The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-12-27
Fl GOES TO CONGRESS-!
President Cleveland Ad-
mitS the Difficulties
Of Executive
Action.
He Shows the Ea6erneSS Of
Stevens to Overthrow the
Monarchy Long Be-
fore the War.
The Annexation Treaty VIII Not be
Submitted. Preparation Of the
Wrong to Hawaii Re-
commended.

By the arrival of the S. S. Arawa,
we have received cutting from
Puget Sound paper, containing Pre-
sident Cleveland's special message
to Congress on the Hawaiian ques-
ton. 1t will be seen that the report
is not complete, as it was still "com-
ing" on the wires when the paper
went to press. There were many
typographical errors in the report,
indicating extreme haste in getting
it out, which, with the exception of
some omissions of words, have been
corrected in the following transcript
ton:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-The Presi-
dents response to resolutions pass
ed by both houses requesting infor-
nation on Hawaiian affairs was sent
to Congress to-day. In the message
the President says:
Gin recent annual message to
Congress l briefly referred to our re-
lations with Hawaii and expressed
the intention of transmitting further
-iaformation on the subject when adj
ditional advices permitted. Though
not able now to report any definite
change in the situation I am con-
vinced 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 now be referred to the broader
authority and discretion of Congress,
with a full explanation of the
endeavors thus far made to deal
with the emergency and effect set
Element of the difficulty and with
statement of the considerations
which governed my action. I sup
pose right and justice should deter
mine the path to be followed in
treating this subjecs. When the
present administration entered upon
its duties the Senate had under con-
sideration the treaty providing for
the annexation of the Hawaiian Isl
ands territory to the United States.
Surely under our constitution and
laws the enlargement of our limits
is manifestation of the highest at
- tribute of sovereignty, and should
lie entered upon with extreme eau
tion, and all things relating to the
transaction should be free from
suspicion. Additional Importance
attaches to this particular treaty of
annexation because of the contem-
plated departure from the unbroken
American tradition respecting the
providing of additional territory.
"These islands of the sea are more
than two thousand miles removed
from our nearest coast. These con-
siderations might not of themselves
call for interference with the COM
pletion of the treaty entered upon
by the previous administration, but
it appeared from documents accom-
panying the treaty when submitted
to the senate that the ownership of
Hawaii rendered to us by the pro-
visional government set up to sue
coed the constitutional ruler of the
islands, who had been dethroned,
that the provisional government had
not the sanction of either popular
or revolutionary suffrage. It appear
ed that the so-called committee of
safety, ostensibly the source of re-
volt against the constitutional gov
eminent of Hawaii, was organized
on Saturday, the l4th day of Janu-
AIRY, that on Monday, the 10Th, the
United States naval forces landed at
Honolulu from a vessel lying in the
harbor,that on the 18th the scheme of
a provisional government was per-
fected, and a proclamation naming its
officers was on the same date prepar-
ed and read in the government build
ing,that thereupon the United States
minister recognized the provisional
government thus created; that two
days afterwards, the 10Th day OF
January, the commissioners repre-
senting such government sailed for
the United States in a steamer
specially chartered for the occasion
arriving at San Francisco on the 18th
day of January and in Washington
on the third day of February; that
on the next day they had their first
interview with the secretary OF state
and another on the llth, when the
treaty OF annexation was practically
agreed upon; on the 18th it was
formally concluded and on the 18th
transmitted to the senate, Thus be