New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-06
THE FIGHT rs BEGUN
ONLY SENATOR MORGAN'S ABSENCE PRE-
VENTS A CALL FOR THE PAPERS.
THE SENATE LISTENS TO AN ARRANGEMENT o.
TIE PRESIDENT BY MR.. DoLPH-BLorNTS
REPORT THAT OF A JEALOUS LAWYER
TRY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBrxE.l


wasbinpton Dec 5-The mcagre and non.
committal statement of the Administrations Hae
xvaiian programme contained in President Cleve-
lands message Yesterday to Congress Is ex.
pained conclusively enough. apparently, In the
DISPATCHES brought from Honolulu to Port Town
send to-day ard telegraphed from that point
here It has been surmised repeatedly In these
columns that Minister Willis's delay in execut-
ing President Clevelands orders to restore the
dissoute Liliuokalani to the throne In HAWAII
was due to a healthy suspicion on the Minister'S
part that conditions in Honolulu did not war
rant so fatuous and arbitrary step. MI.
Rlounts successor it has been frequently con-
tended did not feel that he was safe IN execute
,r., tho nrocramme of monarchical restoration
knowing that an attempt to overthrow the oe
lure Provisional Government would be resisteo
by force as an invasion of Hawaiian sover.
eighty ard ii has been sensibly presumed thas
Mr. Willis prudently waived the immaculate
action urged upon him in his INSTRUCTIONS IN
order 70 present the situation in Hawaii in its
true light to the President and Secretary Gresh'
am. and 10 get the benefit of their further coun'
sci and decision.
rboso surn,ses as to the causes Of Mr.. Wiis's
tardinass seem completely confirmed by the
lotest Information from the islands. as well al
by the manifest reluctance of the PRESIDENT 70
nublish what are now seen to haveNbeen ex-
travapant and unwarranted orders to his repre-
sentative to restore the Hawaiian monarchy.
FURTHER ORDERS FOR WILLIS.
That the revenue cutter Corwin is to take
hack the Administrators answer to Minister
WiIIiss request for additional or modified orders
seems now equally well established. What these
orders are is, of course, not known but tnere
can be little reasonable doubt that they
involve a retreat Of some sort from the original
high-ha nded and arbitrary programme OK torci'
bic Intervention and restoration OF the corrupt
and licentious monarchy at the bayonet points
OF the marines.
In the light of this frank and ingenious dis
closure by Minister Willis OF the worthlessness
of Paramount Blounts report and the I'M
practicability of the original instructions paseo
upon It, no one can wonder at the anxiety OK
the President to keep from the knowledge OF
the Senate and the country the full extent OK
the error into which the Administration zen
through a credulous confidence In CotoneI
Blounts discoveries" There can be little douoe
that the original instructions to Minister Wills
would remain forever buried in the state De-
partments archives II an urgent demand from
Congress did not threaten to make their sup.
preston as great a political as they themselves
are diplomatic blunder
As IL is the publication OF all the Hawaiian
correspondence cannot be long avoided. for steps
were taken to-day In the Senate to bring to
light the facts about the Administration's secret
Royalist programme. which have been 80
sedulousy withheld from the public for the last
eight months. Senator Hoar. shortly after the
Senate ret to-day. introduced o resolution eall-