HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
 
Believing that the views I have herein expressed are in accord with 
much in the past course of the American Government and in harmony 
with the opinions of the President and of the Department of State, I 
submit them for what they are worth. As an American citizen, loving 
my country and caring for its welfare aiid its future greatness, I can 
say no less. As the official representative of the Government of the 
United States in these special circumstances I can properly say no 
more. 
I am, etc., 
JOHN L. STEVENS. 
Mr. Wharton to Mr. Stevens. 
No. 2S.]                        DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 
Washington, September 9, 1891. 
SiR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 30 of the 20th 
ultimo, in relation to the need of an American ship of war at Honolulu. 
A copy of your dispatch has been transmitted to the Secretary of 
the Navy. 
I am, etc., 
WILLIAM F. WHARTON, 
Acting Secretary. 
Mr. Wharton to Mr. Stevens. 
No. 30.]                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 
o    Washington, September 22, 1891. 
SiR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 31, of 
the 3d instant, in relation to the death of the Prince Consort. 
I am, etc., 
WILLIAM F. WHARTON, 
Acting Secretary. 
Mr. Stevens to Mr. Blaine. 
No. 34.]                        UNITED STATES LEGATION7 
H1onolulu, October 15, 1891. 
SIR: It is proper for me to inform the Department of State that, in 
consequence of the serious and probably prolonged illness of Minister 
Carter, the Hawaiian Government has appointed Hon. J. Mott Smith, 
special envoy extraordinary to negotiate with the United States a 
treaty of the character of which I gave an account in my dispatch 32, 
of September 5. Mr. Smith is an American, is the present minister of 
finance, and has the marked confidence of the business men of these 
islands. Formerly he had resided here twenty or thirty years, but of 
late has been a resident of Boston, Mass. He has still consider- 
able property interests on the islands.  Arriving in Honolulu a 
few months since, he was strongly urged by leading citizens and the 
Queen to become minister of finance, and some years ago he was in 
the cabinet of Kalakaua, and visited Washington in behalf of reci- 
 
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