The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-20
DOLE TO Be LEFT IN POWER.
Willis Not to Use Force to Restore
the Queen.

Believed to Have Modified It's Views
on the Hawaiian Situation-A Belief
That No Violent Measure Will Be
Taken Without the Consent of Con-
gress-The Reception of Commits
sioner Blount's Report May Not Be
So Favorable as at First Expected.
President Dole, Backed by a Force
of 400 or 500 Men, to Assert His Au-
thority if an Attempt Is Made to
Gust Him.
Washington, Nov. Washington has
been quiet and decorous to-day, as be-
comes the capital on Sunday. AT the
clubs and hotels where public men resort,
the news brought from Hawaii by the
Australia yesterday, was discussed with
languid interest. 1t was so different from
what was expected, that everybody was
as surprised as politicians ever are. The
consensus of opinion is that the admins
tration is preparing to hedge, if not
squarely back down from the posi-
tion assumed toward Hawaii in the
Gresham report.
Minister Thurston spent the day
quietly in the rooms of the Hawaiian lega-
tion. He bore an air of hope and conf
dence more marked than at any time since
the giving out of the Gresham report. He
declined, however, to make any state
ment, or to talk regarding the situation
or possible future developments, on the
diplomatic ground that it would not be
respectful to this government to do so.
Secretary Gresham still reserves q
strong silence and bad humor.
President Cleveland was, of course, in
accessible.
None of the members of the cabinet
would talk.
The 300 cOmpositors at the government
printing Office pegged away at Commits
sioner BlOunt's report, though the reason
for putting it in type with such haste
remains as mysterious as it was last
night.
THE NEW INSTRUCTIONS TO WILLIS.
From an excellent source it is learned
tonight that the supplemental instruct
ions which the Monawai bore on Friday
from Secretary Gresham to Minister
Willis, did not direct him to proceed to re-
store the monarchy by force, and did not
place the naval forces in Hawaiian waters
at his command for that arbitrary pur-
pose. His instructions were to continue
characterized his action since his arrival
at Hawaii.
Minister Willis report has put an en-
tirely different phase on the Hawaiian
situation in the mind Of the administra-
| tiOn and 1t no longer is so cOcksure that
Commissioner Blount's report and conclu-
sions will stand the test of the impartial
| and rigid scrutiny to which they will, Of
course, be subjected whenever made pub
lie
The supplemental instructions to
Minister Willis give him wide direction
as to what he shall do and snail not do in
regard to the government of the islands
They do not, however, authorize him to
use force to restore the queen. If he shall
finally come to the conclusion that the
dusky monarchy should be restored and
that force would be necessary to ac-
complish that design, his instructions are
to make no move in that direction until
he has first reported the fact to the gov
ernment, and has received explicit orders
to take that course. These supplemental
instructions are based on the idea that
the Hawaiian affair will have to be re
ferred to congress and there fought out,
In the meantime the government will stay
its hand and depend on Minister Willis
to maintain the present status in Hawaii
Minister Thurston's report and advices
to President Dole went forward last
Thursday on the WarimoO via Vic
toria instead of on the Vic
toria via Vancouver This steamer
will convey the first intelligence
to the islands of Secretary Gresham's re-
port. No news of the happenings on the
islands after it is known there what his
reports contains can reach this country
for two or three weeks from now. 1t is
possible that the knowledge of that re
port and its recommendations may lead to
an uprising of the queens adherants.
ANOTHER REPORT ON THE SITUATION
BY the Southern Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 19.-There was a to-
tai dearth of Hawaiian news in alliofficial
circles tonight Secretary Gresham
spent good part of the day at the state
department and at the white house, and
it is supposed that he and the President
had before them a translation of the dis
patch from Minister Willis, which was
received at the department Saturday
The Australian will sail from San
Francisco on Thursday next on the re-
turn voyage, and the trains tonight car
ried an unusually large, and doubtless in
teresting, official mail from both the
state department and the Hawaiian lega-
tion which will go out on that steamer.
On the same day the Alameda is due to
arrive at San Francisco from Honolulu,
dIJCf winch tUefb Will De an interval o
twenty days before the next steamer is
scheduled to reach this country from Ha-
waii.
WILLIS PROBABLY SURPRISED.
A prominent democratic senator. a
member of the foreign relations commit
tee, who declined to permit the use of his
name, said tonight: 1T seems very clear
that Mr.. Willis has encountered a state
of affairs there which he had not been
led to expect, and which his instructions
did not cover. He found evidently when
he reached these islands that the pro-
visional government was disposed to
withstand all overtures for the restora-
tion of the queen. and far better pre-
pared than had been supposed
to resist any pressure to re
place her upon the throne.
have private advices that President
Dole has a well equipped force of 400
or 500 men who will stand by the present
government to the utmost limit. Now, /
think the inference is justified that when
Minister Willis found this well equipped
and determined force, and when he dis
covered that the feeling of the intelligent
people of the island was favorable TO the
present government he weakened in his
determination to reseat the queen upon
her throne.
DoLE's POSITION A STRONG ONE.
eff, indeed, the Dole administration dis
played a determination TO maintain its po-
sitiOu by force of arms there was nothing