The record-union., 1893-11-17
sneclaI to the REcoRD-uNIox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The close Sc
crecy maintained by the State Department
on Hawaiian matters makes it difficult to
judge how much that is printed as fact is
true and how much is speculation. No
word has been given by authority up to
this time as to what the actual instructions
TO Willis are.
Iti sometimes possible to corroborate
so much of surmise as happens TO be ac-
curately made. The readers of the Asso-
ciated Press dispatches can reasonably
rely on the accuracy of the statement that
Willis is instructed to use all his powers
of persuasion to induce the Provisional
Government to consent TO retire in favor
OF the Queen.
He will try to induce the Queen to grant
amnesty to all the revolutionists, and
viii seek to induce the members of the
present Government to accept Office un-
der the Queen, but he will not employ
force to secure the attainment OF his pur-
pose without further instructions from
this Government.
1t is stated that, in anticipation of the
condition OF affairs which would arise iii
Hawaii should the Provisional Govern
ment give Minister Willis his passports,
the administration has adopted the ex-
traordinary course OF providing him
with independent authority TO command
the American naval forces of the harbor
OF Honolulu.
Under the ordinary rules of interna-
tional law Willis would not be Minister
if his passports were given him by the
Provisional Government, and he would
have no authority to call on the naval
fnrpnG Nf fhiG
whatever
TO guard against this contingency it is
said that orders to the commanding otfi-
GERS Of the naval forces were given him,
signed by President Cleveland, directing
the commanding officers to obey any or
ders coming from Willis, regardless of
his official relations to the Hawaiian Gov
ernment.
1t is learned that the forces of the Pro-
visional Government of Hawaii, though
small, are well organized and disciplined.
and most OF them are ShaTpshooters. 1t
IS said that there are 1900 picked men
provided with arms at Honolulu and
enrolled in drilled companies. They
have been trained for two months past az
safeguards against any royalist uprising
in the islands. These companies are
made up OF white men largely. Eighteen
rapid-tire guns are included in the mill
Tia equipment, the arms being Winches-
ter rifles. This force would be superior
to what the men-of-war at Honolulu
could put ashore.
But no one seems to believe that any
resistance will be made should the
marines actually be landed. The possi-
bility that Minister Willis will not be
abie to carry out the programme Of the
peaceable restoration of the Queen and
the amalgamation of the Provisional Gov
ernment with her administration makes
all interested in the Government i'll at
ease. Consequently news from Hawaii
is waited with more earnestness by the
Administration than by the general pub
lie.
MUST GUARANTEE SAFETY TO LIFE AND
PROPERTY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-William II.
Armstrong of Hampton, Va, formerly
AttorRey-General of the Hawaiian
Islands, IS IN the city. His parents were
missionaries to Polynesia and his mother
died in Honolulu only year ago. Arm
strong was a member of kalakaua's Cab
met. He expressed the opinion that
President Dole will not capitulate with
Minister Willis unless the latter has
authority to absolutely guarantee the
safety OF life and property.
SENTIMENT AGAINST A MONARCHY.
CEDAR RAPIDS Iowa, Nov l6-To-
night William Waterhouse of this city. a
member of the Waterhouse family, which
has large commercial interests in the
Hawaiian Islands, received a letter from
W. .. Smith, Attorney General of the
Provisional Government, in which he
said: while all are waiting and few
supporters Of the Provisional Govern
ment are restless, there iS& deep and
abiding sentiment against returning to q
monarchy and a determination to main
tain good Government that will not be
suppi essed, and which will show itself
in armed resistance whenever the occa-
sion calls for it by the Provisional Gov
ernment and its followers against natives
and Royalists."