The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-13
4 nLuNpEn OF WoRsa9
Fonr items of Information Wanted oy tne
PeopIe from President Cleveland.

Of I~nformation Wanted by the
People from President Clevelhhu.
Washington, Z. c., Post QRd)
The latest news from Honolulu shllts
the ground OF. the Hawaiian controver-
sy. The question OF what Minister ote-
vens did or did not do q year ago IN
connection with the overthrow Oh lne
Kanaka throne is submerged IN a Tor
rent of infinitely darker and more I'M
lucrative significance. 1t rs no IohSei
the possible blunder OF a s~uDofoihat
of6cer of the government that is at
;es1s. il, is possible bad faith and usurp,
alton that looms like q hideous anu
threatening cloud between the country.
and its peace.
There are lust four items OF lnforma-
tion which the American people want
at present and want without delay
i. What were the Instructions sei'
Mr.. Willis by the Corwin?
,. Had the President on the oaY tnae
the Corwin sailed made up his mind as
tht. character of the special message re-
latiye to Hawaiian affairs then IN con
teInplation and subsequently sent 10
Congress?
q. Ii he had made up his mind, were
his instructions to Willis in harmony
with his assurances to Congress on the
18th Of December?
!. II lie had not made up ms mlno III
time to advise Willis accordingly, anu
if. on the contrary, the message by the
Corwin was one of urgency on the ORR
pinal line OF restitution, why ola the
President tell Congress that he referred
the matter to that body on a day when'
bv every reasonable probability, ms re-
preventative at Honolulu must have
been demanding the abdicatlon OF tne
provisional governmentf
we know what MIR. Cleveland sald TO
Congress in his special message OF Tue
18th of December. After explaining
that his original plaus had been set at
naught by the queens refusal to accept
the conditions accompanying them, ne
said:
"In commencing this subject to the
extended powers and wide discretion OF
the Congress, 1 desire to add the assur-
ance that l shall be much gratlned TO
cooperate in auy legislative plan when
may be devised for the solution OF me
problem before us which is consistent
with American honor, integrity and
morality"
And we know, further, that on the
10Th OF December-the day next after
that in which the President had for
ma!ly Commended" the whole subject
to Congress, Mr.. Willis called upon the
provisional government to surrender.
We know, therefore, that while Con-
gress believed that the President mad
r%elinuuished the matter to them and
were proceeding upon the faith of that
understanding, the Presidents repre-
sentative in Honolulu was hard at work
urging the provisional government to
abdicate and clamoring for the restora-
ton OF the queen. There can be no
doubt as to these things-none what
ever. Whether by design or accident,
whether by deliberate Continuance or
the blind workings OF stupidity, the
| people and their representatives IN
Congress have been befooled and out
ragged. And just here is where the
country wants to be enlightened. Did
Mr.. Willis receive instructions by the
Corwin authorizing him to proceed
upon the lines originally laid down? II
SO, why did the President in his mes
sage Of the 18th December declare that
he Commended" the subject to Con
gross? Did Mr.. Willis. on the contrary,
receive advices by the Corwin to the
effect that the President was about to
commend" the matter to Congress?
II so, why did he at once with re-
doubled energy resume his operations
against the provisional government?
There hal been q blunder somewhere,
if not a crime. Whose fault is it?
: These. are questions of infinitely
greater importance than any that can
possibly attach to the uprising of Janu-
airy, 1895. The worst that can be said
OF cX-Minister Stevens is that he conf
mitted an error of Judgment; that in
his sympathy with civilization inc de-
cency he was betrayed into an excess of
zeal. But here we are confronted with,
an cnormity which can borrow no .ex-
cuse from hot blood, and no palliation
from excitement. Here we have the
spectacle of q United States official ac-
Credited to aforeign and a friendly na-
ton plotting the destruction of that ma
TONS established government while the
President OF the United States is assur-
ing the Congress that he has referred
the matter to them and will take no
further steps save by their advice. Is it
q blunder or worse? Have we been
made a laughing stock for the world
through a conjunction of incredible
follies and imbecilities, or has it come
to pass that our very institutions have,
been rodden under foot and scorned?
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