The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-06
CLEVELAND CAN'TBE HURT.
His Course With Hawaii Will Show
Up all Right.

The appointment of Commissioner
Blount Fully Justified and Backed
Up by Many Precsdents-7The Com
missioner in Reality Merely Repre-
sentative of the President and Not of
the Government Directly.
Washington, Jan. 5.-The republicans
who are so rampant against the admins
tration on account of its Hawaiian policy,
and who are so confident that an investi-
cation will bring discreditupon President
Cleveland and all who are connected with
him in the matter, will find themselves
most eggregiously mistaken before the
matter is disposed Of. One of. the princi-
pal points made against the President by
Senator Hoar and those who are follow
ing his lead, is that the Presidents
action in appointing Mr.. Blount as COM
missioner, with paramount authority was
fragrant usurpation of authority,
being done, as it was, without the direct
consent of congress The republicans
would be very glad to prove, that the
President has usurped authority, and
they will spare no effort to do but Ia the
end they win find that they are most
egregiously in error. There is no lack of
precedents for President Cleyeland's ac-
tion. The same thing was done by Wash
ington, Madison, Monroe, by Lincoln Cf /
mistake not), and certainly by Grant.
. MERELY REPRESENTED THE PRESIDENT.
These Presidents, and perhaps others
not here named, appointed agents, or
commissioners, or whatever they may be
called, to represent them 1.-THE Presidents)
in countries where there were already
ministers resident and duly authorized to
represent the country, and they appointed
them without consulting congress. There
is distinction between representing the
country and representing the President
of the country. In the cases referred to
above it was held by the Presidents that
the exigencies demanded the sending
of a commissioner, as the special
agent of the President-not to. su-
percede the resident and authorized
minister, or to usurp his functions, but to
specially represent the President in the
particular matter which was then de-
handing attention. This was precisely
what Mr.. Cleveland did inappointing Mr.
Blount, and, in so doing he but followed
presidents which even the republicans
are bound to respect.
NECESSITY FOR THE APPOINTMENT.
That there was necessity, and very
grave one, for the President to be repre-
-
some other person than the then minister,
Mr.. Stevens, is very apparent now to all
who are not controlled by partisanship.
The minister had placed the United
States government in very delicate po-
sition, one from which the most serious re-
suits might follow, and there was there
fore doubt whether he was a fit person to
longer represent the government. The
wlsest thing that President Cleveland
H0llid XuaS fn n enc al
missioner whom he could trust implicitly,
in whose direction he could rely, and In
whose hands the interests and the honor
OF the country would be safe; and he Sc
lected Mr.. Blount for this duty.
OBJECT OF THE REPUBLICANS.
The course Of the republicans has mani
testify been influenced by desire to draw
the attention of the country from the
gross wrong perpetrated by Minister
Stevens and President Harrison by de-
crying the action OF President Cleveland
and the course pursued by Mr. Blount
They want to hide the wrong of their own
officials by endeavoringto show that the
democratic administration has been guilty
of wrong. When the time comes for this
question to be ventilated, there is no
doubt that both President Cleveland and
MIR. Blounr will be fully indicated before
the country, not only in the light of sound
puollc pOiicy, out also as having prece-
dent OF unquestionable authority.
NAVAL OFFICERS STORY.
Recently your correspondent had talk
with naval officer who was on duty
about the Sandwich Islands three years
and lived in Honolulu twelve He says
that Minister Stevens was in the wrong
last January; that the American troops
stationed in Arion hall were uhquestion-
ably placed there for the purpose of
tntimidating the queen: that they
were fully mile from any United States
property, and would mover have been
quartered in Arion hall if they had been
Intended to guard that property. He says
also that Mr. Stevens is entirely unre-
liable and was so regarded by the naval
officers on duty out there. If this state
ment is correct, II will explain how it is
that Mr. Stevens so readily contradicts
Mr. Blount.