Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-04
MORE ABOUT HAWAII
Minority Report of the
House on the Question.
II Censures President Cleveland, and
SAYS He Ignored the Language OF
,ho onstjtution-Liyely Times Ex-
pected in the House Next Friday.

rcctod in the House Next Friday.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2-There will be a
Geld day in the house of representatives
on Hawaiian matters on Friday next, IN
all probability. 1t is the present uhuer-
standing that the majority and minority
REPORTS Of the committee on foreign aIlars
on the Hawaiian situation VIII be taken
up on that day for discussion and actloh'
There will be no report from the haJoIIY
Of tbe committee. The substitute for the
HIT and Boutelle resolutions was aEreeu
"a bv the foreign affairs committee on the
last day but one of the session before the
holiday recess. The chairman, Represen-
totive McCrearv, of Kentucky, had no
time TO prepare report other than mere
formal announcement of the committees
action and its recommendation that the
substitute be passed. Mr.. McCreary has
since added an appendix, containing
norton of the correspondence upon the
Hawaiian question, including those docu-
ments which will probably be most IN de
mand in the course of the debate. The
other material which would naturally
have been included in the committees re-
mort Mr. McCreary will use in a speech on
the subject.
The report of the minority is an aggres-
sive document Prepared by Mr.. Bellamy
Storer, of Ohio, at the request of Mr. Hit,
it is also signed by Messrs. HIT, Illinois,
Harmer Pennsylvania, Blair, New Hamp-
shire, Draper, Massachusetts, and Van
Voorhis New York, constituting the en-
tire repu blican minority of the committee
on foreign affairs. The report narrates the
incidents of Mr.. Blount's appointment,
three days after Mr.. Cleveland's accession
to office, while the senate was in session,
quotes the instructions given him, and as
serts that in this appointment the presi-
dent ignored the plain language of the
constitution defining and limiting his
powers. 1t proceeds as follows:
1t is unwritten but universally accepted
law that no administration of any repre-
sentative government ever condemns the
international policy of a preceding adj
ministration, for in so doing it would at
tack its own government.
our attention cannot be diverted from
the question which most profoundly
affects our system of government, by at
tacks. congressional or administrative,
upon the acts of the ministerof the United
States in January, 1893 While we think
it clear that Minister Stevens conduct not
only iustitiable and necessary, but praise
worthy and patriotic, this is not the time
to discuss that subject.
A resolution that the house should in
vcstiZate the occurrences in Hawaii in
January, 1898, so as to hear both sides of
the question before a committee in which
both political parties might be represented,
Offered by member of the minority, lies
unconsidered.
4 has been left for a majority of the
committee in their zeal to attack the for
mcr administration rather than to defend
the present one, to PREJUDICE without hear
ing, to vilify without examination, to il
more resolution to investigate and to
condemn without investigating.
The matters the minority have com
mented on in relation to the present cause
of events are not in doubt or question.
Nothing has been considered or cited but
the solemn official records of the govern
ment and the language used by the presi-
dent in person or through his secretary Of
state. To ignore these burning facts and
try to confne the discussion to what oc-
CURED in January, 1898, aud try to cover
from the eyes of the people the violations
of the constitution, of law and of prece-
dent by the present executive is political
cowardice, and if successful would be po-
litica fraud
IN the secret instructions given him Mr..
Willis is informed that the provisional
government to which he was to deliver his
credentials was not established by the
Hawaiian people or with their consent
nor has it existed with their consent"
Mr., Willis was to notify the queen that the
president would not send back to the SEN
ate the treaty withdrawn on March o. He
was to inform the queen when rein
stated, that the president expected her to
grant entire amnesty to all those connected
with the provisional government, so they
should be deprived Of no right or priyi-
lege"
Having secured the queens agreement
to pursue this wise and humane policy"
Mr.. Willis was ito advise the executive of
the provisional government of the presi-
dents determination Of the question
which their action and that of the queen
had dovolved upon him and that they are
expected to promptly reinquish to her her
constitutional authority"
Should either party decline, Mr.. Willis
was ito report and await further direct
ions.p No specific orders were given as
TO Mr.. Willis course in case both parties
were willing to abide by the president Is
commands.
These secret and confidential instruc-
tious were made known to Congress only
after resolution calling upon the exc
cutiVe for the same had been unanimously
adopted by the house. The official report
OF the secretary Of the state kept secret
from the 18th Of October until n week
after the November election and then
made public aroused almost a universal
expression of public disapproval and re.
sentiment among the American people.
The falseness of the situation thus
created by giving secret instructions TO :
minister of the United States to intrigu,
and negotiate for the over-turn of a gov
ernment to which he had been formall
accredited does not seem to have strucl
the Administration. 1t did strike tn
people of the United States, however
Public opinion had spoken, and woulC
speake still louder, and if success was Il
be gained, it must be gained quickly
Therefore, on November q, ten days be
fore the assembling of congress- the sec
retary OF state teleEraphed MIR. Willis tc
put an end to delays. You will insist
upon amnesty and recognition of obliua.
tions of the provisional government as
essential conditions of restoration. All