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Senator Gray. What developments did you 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. Reeder. I was just waiting 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. Reeder. 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. Reeder. 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. Reeder. The Queen.
Senator Gray. Was that the impression that you gathered from your talk with the people?
Mr. Reeder. Yes.
Senator Gray. From what you saw and heard?
Mr. Reeder.Yes.
Senator Gray. That they were there to aid the change in the Government? That is the way you put it?
Mr. Reeder. Yes.
Senator Gray. Had you any interest, one way or the other?
Mr. Reeder. Not a bit of interest; not a cent's worth.
Senator Gray. You belonged to neither party?
Mr. Reeder. No.
Senator Gray. How long had you been on the islands?
Mr. Reeder. I had been there very close on to four months, and been among the people.
Senator Gray. Largely?
Mr. Reeder. Yes.
Senator Gray. You had been an interested observer of what was going on-it was interesting to you?
Mr. Reeder. Yes.
Senator Gray. You were alert-your mind was alert, to take in what was going on around you?
Mr. Reeder. Yes; that was it.
Senator Gray. What were you there for? Were you on business or on pleasure?
Mr. Reeder. I was there just as a tourist.
Senator Gray. There for your health?
Mr. Reeder. 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. Reeder. No.
Senator Gray. May I ask you, if you will not consider it an impertinent question, what your politics are?
Mr. Reeder. I am a Republican. I 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. I 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. Reeder. No.
Senator Gray. You had no business in joining either party, had you?
Mr. Reeder. No.
Senator Gray. Did you have anything to do with the domestic affairs of those islands?
Mr. Reeder. No.
Adjourned until tomorrow, the 31st instant, at 10 o'clock a. m.
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Washington, D. C., Wednesday, January 31,1894.
The subcommittee met pursuant to adjournment.
Present. The chairman (Senator Morgan) and Senators Butler, Gray, Frye, and Sherman, and Senator Davis, of the full committee.
SWORN STATEMENT OF CHARLES L. MACARTHUR.
The Chairman. State your residence.
Mr. MacArthur. Troy, New York.
Senator Frye. What is your business?
Mr. MacArthur. I am the editor of the Troy Budget.
Senator Frye. Were you at any time in the Hawaiian Islands?
Mr. MacArthur. Yes; the last of February, or early in March, 1893. I remained there about seven or eight weeks, I should say.
Senator Frye. What was your business there?
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 I 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. I 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