The herald., 1893-11-14
ADv|CES FROM HONOLULU
The State Department Gets d
Dispatch.
Its Contents Carefully Kept
from the Public.
Minister Willis Arrived at His New
Post of Duty.
Admiral sksrrett Returned to San Fran
cisco-Queen Liiiuolslani Pro-
pared to Resume the Neigns
of Government.
BY the Associated Press.

B the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The state de-
partment today received conmunca-
tion from Honolulu. telegraphed from
San Francisco, written in navy
department cipher. Securing the sub
stsnce OF the official comm rnication,
Secretary Gresham took copy to Wood.
Icy FOR conference with President Cleve-
land. Nothing was given out as to the
substance of the dispatch.
The plan of the Hawaiian representa-
tives evidently is to stand rigidly ior
the rights acquired by the recognition of
their government. Congress undonot-
edly will take up the Hawaiian question
Immediately upon assembling in De-
cember. A fight, it is said will be made on
the administration policy on the ground
that it declared war without the consent
of congress. If the present government
peacefully yield to the persuasions OF
the American minister, the question in
volved is whether 80 peaceable pro-
ceeding could be regarded as an act of
war. 1t is argued thst it would be an
act Of aggression on sovereign pow er
none the less because the power peace
fully yielded to the threat of overwhelm-
ingly superior force.
shrewd surmise in Washington is
that the restoration of Queen Liliuoka-
lani may not be followed by the with
drawal of tho entire influence of the
United States, but that with the work
OF the last administration once undone,
protectorate may be established over
the monarchy. One clear and certain
result OF the present incident would
seem to be that annexation will never
be proffered to the United States by the
Hawaiians again.
THURsToN RFFUsEs TO Talk. ri
! L. A. Thurston, minister OF Hawaii to
the United States, returned to the city
tonight. He refused an interview in re.
gard to the Hawaiian situation, and he
would say nothing further than what he
said to an Associated Press representa-.
tive in Chicago. When asked if he
knew anything OF the contents of
the cipher dispatch which the
state department received to-
day from Honolulu, via San Francisco,
the minister replied he had no infor-
mdtlOn Oh tho buUJeC6. HS 6umltt6O
that he received advices from the
Hawaiian government by the steamer
China, but said ne had not as much
information as the press reports pub
lished this afternoon. Thurston was
asked what course he proposed to
pursue in view of the situation his
government WAS placed in by the declar-
alton OF the Administrations policy.
He replied that he had not perfected
his plans as yet.
HERBERT AND GRESHAM.
The officials of the navy department
say they have no news from Honolulu
by the steamer that arrived at San
Francisco. Gresham asserts that he
has nothing to Say on the Hawaiian
question. He declines either to aft irm
or deny the reports offered him for
corroboration or denial. The officials in
both departments, however. manifest
lively interest in all that can be told
them by the newspaper men. Soon after
the reports received from Honolulu
reached the department, Gresham hur-
ried over to the navy department and
had brief interview with Herbert,
which may have been only an inquiry as
to whether his department had any news
to communicate.