New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-20
ANOTHER MESSAGE
President Cleveland Has Enlightened
Congress OH His Hawaiian
Policy.
In a Message Of 5000 Words He
Tells What Has Been Done and
Why.
lie Strongly Advocates the Restora-
ton of the Queen as an Act Of
Justice.

Justice.
WASHINGTON, Dc. 19.-The special
message of the president regarding Ha-
waiian affairs has been sent to congress.
It is as follows:
To the Senate and House of Representa-.
tives:
In my recent annual message to the con-
gress, briefly referred to our relations
with Hawaii and expressed the intention
Of transmitting further information on the
subject when additional advices permitted.
Though am not able to now report def
mite change in the actual situation, am
convinced that the difficulties lately Gre
ated 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 be referred to the broader
authority and direction of congress, with
q full explanation of the endeavor thus far
made to deal with the emergency and a
statement Of thu considerations which have
governed action.
Right and Justice.
suppose that right and justice should
determine the path to be followed in treat.
ing this subject. If Irrational honesty is to be
disregarded and a desire for territorial ex-
| tension here dissatisfaction with a form
of government not our own, is to regulate
our conduct, l have entirely misappre
hended the mission and character of our
| government and the behavior which the
| conscience Of our people demands of their
| public servants
When the present administration en-.
tered upon its duties, the senate had under
consideration a treaty providing for the
annexation of the Hawaiian islands to the
territory of the United Stares
Surely under our constitution and laws
the enlargement Of our limits is a mani
Hesitation of the highest attribute of SOW
ereignty, and if entered upon as an execu
tive act all things relating to the transac.
tions should be clear and free from ssus
picion. Additional Importance is attached
to this
! Peculiar Treaty of Annexation
because it contemplated departure from
unbroken American tradition in providine
for the addition to Our territory of islands
of the sea, more than 1900 miles removed
! from our nearest coast.
These considerations might not of them
selves call for interference with the com
pletion of a treaty entered upon by pre-
vious administration, but it appeared from
the documents accompanying the treaty
when submitted to the senate that thu
ownership of Hawaii was rendered to III
by provisional government, set up tx
succeed the constitutional ruler of the
islands who had been dethroned; and die
not appear that such provisional govern
ment had the sanction Of either popular
revolution OF suffrage.
Two Other Remarkable Features
of the transaction naturally attracted at
tentiou. One was the extraordinary haste
not to say precipitancy-c haracjerizine
all the transactions connected with the
treaty. 1t appeared that so-called com
mittee of safety, ostensibly the source OF
the revolt against the constitutional gov
eminent OF Hawaii, was organized on Sat
urday, the 18th day Of January; that or
Monday, the 10Th, the United States forces
were landed at Honolulu from a
naval vessel lying in its harbor; that
on the 18th the scheme of a provisional
government was perfected, and a prOcla
mat on naming it's officers was on the same
day prepared and read at the government
!
the United States recognized the provis
ional government thus created; that two
days afterwards, on the 10Th of January
commissioners representing such govern
ment sailed for this country in a steame,
especially chartered for the occasion. ar
irving in this country on the 2Sth day Of
January, and in Washington on the Sd
day OF February; that on the next day they
had their first interview with the secretary
OF state, and another on the 18th, when the
treaty annexing the islands was practi
cally agreed upon, and that on the 18th il
was formally concluded, and on the 18th
Transmitted to the Senate.
Thus between the initiation of the
scheme for a provisional government in
Hawaii on the 18th of january and the
submission to the senate of the treaty. 01
annexation, concluded with such govern
ment, the entire interval was 80 DAYS. l;
of which were spent by the Hawaiian
commissioners in the journey to Wash
ington.
In the next place, upon the face of tn,
papers submitted with the treaty it clearl,
appeared that there was open and unde
termined an issue of the most vital i'm
portance. The message of the presiden,
accompanying the treaty declared thai
| 1.-THE overthrow of the monarchy was moi
In any way promoted by this govern
fnent," and in letter to the president
from the secretary of state, also submitted
to the senate with the treaty, the follow
ing passage occurred:
AT the time the provisional goveFnfi;sh,
took possession Of the government bn;jd.
lngs, no troops or officers of the IInited
States We're present, or took anv nart
! whatever in the proceedings. No n,il11;c
recognition was accorded tG the provisional
government by the American minister m.
I'll after the queens abdication, ;sad when
they were in effective possession az the
government buildings, the archives. the
treasury, the barracks, the police station
and all the potential machinery of the
government. -
The Queens Protest.
But a protest also accompanied said
treaty, signed by the queen and her minis
tiers at the time she made way to the
provisional governments, which explicitly
stated that she yielded to the superior
force OF the United States, whose minister
had caused United States troops TO h
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