The record-union., 1893-12-14
BEFORE CONGRESS.
The Hawaiian Matter Discussed In tho
Senate,

The Hawaiian Matter Discussed In tho
Senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The presiding
officer laid before the Senate the resoIu-
ton offered Monday by Hoar, calling on
the President for further information on
the Hawaiian matter.
Frye Of Maine addressed the Senate
thereon. He said he did not know how
far the Blount report was before the SEN
ate. but it was before the country in its
entirety. There was, therefore, no deli
cacy in referring to it. as it was public
property. Now, L wish to say" said
Frye with great gravity and much en-
phasis, sin relation 10 that report that.
in my Judgment, it is a most dangerous
report, on which any United States
Senator can afford to make any serious
attack on the character OF any private
citizen of the United States. l affirm
continued Frye, that Blount in his re-
port has not written one single un-
vanished line Of truth, nor given one
unprejudiced opinion, nor rendered one
impartial judgment"
FRYE said he assumed this was an attack
on Stevens that he had dishonored the
flag; that he had committed an act of
piracy. Il thank heaven no citizen OF
Maine ordered the flag hauled down, and
I compliment the Admiral who did haul
it down, that in his dispatch he says: in
obedience TO orders OF Commissioner
Blount.'
81 have no doubt" said Frye, sit may
become necessary to break Stevens down.
| have had reliable information since l
came into the Senate this morning which
says: The purpose of the Administration
is to be the charge that stevens was
party to corruption employed to break
down the Queens Government and es-
tablish a revolutionary Government"
Gray requested Frye's authority for
such a statement. but the latter said he
was not at liberty to give it.
Vest disclaimed speaking as an advo-
cate or special defender of the Admins
tration, but spoke as an American SEN
ator and an American citizen. He re-
ferred TO Stevens as one who believed the
earth belongs TO saints, and we are the
saints" Laughter Stevens and the
Americans in Hawaii had Christianized
the natives, and under the name of cod
had taken possession of the land and di-
vided il among themselves. He warmly
defended Blount, saying purer man,
publicly and privately, had never ap-
Deared in the arena of American politics.
The crime committed by the President,
for which impeachment was threatened,
was that he did not favor annexation of
the islands. If that was crime, Vest
himself was a criminal, and so were a
majority of the American people.
Vest attacked annexation, as opposed to
the traditional policy OF Washington,
jefferson, Jackson, Buchanan and now
Cleveland, he said. LAS L understand
the condition of affairs in Hawaii" said
he, ''the Provisional Government is the
de fdctO Government. 1t is to-day a de
fdcto Government, and any assault upon
it by armed force on the part of the United
States or any other country must be an act
of war, which can alone be brought about
by action of Congress. l do not under
stand that Gresham meant that armed
force would be employed"
Coming TO the instructions to Willis,
Vest said: ''If 1t should turn out that
those instructions were to restore the
Queen by armed force, no one will dep