The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-23
IN THE DARK.
r,,o Administrations Policy in Ro-
 gard to HaweM.
PERSONS FOR EXTREME RESERVE,
Way the oueon or Cat Would Jump ,,.,,rt, n So Minister willis Awaits Additional Instruo-
 ttons.

w,sTyGToN, Nov. 20-The state ,.,Ttment is less disposed now than
 "a ,sr to take to take the public into it's
 ,rFdrnce on the Hawaiian question. fin considering the news by the Aus troIia it should be understood that ,nrch that has been published during .be mast two weeks has been pure con iectnre and surmise. The part that is
 ;ndubitable fact is that those in the con s5encc of the administration have felt
 and expressed the utmost assurance
 that the Australia would bring the
 news that the eX-queen had already been
 restored to the throne, Assertions as to Minister Willis instructions have
 been almost wholly differences from
 this and from the expressions in Sec
 retarv Gresham's published lester. The information as to these instruc- lions sent by the Associated press ten days ago was received from what was believed to be a thoroughly trustworthy authority. This was that Minister Willis was to seek to induce the provi- sional government to give way to the
 restoration of the ex-queen, but was to employ no force, waiting for further instructions if he found it necessary. It is possible that Minister Willis has
 become convinced to his entire satis- faction without having laid the matter before President Dole, that the pro visional government cannot be dis placed without force, and so has deter mined to wait for further instructions. r seems certain, at all events, that President Dole had no suspicion when & tn Australia sailed that it was the Fl purpose of Minister Willis to restore N the eX-queen.
 It is not possible that Mir. Thurston, Hawaiian minister here, could have given him warning, for Secretary Greshams letter astounded and discon- carted him when it was published and left no opportunity for him to warn his \ government. It has been the chief fear of the friends of the provisional government that in it's ignorance of public sentiment here and the first shock of the threatened action of the United States. it would yield its author itv,
 It is true, however, that for some time past the provisional government has abandoned all hope of favorable action by the present administration towards annexation and has been con B Sidering me ans to put itself on per manent footing.
 It may be the public and the press 4 have come to the wrong conclusion as & to the extent of Mir. Willis instruc-
 tons. They have supposed that Secre-
 &8Ez Gresham's letter declaring what he Thought ought to be done and presi- & dent Cleveland's declaration that he E agreed with the secretary's opinions meant that they had determined to proceed with what they declared ought N to be done. Some people believe the pub lcation must have been intended as an appeal to public opinion for infor- q nation as to the course to pursue. The
 choice seems to lie between this opin- ion and the one that Minister Willis
 has found it impractical to carry
 out his instructions to re- store the queen without using
 means he was not prepared to employ. By the regular steamers the trst news
 Of Secretary Gresham's letter would
 reach Honolulu by the steamer which Fl let Vancouver on Thursday, or on one :tat left San Francisco Friday. But
 Hast Sunday or Monday chartered
 steamer left San Francisco for Homo
 lulu, having on board newspaper men
 and doubtless some communication k from Minister Thurston to his govern
 ment This steamer should reach Hon.
 olulu to-day. This would be after the
 next steamer to arrive at San Francisco
 had left Honolulu on Thursday of last R week
 WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
 # SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 20 0-Referring
 to the telegrams from Tacoma, signed
 James Cooper Wheeler, offering to
 raise soldiers to go to Hawaii, Hawaiian k Consul Charles T. Wilder said:
 M "l do net know Mir. Wheeler, and his
 telegram has not reached me. Any < body could send me such a dispatch,
 but l would have no authority to con
 Slider it, even if l were so disposed" N Yesterdays Call says: If United
 States Minister Willis insists on the re-
 instatement of Queen Liliuokalani, the ( deposed queen of Hawaii, that woman VI will be deported from the islands and
 the chances are that the exequatur of \ President Cleveland's envoy will be
 cancelled and he will be returned to
 this country as persona non grata.
 This IS rather astonishing news, but it
 IS fact and is what the provisional X government of the islands has decided