The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-06
IS MOVING With
GREAT CAUTION.
Statement of House Committee
Chairman McCreary.
THE CUTTER CORWIN SAILS.
Has She Instructions to Minister Willis
at Hawaii?
The Captain Put On Record as
Saying He Did Not Know to
What Port the Vessel He Conn
manded Was BOund-Story of the
KIickiIat's Captain.

| Washington, Dec 5-The state de-
partment received no advices from Ha-
wall by the barkentine Klicklat which
arrived at Port Townsend yesterday
They are inclined to question the ac-
curacy of the purported interview with
Willis in the Honolulu Evening Star.
They say it would have been inprop-
er for Willis to thus express himself,
and they do not believe he has. The
president and department of state were
evidently not expecting news from Hon
olulu this morning and the Associated
Press telegram from Port Townsend,
giving the news received by the vessel
from Honolulu, caused much surprise.
Willis had apparently not thought it
worth while to intrust a dispatch to
the vessel
Gresham was engaged this morning
with Justice Harlan, presumably on
the Behring sea negotiation, and could
not be seen. The impropriety of Willis
expressing himself as he was reported
to have done was the only reason ad-
vanced by the other officials for dis
crediting the reported interview.
The state department was evidently
already informed of the news received
in the Associated Press dispatch from
Honolulu, via Port Townsend, so far
as 1t conveyed the intention Of Minis
ter Willis to take no further steps
toward carrying out the instructions
until he should hear further from the
department, but so far as it conveyed
the public utterance in Honolulu by the
minister of his intentions, it was news
TO the cabinet There were indications
to show it was not agreeable news,
and the impression was conveyed that
the administration was rather disap-
pointed at the manner in which Min
lister Willis has thus far conducted his
mission. 1t is evident the state depart
ment received by the last steamer
CAlameda) news that Minister Willis
had determined to defer carrying out
his instructions until he had heard
further from the governments and it is
a fair presumption that the Corwin
has been sent to him with further in
structions, for which the paragraph in
the presidents message, referring to
Hawaii, was written after additional
instructions to Minister Willis had
been dispatched This paragraph may
be taken to reflect the spirit of the
instructions.
Whatever doubt Minister Willis may
have expressed of the accuracy of the
Blount report, the president has not
lost any of his absolute faith in the
accuracy of the Blount investigation
and the justice OF his conclusions. 1t
is highly probable, therefore, that the
new instructions are a repetition of the
old.
The Associated Press representative
received today from a reliable source
an intimation of the policy it was in
tended to pursue in Hawaii. The ex-
tent of the active influence intended to
be employed in behalf of reseating
Liliuokalani on the throne has prob
ably been exaggerated. The purpose
of the administration is believed to be
rather to act as an arbitrator as be-
tween the two parties in dispute, and
endeavor to prevail on them to agree
between themselves. This was contin-
gent upon the confident belief, based on
explicit assurance contained in the last
letter to Blount, that the provisional
government would fall to pieces when
notified that annexation was imprac-
ticable. In that letter, which has not
been published, Blount, under date of
Honolulu, July 81, said:
1.-THE action of the United States is
awaited by all as a matter of neces-
sity. This condition. it can be assumed,
will remain until the proposition to an
mex is accepted or rejected. In the
latter contingency a movement is likely
to occur. The present government can
only rest on the use of military force,
and is possessed of most Of the arms
on the islands, with a small white pop
ulation to draw from to strengthen it
Ultimately, it will fall without fail
1t may preserve its existence for q
year or two. but not longer
Enough is known Of Minister Willis
impressions, gained since his arrival
in Honolulu, to make it certain that
he does not agree with Blount in this
The Associated Press telegram which
brings the late news from Hawaii was
read at the cabinet meeting today from
the office copy in advance of publica-
ton. 1t was the subject of consulta-
ton in the cabinet, but probably caused
no change in the plan decided on after
hearing from Minister Willis by the
Alameda
Hawaiian Minister Thurston was not
at home this morning, but the little
group of Hawaiians at the same hotel
was glad to hear the news by way of
Port Townsend, and expressed the opin-
ion that it gave cause for encourage
ment to the friends of the provisional
government.