Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-01-18
NO FURTHER MOVE.
President Cleveland SenCS the Ha"allSo
Correspondence to Congress.

OUtI6SpUHuOl.OO " Oo"0' w.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 13.-Ine Pres-
ident to-day sent to Congress message
on the Hawaiian affair accompanied os
the instructions to Minister Wills not IL
cluded in the previous messages. ino
last communication sent to Mr.. Wills
instructs him to drop the movement 10
restore the ex-Queen, as the Whoie
matter ia now in the hands OF Con-
rress. The most important docu-
ment accompanying the freslue,no
message is the answer OF fresluen'
Dole, of the new Hawaiian goVerhnnenti
to the demand of President Clevelahd
for the surrender OF the proVlsloiiai
government The message ana CORE
epondence are as follows:
TO THE CONGRESS: ] transmit herewith
copies Of all dispatches from our mlilStci ~
Hawaii relating in any way TO ponucat
affairs in Hawaii except such as nave Deci
heretofore transmitted to Congress. also
send COPIES of instructions sent on January
IL, 1894, being the only instructions 10 nm
that have not been sent to Congress; IN my
former messages to Congress withheio uia
match No. 3, under date of NovemberO 1879,
and also dispatch No. 20 under date OF Octo-
hers. 1898. Inasmuch as the contents or d!s-
natch No are already referred TO III as
patches of more recent date ana lhasiliucll
as there seems. to be no longer any reason
for Withholding it, the same is herewith
submitted. Dispatch No. 10 is still with
held for reasons that seem to be justifiablc
and nroner GROVER CLEv ELAND.
The last Instructions to Minister Willis
referred to in the Presidents letter OF trans
initial as the only instructions not sent TO
CONGRESS are dated yesterday. They were
Of flIp "A
Cooper, the dispatch agent at San francisco,
instructing him to forward the following 10
Minister Willis by the steamer Marlposa TO-
morrow: ,,,,, ,,.
WASHINGTON. D. G., Jan. 12-T WINS, Minis
ter, Uonoulu: Your Nos ii to Is inclusive snow
that YOU have rightly comprehended the scope
of your instructions and have, as far as was III
your power, discharged the onerous task con-
tided in YOU The President sincerely regrets
that the provisional government refuses 10 ac-
Quiescc in the conclusion which his sense
OF right and duty, and due re-
gard for our national honor constrained
him to reach and submit as u measure OF luSuce
to the people of the Hawaiian Islands and their
deposed sovereign. While 1T is true that .ne
provisional government was created TO cNlst
only until the islands were annexed 10 the
United States, that the Queen finally but re-
luctantly surrendered to an armed force OF thls
government illegally quartered in Honolulu
and representatives of the provisional govern,
ment (Which realized its impotence ana
anxious to get control of the Queens means
surrende her case would be subsequently con-
sidcred by the United States, the President has
never claimed that such action constituted nm
an arbitrat tor in the technical sense, or author
lied him to act in that capacity between the
provisional government. You made no sueh
claim when you acquainted that government
with the Presidents decision. The solemn as
surance given to the Queen has not been referred
to not as authority for the President to act as
arbitrator but as a fact material to just deter
minaton of the Presidents duty in the prem
lSes.
In the note which the minister offorcign affairs
addressed to you on the 23d ultmo it is stated
in effect that even if the constitutional govern
mcnt WAS subvcrted by the action of the Ameri-
can minister and invasion by military forces of
the United states, the Presidents authority is
limited to dealing with our unfalthful officials
and that he can take no steps looking to
rection of the wrong done. The President en-
tertains different view of his responsibility
and duty. The SubverSion of the Hawaiian
government by an abuse Of the authority OF the
United States in plain violation of the in
ternational laws and required the President to
disavow and condemn the act of our olendi ng
officials and, within the limits Of his consitu-
uonal power, to endcavor to restore the lawful
authority.
message to Congress communicating copies Of
Mr.. Blount's reports and the instructions given
to him and to YOU. On the same day, answering
q resolution of the House OF Representatives he
sent copies of all correspondence since March 4,
1889, on the political affairs and relations of
Hawaii, withholding for sufficient reasons only
and your No. of November Is, 1893.
The President therein announces that the
conditions of restoration suggested by
him to the Queen had not proved acceptable to
her, and that since the instructions sent to you
to insist upon those conditions, he had not
learned that the Queen willing to assent to
them. The President thereupon submitted the
subject to the more extended powers and wide
discretion of Congress, adding the assurance
that he would be gratiticd to cooperate in any
legitimate plan which might be devised for Il
solution of the problem consistent with Ameri-
can honor, integrity and morality.
Your reports show that on further reflection
the Queen gave her unqualified assent in writ
ing to the conditions suggested. but that the
provisional government refused to acquiescc in
the Presidents decision The matter now being
in the hands of Congress, the President viii
keep that body fully advised of the situation
and will lay before it from time to time the
ports received from you including our No 3
heretofore withheld and all instructions sent to
you. In the meantime, while keeping the de-
pnrtment fully Informed of the course Of events,
you Will consider that your special instructions
with. Wis '"''e'' "'''' ''' '0't Gn geb5leo
The last dispatch received from Minister
Willis, enclosing President Dole's reply to
his demand for the retirement Of the pro-
VlSlOnal government, is as follows:
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES HONOLULU.
Dec. D. 1898, T. M1DNIGHT.-SU: President
Dole has Just delivered in person at this hour
midngh9 the answer of the provisional GOV
ed, to accept the decision of the
President of the United States--a copy
Of which is herewith enclosed. The reve-
nue. cutter Corwin is under sailing orders
and will leave here in few minutes Tor
san Francisco, The captain has been in
sructed to slow up, if necessary, and
enter the harhor at San Francisco at night and
to deliver i'll person the dispatches numbered Ia,
Is. l6. II, IS and 10 to dispatch agent at that
place: The object OF this is to enable
the President to receive these official com
nunications before any intimation OF their
character can be telegraphcd. | will on Tues
day acknowledge the receipt of the answer of
the provisional government notifying it that
the President of the United States will be IN
formed thereof and that no further steps
will be taken by me until / shall have
heard from him. Shall deliver similar com
munication to the Queen. The very great ex-
cltement prevailing here and the peculiar condi-
tons surrounding this people prompt the above
course, which trust viii meet the appreciation
of the President and of yourself ] think it
proper to acknowledge in this public way the
efficient services rendered to the government of
the United States by our consul general, Mr.
Mills, since my arrival at this place
ALBERT S. WILLIS
President Dole's reply to the United