The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-14
Congress May Resent Secretary
Gresham's Usurpation.
HAwAIiANs LIKELY TO RESIST.
The Peoples Government Will Yield
Only to Superior Force.
Queen LII and Her Co-Conspfrators
Against the HawHiian People Seem tn
Have Secret Advices Prom the state
Department.

wAsHIsaToy CIrY. Nov. fa-The state
department today received communities
ton from Honolulu. telegrapned from san
Francisco. written in the navy department
cipher. Securing the substance of the
official communication. Secretary Gresham
took copy TO Woodley for conference
with President Cleveland. Nothing was
given out as TO the substance OF the dis
patch. The plan of The Hawaiian repre-
sentatives is evidently 20 stand rigidly on
the rights acquired by the recognition Of
their government
Congress will undoubtedly take up Ha-
waii Immediately upon assembling In De-
cember. A fight will. ii is said, be made
on the adminisiration's policy, on the
ground that IL has declared war without
the consent of congress. II the present
government peacefully yields TO the per-
suasions of the American minister, the
question involved is whether SO peaceable
= proceeding could be regarded as an act
of war. 1t is argued that il would be an
act of aggression on sovereign power
none the less because that power peace
fully yielded to a threat OF overw helm
ingiy superior force.
There is shrewd surmise in Washing
ton City that the restoration of Queen
Liliuokalani may not be followed by en-
tire withdrawal of the influence of the
United States but that, with the work of
the last administration once undone, a
protectorate may be established over the
monarchy. One clear and certain result
of the present incident would seem 10 be
that annexation will never be profferred
the United States by the Hawaiians again.
L. A. Thurston, minister from Haw ali
to the United States, returned to this city
tonight. He refused to be interviewed in
regard to the Hawaiian situation. and said
he could say nothing further than what
he said 10 the Associated Press reporter sr
Chicago. When asked If he knew any
thing of the contents of the cipher dis
patch which the state department re-
ceived today from Honolulu via San
Francisco. the minister replied shat he
had no information on the subject. He
admitted that he had received adyices
from the Hawaiian government by the
steamer China. but said he had not as
much information as the press reports pub
hshed this afternoon. Thurston was
asked what course be proposed to pursue
in view of the situation in which his gov
eminent was placed by the declaration of
the administrators policy. lie replied
that he had not perfected pans as yet.
SAN ERAsoIsco, Nov. Ia Hawaiian Con-
sui Wilder stated TO a reporter that in case
the administration should ask the proyi-
slonal government 20 step down aud out
the answer would undoubtedly be that the
request could not be granted, but that in
case the use of force should be threatened
the provisional government could
nave but one course TO pursue.
Resistance to the power of the
United States would be useless. but
1t would protest with all its moral force
against such high-handed outrage.
Should the United States protectorate of
the monarchy be withdrawn that mon
archy would not last day. Unquession-
ably the next revolution would not be as
peaceful as the last, and the monarchy
would surely be overthrown, once and
for all