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DIPLOMATIC AND CONGRESSIONAL, HISTORY: FROM MONARCHY TO STATEHOOD 1/ Ethel M. Damon, Sanford Dole and His Hawaii (Palo Alto, Calif.: Published for Hawaiian Historical Society by Pacific Books, 1957), p. 141. 1/ Kathleen Dickenson Mellen, An Island Kingdom Passes (New York: Hasting House Publishers, 1958), pp. 8-10. 3/ Ibid., p. 14. 4_/ Paul Bailey, Kings and Queens of Old Hawaii (Los Angeles, Calif.: Westernlore Press, 1975), p. 267. 5/ Ibid. 6/ Mellen, p. 36. 2/ Damon, p. 141. 8/ Eugene Burns, The Last King of Paradise (New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952), p. 156. 9/ Ibid. 10/ Act of January 30, 1875, 19 S t a t . 625-^626. 11/ Charles C. T a n s i l l , The Foreign P o l i c y of Thomas F. Bayard (New York: Fordham U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s, 1940), p. 370. 12/ Ibid. 13/ Burns, p. 157. 14/ Edward J o e s t i n g , Hawaii: An Uncommon H i s t o r y (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc, 1972), p. 211. 15/ I b i d . , pp. 211-212. 16/ Bailey, p. 269. NOTES 17/ Congressman Daniel Akaka, in h i s comments on the Commission's Draft Report, q u e s t i o n s the i n t e r p r e t a t i on i n the Draft Report of e v e n t s during K a l a k a u a ' s r e i g n because of the emphas i s placed on the r o l e of Walter Gibson. He s t a t e s : "If Gibson was in f a c t so important a f i g u r e , why was h i s p a r t i c i p a t i o n in events ignored in f i r B t - h a n d accounts of the p e r i o d . . . ?" (Akaka'8 Comments, p. 5 ) . He adds: " I s e r i o u s l y q u e s t i o n t h i s i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of h i s t o r y and the emphasis p l a c e d on Gibson's i n f l u e n c e with the monarchy" (Akaka's comments, p. 5.) Walter Gibson's i n f l u e n c e on the monarchy ended with his d e p a r t u r e from Hawaii on J u l y 12, 1887. He died s h o r t l y a f t e r w a r d s in the United S t a t e s on January 24, 1888. (K. D. Mellen, An I s l a n d Kingdom P a s s e s , pp. 200 and 212, ( 1 9 5 8 ) ) . James H. Blount a r r i v e d in Hawaii for the f i r st time on April 6, 1893 (Dispatch No. 1, Spec. Comm.). His d u t i e s , upon a r r i v a l in Hawaii, were to c o n c e n t r a te on t a k i n g and compiling evidence and testimony on the 1893 downfall of the Hawaiian Monarchy and formation of the P r o v i s i o n a l Government, as well as the s t a t e of a f f a i r s in Hawaii at the time (E. M. Damon, Sanford Dole and His Hawaii, p. 258 (1957); Gresham to Blount, Correspondence No. 1, March 11, 1893 p r i n t e d in H. Ex. Doc. No. 47, 53rd Cong., 2nd S e s s . ( 1 8 9 3 ) ) . It i s s e l f - e x p l a n a t o r y t h a t Blount himself could not have been the author of any f i r s t - h a n d account of the Kalakaua/Gibson e r a . Indeed, the scope of B l o u n t ' s d u t i e s did not i n c l u d e any need to i n v e s t i g a t e t h is p e r i o d . Notwithstanding the foregoing, it can be p o i n t e d out t h a t the Blount d i s p a t c h e s did d i s c u s s Gibson's p a r t i c i p a t i o n in the events of the Kalakaua e r a . Not only did Blount 315