Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-15
DISPATCHES ARE MISSING.

DISPATCHES ARE MISSING. Secretary BIaine,s Reply 10 Minister Stevens, Letter Cannot be Found one Reason for the Delay in Trans- mitting the CorresPondence on the Hawaiian Matter to Congress.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-No Hawaiian news is now expected before Monday next,
 although something may come by the steamer Australis on Saturday. The white
 house and executive department are looked to to furnish the next batch of interesting information on the subject. Both houses of congress have called on the president to communicate to them the instructions given to Minister Willis and Commissioner
 Blount, and 1t Is unoficially announced
 that the formal reply is already in condi-
 ton for transmittsl. But the unofficial
 statement Is made that 1t was not deemed
 compatible with the public interests to give
 publicity to these official documents in time
 to have an unauthorized synopsis of their
 contents telegraphed to San FrancIsco in
 press dispatches, and so conveyed to Hon.
 olulu by the steamer Alameda, which, as originally intended, was to have sailed from that port for the Hawaiian Islsnds to-day, but which has been delayed till to morrow.
 There is another reason which has been
 assigned for the delay in transmitting the correspondence and which has attracted much attention. It Is asserted that certain official despatches, assumed to have been written by Secretary Blaine in response to 6 significant despatch from Minister Stew ems. dated March S,1s9s. are missing from the records. The letter of Mir. Stevens, the answer to which apparently never came, is quits important In the light of sub
 sequent events. 1t was not included in the published volumes of foreign relations for 1892 sent to congress. A noticeable fact, which will be made clear when the presidents message and other documents are made public, is that many important state papers relating to Hawaii are now for the first time disinterred from the secret archives of the division of rolls and indexes in the state department. This let ter of Mr. Stevens reads ss follows:
 UNITED STATES LEGATION,
 HONOLULU, March 8. 1892 {
 In view of possible contingencies in these islands ask for the instructions of the department on the following, viz
 If the government should be surprised and overturned by sn orderly and peace ful revolutionary movement, largely of native Hswatisns and 8 provisional gov ernmept organized and proclaimed would the United States minister and naval com msnder here be justified in responding sfirmstively to the call of the members of the removed government to re- store them to power or replace them in possession of the government n naval commander confine themselves ex- clusively to the preservation of American property, the protection of American citi- ssns and the prevention of ansrchyi Should 8 revolutionary attempt of the character indicated be made there are strong reasons to presume that 1t would begin with the l seizure of the polics station with its arms and ammunition, and this accomplished the royal palace and the government build ing, containing the cabinet offices and ar chives, would very soon be captured, the l latter building being situated about one third of a mile from the police station.
 In such contingencies would it be justi- | fable to use the United States forces here | to restore the government buildings to the l posses sion of the displaced officials. Ordi- | nsrily in like circumstances tue rule seems | to be to limit the landing and movement of | forces ia foreign waters exclusively to the | protection of the United States legation | and of the lives and property of American citizens. But ss the relations of the | United States to Hawaii are exceptional | and in former years the United States off cials here took somewhat exceptional &C., ton in circumstances of disorder, desire | to know how far the present minister and | naval commander may deviste from estab- lished rules and precedents in the contin- IL r. -AI r. IL 4 L.ck All dispatch.
 l have information which I deem reli- | able ths. there is an organized revolution sry party on the islands, composed largely | of native Hawsiians and 8 considerable | number of whites and half-whites, led | chiefly by individuals of the latter two | classes. This party is hostile to the queen and to her chief confidants, is especially | opposed to the coming to the throne of the | half English heir apparent now being edr- | cated in England, and means to gain its l object either by forcing the queen to select | her cabinet from its own members or else | to overthrow the monarchy end establish ! 8 republic with the ultimate view of an- | nexation to the United States of the whole | islands. |
 A portion of this party mean only the | former and the portion intend the latter. Failing to accomplish the former the most | or the party would eeeK the latter Rlterne tive. I have little doubt the revolutionary attempt would have been made ere this, but for the presence of the United States 1 ship of war. still incline to the opinion | that the revolutionary attempt will not be l made so long ss there Is @ United States l force in the harbor of Honolulu, but it would be rash to assert this positively. Therefore, deem it my official duty to ask for instructions in view of the possi- ble contingencies"
 It can be readily seen that categorical answer by Secretary Blaine to theee in- auiries as to what to do in case the revolu- ton foreshsdowed nine months in advance actually broke out, would be of absorbing interest. It is said no answer can be found on the files.
 Mir. F. P. Hastings, secretary of the le gstion of Hawaii, in this city. has tele gram from Minister Thurston based upon information received by the latter at San Francisco on the Oceanic saying:
 ''The friends of the provisional governor confident and sanguine They are deter mined to resist assault from whatever quarter 1t may come"
 The information sent from Honolulu on the Oceanic was 60 satisfactory that Mir. Hastings thinks that MT. Thurston will not find 1t necessary to % to Honoluln