The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-08
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.

III CANNOl De recOrueu IndG Lue
first week of the session of con
gress after the holiday recess has
u marked any sensible advance to-
wards the disposition Of important
mattors pending before congress, but it
is expected by the party managers that
the coming week will witness at least II
beginning of the consideration OF the
tariff bill in the house, and the bill to
repeal the federal elections laws in the
senate.
tits expected that the subject of our
Hawaiian relations will make its re-
appearance in the senate very prompt.
ly for the opportunity stands open in
the shape of two resolutions which lie
undisposed of on the vice presidents
table One of these is the Frye reso.
luton declaring that there should be
no interference by the Unite dsStates
in Hawaii pending the conclusion of
the investigation now being made by
the senate committee on foreign rela.
tions, and it is expected that Mr..
Frye, who is a member Of the commit
tee will have some remarks to deliver
on this subject.
BLoUNT AND HIS AUTHORITY.
The second resolution is that intro.
duced by Mr.. Hoar calling for state.
ment of the expenditures made by Mr.
Blount and the authority therefor
Mr.. Frye intends to try and force his
resolution to vote tomorrow. Sena-
tor Davis, of Minnesota, proposes to
deliver set speech on the Hawaiia
situation during the week While this
senator is member Of the committee
on foreign relations, and consequently
has superior mesps of information, it
is understood that he will not avail
himself of this opportunity in prepar-
ing bis speech, being au insistant ad-
vocats for the preservation of commit
tee room secrets.
Congress will await with great inter
est the receipt Of the presidents mes
sage announcing the new phase OF the
Hawaiian situation, and the hope is
expressed that the president will learn
lesson by his past experience and be
more frank than heretofore, and not
hold back any Of the instructions that
were sent to Minister Willis, and the
replies received from him. 1t is we'll
understood now that the so-called in
structions communicated to congress
in his message were merely official
skeletons, andnthat the minister all the
time was acting under secret orders,
which. Of course. will not appear in
the published documents.
n,rS1onpn Nrytrrtci cDN-Dr,ryr
The only explanation of Minister
Willis conduct since the message was
read to congress that seems at all rea-
soDable is that he acted either under @
misunderstanding of the latest instruc-
tious sent him or that his action wai
taken before the arrival of the Corwir
at Honolulu bearing dispatches TO him
announcing the fact that the president
had referred the whole case to con-
gress. At the department even those
who are so severe in the criticism oi
Minister Willis as to suggest that his
recall will follow this new development
in the Hawaiian situation are inclined
to believe that he will take no further
steps and has taken none since calling
upon the provisional government to re-
sign.
In congress there is, of course, ne
hope for the president and the secre-
tary Of state. Their policy will be
condemned and repudated promptly
and effectively. As for Queen Liliou
kalani it is thought that she will bt
justified in presenting heavy claim
for damages against the United States
Representative Rayner. of Maryland,
who claims to have been selected by
the president and Secretary Gresham
to prepare and deliver an argument in
the house sustaining the administra
tion's theory that Minister Stevens was
the leader Of tho conspiracy to over
throw the queen, may have to revise
his speech.
RAYNER NOW AT SEA.
He was proceeding under the impres
sion that no action had been taken b,
the present administration. that is, tha
no overt act had been committed By
Minister Willis at the instance of tho
president and Secretary Gresham. H,
was preparing himself to show thai
Minister Stevens had exceeded his au
thority asa preventative of the United
States, but Mr.. Rayner also intended
that the policy of the present admins
tration should be to keep hands off and
leave Hawaiians to adjust their owl
differences.
Representative Cultivate, one o.
the leading Democrats in the house, BY
reason Of his membership on the com
mittee on rules, expressed his regre
that the administration had become in
volved in this disagreeable business
In his opinion the president might hav
saved himself and the country a grea
deal OF unnecessary trouble had h
bsen content to simply withdraw from
the senate the proposed treaty of an
uexation and recalled Minister Stevens
The latter might have been succeede
by minister credited to the Govern
ment Of Hawaii with instructions t.
patiently await until the people of tn
Sandwich islands settled among them
selves the form OF government they iu
tended to establish.
The programme In the house thi
week is quite simple and distinct. A
soon as the Democrats present votin
quorum the pending order for th
consideration Of the Wilson bill vii
be adopted and that measure will b
the business beJore the house until
shalI have been disposed of by q vot,