New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-07
ION that no bounty should be paid on Hawanah

BILE to the people and Government OF the united
: States to render justice that poor, weak anu
feeble people 1t was not in the President
power. Mr.. Mills said, to wage war asa i'nas
Hawaii. and he had not claimed tha AVE- .. ,Ss
within his power But whatever power the
President had in his hands he hau eAei c ,N
He had said that the Government mao oeen
overthrow by the forces OF the united sax
and he had taken down the flag ana prou6l,'
II where it belonged-to the deck OF an Aiiiei y
can vessel; and he had removed the marines 10
their places on board of their ships. lie hau
said thai the Queen was the rightful sovereign
of Hawaii. and that she had been heeah! we
posed. not by her people not by revolution, pus
by armed power welded at tne ns'ancT .a ~i
the accredited Minister Of the United states
That was all that the President could dO' anu III
doing 1t he reflected (Mr. NILS ana no' uou ~
the sentiment Of all honorable people OF inc
United States
TO ASK FOR INFORMATION UNIDENTIFIED.
Mr. Villas Dem. WIS., thought it due to
all Senators that before the discussion as 10
Hawaii proceeded they should be in Il position
IN deal with the facts and to know what they
were. He desired that everything asked for in
the resolution land much more besides) should
be furnished so as to enable the discussion 10
be conducted on an inteillscnt OASIS. Due ~
were reasons he thought why the resolution
ought not to be adopted at the present moment
The President. in his annual message, had made
a brief statement of his general position IN rela-
tion 10 Hawaiian affairs. and had said that
Additional advces We're soon expected ana Wouiu
be promptly sent to Congress. In view OF that
swould be q more dignifled course for the senate
TO pursue to defer making a request of the
President
Mr.. Aldrich (Rep. r. H. asked why the Presi-
dent had not taken the people into his conf
dencc so far as to state the instructions which
he had given to Mr.. BlOunt, his personal para
mount representative.
Mr. Villas thought the question Of the senator
from Rhode Island entirely irrelevant. III hau
been completely answered by the President In
his promise TO give the ampest Information 10
the people of the United States
Mi Hoar (signiicantly)-After he has got
through. -.
Mr.. Vilas-As soon as he can deal with the
Mr.. Villas mentioned the fact of the landing of
the marines in Honolulu, and asked MI Hoar
II that not an act of war.
Mr. Hoar replied that there was no pretence
that any act Of war or of force had been exer-
cfsed He admitted that marines had been
handed but said that II on an allegation
that they TO be used 10 protect the hves
and property of American citizens lie added
that, even ii II true that twelve months
ago the Government Of the United states, or
some official of the United States in violation OF
right and of international law. had done some
thing by which the Government OF Hawan had
been overthrown and a new government estaD-
lIshed, and if that new government had beer
recognized by the United States. and the fresl-
deW had sent letter TO Mr. Dole addressing
him as good and great brother" it was an act
Of infamy for the President 10 send an inquiry
by the same messenger as to what had been
done in the past and to instruct him to over
throw that government. That was an act OF
infamy only paralleled by the act OF Joan when
he stabbed his neighbor under the fifth rio and
said: cart thou in health my brother? Iaugh-
teri
Mr.. Villas reminded Mr.. Hoar that he had not
answered his question; and he again asked MN
whether, IL United States troops had been lahded
and had aided directly or indirectly in the rev.
oiution, that not the commission OF an act
Of war.
upon whether the act had been authorized by
the Government But even in that case ne
would not concede that 1t would be the du'Y OF
the United States, six months attclWaru 10 over
throw the existing condition Of things; because
that argument would require the restoration
of Texas 70 Mexico. . .,,
States had not acquired Texas from Mexico.
Texas had come into the Union voluntarily
Mr. Villas asserted that Tor what the President
had done and for what he had instructed his
Minister to do he had ample and complete ana
perfect authority.
THE SENATE SHOULD HAVE THE FACTS.
Mr. Hill Dem, n W said he did not pro-
nose 10 cross the Hawaiian bridge until he got
10 it. He did not propose to discuss the wisdom
of the original procedure. or the wisdom OF what
had been recently done by the present ADMIN
istration He did not understand that those
questions Involved in the resolution he
seldom agreed with the Senator from Massa-
chusetts (Mr. Hoai). but he did agree with MN
in this particular-that the resolution was an o.
binary and simple one, asking for information
from q department Of the Government Ill reia-
ton to most important matter III was III
formation for which the American people nag
looked in the Presidents message anu WhicH
they had been disappointed in not fnding there.
When Senators ascerta;ned what Instructions
had been given and understood what inc true
situation was, they could determine what they
ought to do. He did not consider that the adop-
ton Of the resolution IN the absence OF the
chairman OF the Committee on Foreign Rela-
lions would be any disrespect to That senator
(Nr. Morgan, Dem. Ala). what the senate
might see fiji to do when the information was
furnished was another ana different subject
altogether. The suggestion that the resolution
should not be acted on in the absence OF the
Senator from Alabama was simply 1or inc SAKE
OF DELAY and in order that Congress might be
pow eriess to take proper action III q certain
event. ,
ing Administration or the present Admin
istration He had no unkind words to say in re-
lation to the action of the previous Minister
to Hawaii or Of the present Minister. IL hao
been publicly limited that instructions had been
given TO upset the Provisional Government by
force If necessary That would DIlng up me
question as TO whether the President had the
right by the use of the Army OF Navy, and
without the consent Of Congress, to restore
the previously existing status-even ccncedihg
that the former government OF Hawal hau
hnen overthrown by fraud force. The in
formation asked for in the resOlutiou was asked
because the Senate was entitled TO H. Inc reso-
ton was asked only so far as 1T was. in the
Presidents opinion consistent with the puDhc
interests 10 furnish it. ne knew mat that was ,n
formation should be withheld for single mo-
ment
What harm was to be done If the people could
know precisely what was now gong on IN me
Hawaiian Islands? No good reason had been
presented or could be presented. why the Presi-
dent should not promptly comply with the reso-
luton There reasons why the lniOrma-
tIon should be given here and now. Perhaps 1t
this very moment at this very hour. the navy
of the United States, cooperating with the
9y..,to int seeking
destroy the provisional government by force
He did not desire to intimate that the instruc-
tions given to the United States Minister at
Hawaii (whatevcr they werc) were improper
because he did not know what they were. Some
might say that the President mad done right.
and others might say that the President had
done wrong; but no Senator knew what the
President had done, and the resolution simply
called unon him 10 inform the Senate ON the