The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-20
INSTRUCTIONS To WILLS.

The last Instructions to Willis, and
the only ones not heretofore sent to
Congress were dated yesterday, They
were sent by telegraph to +. \. Cooper,
the dispatch agent at San Francisco, to
be forwarded to Willis 10y the steamer
Mariposa to-day. The dispatch is as
follows:
Your numbers II to Is, inclusive,
show you have rightly comprehended
the scope of your Instructions, and have,
as far rs in your power, discharged the
onerous task coniided in you.
"The President sincerely regrets the
Provisional Government refuses to ac-
quiesce in the conclusion which his sense
of right and duty and due regard for
our national honor constrained him to
reach and submit as measure of justice
to the people of the Hawaiian Islands
and their deposed sovereign, while it is
true the Provisional Government was
created to exist only until the Islands
were annexed to the United States. The
Queen finally, but reluctantly, surren-
dered to an armed force of this Govern
ment, illegally quartered in Honolulu,
and to the representatives of the Pro
visional Government, which realized its
impotence, and, anxious to get control
of the Queens means of defense assured
her if she would surrender, her case
would be considered by the United
States.
The President never claimed that such
action constituted him an arbitrator in
technical sense or authorized him in
that capacity between the Queen and
the Provisional Government. You made
no such claims when you acquainted
that Government with the Presidents
decision.
The solemn assurance given the
Queen has been referred to, not as
authority for the President to act as
arbitrator, but as fact material to the
Just determination of the Presidents
duty in the premises.
In note which the Minister of For
eign Affairs addressed to you on the 23d
ult., it is stated IN effect that even il the
Constitutional Government was sub.
verted by the action of the American
Minister and an invasion by the military
force of the United States the Presi
dent authority is so limited to dealing
with our own unfaithful officials that
he can take no steps looking to the cor
rection of the wrong done.
The President entertains a different
view of his responsibility and duty.
The subversion of the Hawaiian Gov
eminent by the abuse of the authority
of the United States was in plain viola
ton of international laws and required
to disavow and condemn the act of our
offending officials and within the limits
of his constitutional power endeavor to
restore the lawful authority.
ION the 18th ult. the President sent a
special message to Congress communi.
eating copies of Blounts report and the
instructions given to him and to YOU.
On the same day answering the resolu-
ton of the House of Representatives, he
sent copies of all correspondence since
March 1, 1889, on the political affairs
and relations of Hawaii, withholding
for sufficient reasons only Stevens No.
20, Dated October 8, 1892, and your No.
3 of November 10, 1898.
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 in
structions were sent to you to insist
upon those conditions he had not learned
that the Queen was willing to assent to
them. The President thereupon sub
mitted the subject to the more extended
powers and the wide discretion of Con
gress, adding the assurance that he
would be gratified to co. Operate in any
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vided for the solution of the problem.
consistent with American integrity and
morality.
Your reports show ON further re-
Election the Queen gave her unqualified
assent in writing to the conditions sug-
gested, but that the Provisional Govern
ment refuses to acquiesce in the Presi-
dents decision.
The matter now being in the hands
of Congress, the President will keep
that body fully advised of the situation
and will lay before it from time to time
the reports received from you, incud-
ing your No. 3, heretofore withheld
and all instructions sent you.
Meantime, while keeping the de-
partment fully informed of the course
of events, you will, until further notice,
consider your special instructions upon
this subject to have been fully com
piled with.
Signed, GRESHAM"