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established. Including the instructions to
Minister Willis, will be furnished to the Sem
ate. The result will probably be one OF the
bulkiest executive documents on record.
The reports. correspondence. and aflidavits in
cidental to Commissioner Blounts special re-
port, as printed for semi-private circulation on
the long folio sheets affected by the State De-
partmont. cover 522 pages, many OF them in
very close type. AS rearranRed and reprinted
in the shape in which documents are usually
sent to Congress-, the number OF pages will be
doubled. Then there Is much correspondence
on Hawaiian matters which tG9s place before
has not yet Reen the light OF day
Mimi ister Thurston, the representative ip
Hawaii, saw Secretary Gresham at the state
department this morning Aiterward Mt.
o ths Result his With I
Gresham, but his answers to questions In
dicatsd that he he'd Leaned ,ISd,,dn ,nSthng new
thinks the next news from Honolulu
will come through the mail steamer due Of
on Nov. %, three days after the departure OF
the klickitat, the barkentine which arrived
at Port Townsend on Monday, bringing copies
OF the Hawaiian Sidr containing the interview
In which Minister Willis is quoted as saying
that contingencies have arisen which make II
with the state Department before acting on
his Instructions.
1ntimations are made In well-lnformed
quarters that Secretary Greshams letter to
the President advocating the restoration OF
the Queen, and the correspondence and reports
transmitted by Commissloner and Minister
Blount, were made public IN the manner they
were under the belief that Minister Willis had
already taken measures to restore the mon
archy and thatthe policy oithe Administration
would be an accomplished ctbeiore copies OF
the letters and reports could reach Honolulu.
The knowledge OF this intended action being
now communicated to tho Provisional Govern
mont in advance OF Its execution. IL 10 thought,
will enable that Government to strengthen its
hands in such n way as to seriously impede
progress toward securing the end which the
United States Minister was instructed to bring
about
At the executive session OF the. Senate this
afternoon, there was an informal discussion
over the recent publication OF Mr.. Blounts re-
port as to the res sponEibiity OF Senators in such
matters. the assertion having been made that
the document got into the papers through that
channel 1t was agreed that the documents
sent to Senators as individuals. although
marked confidential, were not among the
archives. and Senators were not amenable to
the rules OF the Senate, however derelict they
may have been in the matter
Minister Thurston left Washington this az
ternoon for Chicago His departure gave rise
to report that his objective point was Homo
lulu. but this could not be confirmed at tho
tnRs. Secretnry Of tho Legation. whom asked II
Mr.. Thurston would return to Washington
from Chicago, said that he did not know.
Asked tho object OF Mr.. Thurston's trip, Mr..
Hastings said he was not certain, but possibly
exhibits which were now at Chicago. The
Minister, he said was desirous OF making a
good showing of the exhibits OF his country at
the mid-winter exposition in San Francisco,
necessary to go to the Pacific coast Whether
he would 60 thence to Honolulu he could not
say. and added that 1t did not look as II he
would, because he had left his wife and son In