The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-13
Minister Willis Probably Simply In
structed to Persuade the Provisional
Government to Surrender.
OPINIONS OF HAWAIIANS
Gresham and His Master Scored
by the New York Sun.
Charged with Trying to Crush the Life
Out of a Young Notwithstanding
Fruit at San Francisco.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-Unless he has
met with some delay United States Minister
Willis has now been in Honolulu a week,
and IL is not improbable that he has carried
into effect the instructions he took with
him and which have been so we'll kept a
secret on this side of the Pacific. If he has
done SO. the steamer which left Honolulu
yesterday will bring the news of the con-
sequent events and will reach an outlet to
the rest of the world with it on next Satur~
day.
Whatever recourse the administration
may have determined upon to secure the
restoration of Queen L~iliuokalani, it is very
evident that Secretary Gresham does not
expect that extreme measures will nave to
be resorted to. The course proposed to be
pursued seems to be to request the present
government, in the name of the United
States, to give way quietly to the restora-
ton of the Queen. The Hawaiians in this
city are very firm in their conviction that the
government will refuse to yield to any such
gentle persuasion as that. They assert their
earnest belief that it will require at least
a show of force to induce them to resign
the reins OF authority. But this opinion is
not unanimous among those familiar with
affairs in the islands. 1t is pointed out how
long and severe a strain there has been on
the members of the provisional government
In the uncertainty that has beset their posi-
ton. The manner and purpose of their
creation, it is pointed out, shows how de-
pendent they feel upon the United States.
The absolute disapproval of them by this
government will be announced to them by
Minister Willis. Whatever cutlery of public
sentiment there is here in sympathy with
them and against their deposition, they
will be asolutely cut off from; all they have
is virtually dependent upon good order and
maintenance of law in the country.
Any sort of assurance from Minister Will
lis that the moral influences of the United
States government would be exerted to
maintain a stable government by the Queen
and to restrain it from such vagaries and
excuses as that OF the constitution she
sought to have adopted in January last
might tempt the members of the provisional
government to step aside ard trust to the
United States to preserve their interests in
it's own way. This is what President Cleve-
land and Secretary Gresham hope for,
though what assurances they nave author
lied Minister Willis to give as to future in
fuence by this government in the islands
is not known.
Representative O'Neil, of Massachusetts,
has laid before Secretary Gresham an APP
peal from a Boston house having interests
in the islands, which shows that all those
acquainted with the conditions nave not
so hopeful a belief as to the outcome of the
effort to restore the Queen as the Presi-
lent and his Secretary. TIL dispatch reads
as follows:
please call on proper officials and re-
quest. on behalf of your constituents hold
ing property in Honolulu and throughout
the kingdom, that instructions be sent to
the United States minister there to protect
the same. We believe there is great dam
ger of bloodshed and destruction TO proper
ty. Have telegraphed Senator Hoar these
facts. \. BREWER q CO."