The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-19

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The Presi-
dents message upon the Ha vaiian com.
plication was sent TO Congress to day.
1t is document Of about 5000 words
and the instructions TO Minister Willis,
which were sent to the Senate, but not
to the House, make an additional $500
words. Following is a synopsis OF the
Presidents message:
In his opening paragraphs the Presi-
dent says: Though l am not able now
to report definite change in the actual
situation, am convinced that the diff.
culties lately created, both here and in
Hawaii and now Standing in the way of
solution through executive action OF
the problem presented render it proper
and expedient that tho matter should
be referred to the broader authority and
discretion of Congress with a full ex-
PLANTATION of the endeavor thus far made
to deal with the emergency and a state.
mentof the considerations which have
governed my actions.
II suppose that RICH. and justice
should determine the path to be followed
in treating this subject. If national
honesty is to ba disregarded and desire
for territorial extension, or dissatisfac
tlon with form OF government not our
own, ought to regulate our conduct, l
have entirely misap preh ended the mis-
sion and character of our government
and the behavior which the conscience
OF our people demands OF their public
servants
The History of the Situation.
Mr.. Cleveland then gives history of
the situation as he found it upon taking
| office, tho then pending treaty Of annex
alton, its withdrawal by himself, and
the sending of Mr.. Blount to investigate
the facts attending the negotiation of the
treaty and overthrow OF tho queens
| government. Blount's report accom-
panies the message. 1t has been pub
lished already. OF this report Mr..
| Cleveland says:
'Tho report, with its accompanying
proofs and such other evidence as is
now before tho Congress or is here
with submitted, justifes in my opinion
the statement that when the President
was led to submit the treaty to the Sen
ate with the declaration that the over
| throw of the monarchy was not in any
way promoted by this Government, and
when the Senate was induced to receive
and discuss it on that basis, both the
President and Senate were mised -
Discussing the facts and evidence re
latiDg to the inception of the annexa-
ton movement in Hawaii, Mr.. Cleveland
obs erves:
Zealously Promoted by Stevens
That the project was ono which was
zealously promoted by the minister rep
resenting the United States in that
country. He evidently had an ardent
desire that 1t should become fact &C
complished by his agency and during
his ministry, and was not inconveniently
scrupulous as to the means employed to
that end. On November 10, 1892, nearly
two months before the first overt act
tending towards the subverson OF the
Hawaiian government and the at
tempted transfer of Hawaiian territory
to tho United States, he addressed a
long letter to the Secretary of State, in
which the case for annexation was
deliberately argued on moral, political
and economical grounds.
''He refers to the loss to the Hawaiian
sugar interests from the operation of
the Mckinley bill and the tendency to
Still further depreciation of the sugar
property unless some positive measure
of relief is granted. lie strongly in
Weighs against the existing Hawaiian
government and emphatically declares
for annexation. He says: In truth the
monarchy more is an absurd anachrOn-
ism. 1t has nothing on which it logi-
cally or legitimately lands. The feudal
basis on which it once stood no longer
existing, the monarchy now is only an
impeachment to good government-an OBJ
struct ton to tho prosperity and progress
OF the islands,"
Significance of the Minister'S Acts.
Quoting further and literally from
Minister Stevens communication to
the State Department, Mr.. Cleveland
says: "These declarations certainly
show disposition and condition of
mind which may be usetully recalled
when interpreting the significance of
the minister's conceded acts or whom
considering the probabilities of such
conduct on his part as may not be ad
mitted."
In this view the President quotes from
a letter from Stevens dated March 8,
1892, in which Stevens asks for infor-
nation as to his powers and duties in
the event OF a revolution occurring in
Honolulu; and also one dated February
/, 1893, in which Stevens declares that: