New-York tribune., 1894-01-07
THE NEWS FROM AUCKLAND.
1T rs GENERALLY CREDITED.
SILENCE PRESERVED EY THE ADMINISTRA
TION ABOUT MIR WlLII>'S RE
PORTED ACTION
cIRCrM>TANTIAL CONFIRMATION OF THE Al
VICES THAT THE HAWAIIAN ExovTEy
PROMISED AMNESTY Ann TIE MN
I>TEa ASKED TIE PROVISION NJ

Washington. Jan. G-In spite Of all the circum-
stantial combinations ffom various quarters
Administration officials and ,he few "Cuckoo'
Representatives and Senators who are admitted
10 the Presidents confidence. still yehemcntly
repudia'c the report from Auckland that Minister
Wills has made bclatcl effort 10 carry ont
the Administrations programme I'm Hawaii by
calling on the Provisional Government - nbdl-
cate IN favor u the queen. The apologists for
the Presidents ridiculous and discrcdited rcato-
ration policy s,l fl sisi that h. abandoned IT in
good faith when hc confessed his failure to
Congress and threw the whole burden II dealing
with the Hawaiian question on the legislative
branch II IN" Government. and hey take amaz-
inE comfort In the more or less Ambiguous de-
mails ~ the report from Auckland which the
state Department has been authorizing almost
hourly for the last two days Their is never
theless 4 general feeling here to-day that the
Auckland dispatch Will eventually be- found
10 be- little short of the exact truth and the fact
that Secretary Gresham has given countrnance
to all the dcnials made - seems In view of
his recent diplomatic record. only to confirm In
the public mind the belief that Minister Willis
has actually made the demand for the surrender
of the Provisional Government which the Score
tary and his followers are now vainy trying 70
conceal.
The attitude Of cqulvocaton assumed bv the
Administration cannot b. maintained. ~ course
more than = few days longer for at the meeting
of the Senate on Monday next some movement
Will undoubtedly be made To discover whether
the reported demand of Mr.. Wills upon the Pro-
vsiona Government was actually made and
under what authority such an absurd and H.
legal a notice on friendly foreign power was
.t..
saving the Administration from imminent peril
by happily failing to carry out his Instructions
should at the last moment have abanGlned his
hcstations and plunged belatedlv and inoppor-
tunc.y into the monarchcll restoration project
after its authors her" had gladly dropped IT adds
comical touch t. the buTlcsque played ~
Mr.. Gresham and the Pres nj I'm Hawaii that
the employment Of any amount of desperate men
dacity to conceal the facts seems almost par
dOnablc.
THE FACTS MUST COME OUT.
The whole truth will come out. however. as 1t
dil partly In December under thn pressure of
Congress and Of public opinion and il the popu-
lar judgment about the Auckland report Is CON
nr.nci by official confessions there Is apparently
no depth Of dlscrcdlt and contempt to which tn,
Administrations policy Ia Honolulu Will not sink
a more ridiculous and hopeless botchng Of diplo-
macy could not well be found In the annals OF
any great Nation; and the blame for such blum
President and his Secretary by Congress and an
indignant public opinion.
The vague news from Honolulu brought By the
CDTwin seems 10 point certainly at some effort
on MIR Wiliis's part AT Olsting the Provisional
Government and restoring the queen. 1t Is more
than likely that this effort has taken the form of
a demand upon President Dole and his colleagues
to relinquish their own authority and rcaccept
that Of the Queen. That the Provisional Gov
crnment declined absolutely and cmphaticaly
TO comply with this demand may be taken for
granted, and the messages brought back by the
COrwin are naturally assumed 10 contain the
substance of Mr.. Williss notice and of the Pro-
v!s!onaI Governments answer. Having been in
formed In Secretary Grcshams dlSphtch that the
President cannot use force without the con-
sent to Congress-" Mr.. Wills Ia now presumed 10
be In the position Of having no means 10 push his
demand for the Provisional Governments abdi-
cation and he Is perhaps awaiting instructlons''
what To do next in the opera bouffo programme
in which ne seems to play rather uncertain
and wavering part.
EFFECT or ME- TUUESToN'S ARRIVAL.
The fact that the Corwin left Honolulu before
the arrival Of the steamer from San Francisco
carrying Minister Thurston must be taken into
account in any guess at the present situation In
Hawaii Mr. Thurstons arrival fresh from
Washington. with full knowledge Of the state Of /
feeling here. would. IF course. be likely TO |
Illustrate any hope that Mr. Wills might have |
of obtaining the Provisional Governments vol |
untary consent to- abdicatc. Mr. Thurston's !
known determination To resist the Quern's rcs- ]
toration at all hazards would naturally REIN |
force the hesitatiOns OF President Dole and his |
colleagues and put the Hawaiian authorities on |
a firm basis of resistance, both In n diplomatic |
and physical sense Whatever Mr. Willis's de-
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