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HAWAII MESSAGE DELAYED.
THE PRESIDENT HAS NOT ANSWERED TILE
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HE MAY SHOW HIS CONTEMPT FOR THE SENATE
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Washington, Dec. A-Aithough more than q
week has passed since the Senate adopted Mr.
Hoars resolution requesting the President to
communicate the instructions and other orders
given to American Ministers in Hawaii since
1881. together with the diplomatic correspond
ence during that period affecting the Hawaiian
Islands, no response has yet been made by the
State Department, and no one seems to be aware
when the President and Secretary Gresham will
see fit to throw the light which the Senate asks
upon some recent incidents in Hawaiian d.
plomacy. 1t was expected that seven days would
be time enough to get tn. information asked for
into print and there general confidence
about the Capitol that Mr.. Cleveland would send
in his promised message to-day. No message
came from the White House. however, and the
Senate, thinking it useless to sit waiting for the
intelligence which the Administration seemed in
clined to suppress indefinitely, adjourned In
WEAKNESS until Monday next The long ng-delayed
instructions to Minister Willis are not likely,
therefore, to be made public for several days to
come unless the President, to accentuate his con-
tempt for the Senate should choose to send the
desired information tomorrow or Saturday to
the House of Representatives while the de
Lucrative branch" which made the first request
for the instructions, had closed its doors for q
three e-days' recess.
DEMOCRATS WILL NOT UPHOLD HIM.
1t is expected, however, that the President 10
anxious to keep Mr.. Ws's instructions secret
long possible, in the hope Of somehow
diverting attention from their assaiable char.
acter by forced construction of them in the
light Of the wholly unexpected turn taken by oc-
currences in Hawaii since the original orders
were given. The debate in the Senate on the Ha.
waiian question has shown conclusvely that the
by persuasion or force. would be utterly repudi.
ated by the great majority Of the Democratic
Senators. and this disclosure has undoubtedly
forced the Administration into some scheme Of
modified construction which will be sought to be
put upon the orders alluded to in the Presidents
message as given for the restoration within
Constitutional limitations" Of the status quo In
Honolulu
Mr. Vests significant assertion yesterday that
the President, in attempting to put the Queen
upon the throne by force. would clearly commit
an act Of war, can scarcely be explained on any
other ground than that the Administration has
decided to 'crawflsh' on It's policy Of Fighting
Queen Lilluokalani's wrongs and will en-
deavor to disclaim, so far 1t plausiby can,
the restoration programme which only two weeks
ago was loudly proclaimed an urgent moral
duty and this Governments only honorable
course" To presume otherwise would trans
form Mr.. Vest from champion and defender Of
the Administration In its present desperate
plight into critic severe and radical as Mr..
Hoar or Mr. Frye; for the Missouri Senator, In
advocating policy of absolute non-interference
and a withdrawal Of all support. moral or
material, from Liliuokaanfs cause. occupied
ground as antpOdal to that taken In Secretary
Gresham's memorandum any possible Re
publican critic of the Administrations original
Quixotc programme can take.
IT NAY SHOW CHANGE OF OPINION.
1t will surprise no one accordingly. II the mes
sage when it comes shows an attempted re-
versal Of opinion on the moral duty Of monar-
chical restoration which will drive the present
cuckoo" defenders Of the President to a sudden
change of note and create new and extensive
market for letters of gratitude on which the
patent taken out the other day by Mr.. Nils will
be quite useless and out Of date. Such at least
is Senatorial opinion. which is quick at all
times TO snuff the beginnings Of any Presidential
doublings or contemplated changes Of base.