The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-22

vv,lniuvu ali issue OF the most vital i'm
~portance. The message of the president
accompanying the treaty declared that
1.-THE overthrow of the monarchy was not
in any way promoted by this govern
ment,n and in a letter to the president
from the secretary of state, also submitted
to the senate with the treaty, the follow
ing passage occurred:
AT the time the provisional government
took possession of the government build
ings, no troops or officers of the United
States were present, or took any part
whatever in the proceedings. No public
recognition was accorded to the provisional
government by the American minister I'M
til after the queens abdication, and when
they were in effective possession of the
government buildings, the archives. the
treasury, the barracks, the police station
and all the potential machinery of the
government"
The Queens Protest.
Blu a protest also accompanied said
treaty, signed by the queen and her miuis-
tiers at the time she made way to the
provisional government, which explicitly
stated that she yielded to the superior
force of the United States, whose minister
had caused United States troops to be
landed at Honolulu, and declared that no
would support such provisional govern
ment.
TIL truth or falsity of this protest was
surely of the first importance. If true
nothing but the cOncealment of its truth
could induce our government to negotiate
with the semblance of a government thus
created, nor could a treaty resulting from
the acts stated i'm the protest have been
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ton by the senate. Yet the truth or falls
ity of the protest had not been invest
gated.
Withdrew the Treaty.
,.. to.mo
to withdraw the treaty from the senate
for examination, to cause an accurate, iuii
and impartial investigation to be made oil
the facts attending the subverslon or the
constitutional government OF Hawail ana
the installment in its place OF the provision
al government. selected for the WORK or III.
vestigation the Hon. James II. Blount OF
Georgia, whose service OF Is years III the
house OF representatives, ana whose ek-
perlence as chairman OF the m on
foreign affairs in that body, and his con
sequent familiarity with international
topics, joined with his hlgh characteI
aad honorable reputation, seemed to rem
der him peculiarly lifted Tor the duties
entrusted to him. His report detailing
MS action under the INSTRUCTIONS given 10
MN, and the conclusions derived from Ills
investigation, accompany tins message
These conclusions do not rest Tor thell
acceptance entirely upon Mr.. Blounts
honesty ana ability as a man, nor upon
MS acunien ana importantly as an lh'esti
gator. They are accompanied by the
evidence upon winch they are BASED whlci
evidence Is also herewith transmitted, anc
from which, 1t seems to me- no other de
auctions could possibly be reached thai
those arrived at bv the commissioner
Mr. stsvars scorsa.
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lulu. TO favor the annexation of Hawaii tt
the limited States II is sufficient TO not,
the fact and to observe that the proiec
was one which was zeaIo1sIy promoted by
the minister renresenting the UJpi,et
States in that country. He evidently hat
an ardent desire that it should become
fact ACCOMPLISHED by his agency and dur
inc his ministry and was unconventional
~scrupulous as TO the means employed t,
that end.
; On the 10Th day of November, 1879.
nearly two months before the first over
, act tending toward the subyersio,
of the Hawaiian government, and the at
{ temuted transfer of Hawaiian territory t
= the United states, he addressed a long lie,
ter to the secretary of state, in which tn
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