New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-19
CHAGRIN AT WASHINGTON.
NEWS FROM HAWAII NOT WHAT HAD
BEEN EXPECTED.

TIE ApMINISTR AT1OS MORTIFIED AT MINI Ell
wILLIs's FAILURE TO CARRY OUT HIS
oRDEPS-EFFORTs TO ACCOUNT FOR HIS
CHANGE OF PLAN-No SURPRISE AT
TIE HAWAIIAN LEGATIoN-hT
TITUDE OF THE EX-QUEFN.
fpY TrIEGnAPH TO The TRIBr~s)
Washington. Nov ls-To say that the Ad-
,pin,s,ration Is completely nonplussed at the
failure OF the Australia to bring definite news
of the, restoration Of Liliuokalani to power In
Hawaii mildly expresses the present humor OF
officials At both the State and Navy Depart
ments evident chagrin and vexation were mani
tested upon the receipt OF the disappointing
news Just brought from Honolulu to san FRAN
CISCO That Minister Willis had failed TO exc
cute his orders to overthrow the provisional
Government and 10 place Liliuokalanl on the
throne using for that purpose. II necessary, the
marines of the Philadelphia and Adams. was
at frs. treated as almost incomprehensibe. 1t
was plain that the loudly proclaimed moral
duty" of restoring the Queen to her own
had miscarried. but no one was prepared 10 snow
exactly why how. On all sides there was
evidence OF modification and dependency. At
first the tendency in Administration circles was
tn criticize Minister Willis for culpabe delay
attitude of suspended judgment and Of marked
disincljnation to discuss the Hawaiian situation
from any point Of view.
This change was more noticeable after the re-
turn of Secretary Gresham from the White
House where ne went In haste on hearing the
news from San Francisco. The consultation be-
tween the President and the Secretary lasted
half an hour or more. II was evident that the
President had cautioned his Secretary OF state
to maintain strict silence and to indicate neither
by word nor act the vexation OF the Administra-
ton. Proof Of this was forthcoming after the
Secretary returned to his office. To repeated
inquiries as to an explanation OF the absence
of important news from Honolulu the Secre-
tary would only reply: II have nothing at all
to say to-day: nothing at all.
SILENCE AT THY DEPARTMENTS.
The policy OF silence had evidently been en-
ioined on other leading officials well. and in
the two Departments--th" stat" and the Navy -
chiefly concerned vita the Hawaiian question
II was most strictly observed. Outside official
circles where there is an open effort to ma
some reasonable explanation Of Minister Will
ISIS failure to execute his original orders. there
is much confusion OF opinion. AT the Hawaiian
Iepation there is n, definite or satisfactory cy-
nlanation to be obtained Minister Thurston
has made public only one dispatch relating 10
the subject II was from Mr.. Wilder, Ha-
waiian Consul-General at San Francisco. and
arrived about 3 o'clock this afternoon. 1t read
as follows:
willis has sail or done nothing. Gresham's
letter not known
1t is said at the Legation that no further adj
vices are expected tonight. No theory of Mr.
Willis's delay in upseting President Doe's
authority and restoring Liliuokalani to power
seems more generally credited than that the
Minister had been invested with discretionary
powers and that he had found the state Of
things In Hawaii so different from what had
been supposed that he withheld positive action
until he could further communicate with the