The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-20
AL ARE IN THE DARK.
"NeVS' From Hawaii Still a Natter
Of GueSWOrk.
THE QUEEN is NOT YET RESTORED
ProvisionaI Government Probably Firmly
Entrsnchsd : -Paramont Blunrs Re-
port Has Partly Been Made Public
IL Consists of Ezparti Afndavits.
THE QUEEN is NOT YET RESTORED


TO take the public Into its confidence on
the Hawaiian question. In considering
the news by the Australia IL should be
Understood b Il much that has been pub
lished during the past two weeks has been
pure G njrctur. and surmise.
Ths fact il that those in the confidence
Of the administration have felt and ex.
pressed the utmost assursnos that the
Australia would bring news that ex-Queen
Liliuokalani had already been restored to
che throne. Asser ions as to Minister
Willis instructions have been almost
wholly infcrences from this and from the
expressions In Secretary Gresham's pub
hshsd letter.
The Information as to these instructions
was received from what was believed to be
thoroughly Trustworthy authority. This
was that Minister Willis was 20 seek to
induce the Provisional government to give
way TO the restoration OF the ex-Queen. but
was TO employ no force. waiting for fur
ther Instruct ons IL be found 10 necessary.
IL 10 possible that Minister Willis has
become convinced TO his sntire satisfaction,
without having laid the matter before
President Dole. that the provision al govern.
ment cannoG be displaced without force,
and 30 has determined TO wait for further
Instructors II seems certain, at all
events, that President Dole had no sus.
picion when the Australia sailed that ID
was the purpose Of Minister Willis to re-
store the Quesn.'
More Gusnwsrk.
1t has been the chief fear of the friends Of
the provisional government in this coun.
try that. in its ignorance Of public senti.
ment here aud tke hrst shock Of the
threatened action by tho United States, ID
would Jied It's authority. 1t is true. how.
ever, that for some time past the provi-
sionsl government has abandoned all hope
Of favorable action by the present admin
istration towards annexation aud has been
considering means 10 put iteelf on q per.
mansnt footing.
1t may be hat the public and press have
come to = wrong conclusion as to tho ex-
tent of Minister Willis instructions.
They have supposed that Secretary Gresh-
ANS letter declaring what he thought
ought to be done aud President Cleve-
lands declaration that he agreed with the
secretary's opinion meaut that they had
determined to proceed with what they de-
clared ought to be done.
Some psopls believe that the publication
must have ben Intended as an appeal to
public opinion for information as to the
course to pursue. The choice seems to lie
between this opision and the one that
Minister Willis hss found IL impracticable
to carry out instructions to restore the
queen without using means he was not
prepared to employ.
1t is considered that the chances of ac-
tion by Minister Willis TO restore the queen
will Be- lessened after the news Of the re-
ception accorded Secrst ary Gresham's let.
ter in this country La read in the islands
willis Weakened,
A prominent Democratic senator, men,
Der OF the foreign relations committee,
who declined to permit the use of his
name, said last night
ut seems very clear TO me that Mr.. viii.
lis has encountered a state OF affairs in
Hawaii which he had not been led to ex.
pect and which his instructions did not
cover. He found evidently when he reached
the islands that the provisional govern
ment was dsposed 10 withstand all over.
turss for the restoration Of the queen, and
far better prepared than had been sup
posed 10 resist any pressure TO replace her
upon the throne tevs private advices
of the best character that President Dole
has sll.equipped force of 400 or 800 men
Who will stand BY the present government,
to the utmost limit.
"Now think the inference Is justified
that when Minister Willis found this
well-eQuipped and de ermined force, and
when he discovered that the feeling of the
intelligent people Of the island was favor.
able TO the prssent government, he weak.
ened In his determination to -reseat the
queen upon her throne. If, indeed, the
Dole administration displayed a determi.
-. k.t- -te.. - -
arms, there was nothing for Mr.. Willis to
do hut change his plans and ask for further
instructions.
ITO have persisted in landing the
marines for the purpose Of forcing change
Of government would have been an act OF
war, pure and simple. and no sane man
can believe that President Cleveland ever
contemplated any such move As that.
II see that some OF the newspapers have
put this construction upon what they con-
slider the presidents instructions, but il
must be borne In mind that these instruc
tons have never been made public"
The senator expressed the view that the
islands ought 10 be annexed to the United
States. and said their government could
be made simple aud easy by constituting
them part Of the state OF California.
Vow York asrsId's Version.
NEW YORK. Nov. 20 The Herald this
morning prints, under a Washington date,
what purports 10 be 4 large portion Of the
reports Of Commissioners Blount. IL sums
up a. follows:
Commissioners Blount's report will show
that Minister Stevens landed the troops
from the Boston long before there was
any valid excuse for their presence on
Hawaiian soil; that he declined TO remove
them when requested to do so by the
government aud informed that the
authorities were willing and fully able
to preserve order and TO protect Ameri.
can interests; that these troops were
stationed across the street from the
government building in which Minister
Stevens knew the revolutionists were
about TO read their proc !amation, and that
the revolutionist committee relied upon
American troops TO protect them In this
act OF rebellion; that Minister Stevens
fecoOnixed the nrovisional Oovernmant ae-