other governments with embassies in Hawaii, but was opposed by the administration of Grover Cleveland for years as he attempted to restore the monarchy, beginning with the Blount Report. President Grover Cleveland, in a message to Congress on December 18, 1893, denounced the actions of Minister Stevens, the Honolulu Rifles and the Committee of Safety as an "act of war, committed with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United States and without authority of Congress." Liliuokalani's trial In 1895, an abortive attempt by Hawaiian royalists to restore Queen Liliuokalani to power resulted in the queen's arrest. She was forced to sign a document of abdication that relinquished all her future claims to the throne. Following this, she was subject to a public trial before a military tribunal in her former throne room. Convicted of having knowledge of a royalist plot, Liliuokalani was fined $5000 and sentenced to five years in prison and hard labor. The sentence was commuted to imprisonment in an upstairs bedroom of Iolani Palace. During her imprisonment, the queen was denied any visitors other than one lady in waiting. She began each day with her daily devotions followed by reading, quilting, crochet-work, or music composition. After her release from Iolani Palace, the queen remained under house arrest for five months at her private home, Washington Place. For another eight months she was forbidden to leave Oahu before all restrictions were lifted. References Potter, Norris W. and Kasdon, Lawrence M. Hawaii, our Island State. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc., 1964. External links A copy of the proposed Constitution. Includes a description of changes from the 1887 constitution Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom Constitution 1893 in Hawaii Hawaiian Kingdom