The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-06


administration policy by intimating that,
Notwithstanding his representations to
Congress, the President is still secretly in
triguing to restore the Queen. This Off
clal said that the President had furnished
Congress with cOpies of all the instructions
to Minister Willis up 10 date in his mes
sage of December Is, and that this, of
course, included the latest instructions
sent to Willis by the revenue steamer Cor
win.
On December II, exactly eleven days be-
lore the Auckland advices which purport
10 tell OF the situation in Honolulu up to
December y, the Speaker said it was ex-
tFemely Improbable, in view OF the
freSldents admission in his messages
TO congress OF the 18th ult., of the failure
OF his plans for the restoration of the
queen. that Minister Willis hadsbeen in
Sjfucted only week before to continue to
act under his original instructions with
the sole qualification that he was not
authorized to use force. In his message
the Pres dent said
in commencing this subject to extend
the powers and wide discretion to Con-
grsss, desire TO add The assurance that l
shall be much gratiied to cooperate in
any legislative plan which may be devised
for the solution of the problem before US
which is consistent with American honor,
integrity and morality"
Still up to December %, when the Ala
media lef Honolulu, Willis, according to
report, was acting under the instructions
from Secretary Gresham which left San
Francisco by the revenue cutter Corwln
on December 4, aud which were trans
mitted to Congress with the Presidents
message. These Instructions were teIe-
graphed under date of December 3.
1t is pointed out that there was nothing
IN these instructions 10 prevent Willis
from asking the Provisional Government
to abdicate. All that was necessary
toward taking this action was the consent
of the Queen to an act of the amnesty.
AS has been already said the opinion at
the Capitol to-day was strongly inclined to
discredit the Auckland dispatch. Senator
Frye, who has taken a prominent part in
the discussion of the Hawaiian question,
said:
1T is too absurd to be true. 1t is be-
yond comprehension how a Minister of the
United States with the intelligence with
which Willis is supposed to be endowed
should demand the abdcation of the Pro-
visiOnal Government as the dispatches say
in the name of the Government of the
United States. | cannot believe that Will
lis, with his acquaintance with American
history, would for an instant assume that
he is acting in behalf Of the Governm ent
of the United States, when Congress,
which is SO important to tile Government
has not only refused to consent to the res
toration OF the Queen. but has taken action
distinctly in opposition to that PROPOSE
ton. i can conceive of no such possibility
as peaceful surrender of the Provisional
Government The idea that the Queen
should promise amnesty to 2000 or 5000
Anglo-Saxons armed with Winchesters and
Of lndOmItable courage, and expect them
to step down and out for her, is too absurd
to be believed for a moment. Willis is a
man of intelligence. aud l do not think
that be. with a kDowledge of the senti-
ment here that by this time he must have.
could have made such an egregious blum
der"
This sentiment is the prevailing one.
and there are few who express any belief
in the assertion that Willis has taken the
Boutelle was prepared to say something
to-day in the House had opportunity pre-
sented Itself upon the news reported from
Honolulu.
These facts support my contention at
the time the Presidents message was sent
to Congress" said Boutelle, that no.
where did it contain the slightest intima-
ton that his intention to restore the Queen
had been abandoned. That bis plans
had received a check he did, indeed.
say, but it was because the
Queen refused to agree to the plans
proposed. Now it seems they are agree
able 10 her, and the Provisional Govern
ment is so informed. The dispatches say.
No force is to be used What is the need
of any more force? Willis assertion that
the Government has decided TO restore the
Queen is sufficient. 1t is declaration of
war if ever there was one"
Senator Hoar, discussing the report from
Auckland, remarked that II might show
that Frye's fears that the President would
not carry out the suggestions contained
in the closing paragraph of his mes
sage were well grounded, and that the
resolution he introduced requesting the
EtslOoHb W utAtCb Inb EtpIes6n IaLlY6S oil
the United States to remain strictly men,
tral in all things and take no further part
in the business until Congress had acted
was a proper one. Beyond this he did not
care to speak.
a prominent member of the Committee
on Foreign Relations in the Senate said
that the news looked very much as if,
despite the Presidents reference of the
whole subject to Congress. Willis ad been
instructed to ahead as soon as the Queen
agreed to the conditions Mr.. Cleveland
imposed and exercise the moral force of
the United States in urging the Pro-
visiOnRl Government TO retire from power.
Senator Chandler looks upon the act OF
Willis as the last scene in this chapter
of ''misdirected diplomacy" and says
that he is inclined to think that
if Willis has made this demand he
has done it In formal manner,
and that the Provisional Government will
no doubt take the papers. file them away
and preserve their own lives without re-
gard to the Queens offer of amnesty; and
while they are about it, preserve their own
form of government too.