The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-12-19
HAWAIIAN MESSAGE
Open Avowal of the Intention
to Restore the Monarchy.
A VIGOROUS DEFENSE is MADE
Cleveland Admits Material Change
Has Occurred in the Aspect
of Affairs.
A vleoRous DEFENSE is MADE
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
washington, Dec. 1S.-Presldenl Cleve'
land today sent his Hawaiian message
to congress- The president says.
"Though I am not able now to re-
port a definite change in the actual
situation. 1 am convinced the difficult
ties lately credited both here and in
Hawaii render it proper and eXpedieni
that the matter should be referred to
the broader authority and discretion OF
congress, with a full explanation of
the considerations which have governed
my action. l suppose right and JUS
tioe should determine the path to be
followed in treating the subject ii
national honesty is to he disregarded
and the desire for territorial extension
or dissatisfaction with a form of gov
crnment not our own is to regulate
our conduct, I have entirely misappre-
hended the mission and character of
our governments and the behavior which
The conscience of our people demands
at the hands of their public servants.
when the present administration en-
tered upon it's duties, the senate had
lnder consideration a treaty providing
for the annexation of the Hawaiian Is
Iards Additional Importance is attach
ed to this peculiar treaty of anneHa-
ton because it contemplated depart
ure from an unbroken American tradi-
ton in providing for an addition To
our territory, of islands of the sea,
more than two thousand miles from
our nearest coast 1t appeared from
documents accompanying the treaty
when submitted to the senate, that the
ownership of Hawaii was rendered us
by the provisional government, which
had the sanction of neither popular
revolution or suffrage. Two other re-
markable features of the transaction
naturally attracted attention. One was
the extraordinary haste, not to say pre-
cipitancy 'characterizing all transac-
tions connected with the treaty. Be-
tween the initiation of the scheme for
a provisional government in Hawaii on
the 14th of January and the submission
to the senate of the treaty of anneXa-
ton, there was only an interval of
thirty-two days, fiftenn of which were
spent by the Hawaiian commissioners
in their journey to Washington. In the
next place, upon the face of the paper
submitted with the treaty, it clearly
appeared that there was an open and
undetermined question in the issue, a
fact of most vital Importance: The
of the president accompanying
the treaty declared that the overthrow
Of the monarchy was not in any way
promoted by this government
"a protest also accompanied said
treaty signed by the queen and her
which explicitly stated that
she yielded to the superior force of The
United States, whose minister had
caused the landing of the United States
troops at Honolulu, and declared he
would support such provisional gov
ernment. The truth or falsity of this
protest was surely of first Importance
l conceived it my duty, therefore, to
withdraw the treaty from the senate
for examination, and meanwhile TO
cause All dCcuIdlc, lull, anu lipdIllSl
to be made"
The president then refers to the ap-
pointment of Blount, and says his re
port detailing his actions under the in
structions given him, and the conclu-
sions derived from his investigations
accompany this message. The conclu-
sions do not rest for their acceptance
entirely upon Blount's honesty and in
tegrity as man, nor upon his acumen
and impartiality as an investigator.
They are accompanied by the evidence
upon which they are based. and from
which IT seems to me no other deduc-
tons could possibly be reached than
those arrived at by the commissioner
The report. with It's accompanying
proofs. and such other evidence as is