No. 50.
Interview with Clans Spreckels,
Friday April 21, 1893.
Mr. Blount. Please state whether or not you had any message from the American minister and whether any conversation with him?
Mr. Spreckels. I had.
Mr. Blount. Be kind enough to state it?
Mr. Spreckels. He sent down on Tuesday, about 3 o’clock whether I would be kind enough to come up to his house to see him. I took a carriage and saw him at 4 o’clock that Tuesday afternoon. He told me that Mr. Parker had no influence with the Queen, but that Paul Neumann could control her, and, if I would, if I could, control Paul Neumann; that Paul Neumann tell the Queen that she be in favor of annexation, and tell the Kanakas who follow her to go all for annexation.
He said that he expected to be here only thirty or forty days, and he would like for annexation to be before he left; some words to that effect.