The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-14

A CIPHER DISPATCH.
Gresham Gets News from Hawaii and
Rurries to the President.

UEesnam GctS NekSB from HaW0t1 ana
Hurries to the President.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-The State De-
partment to-day received a communication
from Honolulu, telegraphed from San Fran
cisco. 1t arrived by the steamer China
early this morning 1t is written in the
Navy Department cipher. Experts were
set to work upon the dispatch in the after
noon and labored over it for several hours.
After securing the substance of this official
communication, Secretary Gresham took
copy OF it out to Woodley for a conference
over the matter with President Cleveland.
partment during the afternoon as to the
substance of the dispatch.
f. p. Hastings, secretary OF the Hawaiian
legation was shown the dispatch from San
Francisco containing the news of Minister
Willis's arrival in Honolulu and his ap-
pointment to present his credentials to
President Dole. This news was obviously
great relief to the minds Of the members of
the legation. They declined to talk about
the matter as usual, but the satisfaction ex-
pressed at the presentation by Minister
Willis of his credentials to President Dole
suggested that they might have feared
that the minister would be found to have
been accredited to the Queen. The plan of
the Hawaiian representatives evidently is
to stand rig1dly on the rights they have
CURED by the recognition of their govern
ment Minister Thurston touched the mar
row of their hopes when he said yesterday
in Chicago that any attempt to overturn the
present government by a foreign power
would be an act OF An act of war
requires the consent or declaration of
Congress. Congress will undoubtedly take
up the subject of Hawaii in some way i'm
mediately upon reaSSembling in December
The fight, 1t is said, will be made on the ad-
declared war without the consent of Con-
gress and has therein done an unlawful
act What effect 1t would have on this
proposed policy if the present government
should peacefully yield to the persuasions of
the American minister is also discussed
The question involved is whether SO peace
full q proceeding could be regarded as an
act Of war. 1t is argued that it would be
act of aggression a sovereign power
none the less because the power peacefully
ylelded TO the threat OF SO Overwhelmingly
superior a force.
1t still remains an unanswerable problem
to those Of diplomatic experience how the
American minister accredited to the Ha-
waian government can Immediately, UPON
presenting his credentials. set about to de-
stroy that government. This gives rise to
many surmises, such as that the real policy
to be pursued by the State Department has
not hitherto been announced at all, but
that Secretary Gresham's report TO the
President was simply designed to give op-
portunity to read the public sentiment on
the subject. 1t is not at all probable that
this Is true, but 1t shows that the policy
of the Gresham report is considered so en-
tirey extraordinary that incredulity and
speculation cluster about ii. There is q
shrewd surmise in Washington that the
restoration of Queen Liliuokalani to the
throne may not be followed by the entire
withdrawal of the influence of the United
States, but that with the work of the last
administration once undone a protectorate
may be established over the monarchy One
clear and certain result of the present in
cident would seem to be that annexation
will never be proffered to the United States
by the HawaiianS again. If there is ever
to be annexation the movement will origi-
nate in this country.