Blount, James Henderson, 1837-1903 Associated Name United States. Congress. House Author text text dcu monographic Washington, D.C U.S. Government Printing Office 1895 eng

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1 online resource. Affairs in Hawaii, also known as the Blount Report, is a collection of documents relating to the history of Hawaii, focusing on events leading up to the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarch. The United States recognized Hawaii as an independent kingdom in 1842. In 1845, Hawaii changed its traditional system of land tenure in a way that permitted non-Hawaiians to buy property. By the 1890s foreigners owned 90 percent of the land. In January 1893, after Queen Liliuokalani (1838--1917) proposed a constitution reinstating power stripped from the monarchy by the "Bayonet Constitution" of 1887, U.S. and European residents moved against the queen and planned to have the islands annexed by the United States. Aided by a detachment of U.S. Marines, the so-called "Committee of Safety" led the overthrow of the monarchy. The conspirators hoped to finalize the annexation during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, before a new president took office, but they were thwarted by the Senate's delay in ratifying the annexation. Upon taking office on March 4, President Grover Cleveland, who was skeptical about acquiring Hawaii, commissioned James H. Blount (1837--1903) to investigate the overthrow of the monarchy. Blount's report, issued in July 1893, concluded that U.S. military and diplomatic personnel had overstepped their authority. The queen was not reinstated, but the annexation did not proceed. The report includes more than 1,000 pages of documents covering events in Hawaii and in U.S.--Hawaii relations going back to the 1840s, with particular emphasis on 1893-95. Hawaii later became a territory of the United States, under a resolution passed by both houses of Congress and signed by President William McKinley on July 7, 1898. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. "Includes: 52nd Congress, 2nd session, Senate, executive document number 45, 76, 77. 53rd Congress, 2nd session, House, executive document number 47, 48, 70, 76, 79, 95, 112, 256. 53rd Congress, 2nd session, Senate, executive document number 13, 46, 57, 65, 77, 85, 92, 103, 117, 156. 53rd Congress, 3rd session, House, executive document number 282. 53rd Congress, 3rd session, Senate, executive document number 31, 60."--Note extracted from World Digital Library. Original resource extent: xviii, 1437 pages. Original resource at: University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. Content in English. Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions. 1840 to 1895 Dole, Sanford B. (Sanford Ballard), 1844-1926 Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917 Treaties United States of America Hawaii 327 973 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.7767 2021666777 DLC 210507 20250607105718.1 22055817 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng