The record-union., 1893-10-28
HAWAIIAN QUESTION.
MESSAGE LOOKED FOR FROM THE
PRESIDENT.
Three Solutions for the Trouble-Res-
toration of the Queen, Aunexa-
tion or u Protectorate.
Special to the REcoRD-UxIox.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The leading
| members Of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs in the House, and those of the
majority especially, think Cleveland will
send to Congress Immediately after the
silver bill is out of the way message and
the correspondence in the Hawaiian mat
ter. 1t seems to be the impression that
the message is already prepared, and thai
the President will make his recommends
atiOns in it and give Congress something
! to do.
One of the Democratic members of the
committee said there were three solutions
| of the trouble In Hawaii. One scheme
was the restoration of the old order OF
things by placing the Queen upon the
| throne, and another for annexation or a
! protectorate. That one OF these plans
would be adopted was thought very prob
able, but which would be favored by the
Administration or by Congress he could
not say.
Hit of Illinois, formerly Chairman ot
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, says
the difficulty of dealing with the Ha-
waiian problem is one which cOuld moi
be overestimated. Annexation, with the
peculiar conditions existing in the
islands, is something that might well
Chinese troubles we have in this country
now, and the additional questions which
the annexation of The islands would
raise, not only in regard to the Chinese
but the Japanese and the natives of the
islands, it would naturally cause some
deliberation before the islands were an
nexed as Territory and intended for
Statehood
1t would be the hight of absurdity to
try and set up the old Queen and restore
her to power, and to establish protector
ate would mean to abandon the republi-
can form of government for the islands.
A protectorate would not mean that this
Government was to offer its protection
alone, but that it intended as well to gov
ern the islands as possession. ii a pro-
tectorate were established this Govern
ment would have to have the affairs OF the
| islands conducted in a manner which
would be satisfactory to the United States
and not be governed by what might be
the popular will of the people who now
| inhabit the islands.
Hit says it is necessary 10 have the
islands. They are worth more to the
United States than fleet of ten of the
best vessels aaoat. We build ships for
defense and for the same reason we ought
to acquire the islands. as they are the
Malta of the Pacific Ocean and are obso-
| lutely necessary to the United States.
Hit, while presenting the difficulties in
the way of securing the islands, is not
without scheme which he thinks will be
satisfactory. He says the islands could
be acquired as a military and naval sta
ton and governed as such by the United
States.
The reason the United States wants the
islands is the same that induces this coun-
try to build war vessels and establish
military posts. They are wanted for war
purposes, and if acquired as such could
be governed without disturbing the ex-
listing conditions or submitting the islands
to the rule of the most populous yet ig-
norant classes of the islands.
THE NEW HAWAIIAN MINISTER.
SAN Francisco, oct. 27.-Albert S.
Willis, United States Minister to Hawaii,
arrived here to-day, on his way TO Hon
olulu. Minister Willis said the policy of
the Government toward Hawaii would
be announced very soon-probably by
the time he reached Honolulu. lie is
bearer of definite instructions on the
subject. While the Minister declined to
state what action would be taken by the
United States, the inference was drawn
that the hopes of the annexationists will
not be realized.