Arizona republican., 1893-11-30
Stevens Description of CommissionerBlount.
A Man Who Has Never
 Been From Home.
He Fellan Easy Prey to the Pur-
 poses of the British.
Ills Report Characterised as a Tis- sue of Lies, Shameless and
 Evident.

By the Associated Press.
 AUGUSTA, Me-, Nov. -Ex-Minister Stevens in answer to Commissioner Blount says: A deep sense of my obli- gation to my country as minister and my duty to resent an insult to strug- gling American colony planted as right eously and firmly on the North Pacific Isles as our pilgrim fathers established themselves on Plymouth Rock demand that shall make answer to the as- founding misrepresentations and un- truths of commissioner Blount's report on Hawaiian affairs.
 Not wishing to be severe on neo- phyte in diplomacy, with little knowl- edge of the worlds affairs outside of his own country, sent on 8 very peculiar errand and currents amid quicksands entirely unknown to him, say he has been partly the victim of circumstances having been caught in the meshes and snares adroitly prepared for him by cunning advisers of the fallen Liliuoka- lani and by the shrewd, sharp and long experienced British diplomatic agent whose aims and hopes Blount has served 80 we'll and without the least sus- picion that he was aiding ultra British interests even more than hs was help ing Hawaiian monarchists.
 It is clear enough from Blount's manner from sthe day of his arrival at Honolulu as we'll as by his letter to the department of state written shortly after that he designed at whatever cost to repudiate the views and acts oi the recently terminated administration, and that in order to do so he must impugn the action of Minister Stevens and the commander of the U. s. Steamer Boston. A total stranger, it was impossible for MT. Blount to know how uniting it was for him to take up his quarters, where he was certain to be surrounded by royalists where the supporters of the provisional gov ernment would be reluctant to go. He was offered residence near the archives of the legation which he could conveniently use and which 1 said wuld be pleased at once to place at his disposal. Brusquely he refused a courteous and honestly intended of fer and at once placed himself among the Royalists and ultra British surroundings.
 All insinuations and implications in Blount's report that I was averse to his access to the legation records is shameless perversion of facts. I took to him the printed dis patches of Minister Merrill to Secretary Bayard and printed records of the re- gently adjourned legislature containing the recorded votes for and against the lottery gang. If he had really come to Honolulu for any other purpose than to convict liar rison's administration and the senate l foreign affairs committee of nasty and 1 ill-advised action. His manner while allowing me to leave these important documents in his room showed ht cared not to receive them and the gen eral drift of his report indicates he die not even read them. Under date O April 2, he says he disapproved of tht request of the provisional government that the American forces be landed fol drill. I here affirm that the provision al government never made such re quest. The provisional government fol lowed the exact course followed unde the monarchy. Referring to Blount' assertion that he put an end to Hawaii an anxiety about Japanese encroach ments, Stevens recites in detai numerous interviews with the Japanes' minister prior to Blount's arrival ant says Blount's claim is pure assumption Says he: In Blount's report given t.
 the press, find the following: 'Tw' leading members of the committee Messrs. Thurston and Smith, grow1nl uneasy as to the safety of their person went to Minister Stevens to know if h
 would protect them in the event of thei arrest by the authorities to which h. gave his assent.
 It ia enough to say there is no sem
 blance of truth in the assertion o Blount made by him without his eve having hinted it to me or made any in quiry of me on the subject.
 Blount squarely asserts l promised t
 aid the commission of safety by force This is emphatically and categorical,