about sad 17th day of Jan uary 1S93 said committee being composed largely of persons claiming American cit izenshl 1 and not one single Hawaiian a member thereof or in any way partlcl I pate In the demonstration leading to Its I nSSCaUSif mj peoplE about 40000 In I number have in no way been consulted by those 3000 In number who claim the right to destroy the dependence of I Hawaii My people constitute fourfifths consttute o the legally qualified voters of Hawaii and excluding those Imported for the de mcds of labor abut the same propor tion qf the Inhabitants Because < said treaty Snores not only the civic rights of my people but further I the hereditary property of their chiefs Of the 4000000 acres composing the terri to T saId treaty L offrs to annex 1000000 or SlcvOOO acres has in I no way b 100 tofore recognized as other than the pri vale property of the constitutional monarch subject toft consttutonal differing from other items of a private estate I Because i is propose by said treaty to confiscate said property technically called the crown lands those legally en I titled thereto either now or in succession I receiving no consideration whatever for eEttes their title to which has been always al-ways undisputed and which is legally in mj name at this date Because said treaty u ignores not only all professions of perpetual amity and good faith made by the United States In former treaties wltlv the sovereigns representing the Hawaiian people but all treaties made by tnogc sovereigns with other and friendly jTowers and It is thereby in violation of international law I Because by treating with the parties claiming at this time the right to cede said territory of Hawaii the government of the United States receives such Unite Sttes reee es territory terri-tory from the hands of those wiiom its own magistrates Ie4ally olectert by the people of the United States and in office of-fice In 1S93 pronounced fraudulently in power and unconstitutionally ruling unconsttutonal ruln Hawaii Therefore I Liluokalnni of Hawaii do hereby call upon the president of that ionm to whom I v tqlsled my property and my authority to withdraw said treaty ceding said Islands from further consideration I ask the honorable honor-able senate of the United States to decline de-cline to ratify said treaty and I implore the people of this great and good nation na-tion from whom my ancestors learned the Christian religion to sustain their representatives in such nets of justice and equality as may be in accord with the I principles l of their fathers and to the I Almighty Ruler I of the universe to Him who judgeth righteously I commit my cause Done at Washington District of Columbia United States of America this 17th day of June in the year eighteen hundred and ninetyseven LILUOKALANI JOSEPH HALELUHE WEKEKI HALELUHE JULIUS A PALMER 1 JJ m Witnesses to signature |