Show NIS STATEMENT the deposed queen of the sandwich islands has baa not helped her case much by the statement abatement she ehe made to corn com mis loner eloner blount it t amounts virtually to a conf confession emion of the charges made against her ber of secretly in trl tri guing to lo promulgate a now new constitution of her own making according to her statement of the case her people meaning the natives native as she explains had been petitioning her fora new constitution in due time she responds to the wish drawing up an instrument upon the ground work of that of kamehameha and of 1887 the constitution of 1887 was the one in force when she was dethroned dethroner the constitution of kamehameha vested veered in the crown almost absolute sovereignty it may be guessed pretty nearly from this what might be the spirit of the new product this constitution she says she placed in the hands of a person no name given who submitted it to numerous lawyers from whose inspection it was returned without alteration or comment whereupon she concludes it to is the proper article all through gb and so enters upon a secret arrangement with certain trusted persons about the throne to promulgate it her designs appear by her statement to have worked with the most elegant precision right up to the critical point and then to have gone to p pieces I 1 aces like the crumbling of the one horse vehicle of poetic fame the constitution ution was perfect and the whole idea was just the thing but when it came time to promulgate the affair very suddenly became her private business with which no DO one else was or cared to be concerned As she ex presses it they led me out to the edge of a precipice and were now leaving me to take the leap alone this appears to have been her first suspicion that any one about her was playing her false As am a matter of tact fact the evidence she gives given would convict the whole lot of them of acquiescing with her fully folly in the secret belief that it would lead her monarchy to self destruction one can very well imagine those hose lawyers to whom this unknown person referred her docu jaent exulting to themselves over her delusion and what they must have known would be the result albeit viewing the case in its present state one may reasonably doubt whether either party in the struggle has much to exult over there has been within the last baat two weeks a vast amount of speculation over the she attitude of president cleveland commissioner blount has unveiled proof of intermeddling on the part of united states officials and soldiers at the point of the struggle which has had an exasperating effect upon the administration ut at washington but no matter what may be the feelings of the emotional secretary of state over the revelations feelings do not count in questions ot oi such a character and the measures he advises leading to the restoration of the monarchy need scarcely be seriously looked for |