The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-08
MR.. SEWALL RESIGNS.
A Disagreement Of Views
Regarding Samoa.
HIS VIEWS ON J He SITUATION.
The Purposes OF Germany Their
HigA-handedness - BismHrnks
Policy Klein is to Blame

WASHINGTON, February T. This
morning, Harold M. Sewau, consul
general to the Samoan Islands, re-
eeived notification from the State De-
partn ent that his resignation would be
acceptable, on the ground that his
views were not in harmony with those
of the administration.
An Associated Press reporter called,
this afternoon, upon Sewall, and asked
for 8 statement OF the reasons given by
the State Department inits request that
he should tendec his resignation as
consul general at Samoa. Mr.. Sewau,
in reply, said: 1.-THE reason given
in the letter asking my resigna-
ton, is disagreement of my
expressed views with the views
entertained by the State Department IN
regard to Samoan affairs. This refers,
[ suppose, to the testimony l have
given before the Senate committee on
foreign relations, and which has not yet
been published. No disapproval OF my
conduct in Samoa, as consul-general,
has ever been expressed by the State
Department, so far as | know. Last
Thursday I was discharged by the com
nittee and the affairs in Samoa being
in q most critical condition, l lmme-
diateiv made arrangements to return
there. No intim alton was given that
should not be allowed to do so until
within few hours before my intended
departure, when l was notified to re-
main here.
THE PURPOSE WAS OBVIOUS.
Ny services were needed Immediately
if at all. Another steamer would not
sail until March, and it was evidently
the intention to detain me until after
the incoming of the next admiuisIra
ton, upon which, as is known, L have
not the slightest claim to political reeog.
milton. "No," continued SeWell, 81 did
not thereupon tender my resignation.
I had done nothing wrong. had too
much respect for Bayard to assume that
s had offended him by my testimony
before the committee. Besides was
under oath to tell all knew OF Samoan
affairs and to withhold nothing. The
views l expressed on the situation, and
the remedy necessary, were given st
therequest of the committee. 1t was
views agreed with Bayard's or not. l
do know. however, that my views co.
iucided with those of all Americans
who have given the matter any thought,
the State Department excepted, for
which cannot speak.
"What are those views, Mr.. Sewall Z"
81 believe" said Sewall, with deliber-
alton, THAT
THE DEPOSITION OF MALIEToA
was determined upon before the con-
ference of the three powers began, and
that it was Germany's intention to
carry out the policy it had decided
upon, regardless of that conference.
The purpose of Germany IS to secure
control of Samoa, in detiarce OF the
solemn and repeated assurances 1t has
given our government. Furthermore,
I believe that Lord Salisbury is party
to this schrme, and that the movement
against Samoa is only the prscursion
of an anglo-German attempt to secure
supremacy in the Hawaiian Islands. "
fWhat, in your opinion, will be the
effect of the dispatch of American ships
of war to protect
oUR INTERESTS IN SAMOAN"
az concur with Mr.. Bates, our late
commissioner to Samoa, in his pub
lished opinion, that Admiral Kimberly
can accomplish nothing under his in
structions from the State Department
Bayard expects Admiral Kimberly tc
succeed in doing by protest what N
has been trying. without success, to DC
for years." -,
"Does Bayard suppose the protes
will turn Germany from the course sh:
has been steadily pursuing I"
II believe with Secretary Whitney
that. a definite policy should be made
with Germany only. Their present In
structions are simply to subject theil
officers and militlamen, or as Secretary
whitney, using a polite term out OF re-
spect, suppose to Mr.. Bayard, terms
it, to the irritating conditions from
which their selt-respect makes them re-
volt. But Secretary Bayard cannot
punish Secretary Whitney nor Mr.
Bates. l am the weakest, and am
therefore,
SINGLED OUT FOR PRACTICE"
SeWall said that whatever his persona
a1inion of Bayard in Samoan matters