The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-14
SOME NEWS FROM HAWAII.
1t Is Important, but There Is
Nothing Given Out.
TnURsToN RATHER UNDECIDED.
But the Provisional Government Will
Probably Stand Upon the Recog-
nition Already Accorded 1t.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 13.-The State De-
partment to-day received a communica-
ion from Honolulu telegraphed from San
Francisco and written in Navy Depart
ment cipher. Securing the substance of
the official communication Secretary Gres-
ham took a copy to Woodley for confer
ence with President Cleveland. Nothing
was given out as to the substance of the
dispatch.
The plan of the Hawaiian representa-
tives here is evidently to stand rigdly to
the rights acquired by the recognition of
their Government, and Congress will un-
doubtedly take up the Hawaiian matter
Immediately upon assembling in Decem-
Der. The fight, IL Is said, will be made
upon the administration policy on the
ground that it declared war without the
consent of Congress. If the present Gov
ernment should peacefully yield to the
persuasions of the American Minister then
the question involved would be whether
such peaceable proceeding could be re-
garded as an act of war. 1t is argued that
1t would be an act of aggression on the
sovereign power none the less, because
that power had peacefully yielded to a
threat of overwhelmingly superior force.
There Is shrewd surmise in Washing
ton that the restoration of Queen Liliuo-
kalani may not be followed by an entire
withdrawal of the influence of the United
States, but that with the work of the last
administration once undone protectorate
may be established over the monarchy.
One clear and certain result of the present
incident would seem to be that annexa-
;@oI
States by the Hawaiians again.
l.. A. Thurston, Minister from Hawaii
to the United States. returned to this city
tonight. He refused to be interviewed in
regard to the Hawaiian situation, and said
he could say nothing further than he had
said already to the Associated Press repre-
sentative in Chicago. When asked if be
knew anything of the contents of the
cipher dispatch which the State Depart
ment had received to-day from Honolulu
via San Francisco. the Minister replied
that he had no information on the subject.
He admitted that he had received advices
from the Hawaiian Government by the
steamer China. but said he had not as much
information as the press reports published
this afternoon.
Thurston was asked what course he pro-
posed to pursue in view of the situation in
which his Government had been placed by
the declaration OF the administrators
policy. and replied that he had not per-
fectet his plans as yet.
Representative Mcguire had an inter-
view in t0-night's Star that greatly sur
prises his friends. He has been supposed
to sympathiZe with the coast people in
their desire for Hawaiian annexation. or
at least to favor recognition of the Pro-
visional Government, but now he has a
half-column interview in which he is
quoted as saying that after carefully read
ing Gresham's letter to President Cleve-
land he fully agrees with the Secretary of
State, and that because the revolution was
brought about as asserted by Blount the
Queen should be restored to her throne.
Several days ago, when informed by THE
CALL correspondent that the administra-
tion would like to see the Queen again on the
throne and that Mr.. Gresham would write
a letter to that effect. Mr.. Mcguire ex-
pressed great surprise. He could hardly
believe that it was true and strongly dis
proved of this policy,