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CLEVELAND.
SPEAKS.
The Whole Hawaiian In
fanny Exposed to Pub
lie Exeeration.
BAsEST OF CONSPIRACIES.
Minister Stevens Long Prepar-
alton for the Great
coup.
Provisional Government Abso-
lutely Powerless But for
the U. S. Troops.
@oRAL FORCE OF
THE QUEENS POSITION.
National Honor and International
Morals Demand the Undoing
Of the Great Wrong.
ANDREW JACKS0N'S EXAMPLE.
Minister Willis Has Delayed Action
Because the Queen Would Not
Promise Amnesty.
National Honor and International
Morals Demand the Undoing
of the Great Wrong.
ANDREW JACKSON'S EXAMPLE.
Minister Willis Has Delayed Action
Because the Queen Would Not
Promise Amnesty.
Full Text One of Americas
Greatest State Papers.


WASHINGTON, Dec. is, 1S9S-The Presi-
dents response to the resolutions passed by
both houses of Congress requesting informa-
tion on Hawaiian affairs and especially as to
the nature of the instructions given to Minis
ter Willis was sent into Congress today. The
message of the President is as follows:-
To the Senate and House of Representa-
tires
In my recent annual message to the Con-
gress, l briefly referred to our relations with
Hawaii and expressed the intention of trans
mitting further information on the subject
when additional advices permitted
Though L am not now able to report
definite change in the actual situation / am
convinced that the difficulties lately created,
both here and in Hawaii and now standing in
the way of a solution through executive
action of the problem presented, render it
proper, and expedient, that the matter
should be referred to the broader authority
and discretion of Congress- with full ex-
PLANTATION of the endeavor thus far made to
deal with the emergency and settlement of
the considerations which have governed my
action.
suppose that..right and Justice should de-
termine the path to be followed in treating
this subject. If national honesty is to be
disregarded and a desire for territorial ex-
tension, or dissatisfaction with a form of
government not our own ought to regulate
our conduct, have entirely misapprehend-
ed the mission and character of our govern
ment and the behavior which the conscience
OF our people demands of their public SER
wants.
THE ANNEXATION TREATY
When the present Administration entered
nc 1,,fiae l.
sideration a treaty providing for the annexa-
tion of the Hawaiian Islands to the territory
OF the United States Surely under our
Constitution and laws the enlargement of
our limits is manifestation of the highest
attribute of sovereignty, and if en-
tered upon as an executive act,
all things relating to the transac-
ton should be clear and free from sus-
picion. Additional Importance attached to
this particular treaty of annexation, be-
cause it contemplated a departure from un-
broken American tradition in providing for
the addition to our territory of islands of the
sea more than two thousand miles removed
from Our nearest coast.
HEADLONG HASTE.
These considerations might not of them
selves call for interference with the compile
ton of treaty entered upon by previous
administration, but it appeared from the
documents accompanying the treaty when
of Hawaii was rendered to us by a provis-
ional government set up to succeed the con-
stitutional ruler of the island, who had been
dethroned, and it did not appear that
such provisional government had the
sanction of either popular revolution or
suffrage. Two other remarkable features of
the transaction naturally attracted attention.
One was the extraordinary haste-not to say
-characterizng all the trans
actions connected with the treaty. 1t ap-
peared that a so-called Committee of Safety
ostensibly the source of the revolt
against the Constitutional Government
OF Hawaii was organized on Saturday, Jan
uary IA; that on Monday, the 10TH the
United States forces were landed at Honolulu
from naval vessel lying in its harbor: that
on the 18th the scheme of provisional gov
ernment was perfected and a proclamation
naming its officers was on the same
day prepared and read at the government
building; that Immediately thereupon the
United States minister recognized the pro-
visional government thus created; that two
days afterwards, ON the 10Th day of January,
Commissioners representing such govern
ment sailed for this country in a steamer
especially chartered for the occasion, arriv-
ing in San Francisco on the 28th day of jan
uary, and in Washington on the Sd day of
February; that on the next day they had
their first interview with the Secretary
of State and another ON the 11th,
when the treaty OF annexation was prac-
tically agreed upon, and that on the 14th it
was formally concluded, and on the 18th
transmitted to the Senate. Thus, between the
initiation of the scheme for Provisional
Government in Hawaii on the 18th day of
January and the submission to the Senate of
the treaty of annexation concluded with such
Government, the entire interval was thirty
two days, fifteen of which were spent by the
Hawaiian Commissioners in their journey to
Washington.
WAS THERE PLoTs
In the next place, upon the face of the
papers submitted with the treaty, it clearly
appeared that there was open and unde-
terInined an issue of fact of the most vital
importance. The message of the President
accompanying the treaty declared that The
overthrow of the monarchy was not in any
way promoted by this government = and in
letter to the President from the Secretary
Of State, also submitted to the Senate with
the treaty, the following passage occurs: -
sat the time the Provisional Government
took possession of the government buildings
no troops or officers of the United States were
pre- sent or took any part whatever in the
proceedings. No public recognition was ac-
rsot.ded to the Provisional Government by