The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-12

Secretary Blaine, in a dispatch to United
States Minister Comfy, defined the policy
OF the government toward Hawaii. He was
also chairman of the House committee on
foreign affairs to the Fifty-first Congress,
and has occupied diplomatic positions
abroad. He is member of the foreign
affairs committee of the present House of
Representatives. He takes a deep interest
in the subject, and in reference to it to-
day said: 'I believe that the policy of
interference by our government in behalf
of a. monarchy, and a discredited one at
that-one that went down in violent effort
of the Queen to overthrow the Hawaiian
Constitutions contrary to every tradition
and impulse of the American people. AS
to the question of veracity between this ad-
ministration on one side and Minister
Stevens. Captain Wiltse. now dead. and
the five commissioners on the other side,
all of whom were eye-witnesses, we ought
to have very full testimony before holding
them guilty of false statements and a con-
spiracy to be carried out by force and
fraud. AS yet we have no testimony what
ever against them. Mr. Stevens bore a
high character as a discreet and able rep
resentative of this government
NO SECRET CONSPIRACY,
''As fact, he was in another island and
did not reach Honolulu until about noon
of Saturday, the day of the Queens vio-
lent demonstration and the exciting scenes
between her and her Cabinet and the dis
orderly crowd around her palace The
meeting on Monday, Jan. 16. of alarmed
citizens, is said to have been the most i'm
portant in number and character ever held
-.
business of all kinds. and the diplomatic
correspondence states that there were
many applications from Americans to the
minister to have marines landed to protect
American interests ard preserve order
This does not look like a secretly-contrived
conspiracy by the American minister and
American commander to overthrow a
frerA1ly government by suddenly landing
armed forces. The reports of that meeting
in the Honolulu newspapers indicate that
the Queens government fell because of
the almost universal detestation and dread
in which it was held.
"The American people would have but one
opinion if they learn from the next steamer
landing at San Francisco that this cast off
monarchy has been set up again by our
armed forces, perhaps amid bloodshed, and
that the provisional government, whose
chief offense seems to be that they are
friendly to the United States and American
interests, destroyed. For forty years the
Instructions from our State Department by
Webster, Marcy, Evarts, Blaine, Freling-
huysen and Bayard, have held one tone.
Our ministers have been instructed to en-
courage sentiments favorable to the United
States and its interests and to bear in mind
tI.o%
whelming superiority of the interests of the
people of the United States in those islands,
IS compared with the interests of other ma
tions and the manifest and ultimate destiny
Of that government with all its questions to
meet in the end, AN American solution-an-
nexation."
Representative Oates said that the Ques-
ton presented in the report of the Secre-
tary OF State on the Hawaiian matter was
one of law as we'll as of fact Certainly
this government would not be justified in
taking any steps towards the restoration of
the Queen IL we were not directly response
i5.e fcp her overthrow. He said that he was
opposed to annexation, but that the proro-
stion to restore the Queen presents a diff
ferent question, and he was not prepared to
discuss it beyond this point before he had
Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia, said
he had only glanced at Secretary Gresh-
ans letter, but inferring that the main
idea of Secretary Greshams statement was
the restoration Of the monarchy in Hawaii,
ne could not understand how that could be
brought about by the United States under
existing conditions. 1.-The provisional gov
ernment is in full power there. and has
control Of everything in the islands," he
said. "The United States might do one of
three things it might keep its hands off
of Hawaii proceed to annex it, or declare a
restore the monarchy is beyond my COM
prehension.'
Judge Turner, of Georgia, who is one of
the best lawyers in the House, said that he
was early opposed to the annexation of
Hawaii and was inclined to agree generally
with what the Secretary of State said in
connection with Hawaiian affairs.
Representative Cobb, of Missouri. said
that he was opposed to annexation, but
that he did not think we ought to interfere
to restore the Queen.
Representative Boatner, of Louisiana,
said that he did not think that this govern
ment had any right to interfere in the for
mer government of Hawaii and if it ap-
peared to be the case that the Queen was
deposed with the assistance Of this govern
ment we should do everything in our power
70 correct the wrong.
Senator PETER said: "All 1 care about
Hawaii is that it may be used for coal.
ing station by this government"
Ex-Minister Steyens's Views.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Nov. u-Ex-Mnister