The record-union., 1894-02-27
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Morgan, Chair
man of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, to-day presented the report of
the Investigations of that committee
made under a resolution requiring it to
report ''whether any. and ifso what irreg-
ularities occurred in the diplomatic or
other intercourse between the United
States and Hawaii in relation to the secret
political revolution in Hawaii"
The report is prepared by Morgan, and
concurred in by Frye, Dolph and Davis,
Republican members of the committee,
who make also a supplemental report.
Butler, Turpie, Daniel and Gray, Demo-
Gratis, submit minority report. These
reports, together with the mass Of evil
dence taken by the committee, are very
voluminous.
Morgan begins with the proposition
that this Government, in dealing with
any form of government in Hawaii, can
have no break in its line of policy corre-
spending TO any change in the Office of
President. 1t is in all respect the same
government as if under the same Presl-
dent during the entire period. The Pres
ident, however, has the right to change
his opinion and policy, but it must be re-
garded as a change Of mind IN the same
person.
The report then declares against mon
archism in the islands, saying We eXer-
else at least moral suZerainty over Ha-
wall which, it says, lis an American
State embraced in the American CONNER
cial and military system" emitting 1t to
the indulgent consideration, if not active
sympathy, in its endeavors TO release her
people from the Odious anti-republlcan
regime, and subordinates her people to
the supposed divine right OF monarch
''whose title to such divinity originated
in the most slavish conditions of pagan
barbarity."
The report approves Minister Stevens
order landing troops from the Boston on
the ground that conditions existed which
led naturally to the apprehension OF civil
commotion, and endangering the security
of American citizens, and points out that
on three or four previous occasions
similar action had been taken. This
condition, the report says, grew out Of
the effort of the Queen to overthrow the
Constitution, and that her act amounted
to an act of abdication and neutraliZed
her power to protect American citizens.
This report says: SIT is evident the
Queens Government at that time had no
power to prevent the landing of troops
from any quarter, no power to protect
itself against invasion and no power to
conduct civil government; In other
words, an interregnum existed. The
Queen only held the throne under her
oath and the Constitution, and when she
declared herself absolved therefrom it
was an actual act Of abdication. Further
more, she had been overthrown by the
white people of the islands before the
troops from the Boston landed. The
Hawaiian monarchy had perished." In
view of this the report lays down the
proposition that sin a country where
there is no power Of law to protect the
citizens of the United States, there can be
no law OF nations, nor any rule of comfy
that can rightfully prevent our flag from
giving shelter to them under the prOtec-
Iion OF our arms. This is without
reference to any distress it may give the
Queen, who generated the conclusion, or
any advantage it might give the people
in disputing her right to resume her legal
powers"
The report declares: "The purpose of
Minister Stevens and CAPTAIN Wilt was
legitimate and that they acted in good
faith and with no interests except that of
protecting American citizens and pre-
serving order"
The report speaks of the work of Amer
lean missionaries in building up the con-
stitutional government Of that country,
and says it entities the people of the
United States to sympaUhize with and as
sist in resisting its destruction. The
Queens desire 10 Danish or kill her op-
ponents should cause America not to
hesitate to support the Government op-
posed to her.
The report then says that President
Cleveland, as soon as he learned this dis
position of the Queen, abandoned further
exercise of attempts at reconciliation
though unfortunately Willis, in the be-
lief that he was following instructions,
held two or three interviews with the
Queen thereafter.
The report adds: "When crown falls
in any kingdom of the Western Hemi-
sphere it is pulveriZed, and when the
scepter departs it departs forever. Amer
lean opinion cannot sustain any Amer
lean ruler in the attempt TO restore them,
no matter how virtuouS and sincere the
reasons may be that seem to justify
him."
Stevens recognition of the new Gov
ernment is justified, the report saying
1T was his duty at the safest possible
period to assist, by recognition, the ter
mination of the interregnum for the
safety of citizens of the United States.
The question of annexation and Stevens
anxious advocacy thereof did not relieve
him from his duty or abridge his right to
call for troops to protect citizens OF the
United States. The committee, therefore,
find no cause for censure either against
Minister Stevens or Captain Wiltse in
the subsequent raising of the American
flag on the Government building. The
declaration of United States protectorate
was void for want of power and dis
avowed by Secretary Foster and rebuked
by Gresham, who ordered the protecorate
abandoned and the flag hauled down TO
preserve the National honor of this coun-
try" The report makes the point that
1--WE have always exerted the privilege OF
interference in Hawaii to an extent not
justified in the affairs of other countries
The matter of annexation is discussed
at length, and while the whole tenor is
favorable to annexation, no direct state
1nent 10 that effect is made. 1t says
tAnnexation has been a subject of almost
constant contemplation among Hawaiians
since the beginning of the reign of Kam-
ehameha /. In diplomatic correspond
ence frequent and favorable allusion has
been made to the subject The testimony
taken DIV the committee dlscloses the
opiuion OF several of our most eminent
naval and military officers that anneXa-
tion is indispensable TO the proper de-
tense and protection of our Western coast
cities ), The committee says it is one de-
serving OF thorougH IA eseisSti0h auu q
correct. friendly decision. The recogni-
ton of the Provisional Government was
lawful and contributed TO peace.
The report then takes up the appoint
mont of BIount and his investigation,
and saws he presented "a sincere, in
structive report, but that the agitated
state of opinion and feeling in Hawaii al
the time made it next TO impossible to
obtain a full, fair and free declaratlon o.
facts; that the evidence taken by the com