Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-09
ABOUT SAMOA.

Information Relative to the Confer ence of Ss7 Is Laid Before Congress Bismarck Wishes to Resume the Conference at Berlin.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-The protocols (of official ministers) of the conferences on Sa- moan affairs, held in the city of Washington, D. C., in 1887, together with additional cor- respondence on the subject, were laid before Congress this afternoon. In his letter of transmittal President Cleveland says the governments of Germany and Great Britain have consented to their publication. Secre- tary Bayard in his letter to the President says: "The agreement to consider the discus sion of the conference of 1887 as confidential has alone caused the papers now sent to have been, up to this time, withheld from public action" The first enclosure is telegram from United States Minister Pendleton
 to Secretary Bayard, dated Berlin,
 February 1, 1889, in which he says
 that the statement made to Secretary
 Bayard, by Count Arco Valley (announcing
 that the German government had rebuked
 it's officers for the declaration of martial law
 against foreigners) had anticipated the state-
 ment he (Pendleton) had been instructed to
 make to the German government. The mem- orandum of instructions or Prince Bismarck to the German minister at Washington read
 by the latter to the Secretary of State Febru- ary 4, 1887, is to the effect that the present situation in Samoa regarding the interests of the three treaty powers renders 1t necessary to renew the attempt to bring the future of
 those island to understanding and to stop the horrors of a civil war with barbarous
 cruelty among the natives.
 Also that Prince Bismarck invites the
 T@sk CKnNaa prIfS ,fa fn
 resume the consultation regarding the Sa-
 moan question at Berlin.
 On February the Secretary of State sent
 8 communication to Count Arco-Valley stat
 ing that the President fully shares in the de. sire expressed by the chief chancellor to bring the blessings of peace and order to the re- mote and feeble community of semi-civiliZed people inhabiting the island of Samoa. The sooner this conference can be resumed the better.
 The protocol of the first conference, at- tended by Secretary Bayard, MT. von Alvens- leben and Sir Lionel West, contains the propositions of the three diplomats as to the form of government that should be provided for Samoa. The German representative set forth that | Malietoa having notoriously violated his treaty rights with Germany and having but
 a small minority of followers among the na- | tives, Tamasese having the support of . great majority, an election of new king \ must take place. Then, in order to secure peace and order in the island, foreign rep resentative, to be as advisor to the king and
 act as the mandatory of the three powers. At the sixth and last protocol held July 20 Mir. Bsyard read 8 long statement in re- gard to the plan for the establishment of peace and civilization in Samoa with the CO., | operative support of the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Germany. Commenting upon the plan submitted by the l German minister, he said ''It is substan- tially foreign autoorstic government based ! on mercantile interests, and all experience I has shown what must necessarily be the re- | suit from such an attempt, and that under ii
 the defeat of the objects we have all distinct | ly proposed is certain. I do not see why we should not recognize at the outset and en courage in Samoa spirit of self-government ! free domain. salf-respect.n