The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-08
TO GET THE PAPERS
Clerks Busy Copying the Documents
on Hawaii.

The President Gives Instructions to
Comply With the Senate's ResoIu-
tion-Over Twelve Years of Time to
Be Covered by the Papers The Pa
pers Will Make Very Long Docu-
ment-The M ain Interest Centers in
the Instructions to Willis.
Washington, Dec. From the fact
that the department clerks have been set
to work making copies of the all Hawai-
ian documents not already in type, it is
inferred that the President has given
instructions to comply with the Hoar reso-
luton adopted by the Senate yesterday.
Indeed, an authoritative statement to
that effect is made. An immense amount
of work is entailed in complying with the
request. Many of the documents are in
possession of the navy depart
ment, and these, too, will be sent
in 1t is understood that everything bear
ing on the subject of the relations be-
tween the United States and Hawaii
since the provisional government was es-
blished, including the instructions to
Minister Willis, will be furnished to the
Senate. Prominent officials say very
strong showing will be made by the ad-
ditiOnal papers to be made public.
TO COVER OVER - YEARS
The correspondence will cover twelve
years, and the result win probably be one
of the bulkiest executive documents ON
record. The reports, correspondence and
afdayits incidental to Commissioner
BlOunts special report, as printed for
semi-private circulation on the long folio
sheets affected by the state department,
cover 522 pages, manyof them very closely
printed. As re-arranged and reprinted
in the shape i'll which documents
are usually sent to congress,
the number of pages will be doubled
then. as intimated by ex-President Har-
rison, in aninteryiew soon after Secretary
Gresham's letter to President Cleveland,
of the date of Oct Is last, was smade
public, there is much correspondence on
Hawaiian matters, which took place be-
fore the close of the Harrison administra-
tIon which has not yet seen the light of
day, and which the eX-President, in that
interview, said he earnestly desired
should now be made public. And
to these important documents all
the others that have gone before, since
1881, which, of course. will include the
facts in relation to the two previous revo-
lutions referred to by Minister Thurston
IN his answer to Commissioner Blount,
and it will be seen that the reply to Sena-
tor Hoar's resolution must necessarily be
somewhat stupendous in bulk.
THE MAIN POINT AT STAKE.
But, after all the main interest will
center around this point Will the Presi-
dent deem it compatible with the public
interests to include in his response al
this time the instructions originally given
TO Minister Willis, and any subsequent
correspondence that may have lead to the
modification of those instructions, if such
has been the course taken?
At the executive session of the Senate
this evening all the nominations were APP
propriately referred to committees. An
informal discussion was precipitated by a
reference to the recent premature publ
cation of Commissioner Blounts report
and as to the responsibility Of senators in
such matters, the assertion having been
made that the document got into the
paners through that channel IL was
agreed that the documents sent to sena-
tors as individuals, although marked con
fdential, were not among the archives,
and senators were not amenable to the
rules of the Senate, however derehct
they have been in the matter