The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-31

WASHINGTON, Dec 30-The Republican
members OF the foreign affairs committed
of the house have completed the minority
report Oh the resolution presented 10y
Chairman McCreary on the day congress
adjourned, as "A substitute for the HIT
resolution The report was prepared by
MIR. Storer Of Ohio, and is signed by
Messrs. Hit, Harmer. Blair, Draper and
Van Voorhis of New York. 1t is very
goluminous, and goes in detail into the
whole history of Mr.. Blount's appoint
nent as commissioner paramount and the
course of the administration. Speaking
of Mr.. Blount's appointment the repor,
says:
''The president has assumed to appoint
of his own yolitioD, without the advice OF
the senate diplomatic officer with para
mount powers. 10 try to argue that Mr..
Blount was not diplomatic officer of the
United States, but only my special com
missioner is idle. No precedent for such
au appointment has been pointed out, aud
pr longed research on our part falls to md
one that can justify the presidents action.
Mr.. Blount had the power, through secret
instructions, To change inspection into
jursdIction-to change The duty OF learn
lag all into the power Of deciding all. The
real purpose of his mission was not eX-
pressed in written words but 1t cannot be
concealed He was to make case
against the American minister and
against the friendly government he
was accredited 80. Not content
with withdrawing the Foster treaty
from the senate, which may have
been his constitutional right, tAe presi--
dent was led to employ unconstitutional
means and an unconstitutional agent TO
reverse and discredit the policy Of the pre-
ceding administration. This Is more than
an innovation In our foreign policy,
hitherto consistent and steady since the
first days of our republic. 1t is an un-
written but universally accepted law, that
no administration or any representative
government ever condemns the lnterna-
tional policy OF preceding administration;
Tor in doing, 1t would attack It's own
government.
THE resolution that the house should
investigate the occurrences IN Hawaii in
January 1893, so sts to hear both sides of
the question before a committee IN which
both political parties might be repre-
sented offered by member OF the minori-
", lies unconsidered. 1t has been left Cor
the majority of the committee III their
zeal to attack the former administration
prejudice without hearing, to villify with
out examination, tC ignore resolution to
investigate, and to condemn without ln-
vestigaiing."
Coming down to the question of Minis
ter Willis instructions, the report says:
"A friendly, firmly established and unl-
veIsally recognized government WAS 10 he
deposed; a tinsel monarcby-a queen of
shreds and patcheS-was to he set up by
minister Gf the L ulfpu States The
OF justice"
The report refers to Secretary Gresham
Instructions TO Minister Willis Oh NV. "A,
in which occurs the following: You viii
insist upon amnesty and the recognition
or the obligations OF the provisional gov
ernment, As essential conditions of restor-
alton. All Interests will be promoted by
prompt action.'
The policy whose interests were most
to be promoted by prompt actlou,'" con-
tinues the report, was the policy OF the
president, already repudiated by public
opinion. What right the president sup
posed he had to impose terms upou an In
dependent government, which ne WAS
about To reinstate on the very ground that
IL must remain an independent govern
ment, and still assume To Issue commands
that universal amnesty should be made
condition precedent, Is difficult to say.
To impose conditions upon This Legitimate
government would not be to restore"
Speaking of the conditions under which
the citizens of the provisional government
were to live, the report says:
This independent government was not
to be allowed 10 withhold the right of suf-
frage, or even of holding office, from those
whom 1t must look upou as Its bitterest.
enemies. Where would exist the indie
pendence of Hawaii under this duress
from the president of the United States
IL would have been protectorate OF the
United States through Tue presidents sol.
decision and decree"
The report then speaks of the ex-queen's
demand TO know " hat guarantee she was
TO bave OF The carrying out of the presi-
dents pledge, and continues:
NO wonder she wants pledges. Here
was an American mlnlster secretly in
siructed TO threaten and coerce the Coy-
ernment 10 which he was accredited into
yielding peaceably to the restoration OF a
monarchy which was an abomnaJion-a
monarchy so unit to govern that even the
administration was afraid to restore II to
tts full powers and functions. This is not
, he ialr-dealiDg and dIgnlfied course which
should be pursued 10y a diplomatic repre-
sentative OF the United States OF America
There is no ground for debate now as TO
whether the present Hawaiian govern
nent was rightly or wrongly established" ,"
hcNerilnS 10 tue appointment OF Com
missioner Blount, the report says: The
same hight asserted here TO appoint an
ambassador uuder the name OF commIs-
uoner, would allow the president TO ap-
point any agent OF his own without Il con
erence with any other branch of the gov
rnment, aud 10 exercise judicial functions
paramount 10 the judges already in office
BY and with the sepate's consent"
The report, concluding, gives the resolu-
ions offered substitute for the resolu-
Ions reported Dy the majoIIIy, and which,
liter citing the Instructions of the execu-
ave department Tor the overthrow Of a
rlendly government. say:
Resoived, That 1t II the sense of this
house that any such Intervention by the
executive of the United States, its civil or
military representatives or officers, without
'he authority OF congress. Is a dangerous