The Forrest City times., 1894-01-05
MINORITY REPORT
Of the House Committee on For
 eign Affairs
Concerning the Situation in Hawaii-A Field Day Expected in the House When the Subject Comes Up
 for Consideration.


 tives on Hawaiian matters on Friday next, in all probability. 1t is the present understanding that the majority and minority resolutions of the committee on foreign affairs on the Hawaiian sit uation will be taken up on that day for discussion and action.
 There will be no report from the ma iority of the committee. The substi- tute for the Hit and Boutelle resolu- tions was agreed to by the foreign af- fairs committee on the last day but one of the session before the holiday recess The chairman, Rep resentative McCreary. of Kentucky. had no time to prepare report other than a mere formal an- nouncement of the committees action and its recommendation that the sub- stitute be passed. Mir. McCreary has since added an appendix. containing portion of the correspondence upon the Hawaiian question. including those documents which will probably be most in demand in the course of the debate. The other material which would nat urally have been included in the com mittee's report Mir. McCreary will use in a speech on the subject
 The report of the minority is an az gressive document. Prepared by Mir. Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, at the request of Mir. Hit, it is also signed by Messrs- Hit IlL), farmer (Ps. ]. Blair tN. H. ], Draper Mass and Van Norhis (N. M, constituting the entire republican mi nority of the committee on foreign affairs. The report narrates the inci- dents of Mir Blount's appointment, three days after Mir. Cleveland's access sion to office. while the senate was in session, quotes the instructions given him, and asserts that in this appoint ment the president ignored the plain language of the constitution defining and limiting his powers. 1t proceeds as follows:
 II is an unwritten but universally accepted law that no administration of any representa- tive government ever condemns the interna- tional policy Of a preceding administration, for in so doing it would attack its own govern ment
 Our attention can not be diverted from the question which most profoundly affects our sys- tenn of government. by attacks, congressional or administrative, upon the acts of the minis ter of the United States in January. 1893. While We think il clear that Minister Stevens conduct was not only justinable and necessary, but praseworthy and patriotic. this is no time to discuss that subject.
 A resolution that the house should investi- gate the occurrence in Hawaii in January, 1893 so as to hear both sides of the question be- fore committee in which both political par ties might be represented. offered by member of the minority. lies unconsidered It has been leftfor majority of the committee. in their zeal to attack the former administration. rather ftnu r0 dpFa hn Sanf rO aitlf7cr without hearing. to vilify without examination, to ignore a resolution 10 investigate and to con demn without investigation.
 The people of the United States are widely divided in their opinions upon the occurrences in Hawaii. which resulted in the establishment of the present government We are confident, however. even upon the ex parte results of MT Blounts activity and zeal, that vast majority of the intelligent thought of this country con demns his methods and discredits his conclu- sions To charge minister plenipotentiary ot the United States with fraud. falsehood and wilful violation of the law on the strength Of Mir. Blount's activity and his recommendation alone. is all that the majority of the commit can find in this great subject worthy of their attention.
 The matters the minority have commented on in relation to the present cause of events are not in doubt. or in question. Nothing has been considered, or cited. but the solemn or feial records of the government and the Ian guage used by the president in person or through his secretary of state. To ignore these burning facts. and try to confine the discus sion to what occurred in January 1893 and try to cover from the eyes of the people the viola tions of the constitution. of law and of pre- eedent by the present executive is political cowardice and if successful would be political fraud
 In the secret instructions given him Mir Willis is informed that the provisional govern ment 10 which he was to deliver his creden- tlals was not established by the Hawaiian people or with their consent. nor has il exist ed with their consent" Mir. Willis was to notify the queen that the president would not send back to the senate the treaty withdrawn on March @ He was to inform the queen when reinstated that the president expected her 10 grant entire amnesty to all those connected with the provisional government. so they should be deprived of no right or privilege.
 Having secured the queens agreement to pursue this wise and humane policy. Mir. Willis was to advise the executive of the provisional government of the presidents determination of the question which their action and that of the queen had devolved upon him, and that they are expected to promptly relinquish to her constitutional authority. Should either party decline Mir. Willis to report and await further directions No specific orders were given as 10 MT. Willis course in case both par ties were willing to abide by the presidents commands.
 The secret and confidential instructions were made known to congress only after resolu- ton calling upon the executive for the same had been unanimously adopted by the house. The official report of the secretary of state. kept from the 18th of October until week after the November election. and then made public. aroused almost universal expression of public dlsapproyal and resentment among the American people.
 The falseness of the situation thus created by giving secret instructions to minister of the United States to intrigue and negotiate for the over