Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-12-15

today Mr.. Hoar offered the following
resolution:
Resolved: That the president be
requested to inform the senate, if in
his opinion it be not inconsistent with
public interest, whether any person
! whose name has not been submitted
to the senate for confirmation, and,
if so, what person has been appointed
since the fourth of March, 1893, to
represent the United States i'll the
Hawaiian islands, and whether such
person was accredited to the preSi-
dent of the executive and advisory
council of the Hawaiian islands;
and whether such person was present
ed to the head of the government Of
the Hawaiian islands, and whether
any, and, if 50, what authority was
given such person touching the rela
tons of this government to the then
existing or other government Of the
Hawaiian islands and the protection
,, of American citizens therein; and
whether any discretion or power was
committed to such person to deter
mine when the naval force of the
United States should be landed there
| in or withdrawn ;therefrom; and
whether any authority was committed
+, to such person to use physical force
! in the territory of said government
or to land IN armed force there; anu
whether such person was authorized,
or in fact. correSponded i'll regard to
IL, fI)1
! of the Hawaiian islands with any pri-
/ vate persons, newspaper or any other
periodical, or had been authorized to
or has in fact undertaken to receive
| in said Hawaiian islands the teStl-
| mony of any private person on re
! QueSted or received written commune
cations from amy private person i'll
regard to the lawful and existing
government: the circumstances under
which said existing government was
established or any other matters re-
latng to the public affairs thereof,
and, if any such appointment or au-
! thority was made or given to further
/ inform the senate as to whether the
same was made or given at the time
! when the senate was i'll session OF
continued in force during any session
of the senate or congress and any part
] thereof, and further whether such APP
pointment or authority was communi-
Gated to the senate during any SEES
sion hereof; and further whether any
person had accepted or undertaken
to accept the office of commissioner
or public minister with the powers
aforesaid, or any of them, or under
| taken any correspondence with the
government, or with any private per-
son describing himself as a commits
sioner of the United States"
Hoar commented on the fact that in
formation communicated by the preSi-
dent to certain senators under the
seal of confidence was freely given
out to representatives Of four news
papers known to be Jealous. thorough
going, he had almost said unscrupu-
lous supporters of the administration.
If the allegations are true, said Hoar,
it seemed to him as gross violation
of the constitution of the United States
as ever was charged upon or imputed
to any public official. 1t was not nee
essary to say that the appointing or
commissioning of such an officer with
out consent of the senate was an at
tempt to usurp an diplomatic rela-
tons of the government.
Mr. Hoar reau an Associated Press
cablegram from London, i'll which
Minister Bayard expressed an opinion
on the Hawaiian question. He said
that if the dispatch was true, ut is
also true that Great Britain has been
taken into confidence which the sen
ate and the American people have not
shared If it be true that the presi-
dent, the senate being in session, au-
thorized an officer to exercise para
mount diplomatic authority in a coun-
try with which the United States was
at peace, directed consul and resi-
dent minister to promote his success
by every means in his power, placed
, archives under his complete and I'M
trammeled control, authorized him to
employ at discretion naval power and
land or withdraw the forces of the
, United States at will and had given
him a title which is enumerated as
in an act of congress, the president in
his (Hoar's) judgement is upon very
slippery ground and he had better
step on terra firma rapidly and al
once. uaughter). If. in the next
place, such an official has entered
that territory and established cor
respondence with private persons
q about its public affairs, taken test
= mony, received written com
munications and made re
) ply thereto, that officer ha:
Il violated in the most gross and pal
Z pable manner an express and writer
u laM of the American people; and, i
I he reported that action to the presi
0 dent and it is, approved and thu
e president made himself an accomplic,
I after the fact, in violation of thu
: law, he the PRESIDENT is standing no
Il only upon slippery but very thil
ground.