The record-union., 1893-11-23
and thenceforth it shall be moral and po-
litical treason to remove it or strike it
down.
THURsToN WILL NOT BE DISMISSED.

!
down."
THURsToN WILL NOT BE DISMISSED.
| WASHINGTON. Nov. %. = Minister
Thurston of Hawaii is not likely TO re-
ceive his passports, although it was said
at the State Department this morning
that there were abundant grounds for such
action. Were it in any other country, or
i'll this country under any other circum-
| stances, his passports would be issued
| Immediately. 1t is claimed his letter is a
! breach of diplomacy and amply sufficient
| to warrant this Government in immedi-
ately severing all relations with the Ha-
waiian Minister. Such action would be
taken but for the reason the American
| people might not think it fair play; that
! the right of any man to talk and give his
! side of a controversy is always conceded,
and to force Thurston TO leave this coun-
try would be considered by the people in
the light OF disposition not to allow the
| other side a hearing. The Department
chooses to consider the publication as
statement by Thurston, vitality inter-
! ested party in the outcome of the III
waiian affair, and not as al otficiai state-
lnent of the Hawaiian Minister.
| Thurston, the Hawaiian Minister, this
morning said he had not received his
passports from the United States Govern
ment yet, and had no reason TO expect
them. 1t was no diplomatic improperly,
| he said for foreign Minister to make a
| personal statement in his defense when
| he was personally assailed, and he con-
sidered that he and the members of the
| Provisional Government, as individuals,
had been personally assailed and their
veracity impunged.
In an interview to-day, Senator Cullom
of Illinois expressed the opinion that
Congress on reassembling would take up
/ the Hawaiian question in vigorous way.
lie said there would be an early demand
for ali reports bearing on the question.
~ can hardly say" he continued. what
Congress can do, as the treaty has been
Withdrawn, but there is nothing to pre-
vent a general expression of opinion by
! Congress, and ii, meantime, it should de-
velop the Queen has been restored TO the
throne by the Intervention of the United
States, there is no telling what might be
done. The country will not tolerate the
kingly airs assumed by the present Ad-
| mlnIStratlOn. In my opinion its best
course is TO go into bankruptcy, where,
by its policy it has forced so many good
men,"
GRESHAM AND HoKE SMITH.
| CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-The Inter- Oced7pS
! Washington special says: a report is
gaining wide publicity that there is a
sharp difference OF opinion in the Cabinet
on various matters, and that as a result
Gresham and Hoke Smith have threat
ened to resign. 1t cannot be determined
that there is any truth in the report.
1t is stated, though, on the best of au
thority that at a recent Cabinet meeting
President Cleveland spoke in very plain
terms to Smith in regard to his pension
policy. He stated that the course now
being pursued by the Interior Depart
ment had caused the Administration
more trouble, especially in the Western
States, than any other action. He asked
Smith to define his policy in plain terms,
! and to do 1t very soon. Smith has also
! taken strong issue on the Hawaiian
| question and believes the Administration
has blundered.
| The Daily Press says editorially: The
statement made by Thurston, Minister
from Hawaii, will satisfy all but the most
prejudiced that Queen LiliuOkalani was
not deposed with the aid OF the United
States troops; that Minister Stevens
actions were in strict accordance with in
ternational law and diplomatic usage;
aided or abetted by him, and that there
was not plot or conspiracy with ramiiica-
tions extending to Washington. 1t shows
that Blount did not attempt to get at both
sides of the story, but contented himself
with interviewing royalists and others
favorable to the continuance of the cor
rupt Government of the Queen. The re-
port made by Cleveland's Minister Pleni-
potentiary and Envoy Extraordinary is
proved to be devoid of sincerity and in
great part of truth. The Administration
is unable to eXtricate itself from the Ha-
waiian slough into which it has fallen.
The more it struggles the deeper it sinks
into the mire.