Connecticut western news., 1893-02-09
BLAINE'S PREDICTION
HAWAIIAN DEVELOPMENTS HAVE
 FOLLOWED.

Further Instructions Are Expected From
 the Provisional Government Upon the
 steamer Which Is Due In San Francisce
 From HonoIuIu Wednesday.
 WASHINGTON, Feb 6.--No moro complete and striking expression of the American view of the Hawaiian question can be found perhaps than is contained in the dispatch of Secretary Blaine Co Minister Comfy, dated Dec. 1, 1881, some extracts from which are here given:
 In 30 years the United States has acquired legitimately dominant influence in the North Pacific, which it can never consent to sec decreased by the Intrusion therein of any element of influence hostile to it's own. The situation of the Hawaiian islands, Riv- ing them the strategic control of the north Pacific, brings their possession within the range of questions of purely American policy
 We Started Ha wallis Growth.
 The treaty of 1875 gave to Hawaii it's first great impetus in trade and developed that activity of production which has at tracted the attention of European powers anxious to share in the prosperity and ad- vantages which the United States has created in midooean. From 1877, the first full year succeeding the conclusion of the reciprocity treaty, to 1880 the imports from Hawaii to the United States nearly doubled, increasing from e 550, ,3a5 in value to 4,606, A, and in this same period the exports from the United States to Hawaii rose from tl,2T2,e49 to S2020,17o. In a word, Hawaii Is, by the wise and bcneh. cent provisions of the treaty, brought within the circle of the domestic trade of the United States
 On the other hand, the interests of Hawaii must inevitably turn toward the United States in the future, aa in the present, aa it's natural and sole ally in conserving the dominion of both in the Pacific trade.
 ForetoId with Accuracy.
 The United States does its simple duty both to Hawaii and itself, and it cannot permit such obvious neglect of national in- terest as would be involved by silent ao- quiesoence in any movement looking to a lesseninR of those American ties and the substitution of alien and hostile interests
 It fEmly believes that the position of the Hawaiian islands, as the key to the domi- nation of the American Pacific, demands their neutrality, to which end 1t will car nestly cooperate with the native govern ment. And if through any cause the main 
 should be found by Hawaii to be imprao- ticable, this government would then un- hesitatingly meet the altered situation by seeking an avowedly American solution for the grave issues presented.
 The Annexation commissioners.
 The members of the Hawaiian annexA- ton commission spent a quiet Sunday, passing most of the time in their rooms at their hotel. The commissioners do not ex- pect to have any statement to make to the public regarding their errand until after the completion of their conferences with Secretary Foster. They will be busily en- gagged during tho intervals between theso meetings with the secretary in the prepara- ton of the argument that they will ad- vance in support of their application Tor the annexation of the islands by the United States. It is said that the conferences be. tween the secretary and the commissioners will not be anything more than formal until after the arrival of the next steamer from Hawaii, which is due at San Fran cisco on the sth inst, bringing further ad' vices as to the situation of affairs upon the islands The state department expects to receive by that steamer full reports from Minister Stevens of the events in connec- tion with the revolution and of what has occurred since.
 Until these communications have been received it K said that the commissioners will not be presented to President Harrison.
 Speaking of the probable course of events on the islands. Commissioner Carter said this afternoon that the provisional govern ment would not undertake any legislative action pending the negotiations with the United States upon the subject of annex ation, except that the advisory council, which stands in the stead of legislature. would probably repeal the lottery bill which the recent legislature passed the day before it was prorogued by the lately de- nosed uuepu