The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-05

WASHINGTON, Jan 20-The PTesi
dent, i'm "a brief note Of transmittal, to-
day submitted to Congress the latest
corr, spOndence relating to Hawaii 1t
comprises some brief notes of Minister
Willis TO Secretary Gresham, which
are unimportant, but the chief features
of il are the letters which passed be-
tween Minister Willis and President
Dole, in one of which the Minister
complains OF the utteTance of Dole, as
rejecting on the President of the Uni
ted States, and a letter from Dole i'm
which he specifically inquiries if Will
lis instructions authorized the use of
force. Both these matters appear to
have been settled by the receipt of
the last message of the President to
Congress and the last instructions of
Gresham to Willis.
Following Is the Presidents message
transmitting the correspondence:
To CONGRESS: L transmit herewith
dispatches received yesterday from
our Minister ut Hawaii, with certain
correspondence which accompanied
the same. including most extraor-
binary letter dated December ~, 1898,
signed by Sanford Il. Dole, Minister of
Foreign Affairs for the Provisional
Government, and addressed to Minis
ter Willis after the arrival of my mes
sage at Honolulu, with copies of the
instructions given our Minister.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Following is Do'e's first letter to
Willis, referred to by the President:
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AT
FAIRS, Honolulu, December q, 1898
SIR: Pending fur,her action OF the
Government of the United States upon
matters contained in your commune
cation of December 10Th, and my re-
ply To the same, dated December 23d,
d. To call your eXcellency's most
serious consideration tn the dangerous
ana critical condition of this commune
ity, arising, L most respectfully sub
init, out of the attitude which you
have assumed and the language which
YOU have used in public and in com
municatiOns to this Government, and
also out of the pu jlished letter of the
Secretary of state of the United States
and the Presidents message on the
subject of the restoration of the mon
archy.
do not, however, claim or intimate
that this unfortunate situation has
been Intentionally created by you or
by the Government which you repre-
sent, but arises from the natural con-
struction of your attitude and the anu
ferred to.
At the time OF your arrival in this
country the forces of this Government
We're organized aud amply sufficient
to suppress any internal disorder
After your arrival you made cOmmu
nj ations regaI ding your policy which
were ambiguous, aud for several weeks
you failed TO disclose your Intentions,
and have only partially done so up to
the present moment, leaving this
Government to- Infer what they may
uitimat ~ be FROM the letter from
Gresham amt the Presidents mess, ge,
i'm which it has bt eli declared i'm very
distinct language that the deposed
queen ought 20 he restored to the
throne by the Government of the
United States, aud TO leave the United
States tO infer that this assumed obi
CATION would be discharged.
Your language, expressed in public,
declared that you INTENDED To- perform
some act when tie proper time arrived
without disclosing what that act
would be. Under these circumstances
there arose at once general feeling
of dIsquiet.
The natural inference from your at
titude, language and refusal to disclose
yOur purpose, and from Gresbam's
letter and the Pr sideuts message
was, and il, that you Intended to use
force in maintaining your policy. The
fact is we'll known that you, as ad
mitted by yourself in your cOmmuni
cation of December 18th, without the
consent or knowledge of this Govern
ment have held negotiations with the
depOsed queen for the purpose of over
throwing this Government. The app
prehension of both political parties, as
well as that of persons who remain
neutral i'm these matters, Is that you
hold instructions to u-e physical force
for the restoration of the monarchy.
I am not prepared to state that this
Government enteTtainS this opinion,
although its want Of Information to
the contrary has compelled il 20 act as
If il were correct.
In consequence of your attitude in
this behalf the enemies of the Govern
ment, believing i'll your intentions to
restore the monarchy by force, have
become emboldened; tire ats assas-
sinatiOn of officers OF this Government
have been made the police force has
frequently been Informed of cOnspIra-
cies to create disorders, the aged and
sick persons of all natiunalities have
been, and are, III II state of distress
and anxiety children in the schools
are agitated by fear of political dis
turbaDces; the wives, sisters and
daughters of the residents, Including
many Americans, have been in daily
apprehension of civic iii order, many
of them having even armed them
srlves i'm preparation therefor; the
citizens have made preparation in
their homes for a defense az iin>t as
saults which may arise directly or in
directly from such conflict. Persons
have begun to- pack vaiuables with
the view Of immediate departure.
Large quantities of baudags have
been nrtIareh. md unprni ecteh