The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-02-01
CULLOM ON BLOUNT.
The Illinois Senator Severely Scores Cieve-
 innd,a Hawaiian Policy.

Cullom, of Illinois, smartly arralgneu President Cleveland and Commissioners Blount, In his opening remarks the senator reviewed briefly the history of Hawaii and the incidents which led to the revolution of last year, occasioned, he asserted, by the queen when she at- tempted to revoke the constitution of 1887. He spoke in sharp terms of this action, and then directly attacked the policy of the administration. Abundant testimony" he said, "has been furnished upon every hand in con troversiou of the assumed theory of the president and secretary of state, and the declaration of Minister Willis, that the revolution was melted and fostered by United States Minister Stevens and Capt Wiltse, who was in command of the Boston. That theory has been so completely disproved, not only by the combination of circum- stantial and corroborative evidence, but by direct and conclusive testimony, which proof has been accepted by the mass of the American people as ample, that it would be an imposition upon the patience of the senate, as well as upon the public, to present it again on this occasion.
 But suppose the American forces had (which l denyl committed the act so alleged, what difference would that make as regards Mir. Cleveland's act in attempting to recrown Mrs. Dominis? | Mir. Cleveland found there an estab I lished government You may call it what you will, but it was still govern ment in possession and in position" Continuing he said:
 1 Passing by some of the intermediate steps | taken by the United States government such | ns the withdrawal of the pending treaty from the senate; the sending of a special commis sioner as a detective to act as spy upon 1 foreign government without the advice and consent of the senate, then in sessicu; Sld ] other equally ridiculous blunders of Falstlntan 1 diplomacy, we found a government in Hawaii | recognized by re world, in full control of l affairs. Acting under instructions this Ameri. | can spy performed his duty by frequent re- | ports to the secretary Of state as to what he | found and as 10 what he did, which included the | singular incident of pulling down the American | flag.
 "A distinguished American issued an order l that if any man pull down the American flag he should be shot on the spot At a later day, by | the order of Gen Butler, one man was shot for | the same act, for which another now receives the thanks of the executive of the United | States.
 Something over a hundred years ago Brit l ish officer of undoubted character and reputa. | tion was selected as tho special commissioner | of his government to act the part which would | complete the betrayal of West Point and other American forts into the hands of the British | Mai Andre the distinguished spy. was appre- | ,hn n1fy .rts h hia "a | "Whatever may be said of desecra ting our | flag in Honolulu, that was only humiliation | to Americans and a self-inGicted disgrace to | this administration. But the stealing Of an | American spy into Hawaii, with credentials to the head of the recognized government, ad- dressed: My Great and Good Friend, for the | simple and sole purpose of plotting and negUt- ating with Mrs Domnis, then an enemy Of | that government, and secretly and stealthily l endeayoring 10 arrange for her reenthronement | upon the ruins Of temporary or provisional gov. | ernment-was not that such an offensive act | that the provisional government would have | been fully justified, under the rules of war, in | declaring the actor public enemy and treat | ing him accordingly:
 | Tn the United States treason consists in | levying war against the government, or in ad- | herring to its enemies, giving them aid and com. | fort What was Blount in his relation to 1 Hawaii? Neither more nor less than public
 enemy. Personally am very glad to sec the | ex-paramount here in Washington, walking
 safely about the capitol, but must confess | that there would have been a good deal Of grim | justice in the act if the Hawaiian government | had caused his trial either by the civil author fly or by court-martial at Honolulu, as would have been done by any other government
 Just look at it Purporting to be an am
 bassador and accredited 10 recognized gov-
 ernment, his secret instructions not even made | known to this senate. if obeyed by him put him | in the attitude in fact and effect Of the most | despicable of offenders against international | propriety. True, his ofiense was that of his l superiors merely, but the punishment is meted | to the agent who Is caught in the act Maj | Andre suffered death; Commissioner Bount
 receives compensation from the United States,
 but the world condemns both him and his em- ployers. The people of the United States, | of all shades of party faith, have discussed | with bated breath slmost the series of events
 in our diplomatic service since March last
 and have seriously questioned the mental equilibrium of an executive and cabinet which
 could, either by accident or design, have stum-
 bled into such unprecedented and incompre-
 hensible errors.
 ''In the Hawaiian affair the history of nine
 months of successive blunders is so full of the
 tragic, the ridiculous and the farcicai, and
 the responsibility has become so diruse and un-
 certain that the country has reached the con-
 clusion that president and cabinet with all
 their new-fanRled paramounts and mysterious
 cipher dispa tches are the armor of tin-clad ac-
 tors in a stupendous comedy of errors. But
 where is the man whose cheek has not bushed
 with bitter shame as day by day he has been
 forced to read the humilatinr story of our
 blundering Hawaiian policy? Where Is the
 living man whose very heart has not swelled
 with indignation as he has witnessed the per
 petration of inexcusable and unprecedented
 outrages upon weak and struggling people'
 Outrages which, unjust and criminal as they
 were toward that little band, are thousand
 times more disgraceful and criminal against
 our own citizens.
 'The shield and panoply of Aonor which has
 shone like star over the pathway of American
 glory has been blackened and tarnished, while
 people are doing the penance of humiliation | and shame
 "The ridiculous mantle of secrecy which has
 hidden for months the actions of the executive
 has been removed and the patchwork policy is
 fully revealed. How now appears that sham
 and shoddy management which, according to
 the public press, marshaled the subordinate
 employees of the state department en masse in
 the halls of the state building and administered
 to the women, messengers, laborers and
 clerks monstrous oath, that they would
 never reveal to the outside world single word
 or thing pertaining to the Hawaiian core