Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-13
THE HAWAIIAN SITUATION

1g was W1ee GO keep tne report or SScre- tary Gresham concerning Hawaiian affairs back until after the elections, for 1t Is not of a character to please the people of this country, who do not want to see the power of the United States used to re-estsblish a monarchy over people who have been so fortunate as to be able to free themselves from 1t.
 In order to give @ show of right to this astonishing performance 1t Is necessary for the Democratic administration to make out that ex-Minister Stevens and the others who furnished the information upon which the former action of the United States was based were liars. Secretary Gresham's report says that Queen Liliuokslsni an- nounced her intention on Saturday, Jsnu ary IA, 1893, to proclaim @ new constitu tion, but the expedition of her ministers and others induced her to speedily change her purpose and make public announce ment of the fact. At 8 meeting in Homo lulu late on the afternoon of that day 8 so- called committee of public safety, consist ing of thirteen men, being all or nearly all pf0eout, huO O1 ing five Americans, were aliens, was ap- pointed "to consider the situation and devise ways and means for the mainten- ance of the public peace and the protec- ton of life and property. This commit tee met on the 18th, or the forenoon of things that a provisional government | be created to exist until terms of union of the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon." At a mass-meeting, composed largely of aliens, which assembled at p. m. on the last-named day, the Queen and her sup porters were condemned and denounced, | and the committee was continued and all its acts approved. And the secretary adds that the United States troops were landed, not to protect American life and property, but to aid In overthrowing the existing government.
 But in Secretary Fosters communication of February 15 to the President, laying be- fore him the treaty of annexation, with the view of obtaining the advice and consent WAN time the provisional government took pos. session of the government building nc troops or officers of the Uaited States were present or took any part whatever in the proceedings. No public recognition waf accorded to the provisional government by the United States minister until after the Queens abdicstion, and when they were in effective possession of the government building, the archives, the treasury the barracks, the police station and all the potential machinery O the government" And Representative R R. Hit of Illinois, who was chairman O. the house Committee on Foreign Affairs il the Fifty-frst Congress, and Assistant Sec rstary of State in 1881, when Secretsr, Blaine wrote his famous letter of inetruc ton to the American Minister at Hawaii said: "The overthrow of the monarchy wa not in any way promoted by this govern ment, but had its origin in what seems t
 have been a reactionary and revolutionsr. policy on the part of Queen Liluokalani which put in serious peril not only tn
 large and preponderating interests of tn
 United States in the islands, but all for
 eigu interests, and, indeed, the decent cd B ministration of civil affairs and th
 peace of the islands" And one of tn
 Hawaiian representatives at Washingto
 gives his testimony. He says he was pres
 ent at the several meetings which too
 place in Honolulu on the day the chang
 occurred, and was in the government hous
 when the provisional authorities were fl
 stalled, and he asserts that the loo
 militia, acting for the provisional goverl
 msnt, was in charge of the grounds sever hours before the marines from the Bostc
 sppeared. He complains of the use