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action Advisory Council afternoon ammunition appointed Arion Hall Armory attempt Attorney-General battalion bloodshed Cabinet Chairman cheers CITIZENS OF HONOLULU COLBURN command Committee of Public Committee of Safety companies Constitution coup d'etat crowd EMMELUTH Executive and Advisory Executive Council F. W. McCHESNEY force Foreign Affairs Government Building Hawaii Hawaiian Islands HENRY WATERHOUSE hereby immediately Interior IOLANI PALACE J. A. KING J. A. MCCANDLESS J. H. Fisher J. H. Soper Kamehameha last Saturday Legislature liberty LILIUOKALANI Majesty Marshal Wilson mass meeting meeting of citizens Minister of Finance Minister of Foreign morning Native Hawaiians native members Oahu P. C. JONES Palace Square Paul Neumann peaceably policemen political proceeded proclamation promise promulgate prorogation protection Provisional Government Public Safety Queen QUEEN'S SPEECH resolution revolutionary rifles rumors SAMUEL PARKER SANFORD Signed situation Sovereign street Throne Room THURSTON tion to-day uprising volunteers W. C. WILDER W. R. CASTLE wagon Wilcox Ziegler
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Page 34 - Government by its own declared limitation was only "to exist until terms of union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon...
Page 15 - Authority is given for the assurance that any changes desired in the fundamental law of the land will be sought only by methods provided in the constitution itself.
Page 20 - January instant a committee of thirteen to be known as the ' committee of public safety' was appointed to consider the situation and to devise ways and means for the maintenance of the public peace and safety and the preservation of life and property; "6. And whereas such committee has recommended the calling of this mass meeting of citizens to protest against and condemn such action and has this day presented a report to such meeting denouncing the action of the Queen and her supporters as being...
Page 18 - Later they reluctantly returned to the palace, by request of the Queen, and for nearly two hours she again endeavored to force them to acquiesce in her desire, and upon their final refusal announced in a public speech in the throne room and again from the upper gallery of the palace that she desired to issue the constitution, but was prevented from doing so by her ministers and would issue it in a few days. "The citizens responded to the appeal of the cabinet to resist the revolutionary attempt of...
Page 34 - Councils shall, acting jointly, have power to remove any member of either Council and to fill such or any other vacancy, 4. All officers under the existing Government are hereby requested to continue to exercise their functions and perform the duties of their respective offices, with the exception...
Page 32 - The appointment of a new cabinet subservient to her wishes and their continuance in office until a recent date gave no opportunity for further indication of the policy which would be pursued by Her Majesty until the opening of the Legislature in May of 1892. The recent history of that session has shown a stubborn determination on the part of Her Majesty to follow the tactics of her late brother and in all possible ways to secure an extension of the royal prerogatives and an abridgement of popular...
Page 18 - ... gallery of the palace that she desired to issue the constitution but was prevented from doing so by her ministers and would issue it in a few days. The citizens responded to the appeal of the cabinet to resist the revolutionary attempt of the Queen by gathering at the office of William O. Smith.
Page 20 - ... in a public speech announced that she was desirous and ready to promulgate such Constitution, the same being now ready for such purpose, and that the only reason why it was not now promulgated was because she had met with unexpected obstacles and that a fitting opportunity in the future must be 19 awaited for the consummation of such object, which would be within a few days ; 5.
Page 34 - Smith, who shall administer the executive departments of the Government, the first named acting as president and chairman of such council and administering the department of foreign affairs...
Page 35 - All officers under the existing Government are hereby requested to continue to exercise their functions and perform the duties of their respective offices, with the exception of the following named persons: QUEEN LILIUOKALANI, CHARLES B. WILSON, (Marshal, SAMUEL PARKER, Minister of Foreign Affairs, WH CORNWELL, Minister of Finance, JOHN F. COLBURN, Minister of the Interior, ARTHUR P. PETERSON, Attorney-General, who are hereby removed from office.