The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-14
THE HAWAIIAN MATTER.
What Is shown Between the Lines of the President's Message.

President's Message.
 Of the more than fifteen thousand words of President Cleveland's message to congress there are few which should be rescued from the comparative oblivion of verbose document and brought more directly to public alter. ton.
 There is so much that is suggestive more, perhaps, in manner than in mat ter--in what Mir. Cleveland has to say about the Hawaiian situation that 1t may well be reprinted in full:
 'It is hardly necessary for me to statc tha, the questions arising from our relations with Hawaii have caused serious embarrassment. Just prior to the installation of the present ad. ministratson the existing government of Hawaii had been suddenly overthrown. and a treaty of annexation had been negotiated between the provisional government of the islands and the United States and submitted 10 the senate for ratification This treaty withdrew for exam. ina ation, and dispatched Hon, James H. Blount, of Georgia, to Honolulu as n special commissioner to make an impartial investigation of the cir cumstunces attending the change of govern. mcnt, and ot all the conditions bearing upon the subject of the treaty After thorough and OK, haustivc examination Mir. Blount submitted to
 
 that the constitutional government Of Hawaii had been subverted with tho active aid of our representative to that government, and through the Intimidation caused by the presence Of an armed naval force of tho United States which was landed for that purpose Ut the instance of our minister Upon the facts developed 1t seemed to mo the only honorable course for our government to pursue was to undo the wrong that had been done by those repre- senting us and restore as far as practicable the status existing at the time of our forcible intervention With a view of accomplishing this result within tho constitutional limits of executive power and recognizing all our obli- gations and responsibility growing out of uny changed conditions brought by our unjusth- able Interference our present minister aI Hon oluls bas received appropriate instructions to that end Thus far no information of the ac. complishment of any definite results has been received from him Additional advices are soon expected When received they will be promptly ssnt to the congress, together with all other Information at hand. accompanied by a special executive message fully detailing all the facts necessary to complete underestimate ing of the case and presenting history of all the material events leading up to tho present situation"
 It Is not necessary to read very closely between the liRes to discover that if Mir. Cleveland ever made the determination to replace the negro queen upon the throne he has aban- doned it. ''So far as practicable" Min ister Willis is to endeavor ''to restore the status existing at the time of our forcible intervention" but action is only to be taken within the coastitu- tional limits of executive power" Here is loophole wide enough for a fat man to waddle through, spacious enough to permit the bungling act of the reported scheme of the Cleveland Willis triumvirate for the reinstatement ot the dethroned queen. For it is evident that her elevation to the throne can only now be accomplished with the aid of the armed forces of the United States, and the "constitutional limits of executive power" can by no device be stretched far enough to cover the employment of the arm.y or navy of the United States In the service of an alien monarch. The president is to be con- graduated upon the astuteness with which he has laid out his lines of re- treat from an unpopular and unten- able position Chicago Times (Dem.)