Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-11
IMPEACHMENT HINTED
In the Speech Of Mr.. Hoar in the Senate
Today.
The Administration Severely Scored
Many Bitter speeche. ON Both Side.
Anticipated-A Weak Defense.

Five Senators heretofore on the absentee
list for this session were present today
They were Messrs. Colquitt Gal. Irby IS
CD, Lindsay (Ky.), Morgan (Ala) and Per.
klns (Cal.). In the absence of the Vice Pres
ident in Augusta, Ga, the Senate was pre-
sided over by Mr.. Harris CTenn).
House joint resolution for the protection
of those parties heretofore allowed to make
entries of land within the former Mile
Laos Indian reservation in Minnesota was
reported back favorably from the commit
tee on public lands by Mr.. Berry ark, was
explained by Mr.. Washburn Cdinn) and
passed.
Mr,A Hoar CMass) offered a resolution
(printed in full elsewhere) and asked for its
immediate consideration, calling upon the
President for statement touching the ap-
pointment by him, without submission &c
the Senate, of the Hawaiian commissioner
and the exact functions Of that Official and
for other matters of Information.
The resolution having been read, Mr.
Gray OelD objected to its discussion today
and asked that the resolution go over till
tomorrow. 1t was OF sufficient impor-
lance, he said, to lie over.
Mr.. Hoar claimed that IL was the unvary-
ing custom of the Senate to allow a Sena-
tor to explain a bill or resolution offered by
him; and that was all that he proposed
to do.
MI bTdy WltnuTtw Ills ODltCllOIs anu
Hoar proceeded with his remarks
senator HOar on Hawaii.
Mr.. Hoar commented upon the fact that
the information communicated by the Pres
ident to the Senate, under the seal of con-
fldence had been freely given out to the
representatives of four newspapers that
were known to be Jealous, thorough-going.
he had almost said INSCRIPTIONS, support
ers of the administration.
One of the allegations made was that the
President on the 9Th of March. 1873 (the
Senate being then in SESSION., commissioned
a person 10 proceed to the Hawaiian ISL
ands accrediting him by letter as a COM
missioner from this government to that
government, and said, in the letter of in
structions, that he was to be paramount as
representative of the United States in
those Islands.
A Gross Violation of the Constitution.
If that allegation, said Mr.. Hoar, were
true 1t seemed to him as gross violation of
the Constitution of the United States as was
ever charged upon or imputed to any public
official. 1t was not necessary to say to the
Senate or to the American people that an
and commissioning such an officer, without
the consent of the Senate, was an attempt
to usurp all the diplomatic relations of the
government.
matte Officer CMr. BlounU had proceeded TO
theHawaiian Islands. opened correspondence
with persons there in relation to public af-
fairs i'm those islands, called before him GER
tain citizens and addressed letters to other
citizens. taken their replies orally and had
requested them 10 reduce their oral commu-
nications to writing, and had transmitted
that private correspondence to the President
of the United States
What Mr.. Bayard's Statement indicate
ed.
Mr.. Hoar alluded to the dispatches from
London attributing to Mr.. Bayard the state
ment that there could be no reversal of a
policy based simply on justice and magma
nimity. and that no advantage would be
taken of the weakness of the Hawaiian
queens party; and he said that if the dis
patches were true IL was also true that
great Britain had been taken into a conf
dence which the American Senate or people
had not shared,