| Show if H A OF HAWAII A ilas has taken place on the he I 1 island THEY FOR FOE ADMISSION into the union of states and ana send a Oom commission mission to washington to ask it SA SAN frac fracisco isco jan 28 S the hawaiian steamer claudine arrived this morning bringing 0 news of a 1 revolution at honolulu the revolutionists have overturned tile the hawaiian government and united states troops have been landed A provisional provi dional government overn ment hos his been established and a commission headed by thurston came on the claudine en ell route to washington with a petition to the united states to annex the hawaiian islands the story ol of the revolution is as follows fallows queen aidi attempted on jail 18 to promulgate a new constitution depriving foreigners of a franchise abro abrogating atin the house of nobles giving 3 lier her P power ower to appoint a new house use the foreign residents rui dents at at once appointed a committee of safety of thirteen who called a mass meeting ine eting ra which unanimously anim ani bously condemned the action of the queen anti and authorized a committee to take whatever action necessary for public safety on the the committee issued a proclamation ic counting the history of the islands calling attention t to the lie misrule of native e dion monarchs aichs archs reciting 0 the repeated attempts of the queen to extend the royal roval prerogatives prerogative t es abridge 0 the rights 0 of the 1 people e ople and declaring 0 that unless une tille radical inea measures were ta en ell the credit of the islands at I 1 home ionic anti and abroad which was already dama damaged ed wo would uld be ba wrecked and the gnan guarantee antee of protection to life and property steadly decrease tile monarchial system of the government was nas declared abrogated and a provincial govern ment established till terms of union with the united states were negotiated and agreed on such provisional government is is to con consist of S IL B dole J S king kitler P C joyie jones s and W G smith to nl minister inister the various dopart departments V part ments with tile the first named as pre resident and with in an advis advisory gry council of fourteen members with general leges laLure powers aside irum from the queen and her ministers minister the officers and the old government are requested to continue in the flie ance of their respective insist ties existing 0 laws not incon inconsistent with the proclamation will continue in force the queen and cabinet yielded unconditionally tiie the government buildings I 1 beio seiz seized ell by the revo revolutionists and the I 1 new government will be stained by bayonets things looked squally f far a time the first move was the presentation ora of a new constitution to the queer queen 1 by the legislature it is really the old constitution which abc the sovereign large powers the queen t then I 1 loll 1011 summoned tho the cabinet and demanded they sign the document decumen t they refused even through illg queen threatened to declare the fact to the natives waiting outside which was equivalent to a threat thit that she would allow the natives to caf massacre sacr them ethem at 1 I 1 I 1 h e calmed down borne somewhat what and made an aale affectionate and rather pac pacified ifield speech to the natives about this time armed sailors and marines from tho the united states cruiser boston marched up the street to the united states consulate it is believed that but for tho the aimel timely T presence of this vessel there might have been a general masic lere rc of foreigners commissioner thurston said paid thi this S evening he be hall hail grett greit hopes hope that this countr country v will accept the islands if they do not said lie he our mrs inis sion sion is is done but tile the people in the event of refusal will surely return to england who will be only too faeo glad to take 11 no 3 11 the Hawa iiii revolution finds life hie united states with only one modern man mail of war on the pacific ocean the cruiser boston borton now DOW at honolulu aiulu admiral Sk arrett commanding the pacific squadron is hero here with the wood enship mohican and acting on oil teleo telegraphic graphic orders fron washington bailed baided from honolulu nt at 0 i this afternoon the iron ship kanger has been ordered from mare Ts island land to san francisco to await orders all our modern war ships exe except ept the boston are on oil the atlantic at present on there way to take part in the naval review at new york tile the pow reful coast defense ship monterey Montc rcy is at this port and could be ant on short orders but being of the coast defense type of shi ship p has rather a limited coal supply to ilera permit it bein bc ing sent to tile the sandwich islands the commissioners this morning received invitations from tile san francisco chamber of commerce to meet the directors of that body and discuss the situation of affairs with merchants the invitation was accepted and the chamber of commerce will probably adopt resolutions asking the united states government ovan met it to annex 11 hawaii |
