Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-12-01
NATIONAL CAPITAL.

NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE HAWAIIAN MATTER ExClTES
COMMENT.
tatncd When all the Facts are
KnoWn-COmmittce Work OH the
Tariff IiII-A vigorous Policy
Predicted.
Fion our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. "a, 1893.
The conservative and forbearing dis
position OF the administration in deal
ing with the various phases of the Ha-
waiian question has added to the good
effect upon public opinion of the pub
lication, early this week, Of Commits
sioner Blount's report, upon which the
policy OF the administration was large
ly based. 1t has taken no official
notice Of the very unusual and injudi-
cious action of Mr.. Thurston, the min
lister here OF the Provisional govern
ment of Hawaii, in writing and giving
to the press an answer to Mr.. Blount's
report, containing language that
would not have been tolerated from
foreign minister by any other govern.
ment in the world. Had the admins
tration, upon the appearance in the
newspapers of Mr.. Thurston's defense,
sent that gentleman his passports no
one would have had any right to COM
plain it would only have followed
presidents set by every civilized gov
eminent in the world, including our
own-the offense for which Lord Sack
ville-West, the then British minister,
was sent his passports was trivial COM
pared with what Mr.. Thurston has
done. 1t is not improbable that Pres
ident Cleveland, in ignoring the bad
break of Mr.. Thurston, was influenced
by the thought that the Hawaiian
minister was perhaps only too anxious
to pose as a martyr. But whatever
the object on either side the fact re-
mains that Mr.. Thurston was guilty OF
an act that would have driven a for
eign minister from any other country
and that not the slightest official no
tice was taken of it by the admins
tration, and this forbearance is gener-
ally recognized as altogether credita-
bic to the administration.
Aside from the publication of Mr..
Blount's report and Mr.. Thurston's
reply to it, there have been no new
developments this week. No one out
side of the cabinet and few members
of the Senate and House knows the
exact nature of the instructions given
to Minister Willis, and Congressman,
outside of few of the most needless,
recognize the absurdity of attempting
to express an Intelligent opinion in
the absence of that knowledge. When
Congress meets everything connected
with the Hawaiian matter will doubt
less be made public. Then the public |
can and will pass judgment, and no
member of the administration has any
doubt of the nature of that judg- |
ment.
The Democratic members OF the |
House committee on Ways and Means
are working from 10 A. M. to II P. NJ,
every day, in order to get the new
tariff bill ready by next Monday, so as
to give the Republicans members of
the committee an opportunity to pre-
pare their report by the time Congress
meets. The Republicans, having made
miserable failure of their attempts
to cajole the Democratic members OF
the committee into the retention OF
duties that are purely protective, have
now taken a new tack. but the result
will be the same. They are now cir
culating reports that Democratic Con.
gressmen from whose districts petit
tons asking for protection for this or
that industry have been sent to the
committee will, If that protection is |
not given by the new bill (and It GER
tainly will not be, except in the few
cases in which the duty imposed for
revenue may incidentally give protec-
tion), vote with the Republicans
against the bill. After . most dill
gent search have failed to find o
single Democrat who will acknowledge |
any contingency that would cause him
to vote with the Republicans against
the bill, although there are o few
Democrats who would have been
pleased had the petitions of their con-
stitnents been granted, and who ex-
pect to lose their seats in Congress if |
they are not granted. 1t can be pre-
dicted with absolute certainty that
fewer Democrats in the House will
vote against the Wilson tariff bill than
there were Republicans who voted
against the Mckinley bill.
Secretary Carlisle is the recipient of
congratulations from all sides on the
able financial speech he delivered this
week before the New York Chamber
of Commerce. and many are of the
opinion that it will have highly ben.
eficial effect upon the business of the
country.
1t is expected that President Cleve-
lands message to Congress will deal
so fully with the financial policy OF
the administration that the Republi-
can calamity walters will find them
selves deprived of their principal argu-
ment-the allegation that there is a
doubt about the financial intentions
of the administration. The message
together with the new tariff bill will
put those intentions before the public
so plainly that there can be no mis-
understanding and no doubt. Dem.
STATE NEWS.
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