St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-30

ulous People Generally.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Nov. 29.-EX-MInister
Stevens gives out the following answer
to Commissioner Blount:
A deep sense of obligation TO my
country, and as minister's duty to de-
fend an insult threatened against
struggling American colony, planted as
righteously and firmly OH the northern
Pacific isles as our pilgrim fathers
established themselves on Plymouth
Rock, demand that | shall make
an answer to the astounding mis-
representations and untruthS of Com
missioner Blounts report OH Hawaiian
affairs, copy of which l first
obtained with difficulty Saturday even
ing, Nov. %. 1t is proper for me to
preface my answer by briefly alluding
TO the fact that those familiar with in
ternational rules and proceedings, and
have had diplomatic experience, must
be astonished that Secretary Gresham
and his commissioner should make be-
fore the world such persistent effort
to discredit the recent acts of the de-
partment they now represent. and
which was once represented by Thomas
jefferson, William l.. Marc Y. William
II. Seward and j. G. Blaine. NOtswish-
ing to be severe Oh neophyte in dlplo-
macy with little knowledge of the
worlds affairs outside of his own coun-
try. sent Oh very peculiar errand amid
currents and quicksands entirely un-
known to him, say he has been partly
hax,
been caught in the meshes and snares
adroitly prepared for him by the
CUNNING ADVISERS
of the fallen Liliuokalani, and by the
shrewd, sharp, ,long-eXperlencedB British
diplomatic agent. whose aims and hopes
Blount has served so well. and without
the least suspicion that he was aiding
ultra British interests even more than
he was helping the Hawaiian mon
archists and the justly dethrone-
ment OF the queen. 1t is clear
enough from Blount's manner from
the day of his arrival at
Honolulu, as well as by his letter to the
department of state written shortly
after, that he designed, at whatever
cost, to repudiate the views and action
of the recently terminated administIa-
tiGn, and thatin order to do so he must
impugn the action of Minister Stevens
and commander of the United States
ship Boston. a total stranger. it was i'm
possible for Mr.. Blount to know how un
fitting it was for him to take up his
c 'arters where he was certain to be
rounded by royalists, and where the
Df n, Gil
ment would reluctantly go. The hotel
was kept by one who had served as
Kalakaua's Chamberlain, and who
was one of the principal per-
sons in a syndicate that had cheat
ed the Hawaiian government out
of nearly 100000, a transaction which
Minister Merrill had officially reported
to Secretary Bayard, and this man was
the leading member of firm that
sought to do its chief business with
England. a thoroughly unprincipled OPP
ponent of the provisional government
and Of American predominance
IN TIE ISLANDS.
AS precautionary safeguard against
shutting out the Americans from ready
access TO Commissioner Blount, a
wealthy and highly respectable widow
lady of the American colony was ready
TO grant the use of her house to MIR. and
Mrs. Blount, the commissioner to pay
the same amount it would cost him to
live at the Royaiist hotel. This polite
offer of an American resident TO an
American commissioner did not origin
ate with the provisional government, mol
did the provisional government have
anything whatever to do with the pro
posed arrangement. a committee oi
three American citizens, born and edu
Gated i'll the United Statesmen who
had not taken party In the revolutionary
proceedings of the previous weeks
went on board the RuSe when that yes
sci came into the harbor. At the re-
quest of the three American gentle
men, they were introduced to Mr.
Blount. His manner of receiving theil
visit repelIed them, and they asked me-
TO state the reasons why it would not bt
pleasant to him and better for all con
cerned not to 90 to the IoyaliSt hotel
but 10 take residence on neutral ground
where he would be master of his owl
surroundings. As delicately as
could do so, | stated the offer of the
committee of his countrymen, pointing
out to him that, by accepting theil
proposal he would be near the archives
of the legation, which he conveniently
could use, and which would be pleased
to at once place at his disposal
Brusquely he refused the courteous ant
honestly intended offer of his country
men, and at once placed himself anon!
royaliStS and ultra
BRITISH SURROUNDINGS.
1t is we'll Known to all VINO have tn
knowledge of diplomatic rules and Gus
toms, that when a new diplomatic agen
arrives at the capital TO whose govern
ment he is accredited, his predecessor
and the occupant of the legation shoul
receive him courteously, proffer hi
services to his successor, inform him O
the existing state of affairs, and, as 500
as COLI EN- ent, give him access to the le
CATION archives. He did not allow IN
to show to him the customary form
of Introducing him to the foreign dip
Iomats OF the land, and the chief publ
men or Honolulu. All insinuations an
implications in Biount's report that
was averse to his access to the legi
ton records is shameless perversio
of facts, 10 show tie charac.e
of the MAJ into whose environ
ments he 80 quickly placed hin
self. | took 20 him the printe
dispatches % Minister Merrill to Se
retary Bayard, The printed records {
the recently adjourned Legislature, col
tanning The recorded votes as to I'll
recent changes Of ministers, the 0
fetal copy Of the lottery charter. ev
dence of decisive value, if he had real
come to Honolulu for any other purpos
than to convict Harrson's administri
tiOn and the senate folelgn affairs con