Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-12-21
HIS PLANS FAILED.
.HE PRESIDENT SENDS A HAWAIIAN
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

The Entire Question Turned Over TO Con
gress For Stevens Respon
slble For the observation-disclosures Ad
| ministration Criticized.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. - Presiden
Cleveland's special message ON the Ha
waiiHn question was submitted to bOtl
branches of congress Monday. 1t will b
remembered that only few days agc
the senate requested the president to sub
init to that body all correspondence, etc.
which had passed between the two coun
tries. together with the instructions t.
Commissioner Blount, Minister Wilt
and others.
The contents of the Hawaiian message
had been thoroughly anticipated, and il
contained not a single statement as tC
what Mr.. Cleveland and Secretary
Gresham had done that was not practi.
cally, even if unoficially, known before
hand.
The bulk of the message is occupied
with special plea in support of the idea
of Cleveland that the honor and duty of
the United States required the restora-
ton of Liliuokalani to her throne.
Mr.. Cleyeland's recital and interpreta-
ton of events which led TO what he calls
''The so-called revolution" which result
ed in the establishment of the provisional
government and the overthrow of the
queen, contains no statement which the
letter of Secretary Gresham and the re-
port of Commissioner Blount had not al
ready given to the public.
He says Minister Stevens was too
hasty in recognizing the provisional gov
eminent, which, in reality, was no gov
ernment at all, not being 'in such pos
session of the government property and
agencies as entitled it to recognition is
obviously proved by note found in the
files of the legation at Honolulu" Had
it not been for the United States troops
the army of the queen could have sup
pressed the revolution.
He claims ''the provisional government
owes its existence to an armed invasion
by the United States fair minded people
with the evidence before them will hard
ly claim that the Hawaiian government
was overthrown by the people Of the isl
ands or that the provisional government
has ever existed with their consent"
He says the queen surrendered to the
United States troops and not the pro
visional government after the latter had
agreed to allow both sides to be heard in
Washington before any attempt would
be made to secure annexation.
He says the representatives of the pro-
visional government ''assert that the peo-
pie of Hawaii are unfit for popular gov
ernment, and frankly avow that they can
best be ruled by arbitrary or despotic
power"
President Harrison and his admins
tration are censured for sending an an
nexation treaty to congress without
having waited for further details of the
revolution.
The conclusion Of Mr.. Cleveland's
message shows his complete surrender,
although under protest, to the ''exagger-
ated claims of sentiment of our people. -
Mr.. Cleveland acknowledges that his con-
templated res toration of the queen has
failed.
He further says that mot unmindful
of the inherent perplexities of the situa-
ton nor of the limitations upon my
power, I instructed Minister Willis to
advise the queen and her supporters of
any desire to aid i'll the restoration of the
status existing before the lawless landing
of the United State forces at Honolulu
on Jan. 16 last, if such restoration could
be effected upon terms providing for
clemency as well as justice to all parties
concerned.
The conditions suggested, as the in
structions show, contemplate general
amnesty to those concerned in setting up
the provisional government and recog-
milton of all its bona fide acts and obliga-
tions. In short, they require that the
past should be buried, and that the re-
stored government should resume its
authority as if its continuity had not been
interrupted.
These conditions have not proved ac-
ceptable to the queen, and though she
has been informed that they will be in
sisted upon, and that, unless acceded to,
the efforts of the president to aid in the
restoration Of her government will cease,
I have not thus far learned that she is
willing to yield them her acquiescence.
The last sentence in the message is as
follows: "In commencing this subject to
the extended powers and wide discretion
of congress, desire to add the assurance
that I shall be much gratifed to cooper
ate in any legislative plan which may be
devised for the solution of the problem
before us, which is consistent with Amer
ican honor integrity and morality.n
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