Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-09
In Administrative Circles in Regard
to Hawaiian News.
NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION
According to the Latest Advices
Received Today.
MINISTER THURSTON'S TRIP.

At no time since the country was in
formed that Queen Liliuokalani was de-
throned, and that the new provisional gov
ernment wanted to have Hawaii annexed to
the United States, has interest in the Ha-
waiian situation been SO keen in admins
tration circles as 1t is today. The expected
arrival of vessels bringing news of what
happened when the policy Of the President
and Secretary Gresham was made known to
the people of Honolulu placed officials OF
the various executive departments on the
qui vivs.
From the manner and bearing of State
Department officials it would appear that
they had merely languid interest In the
outcome of the whole affair. Naval officers
made no attempt to conceal their great de-
sire for Information. They made frequent
inquiry of the newspaper men as to the
latest news and commented and prophesled
concerning the outcome
This intense anxiety, for ii can be right
ly called such, applied to all persons in the
State War and Navy Department whether
they concealed 1t or not and it was fostered
and fed by the stray scraps Of news brought
to San Francisco, Port Townsend, Auckland
and elsewhere by vessels that mad sailed
from Honolulu prior and subsequent to the
date for the arrival Of the mail steamer car
rying copies of the letter of Secretary
Gresham to President Cleveland advocating
the restoration OF the eX-Queen. There
never was time since the war, perhaps,
when government officials were in such a
state of excited curiosity over an expected
sensation.
Important News Expected Monday.
Monday next is the day when the import
ant details are expected to arrive. The
regular mail steamer from Honolulu is due
in San Francisco on that day. According
to the Auckland dispatch the steamer Mono
wal, bringing the Gresham letter disclosing
the policy of the administration, arrived
in Honolulu November %, while the mail
steamer due in San Francisco Monday sail
ed thence December 4, leaving IL days to
be covered in the press dispatches. Ii those
eleven days did not develop something i'm
portant enough to have a prominent place
in the history of Hawaii officials of the gov
ernment will be very much surprised and
not a few Of them very much disappointed
Minister ThurstOn's Mission.
1t seems to be pretty definitely settled
that Minister Thurston is on his way to San
Francisco with the intention of sailing
thence for Honolulu. He left Washington
Thursday and will have ample time to
catch the mail steamer Alameda, which
leaves next Thursday. He is not making a
race against the Corwin, for the reason that
that vessel carried his dispatches as well
as those of Secretary Gresham.
There is a belief here that the minister
Will not return in any event for several
months. Should the queen. in the end, be
restored to power. II is quite certain that he
will not be her accredited minister to the
United States.
The arrival of the minister at Honolulu
may have an important bearing on the fu-
ture relation between Minister Willis and
the provisional government. The minister
goes back with full knowledge of the con-
templated action of the administration, and
will be able to present to the provisional
government information probably not DOS
scssed by President Dole and his cabinet.
Resistance to Lilfuokalanfs Restora-
tiOn.
Knowing the unwillingness of Congress to
sanction any resort to armed force for the
restoration of the queen, Mr. Thurston can
confidently press upon the Hawaiian gov
ernment a policy of resistance, which will
make the return of Liliuokalani to the
throne impossible except through actual
bloodshed. And the adoption of such a
policy by President Dole can result only in
the utter failure OF the administration S
present pupose of restoration by pacific
means. or the embodiment of Mr. Cleye-
land with Congress because Of an unauthor-
lied and extra-constitutional employment of
military force.