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to the President, and its contents made known to the public. It is a voluminous affair, consisting of twelve or thirteen hundred closely printed pages. The report has been reviewed by able critics. Perhaps the best criticism of commissioner and report is the following from the New York Tribune:

"While I do not question his honesty of purpose, his methods were those of a prosecuting attorney, and his report is an astonishing piece of special pleading. It is pervaded from beginning to end with a strange hostility to the American colony, built up and fostered by the policy of the United States for the last forty years, which has created the civilization of the islands, developed their resources, and opened an important field of commerce to the Pacific States. With their struggle for decent and honest government during the last fifteen years, he has no sympathy whatever. In his letter of April 6, he condemns them for participating in the affairs of the islands. In his view the character of the people of these islands is and must be overwhelmingly Asiatic, which he probably regards as a consummation devoutly to be wished, and he 'deprecates the idea of immigrants from the United States being able to find encouragement in the matter of obtaining homes in these islands.' He seems to think as Governor McDuffie of South Carolina wrote of the Texans in 1836, that 'having emigrated to that country they had forfeited all claim to fraternal regard,' and that having left a land of freedom for a land of despotism with their eyes open, they deserved their fate."

After the removal of all American protection, the patriots found it necessary to organize a more perma

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nent government. draft a constitution. That committee, as has been stated, had six Hawaiians on it, in addition to many white men born on the islands. The constitution is an able document, modeled somewhat after the Constitution of the United States. It vests the executive power of the republic in a president and cabinet. The president holds his office for six years. His qualifications are that he must be thirty-five years of age, must have been born on the islands, or have been a citizen of them for fifteen years.

A committee was appointed to

The legislative powers of the Government are vested in a Senate and House of Representatives.

The constitution provides for a judiciary department and all the different branches essential to a

permanent Government. All hope of annexation, for four years at least, was then at an end, and on July 4 President Dole, on the steps of the government building, read to the assembled thousands his proclamation, declaring the provisional government at an end, and the Republic of Hawaii established.

CHAPTER XXX

THE DEMAND OF MINISTER WILLIS

If the people in the Hawaiian Islands supposed that they had reached the end of their troubles they were greatly mistaken; they seemed to have only commenced. The President of the United States, under the impression that monarchy in Hawaii had been overthrown by Minister John L. Stevens and Captain Wiltse, deemed that he was under moral obligation to restore the deposed queen to the throne. Colonel Blount's report had confirmed his suspicions, and he selected Hon. Albert S. Willis, who had served the State of Kentucky in Congress, to go to the Sandwich Islands, remove President Dole, and let Liliuokalani have her throne. It is claimed by some of the President's critics, that having that end in view, his letter to President Dole was rather inconsistent.

lowing is a copy of the letter:

"GROVER CLEVELAND,

The fol

"President of the United States of America.

"To His Excellency, Sanford B. Dole, President of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands.

"GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND:-I have made choice of Albert S. Willis, one of our distinguished citizens, to re

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