The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-12-31
HIS COURSE CONDEMNED.
According to the Minority Report Cleve
land Has Been Too Fresh.

land Has Been Too Fresh.
WASHINGTON, Dec. :D.-The republican
members Of the foreign affairs committee
have completed n minority report OH tho
resolutions presented by Chairman Me
Creary on the day congress adjourned, as
a substitute for the Hit resolution. The
report was prepared by Storer Of Ohio and
signed by Hit, Harmer, Blair, Draper and
Van Noorhs of New York. IL is very vol
luminous and goes in detail over the whole
history of Blount's appointment as conf
missioner paramount, aud criticises the
course of the administration.
"When President Cleveland was in
augurated, on March 4, 1884," says the re-
port, "Hawaiians were under control Of q
republican government already recog-
Dzed. not only by the United States, but
by every civilized nation. This govern
ment was in name provisional but in fact
il was TO remain in existence for an in
definite period. until the time when the
terms of union with the United States
should have been agreed upon. The min
lister plenipotantiarS Of tho Caissd States
TO Hawaii was in person at his post and
the senate of the United States was in
session. The president sent TO the senate
the name of Gresham as secretary of
state, and that body on March confirmed
the appointment. Ii was at that time
publicly stated, though as Yet not ofIici-
ally known, that James NJ. Blount had
started from Washington on March on
a mission to the Hawaiian Islands with
verbal secret instructions from the prcsi-
dent. II this be true, his subsequent writ
ten instructions, not made public until
November last, must have been forwarded
to Blount after his departure from WASH
incton, as they bear date of March H."
The report discusses Mt length the presi-
dents power to appoint diplomatic Off
Ger armed with the powers given to Blount
without the consent of the senate. This"
the report says, covers all that is needed
to show how the president ignored the
plain language of tho constitution. He
has 10 appoint of his own volition. without
tho advice OF the senate. a diplomatic off,
Ger with paramount powers. The real
purpose of Biounts mission was not en-
pres sed in written words, but cannot be
concealed. lie was 10 make case
against the American minister, aud dis.
credit the friendly government he was
accredited TO. lIc was, apparently.
TO Use the words Of President Cleveland
10 President Dole, to advance the inter-
ests and prosperity OF both governments.
In reality he was to try to discover such
state Of facts rs might appear TO bc a
stain both on that friendly government
and the views and recommendations of a
former administration of his own govern
ment. Not content with Withdrawing tho
Foster treaty from the senate. which may
have been his constitutional right, the
president was led 10 employ unconstitu-
tional means and an unconstitutional
agent to reverse and discrcdit the policy
of the preceding administration.
This is more than an innovation
in our policy. hitherto consistent
and steady since tho first days
of tho republic. Ii is an unwritten but
universally accepted Law that no admins.
tration of any representative government
ever condems the international policy OF
| "a preceding administration, for in so
doing il would attack its own government.
"The secret and confidential instrIc.
.ions to Minister Willis we're made known
10 congress only after q resolution calling
upon the executive for the same had been
unanimously adopted by the house. Tho
official report of the secretary of state was
kept secret from Oct. Is until a week
after the November elections. and when
made public aroused an almost uni
| vcrsal expression of public dis.
approval and resentment among the
American people. The language
of the report of the secretary OF state was
admittedly approved by the president. and
| il is currently believed aud stated to have
| been dictated by him. Nothing short OF
reinstating the abdicated queen could
reach the level of justice. \ friendly and
firmly established, universally recognized
government was to bo deposed. a tinsel