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1050 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Senator GRAY. What developments did yon witness in that line as
to the impression created by the presence of those troops—that they
were there to support the Queen, or there to support the Provisional
Government?
Mr. EEEDER. I was just waitiug to see what they would do, because
I could not tell why they were there, and I did not know anybody who
did know.
Senator GRAY. And you did not gather any impression at all ?
Mr. EEEDER. Not that I know of.
Senator GRAY. Have you any opinions, as a matter of fact, as to
whether they had any influence upon the establishment of the Provisional
Government, born from your observation there"?
Senator GRAY. What is it?
Mr. EEEDER. I think that the Government—in those who were in
power—it excited some fears that they were there for the purpose not
to sustain the Government, but to help change it somehow or other.
Senator GRAY. Not to sustain the existing Government?
Mr. KEEDER. The Queen.
Senator GRAY. Was that the impression that you gathered from
your talk with the people?
Mr. EEEDER. Yes.
Senator GRAY. Prom what you saw and heard ?
Mr. EEEDER. Yes.
Senator GRAY. That they were there to aid the change in the Government?
That is the way you put it?
Mr. EEEDER. Yes.
Senator GRAY. Had you any interest, one way or the other?
Mr. EEEDER. Not a bit of interest; not a cent's worth.
• Senator GRAY. YOU belonged to neither party?
Mr. EEEDER. No.
Senator GRAY. HOW long had you been on the islands?
Mr. EEEDER. I had been there very close on to four months, and
been among the people.
Senator GRAY. Largely?
Mr. EEEDER. Yes.
Senator GRAY. YOU had been an interested observer of what was
going on—it was interesting to you?
Mr. EEEDER. Yes.
Senator GRAY. You were alert—your mind was alert, to take in what
was going on around you?
Mr. EEEDER. Yes; that was it.
Senator GRAY. What were you there for? Were you on business or
on pleasure?
Mr. EEEDER. I was there just as a tourist.
Senator GRAY. Therefor your health?
Mr. EEEDER. That was part of my business there. I had something
in my throat and I thought it would boil it out.
Senator GRAY. Was any of your family there with you?
Mr. EEEDER. No.
Senator GRAY. May I ask you, if you will not consider it an impertinent
question, what your politics are?
Mr. EEEDER. I am a Eepublican. L never had a thought of politics
while there. I was an American citizen. I had no allegiance to one
party or the other. I determined that I would not imperil my safety.
1 had no interest whether the Queen's Government should survive or
the missionary party should succeed. I intended to pursue such a
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course as to have the protection of my Government in case the Government
fell into the hands of either of those peoples. I knew if I joined
a party and became interested in it and the party which I had joined
was beaten, I would lose the protection of my Government.
Senator GRAY. YOU did not want to join a party as a mere tourist
there?
Mr. EEEDER. NO.
Senator GRAY. YOU had no business in joining either party, had
you?
Mr. EEEDER. NO.
Senator GRAY. Did you have anything to do with the domestic affairs
of those islands?
Mr. EEEDER. NO.
Adjourned until to-morrow, the 31st instant, at 10 o'clock a. m.
WASHINGTON, D. 0., Wednesday, January 31,1894.
The subcommittee met pursuant to adjournment.
Present: The chairman (Senator MORGAN) and Senators BUTLER,
GRAY, PRYE, and SHERMAN, and Senator DAVIS, of the full committee.
SWORN STATEMENT OF CHARLES L. MACARTHUR.
The CHAIRMAN. State your residence.
Mr. MAOARTHUR. Troy, N. Y.
Senator Fit YE. What is your business?
Mr. MAC ARTHUR. 1 am. the editor of the Troy Budget.
Senator PRYE. Were you at any time in the Hawaiian Islands?
Mr. MAC ARTHUR. Yes; the last of February, or early in March,
1893. 1 remained there about seven or eight weeks, I should say.
Senator PRYE. What was your business tliere ?
Mr. MACARTHUR. I went there to get rest, practically; but I found
a state of things that very much interested me, and I investigated.
Senator FRYE. YOU investigated the condition of affairs in the
islands ?
Mr. MACARTHUR. Yes. I presume you gentlemen have a paper
from me. I wrote considerably. I wrote an article which was published
pretty widely. I was there when Mr. Blount was there, and 1
saw him frequently. His wife and mine were acquainted and went
about a good deal together.
The CHAIRMAN. That is your paper, the one with the map in it?
Mr. MACARTHUR. Yes. 1 could not cover as much ground as I wanted
to because I found it of so much interest. I knew there was meat in it
and I went right over it.
Senator FRYE. Did you make a special business of investigating the
condition of affairs in the islands?
Mr. MACARTHUR. Yes.
Senator FRYE. And in the course of that investigation did you have
communications with parties of both sides there, the royalists as well
as the Provisional Government?
Mr. MACARTHUR. Yes. All the time I was there the Provisional
Government was in power. I did not report the result of my investigations
to Mr. Blount. I did on one affair. He mentioned here that

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