St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-19
GROVER IS ALL RIGHT,
His Message on Hawaii Plain
and to the Point.
STEVENS ROASTED TO A TURN.
He Was Not Ineonveniently
Scrupulous in His Dealings.
THE LIGHT rs TURNED ON,
And the True Animus Of the
Case Shown Up.
THE LIGHT rs TURNED ON
STRAIGHTFORWARD HONESTY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The .presi-
dents Hawaiian policy, with all the
accompanying correspondence since
March 4, 1889, with special message,
was spread before congress today. The
message, in vigorous manner, pre-
SentS to congress the basis for the presi-
dents belief that the overthrow of the
queen was the result of the active eff
forts of eX-Minister Stevens. Having
asserted that the United States was re-
sponslble for the revolt, the message
then deals with the moral obligation of
this government to right what it finds to
be a wrong. In forcible terms Mr..
Cleveland says he much mistakes
the wishes of the American
people if they desire inter
national questions settled on any
other than the highest standards of
morality and justice. The president
then outlines the steps which he re-
garded as essential in pursuing this
course of justice. In doing so he dis
closes for the first time the exact nature
of the instructions given to Mr.. Willis.
The latter was instructed TO advise the
queen that this country desired to re-
pair the wrong done her by restoring
her to the throne. But Mr.. Willis was
cautlohed to be explicit in the fact that
the restoration must not be followed by
the punishment of those who had taken
part i'll the revolution and in the for
nation OF the provisional govern
ment or by the reputation of the gov
ernmental obligations regularly made
by the provisional authorities. This
last feature of the message clears up the
mystery of the long delay in Minister
Willis action, and it also makes public
for the first time that Queen Liliuoka-
lani has been the obstacle in the way
of the accomplishment of Mr.. Cleve-
lands purpose. The message states
that the queen declined to accede to the
conditions Of amnesty. She was re-
peatedly informed that it was the only
basis of interference on the part of this
government. and that unless she ac-
ceeded all effort toward her restoration
WOULD BE ABANDONED.
But MIR. Cleveland says that as yet he
has no information that she will accent
the terms. In concluding the message
Mr.. Cleveland says that the situation
has now assumed such form that he re-
CARDS it desirable to turn the entire
subject over to the broader authority of
congress, and he adds that he Will be
gratified to cooperate in any legislative
solution of the question which is based
on morality and justice. The confiden-
tial instructions to Minister Willis,
under date of Oct. Is, which elucidate
the presidents policy. go carefully into
the grounds upon which the admins
tration decided that the revolution of
January was accomplished by the inter-
vention of the armed force of the United
States and efforts of Mr.. Stevens,
and that our national honor demands
that reparation shall be made by
the restoration of the status
quo existing prior to the revolution.
He is instructed to inform
the queen that the annexation treaty
withdrawn by Mr.. Cleveland from the
senate March will not be again sent
to the senate. and that Mr.. Cleveland
regrets the reprehensible conduct of the
American minister which made the rev.
olution possible. Mr.. Willis, however,
is instructed to make the granting OF a
general amnesty to the members and
supporters Of the provisional govern
ment and the assumption of the obliga-