The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-04-11
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
SAN FRANc1sco, April 4,
BY S. 5. Gaelic
THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION.
THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION.

THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION.
suRMIsE THAT sEwALL AND BOWEN ARE
COMMISSIONERS.
The Chronicle of April gives
currency to a report that Harold NJ.
Sewall, ex-Consul-General to Samoa,
and William Shaw Bowen, the New
York newspaper man, who left for
Honolulu 10y the Alameda, are to re.
port to and join Col. James H.
Blouut as his co-commissioncrs. Mr..
Bowen when questioned would
neither affirm nor deny the report.
The report that Mcssrs. Bowen
and Sewall were Government of
6cials, says the Chronicle, did not
leak out until few minutes before
the Alameda cast off her lines and
left the dock. An official of the
steamship company, when asked
what he knew about these two pas
sengers, said that he had good rea-
son to believe that they were going
to the Hawaiian Islands on mis-
sion for this Government, but
whether they were commissioners
who were to join Colonel Blount in
his work he could not say. They
had received telegrams from Wash
ington, d. c., and official letters be-
fore leaving. Both were known to
be close to Cleveland's administra-
ton.
THE CHRONICLE ON BLouNT.
The Chronicle of the 4th inst. has
the following editorial:
"Washington rumor has it that
the extra session of the Senate may
continue until Mr.. Blount can have
time to return from his special mis-
sion to the Hawaiian Islands. This
theory is based on his hasty depar-
ture from this country, but going
away in a hurry is one thing and
coming back in hurry is another.
at should be borne in mind that
Mr.. Blount is the Presidents com
missioner. not the Senate's. If the
Senate had felt the need of special
and exclusive information it would
probably have deputed a committee
from its own number to go to Ha.
waii and report back to the Senate
as is done in other cases of inquiry
and investigation. Blount is Presi
dent Cleveland's man, and he will
probably remain in Hawaii long
enough to find out exactly what the
President wants to know, whatever
that may be.
at is said that Blount's attitude
on international affairs when he wa:
in the recent Congress as chairman
of the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs indicates that he will not ia
vor annexation, but this conjecture
rests on very slim foundation. He
did not favor our taking part in the
Samoan controversy, and the mud
die into which Samoan affairs have
got justi6es his judgment, but that
question bore no relation to Ha
waiian annexation. He certainly ad
vocated the pursuing of firm anC
vigorous policy in the controversy
with Chile, and established hi:
Americanism by standing up agains
his party and upholding President
Harrison.
"The general opinion is that if the
President had to send an executive
commissioner to Hawaii the choice
of Blount was an excellent one. He
is a man of good sense and judg
ment and his opinion should be en-
titled to weight for that reason. II
will not be many days before we re
ccive news of what he is doing il
Hawaii and then some definite ide;
can be formed, probably, as to
whether he is going to rush back to
Washington or stay in the island:
long enough to acquaint himsel
thoroughly with the situation in al
its aspects and phases"