The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-11-15
REPORTS IN CIPHER TO THE
STATE DEPARTMENT.
BUT NOTHING IS MADE PUBLIC.
The Hawaiian Representatives, However,
Feel Relieved Since wills Presented
Ills Credentials to President Dole
Instead of to the Queen
Peculiar Complications
Coming to Light.

WASHINGTON, Nov 14.-The state
department yesterday received com
munication from Honolulu tele.
graphed from San Francisco. 1t ar
rived by the steamer China. 1t is
written in the navy department
cipher Experts were set to work
upon the dispatch and labored over it
for several hours.
After securing the substance of
this official communication Secretary
Gresham took copy of it out to
Woodley for a conference over the
matter with President Cleveland.
Nothing was given out as to the sub.
stance of the dispatch.
F. 7. Hastings, secretary of the
Hawaiian legation, was shown the
dispatch from San Francisco contain
ing the news of Minister Willis arrival
in Honolulu and his appointment to
present his credentials to President
Dole. This Jews was obviously
great relief to the minds of members
of the legation. They declined to
talk about the matter as usual, but
the satisfaction expressed at the pre-
sentation by Minister Willis of his
credentials to President Dole sug-
gested they might have feared the
minister would be found to have been
accredited to the queen.
The p an of the Hawaiian repres en-
tatives evidently is to stand rigidlv
on the rights they have acquired by
the recognition of their government.
Minister Thurston touched the mar
row of their hopes when he said that
any attempt to overturn the present
government by n foreign power would
be an act of war. An act of war re-
quires the consent or declaration of
congress Congress will undou btedly V
take up the subject of Hawaii in some
way inn ediately upon assembling in
December. The fight, it is sand, will
be IN tde on the administration policy
on this line that it has declared war
without the consent of congress, and
has therein done an unlawful act.
What effect it would have on this
pro nosed policy if the present govern
ment should peacefully yield to the
persuasions of the American minister
is also discussed The question in
volved is whether so peaceful "A pro-
cceding could be regarded as an act Of
war. 1t is argued that it would be an
act of aggression on foreign power,
none the less because the power peace
fully yielded to the threat of so over
wheimingly Superior a force. 1t
sti remains an unanswera blc prob
lem to those of diplomatic experience
how the American minister accredit-
ed to the Hawaiian government can
Immediately upon presenting her cce-
dentials, set about to destroy that
government This gives rise to many
surmises such as that the real policy
pursued by the state department his
not hitherto been announced at all,
but that Secretary Gresham's report
to the president was simply designed
to give opportunity to read the pu bile
sentiment on the subject. It's not at
all proba BILE that this is true, but it
shows the policy of the Gresham re-
port is considered so entirely extra
ordinary that incredulity and specula
tions cluster about it.
There is surmise in Washington
that the restoration of Liliuokalani to
the throne may not be followed by
the entire withdrawal of the influence
of the United States, but that with
the work of the last administration
once urGone, "A protectoratc may be
established over the monarchy. One
clear and certain result of the present
incident would seem to be annexation
will never be proffered to the United
States by the Hawaiians again. II
there il ever to be annexation, the
movement will originate in this coun-
try