The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-01
MITCAKLL AND CULLOM,
Their Views On ths Hawaiian Questis
Given to the Public.

hI1CAxLL AND CULLOM.
fheir Views On the Hawaiian Questiss
Given to the Public.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-ln q brief in.
terview Senator Cullom expressed the
opinion that congress would take up the
Hawaiian question in a very vigorous
way. He said there would be an early
demand for all the reports bearing upon
the question.
II can hardly say" continued the sem
ator, what congress can do, as the
treaty has been withdrawn, but there Is
nothing to prevent q very general ex-
preston Of opinion upon the part of con-
gress, and If in the meantime it should
develop that the queen has been restored
to her throne by the intervention Of the
United States, there is no telling what
might be done. The country will not
tolerate the kingly airs assumed by the
present administration. My opinion is
that its best course is to go into bank
ruptcy where, by its policy it has forced
80 many good men,"
Mitchell, of Oregon.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon arrived in
the city Tuesday, having come direct
from San Francisco. He was asked by
an Associated Press reporter to express
his opinion concerning the attitude Of
the people of the Pacific coast towards
the Hawaiian question.
81 have talked" he replied, with a
great many people in San Francisco and
at other points on the Pacific coast, and
can say that the general sentiment in
that part Of the country is very decisive
and emphatic in opposition of what tho
people there seem to understand to be
the policy of the administration
and their understanding when l left
there was that this policy looked to an
overthrow OF the existing government
and the re-establishment of the queen"
As to Impeachment Talk.
Being asked whether the sentiment in
favor OF impeachment Of the president,
as expressed by some Of the San Fran
cisco papers, was shared by the people of
the coast generally, Mr.. Mitchell re-
piled:
1T is true some Of the papers have
made this suggestion, but that is q mat
ter l am not at liberty to refer to-, as in
cases Of impeachment the senate is the
jury, and it would be manifestly out of
place for a member Of that body to dis
u s the question"
The senator did not, however, hesitate
saying that he believed that the senti-
lnent OF the Pacific coast was that the
present government of the Sandwich
ought to be let alone by the
United States.
A Recognized Government.
ut IL" said he, 'to say the least, q
government in fact, which has been rec
ognized, not alone by our government,
but nearly every civilized government
Of the earth, certainly by every govern
ment having a representative in Hawaii.
MIR. Willis has been accredited to this
government by the president. II, then,
are correct in the impression which
are justified in entertaining, Mr..
Willis is instructed to use the influence
of this government, either diplomatic
ally through peaceful instrumentalites
Alone, or by means Of a naval demon.
'tration ON the part of the United States
% overthrow the government to which
is accredited. If, I say, this view of
he case is correct, it presents an anom-
aly in diplomacy. 1t presents, l think l
am safe i'll saying, a case heretofore un-
in the annals of international
courtesy.
Might BE Better Employed.
There would be as much consistency
n instructions to our minister to France
o investigate the means by which the
PRESENT form of government in that coun-
ny was inaugurated or the present ad-
ninistration installed, and to attempt to
it and restore the Bourbons
n Bonapartists to power as there is in
'ur effort to rethrone Queen Liliuoko.