The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-01
To The Report Made by Commis-
SlOner BlOunt.
The AFFIDAVITS OF OPPOSITION
Taken Up and Disposed of in n vigorous
Manner Blouni's Course Is Declared
to Be Unpatriotio aud Un.American.
Inability to Perform Task Assigned.

BOSTON, Dec lin a voluminous article
ex-Minister Stevens replies to ex-Com-
missioner Blount relative to Hawaiian
affairs In this answer Mr.. Stevens says
In parts
"A deep sense of obligation to my coun.
try and an Americans duty to dafend an
insulted. threatened aud struggling Ameri-
can colony, planted as righteously and
firmly on the North Pacific isles as our
Pilgrim Fathers established themselves on
Plymouth Rock, demand that / shall
make an answer to the astounding mis-
representations and untruths of Commits
doner Blount's report on Hawaiian affairs
$50 much rs necessary introduction to
spy consideration Of Blount's report. Not
Wishing to be severe on q neophyte In
diplomacy, with little knowledge of the
worlds affairs outside of his own country,
cent on very peculiar errand amid cur
rents and quicksands entirely unknown to
him, he has been partly the victim of cir
cumstances, having been caught in the
meshes and snares adroitly prepared for
him by the cunning advisers of the fallen
Liliuokalani, and by the shrewd, sharp,
long-experienced British diplomatic agent,
Wuoec diAiS ouu hopcs DiOuuI udS ScrNeu
so we'll, and without the least suspicion
that he was aiding ultra British interests,
even more than he was helping the Ha-
waiian monsrchists and the justly de-
throned queen.
Charges Baseless and Unjust.
"The charges, implications and insinua-
tions Of Commissioner Blount against
President Dole, Minister Thurston, and the
OIL har chi af of he fcfo
ment, are as bas eless and unjust as those
against myself and Captain Wiltse, now
sleeping In his honored grave.
''But 10 is we'll for me to be more specific
In meeting our opponents recklessly par
tisan and ex-parte statements and argu-
ments. Under the date of April ~ he says
he disapproved OF request of the pro-
visional government that the American
forces be landed for drill.
II here affirm that the provisional gov
ernment never made such request The
provisional government followed the exact
course followed under the monarchy.
Whenever the naval commander desired
70 drill his men on shore, in accordance
with naval regulations, he so signified To
the United States minister, who made the
request of the Hawaiian government
through the minister of foreign affairs
What Blount says about the japanese
man-of-war is equally ex-parte, absurd and
egotistic." Mr.. Stevens here states at
length that he expressed to the Japanese
commissioner the opinion that the United
States would resist any encroachmeut on
the soil or sovereignty Of Hawaii, and that
he (Mr. Stevens) would maintain thqt
position until otherwise instructed by his
government.
10 81. l.
press, i find the following language: The
two leading members OF the committee
Messrs. Thurston and Smith, growing un-
easy as to the safety of their persons, went
to Minister Stevens to know if he would
protect them in the event of their arrest
by the authorities, to which he gave his
assent
ut is enough to say that there is not
semblance of truth in this assertion OF
Blount, made by him without his ever
having limited 10 TO me or made any in
quiry of me on the subject.
"He says the response To the call of the
committee OF safety TO laud the men of
the Boston does not appear in the files and
the legation. The meaning of this insinu-
alton is obvious. Enough TO say, there
never was any such document.
Treated Both Sides the Same.
"Blount squarely asserts that prom
ised to aid lhe committee Of safety by
force. This is emphatically and categori-
cally untrue. In reply to rival parties at
eiderent times, whether tue representa-
Vves OF the queen or her opponents, my
answer was always the same, that the
sorce would not land until danger shonld
be plainly imminent, and thon only 60 pro.
.ect American life aud property.
zone of the. most striking evidences uf
BlUunps prejudices, ex-parte and unwar.
rante1 statements, il the following: y
meeting OF the COMMITTEES of safety was
held that night, Jan. 10, nj the house of
Henry Waterhouse, next door TO Minister
Stevens house. determined on the de-
thronement Of the queen, aud eected olii-
cers'
''Of this meeting nc the house OF Henry
Waterhousc. specified by Blount. had no
hint or knowledge nj the time IL was held,
knew not OF who m the meeting was com
posed, nor what was its action, aud my
first inform itioa as TO the persons assem-
bled nc that meeting l obtain from
Blount's report"
Few More Points.
Mr.. Stevens then takes up the point that
Tor three years prior 10 the quesn's coup
S'etat he had kept himself as became tho
United States minister conversant with
the plans OF the Hawaiian ..,ctions. lie
quotes ia full the qucen's official docu-
ment sent him. which contained the assur-
sncs that the island constitution would b.
rorffnuo1 ~, v,ooa D