| Show HAWAIIAN commission A NEWS representative at the Knut knutsford eford wednesday had the pleasure of meeting and conversing at length with a party of distinguished hawaiian gentlemen en an route to washington as representatives of ex queen the personnel of the party is as follows samuel parker H A bidderman Wid derman john A cummins major W T howard doward and W T montserrat during the latter part of the day after their arrival from ogden they were shown considerable of the city by mr H C burnett local agent of the colorado midland mr man a pleasant and affable member of the party paid a visit to the office of the first presidency where he readily recognized president george QC annon with whom he was acquainted on the islands in 1860 1850 he also left his card and respects for mr F A mitchell Mito hell formerly of salt lake but now of L gan whom he know knew as a hawaiian missionary some years ago mr bidderman Wid derman is a german by birth but forty four of his sixty odd years yeam have been spent on the hawaiian islands where he be has grown ray and wealthy as an the proprietor of a big sugar plantation like liike his colleagues he Is a pronounced royalist and true to the cause of the erstwhile erst while queen together they are going to pay a visit to president cleveland in her interests they are of the opinion that he will be just and honorable in bis bin dealings they say may but in regard to the be senate they appear much low lew sanguine whether the commission will ask for a re enthronement of her ber ladyship they were loth to state but allowed that inference to be drawn from their remarks As announced in the dispatches the provisional government of hawaii to Is a thing of the past and in its stead the republic of hawaii holds unlimited away but the chi chinuge suge they declare la Is more imaginary than real as the individual and collective power la Is shown in the latter system as an was exhibited in the former the desire for annexation to the united states to ig as great with the authorities of the republic as it was with the provisional government officials the work of drafting the new constitution ution was completed on the 3rd ard lust and promulgated on the day following the occasion was one of great rejoicing and demonstration on the part of president dole and his f followers 01 lowers mr C leland rocks books a friend of the NEWS in writing from that place PIRCO of the event forwards the official program of the day it is a unique and neatly printed a flair and bears the photograph of president dole of the first page the principal type in of the stars stare and stripes cripes order and the american eagle Is ia given prominent place the literary part of the program consisted of the reading of the declaration of independence Pend pen dence onoe orations thereon and singing the he battle cry of freedom amer lea ica and other national songs song following the literary oratorical and musical renditions came boat races and field sports which lasted throughout the day on the morning of that day san ford B dole in the presence of his bis cabinet surrounded by a vast concourse of at people delivered the proclamation of the now new republic in the following words 1 I sanford B dale president of the provisional government of the ha hawaiian islands by virtue of the charge given me by the executive and advisory councils of the provisional government and by act dated july 8 3 1894 proclaim the me republic of hawaii as an the sovereign authority over and through out the hawaiian islands from this thin time forth and I 1 declare the constitution framed and adopted by the constitutional convention of 1894 to be the I 1 constitution and supreme law of the republic of hawaii and by virtue of this constitution I 1 now DOW assume the office and authority of president there of long live the republic the royalists caused no disturbance whatever A few nights previous however they held a mass mooting and adopted a resolution protesting against the formation of the republic on the grounds thattie that the president of the united states bad not yet answered the petition of the queen asking restoration to her throne transcripts of this resolution were forwarded forwar Jed to all representatives of other governments with requests re not to recognize the republic all of the representatives except that of england paid no attention to the request probably the most interesting gentleman in the party now on the way to the nations capital is in mr parker and as fine a specimen of physical manhood as any country can boast of he has been in salt bait lake several times before and notes be says saya remarkable changes in the city a growth he was very pleasant and agreeable and talked freely on all subjects except the one bearing on the party bartys a mission to washington they left for the theeart east over the rio bio grande western last night shortly before 11 and expect to reach washington sunday bight |
