Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-21

stance of the Message Sent 10
the Senate and House - The fres-
ident Gives Up the Task OF En-
dcavoring to Restore the MON
arcnv in Hawaii-The Queens Re
Cusal TO Promise Amnesty TO Ihose
Who Assisted in Her Overthro"
Couses Him to Abandon His Plans.
WAsGryGr1Y. Dec. 19-The immense
bulk of correspondence accompanying the
Hawaiian message sent in to congress by
the president including all the BLount ex-
libits. has constructivey gone down to
the government printing office to re-
appear in the shape OF acongress-
siopal document AS matter OF
fact the great body OF the correspondence
is already in print, but the most interest
ing portions, namely, the recent CORE
spondence and instructions, will be looked
for with much interest.
The president in his supplemental mes
sgga to the house makes mention OF Two
documents that have been suppressed be-
cause their publication at this time was
not deemed compatible with the public
interest,"" one dispatch from the former
minister to Hawaii (Mr, Stevens) OF date
October s, 1892, and one from the present
minister, Mr. Willis) of date November
IL, 1898 1t is suggested that it was to
this last dispatch that Secretary Gresnams
supplemental instruction Of December 81
refer as being 'Your (Ainister Willis
dispatch sent by steamer of goth, OF No
yembern which "seems to call for addi-
tional instructions"
This, however, may not be the dispatch
withheld as there appears to be too long
an interval between its date and the sail
ing of the steamer In any event the fact
that no dispatch from Minister Willis as
far as can be discovered by hasty exami-
nation Of voluminous documents, appears
in the correspondence and the admitted
fact that one at least OF his dispatches is
withheld from publication, increase the
general anxiety to know exactly what
Minister Willis did report to the state
department.
The Hawaiian Message
The president in his message on the
Hawaiian matter says in substance:
In my recent annual message to the
congress briefly referred to our relations
with Hawaii and expressed the intention
of transmitting further information on the
subject when additional advices permitted.
Though I am not able now to report
definite change in the actual situation
am convinced that the difficulties lately
erected both here and in Hawaii and now
standing in the way of solution through
executive action of the problem pre-
sented render it proper and exp,dient that
the matter should be referred to the broad
er authority and discretion of congress-
with full explanation of the endeavor
thus far made to deal with the emergency,
and a statement of the considerations
which have governed my action
! suppose that right and justice should
determine the path to be followed in treat
ing this subject II national honesty is to
be disregarded and desire for territorial
extension, or dissatisfaction with form
of government not our own, ought to reg
ulate our conduct, / have entirely mis-
apprehended the mission and character of
our government and the behavior which
the conscience of our people demands OF
their public servants.
The Harrison Treaty Bill.
When the present administration en-
tered upon its duties the senate had unde
consideration a treaty providing for tn
annexation of the Hawaiian islands t.
the territory of the United States Surel.
under our constitution and laws the en-
largement of our limits is a manifestation
of the highest attribute of sovereignty,
and if entered upon as an executive act,
all things relating to the transaction
should be clear and free from suspicion
Additional Importance attached to this
particular treaty Of annexation, because
it contemplated departure from uu-
broken American tradition in providing
for the addition to our territory of island
of the sea more than two thousand mile
removed from our nearest coast.
hese considerations might not of them
selves call for interference with the con
pletion of treaty entered upon by pre-
vicus administration, but it appears fron
the documents accompanying the treat
when submitted to the senate, that th
ownership of Hawaii was rendered to u
by provisional government set up to sue
coed the constitutional ruler of the islands
who had been dethro oned, and it did no
appear that such provisional governmen
had the sanction of either popular revolu
Hasty Action.
Two other remarkable features
the transaction naturally at trac
ed attention. One was the extrao
dinary haste-not to say precipitancy
characterizing all the transactions co
nected with the treaty
Between the initiation of the scher
for a provisional government in Ha'
Mi on the 18th day of January al
the su omission to the senate of the treat
of annexation concluded with such go
ernment, the entire interval was thirt
two days, fifteen of which were spent
he Hawaiian commissioners in the;
Quincy to Washington.