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Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Yes. The barracks were a block and a half away. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} How many were in that army? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} She was granted payment for only 60 or 70. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} In addition to that was there a police force? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} There was a police force. I do not know how large, but I have heard say there were 80 in the station house. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Were both of these forces, the civil and military forces, under the command of the same person? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} No. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Under the command of different persons? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Yes. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Who commanded the military force? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Capt. Nowlein. I am not sure about that. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Who commanded the civil force, the police force? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} As I understand, Mr. Wilson, the marshal, was at the head of the police. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Did they occupy the same quarters or different? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} They were nearly a mile apart. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} You saw nothing of the police force as a body or the military force as a body at either of these meetings? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} No. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Did you see them on the street that evening in military array? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} No. There was a remarkable---- 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} There was then no exhibition of military force, nor exhibition of police force? 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}}  Let Mr. Emerson finish his sentence. 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} There was a great hush about the streets. 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}} You were going to say remarkable. 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} There was an unusual aspect in the condition of things. 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}} You were going to say remarkably quiet? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} There was a particularly peculiar hush; yes. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} During that afternoon or evening you saw no military or police force in bodies under their appropriate officer? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} No. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} No display of that kind? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} No. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} After the troops came in from the ship—the marines came in from the ''Boston'', where did they go? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} This, of course, I got from reports. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} You need not speak of anything but what you yourself know. 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} I know this much—that company went up to Mr. Atherton's house. One went to the consul's; I saw them there. One went to the minister's residence. 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}} Did they stay there? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Some twenty-five or so stayed with the consul. 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}} All night? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Yes. And another company, as I understand it, stayed at the minister's residence. I saw tents pitched there for them. 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}} Did you see men in them? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Yes. And at Mr. Atherton's there was no place for them to stay; there being no place, they were removed. 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}} That evening?

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} That evening; yes. 

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Senator {{sc|Sherman.}} Who is Mr. Atherton. 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} He is one of our leading financiers, a wealthy man. 

Senator {{sc|Sherman.}} He is not an officer of the Government? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} No. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} A gentleman from Hawaii, Mr. Carter, sent me a blue print of the city of Honolulu, at least parts of it. I want you to look over that and see if the locations of the different houses correspond with your knowledge of the facts (exhibiting diagram). 

Mr {{sc|Emerson}} (examining). This is about the same as the diagram that I made out for myself; a smaller one. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Are you prepared to say whether that is a correct drawing of the place? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson}} [indicating on the diagram]. There is Mr. Atherton's house. There is the skating rink. That is the place where the mass meeting was held. There are the barracks around the corner. This was all open there,the Queen's military barracks. This is the palace, where the Queen was, the Government building, and that is the opera house, and this Arion Hall. 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}} In this Government house beside are the chambers of the Government officers? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} In fact, the treasury. All the archives are there. 

Senator {{sc|Sherman.}} Where did our soldiers stand—there [indicating] or here [indicating]. 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} No; here [indicating]. The United States marines— I did not see them stand in arms, as stated. I remember going there. I saw no marines, no guns trained on the palace. 

Senator {{sc|Sherman.}} Behind that building? [Indicating.] 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Yes; here [indicating] is the yard where they had the tent. 

Senator {{sc|Sherman.}} That is the opera house? [Indicating.] 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Yes. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Where did those marines land? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} AS I understand, they landed down on the wharf, about there [indicating]. 

Senator {{sc|Gray.}} Not by the custom-house? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} No; they landed down here [indicating]. 

Senator {{sc|Sherman.}} King street seems to be the leading street? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Yes. Merchant street—I think they usually landed about there; it may be they landed there [indicating]. 

Senator {{sc|Sherman.}} On what street did they go toward the palace? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} I did not see them go up. But here [indicating] is the consulate. Probably they would go right up this street here [indicating] and up there [indicating]; or a squad might go up Nuuanu street to the legation; another squad to the consulate; another squad up Merchant street to Mr. Atherton's, and then back again to Arion Hall. There [indicating] is the police station, within a block, just across the street, where Mr. Smith's committee of safety met—right under the nose of the police station. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Show me the building on which the flag of the United States was raised. 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Iolani Palace. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} When was it first raised? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} I think it was about two weeks after the landing of the marines that I saw it. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Two weeks after the landing of the marines? 

Mr. {{sc|Emerson.}} Yes. 

The {{sc|Chairman.}} Before the flag was raised at all?