Appendix.

The time and assistance available in the preparation of the foregoing report and this appendix have not been sufficient to render a full presentation of the correspondence involved practicable here. The purpose of this supplement therefore is to give a general view of the progress of events and to submit copies of all papers of ascertained importance to a clear understanding and reënforcement of the narrative, except those published in the volumes of Foreign Relations of the United States and other volumes, to which reference is noted in a bibliographical paragraph.

It has been deemed neither necessary nor advisable to touch upon the subject of private claims of the citizens or subjects of either country against the government of the other, as none of the claims adverted to in the consular or diplomatic correspondence appears to have become at any time matter of special or separate negotiation or to have reached a position of adequate moment to demand any further action than the exercise of good offices by the diplomatic representative of the Government of the claimant.

Three unperfected treaties described in the correspondence are deposited in this Bureau, those of 1849, 1855, and 1867, respectively.

A considerable volume of correspondence upon Hawaiian relations will be found in the archives of the Navy Department, should it be regarded as desirable to examine letters of naval officers of the United States in support or elaboration of the consular and diplomatic letters given or referred to in the list of papers.

The present report and appendix bring the narrative down to the revolution of January 17, 1893, from which point it is continued in the report accompanying the President’s message of February 15, 1893, sending to the Senate the treaty concluded and signed at Washington, February 14, 1893, by the Secretary of State of the United States and the representatives of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands.

A list of papers, chronologically arranged, follows, and is, in its turn, followed by a brief subject index for more convenient reference.

A. H. A.

Bureau of Rolls and Library, February 14, 1893.

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list of papers.

[The arrangement is chronological.]

  • Treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States and the Sandwich Islands, signed at Honolulu, December 23, 1826.
  • Letter to the Secretary of the Navy from Thomas ap Catesby Jones, December 25, 1826. Extract.
  • Extract of letter to William Bolton Finch, U. S. S. Vincennes, January 20, 1829.
  • Treaty between Great Britain and Hawaii of November 16, 1836, signed at Honolulu.
  • Treaty between France and Hawaii, signed at Honolulu, July 12, 1839.
  • Treaty between France and Hawaii, signed at Honolulu, July 17, 1839.
  • Message of the President of December 31, 1842. (H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 35, Twenty-seventh Congress, third session.)
  • Commercial Agent William Hooper’s, No. 22, March 7, 1843.
  • Commercial Agent William Hooper’s, No. 23, March 11, 1843.
  • Commercial Agent William Hooper’s, No. 28, August 15, 1843.
  • Mr. Webster to Mr. Brown, No. 7, March 15, 1843.
  • Commercial Agent Hooper’s No. 28, August 15, 1843.
  • Mr. Brown to Mr. Webster, No. 5, October 26, 1843.
  • Mr. Brown to Mr. Webster, No. 6, November 4, 1843.
  • Declaration of Great Britain and France relating to independence of islands, London, November 28, 1843.
  • Mr. Calhoun to Mr. Brown, No. 4, January 20, 1845.
  • Treaty of peace, amity, and commerce between France and Hawaii, signed at Honolulu, March 26, 1846.
  • Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Ten Eyck, August 28, 1848.
  • Article 6, treaty with France of July 17, 1849.
  • Mr. Ten Eyck to Mr. Buchanan, No. 55, September 3, 1849.
  • Mr. Turrill to Mr. Clayton, No. 30, September 4, 1849.
  • Treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States and Hawaiian Islands, concluded at Washington 20th December, 1849.
  • Messrs. Judd and Jarves to Mr. Clayton, May 30, 1850.
  • Mr. Clayton to Messrs. Judd and Jarves, June 3, 1850.
  • Mr. Clayton to Mr. Rives, No. 15, July 5, 1850.
  • Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster, No. 49, September 12, 1850.
  • Mr. Severance to Mr. Webster, No. 6, March 11, 1851.
  • Mr. Webster to Mr. Rives, No. 28, June 19, 1851.
  • Joint resolution of the nobles and representatives of June 21, 1851.
  • Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster, No. 95, July 8, 1851.
  • Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance, No. 4, July 14, 1851.
  • Confidential, Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance, July 14, 1851.
  • Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster, No, 97, July 22, 1851.
  • Mr. Rives to Mr. Seward, No. 109, October 30, 1851.
  • Mr. Marcy to Mr. Mason, No. 3, December 16, 1853.
  • Message of the President of March 3, 1854.
  • Treaty of reciprocity, unperfected, 1855.

(Bureau of Rolls and Library, Department of State.)

  • Mr. McBride to Mr. Seward, No. 9, October 9, 1863.
  • Mr. Seward to Mr. McBride, No. 10, January 14, 1864.
  • Message of the President, February 5, 1864.
  • Mr. McBride to Mr. Seward, No. 37, September 16, 1864.
  • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, No. 6, September 3, 1866.
  • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, private, June 7, 1867.
  • Mr. Seward to Mr. McCook, No. 33, July 13, 1867.
  • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, No. 31, August 5, 1867.
  • Mr. Seward to Mr. McCook, confidential, September 12, 1867.
  • Mr. Seward to Mr. McCook, No. 36, October 5, 1867.
  • Mr. Seward to Mr. Spalding, No. 42, July 5, 1868.
  • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, No. 54, August 14, 1868, with in closure.
  • Message of President Johnson, December 9, 1868.
  • Mr. Z. S. Spalding to Mr.——Spalding, April 14, 1869.
  • Mr. McCook and Mr. De Varigny, notes of conversations, September 14, 1869, and Mr. McCook and the King.
  • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 189, February 7, 1873.
  • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 190, February 10, 1873.
  • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 191, February 17,1873.
  • Gen. Schofield to Gen. Belknap, May 8, 1873.
  • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 241, February 11, 1874.
  • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 243, February 17, 1874.
  • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 245, February 20, 1874.
  • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 291, October 12, 1874.
  • Treaty between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands, Commercial Reciprocity, January 30, 1875.
  • Treaty: Protocol of Conference, September 9, 1876. (Ratification of Commercial Reciprocity.)
  • Mr. Evarts to Mr. Comly, No. 28, August 6, 1878. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1878.)
  • Mr. Evarts to Mr. Comly, No. 81, November 13, 1880.
  • Mr. Blaine to Mr. Comly, No. 102, June 30, 1881. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1881.)
  • Mr. Blaine to Mr. Comly, No. 113, December 1, 1881. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1881.)
  • Confidential, Mr. Blaine to Mr. Comly, December 1, 1881.
  • Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Daggett, No. 42, December 6, 1883. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1883.)
  • Treaty: Hawaiian Islands Supplementary Convention, December 6, 1884. Reciprocity and Pearl River Harbor Cession.
  • Mr. Merrill to Mr. Bayard, No. 78, September 2, 1886.
  • Mr. Merrill to Mr. Bayard, No. 85, October 19, 1886.
  • Mr. Hastings to Mr. Bayard, No. 89, October 28, 1886.
  • Mr. Bayard to Mr. Merrill, No. 52, July 12, 1887. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1887.)
  • Mr. Merrill to Mr. Bayard, No. 173, February 24, 1888. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1888.)
  • Treaty: Parcels Post Convention between the United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom, December 19, 1888.
  • Mr. Merrill to Mr. Blaine, No. 255, August 1, 1889.
  • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Blaine, No. 46, February 8, 1892.
  • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Blaine, No. 48, March 8, 1892.
  • Admiral Brown to the Secretary of the Navy, September 6, 1892.
  • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, No. 74, November 20, 1892.
  • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, No. 65, September 14, 1892.
  • Capt. Wiltse to the Secretary of the Navy, October 12, 1892.
  • Capt. Wiltse to the Secretary of the Navy, October 20, 1892.
  • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, No. 72, October 31, 8892.
  • Capt. Wiltse to the Secretary of the Navy, November 1, 1892.
  • Capt. Wiltse to the Secretary of the Navy, November 9, 1892.
  • Message of the President, February 6, 1893. Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 45, 52d Cong. 2d sess

addenda.

  • Treaty of amity, commerce, and unavigation, unperfected, 1849. (Bureau of Rolls and Library, Department of State.)
  • Treaty of reciprocity, unperfected, 1867. (Bureau of Rolls and Xibrary, Department of State.)

subject index.

  • Annexation to the United States:
    • Mr. Severance to Mr. Webster, No. 6, March 11, 1851.
    • Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance, July 4, 1851 (confidential).
    • Mr. Marcy to Mr. Mason, No. 3, December 16, 1853.
    • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, No. 6, September 3, 1866.
    • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward (private), June 7, 1867.
    • Mr. Seward to Mr. McCook, No. 33, July 13, 1867.
    • Mr. Seward to Mr. McCook (confidential), September 12, 1867.
    • Mr. Seward to Mr. Spalding, No. 42, July 5, 1868.
    • Mr. Z. S. Spaulding to Mr. Spaulding, April 14, 1869.
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 189, February 7, 1873.
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 191, February 17, 1873.
    • Gen. Schofield to Gen. Belknap, May 8, 1873.
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Blaine, No. 46, February 8, 1892.
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Blaine, No. 48, March 8, 1892.
    • Admiral Brown to Secretary of Navy, September 6, 1892.
    • Capt. Wiltse to the Secretary of Navy, October 12, 1892.
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, No. 74, November 20, 1892.
    • Message of the President, February 6, 1893 (Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 45, Fifty-second Congress, second session).
    • See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1881.
  • Cession of territory to the United States:
    • Proclamation of Kamehameha III of March 10, 1851.
    • Mr. Severance to Mr. Webster, No. 6, March 11, 1851.
    • Mr. McBride to Mr. Seward, No. 37, September 16, 1864.
    • Mr. McCook and the King—conversation, September 14, 1869.
  • Coolie trade:
  • Declaration of Great Britain and France relative to independence of islands, London, November 28, 1843.
  • Hawaiian Islands:
    • Statement of financial, agricultural, social, and political conditions.
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, No. 74, November 20, 1892.
  • Independence of islands:
    • Declaration of Great Britain and France, London, November 28, 1843.
    • Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Ten Eyck, August 28, 1848.
    • Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance, No. 4, July 14, 1851.
    • Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Ten Eyck, August 28, 1848.
    • Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster, No.97, July 22, 1851.
    • Mr. Rives to Mr. Seward, No. 109, October 30, 1851.
  • Japanese reciprocity treaty:
    • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, No. 32, August 5, 1867.
  • Kalakaua, King—death of, in the United States—(Foreign Relations United States, 1891).
  • “Lackawanna” (incident):
    • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, No. 31, August 5, 1867.
    • Mr. Seward to Mr. McCook, No. 36, October 5, 1867.
    • Mr. McCook and Mr. de Varigny—notes of conversations, September 14, 1869.
      • And Mr. McCook and the King.
  • Landing of naval force:
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 241, February 11, 1874.
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 243, February 17, 1874.
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 245, February 20, 1874.
    • Mr. Merrill to Mr. Blaine, No. 255, August 1, 1889.
  • Lilioukalani, Queen, accession of.
  • Liquor traffic:
    • Article 6, treaty with France of July 17, 1849.
    • Mr. Evarts to Mr. Comly, No. 81, Nov. 13, 1880. (Ralik Islands.)
  • Message of the President of December 31, 1842:
    • House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 35, Twenty-seventh Congress, third session,
    • Message of December 9, 1868, annexation.
    • Message of December 9, 1868, reciprocity.
  • Opposition of Great Britain to American interests:
  • Pearl River Harbor—
  • Policy of the United States—
    • President’s Message December 31, 1842. (H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 35, Twenty-seventh Congress, Third session.)
    • Mr. Webster to George Brown, No. 7, March 15, 1843.
    • Mr. Brown to Mr. Webster, No. 5, October 26, 1843.
    • Mr. Brown to Mr. Webster, No. 6, November 4, 1843.
    • Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance, No. 4, July 14, 1851.
    • Confidential, Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance, July 14, 1851.
    • Mr. McBride to Mr. Seward, No. 9, October 9, 1863.
    • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, No. 6, September 3, 1866.
    • Mr. Blaine to Mr. Comly, No. 113, December 1, 1881. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1881.)
    • Confidential, Mr. Blaine to Mr. Comly, December 1, 1881.
    • Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Daggett, No. 42, December 6, 1883. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1883.)
    • Hawaiian-Samoan Convention. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1887.)
    • Mr. Bayard to Mr. Merrill, No. 52, July 12, 1887. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1887.)
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Blaine, No. 48, March 8, 1892.
    • Message of the President, February 6, 1893. (Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 45, Fifty-second Congress, second session.)
    • See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1881, 1883, 1888.
  • Presents sent to the chiefs of the islands:
    • Extract of letter to William Bolton Finch, U. S. S. Vincennes, 20th January, 1829.
  • Protection of foreigners:
    • Letter to the Secretary of the Navy from Thomas ap Catesby Jones, December 25, 1826. Extract.
  • Reciprocity—
    • Unperfected treaty of 1855. (Bureau of Rolls and Library, Department of State.)
    • Message of the President, February 5, 1864.
    • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, private, June 7, 1867.
    • Mr. McCook to Mr. Seward, No. 31, August 5, 1867.
    • Mr. Seward to Mr. McCook, confidential, September 12, 1867.
    • Mr. Seward to Mr. McCook, No. 36, October 5, 1867.
    • Unperfected treaty of 1867 (Bureau of Rolls and Library, Department of State).
    • Mr. Z. S. Spalding to Mr.——Spalding, April 14, 1869.
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 189, February 7, 1873.
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 190, February 10, 1873.
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 191, February 17, 1873.
    • Gen. Schofield to Gen. Belknap, May 8, 1873.
    • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 291, October 12, 1874.
    • Treaty of January 30, 1875.
    • Protocol of Conference, September 9, 1876.
    • Mr. Evarts to Mr. Comly, No. 28, August 6, 1878. Favored Nation clause. (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1878).
    • Mr. Blaine to Mr. Comly, No. 102, June 30, 1881. Construction of the treaty.
    • (See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1881).
    • Supplementary Convention, December 6, 1884.
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Blaine, No. 46, February 8, 1892, revision.
    • See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1881, 1887.
  • Restoration of the islands in 1843—
    • Commercial Agent Hooper’s No. 28, August 15, 1843.
    • Mr. Brown to Mr. Webster, No. 5, October 26, 1843.
    • Mr. Brown to Mr. Webster, No. 6, November 4, 1843.
  • Revolution, organized party for—
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Blaine, No. 48, March 8, 1892.
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, No. 65, September 14, 1892.
  • Political situation—
    • Capt. Wiltse to the Secretary of the Navy, October 20, 1892.
    • Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, No. 72, October 31, 1892.
    • Capt. Wiltse to the Secretary of the Navy, November 1, 1892.
    • Capt. Wiltse to the Secretary of the Navy, November 9, 1892.
  • Seizure of the islands by the British in 1843—
    • Commercial Agent Wm, Hooper’s No. 22, March 7, 1843.
    • Commercial Agent Wm. Hooper’s No. 23, March 11, 1843.
    • Commercial Agent Wm. Hooper’s No. 28, August 15, 1843.
    • Message of the President of March 3, 1854.
  • Seizure of islands by the French in 1849—
    • Mr. Ten Eyck to Mr. Buchanan, No. 55, September 3, 1849
    • Mr. Turrill to Mr. Clayton, No. 30, September 4, 1849.
    • Messrs. Judd and Jarves to Mr. Clayton, May 30, 1850.
    • Mr. Clayton to Messrs. Judd and Jarves, June 3, 1850.
    • Mr. Clayton to Mr. Rives, No. 15, July 5, 1850.
    • Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster, No. 49, September 12, 1850.
    • Mr. Severance to Mr. Webster, No. 6, March 11, 1851.
    • Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance, No. 4, July 14, 1851.
    • Mr. Webster to Mr. Rives, No. 28, June 19, 1851.
    • Joint Resolution of the nobles and representatives of June 21, 1851.
    • Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster, No. 95, July 8, 1851.
    • Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance, No. 4, July 14, 1851.
    • Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster, No. 97, July 22, 1851.
    • Mr. Rives to Mr. Seward, No. 109, October 30, 1851.
  • Treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States and the Sandwich Islands, signed at Honolulu, December 23, 1826.
  • Treaty between Great Britain and Hawaii of November 16, 1836, signed at Honolulu.
  • Treaty between France and Hawaii, signed at Honolulu July 12, 1839.
  • Treaty between France and Hawaii, signed at Honolulu July 17, 1839.
  • Treaty of peace, amity, and commerce between France and Hawaii, signed at Honolulu March, 26, 1846.
  • Treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States and Hawaiian Islands, concluded at Washington, December 20, 1849.
  • Treaty of reciprocity, unperfected, 1855. (Bureau of Rolls and Library, Department of State.
  • Treaty, unperfected treaty of reciprocity, 1867. (Bureau of Rolls and Library, Department of State.)
  • Treaty between United States and the Hawaiian Islands, Commercial Reciprocity, January 30, 1875.
  • Treaty: Protocol of Conference, September 9, 1876. Ratification of Commercial Reciprocity.
  • Treaty, Hawaiian Islands. Supplementary Convention, December 6, 1884. Reciprocity and Pearl River Harbor Cession.
  • Treaty, Parcels Post Convention between the United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom, December 19, 1888.
  • Visit of King Kalakaua:
  • Mr. Pierce to Mr. Fish, No. 291, October 12, 1874.
  • Wiley case:
  • Proceedings on appeal from judgment of the inferior court. Mr. Calhoun to Mr. Brown, No. 4, January 20, 1845.

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[3] Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation, between The United States and the Sandwich Islands, signed at Honolulu, December 23, 1826.


[5] The Secretary of State to the agents of the Sandwich Islands.


[6] No. 22.


[7] No. 23.


[8] Mr. Calhoun to Mr. Brown.


[10] Mr. Ten Eyck to Mr. Buchanan.


[11] Mr. Ten Eyck to Commodore Jones.


[13] Mr. Clayton to Mr. Judd and Mr. Jarves.


[14] Mr. Clayton to Mr. Rives.


[15] Mr. W. C. Elves to Mr. Webster.


[16] Mr. Severance to Mr. Webster.


[17] Mr. Webster to Mr. Rives.


[18] Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster.


[19] Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance.


[20] Mr. Webster to Mr. Severance.


[21] Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster.


[22] Mr. Rives to Mr. Webster.


[23] Mr. Marcy to Mr. Mason.


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