The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-01-18
MORE OF HAWAII.
Ciresham's Further Instructions to Minis-
 ter Willis.

ter Wlllis.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The presi- dent has transmitted to congress all correspondence relating to the Ha- waiian complications since his mes- sage of December IS. The message transmitting the correspondence is as follows:
 To the congress-: transmit herewith copies of all dispatches from our minister to Hawall, relating in any way to political affairs in Ha- waii except such as have been heretofore transmitted 10 congress. I also send copies Of instructions sent on January l2, 1894, being the only instructions to him that have not been sent 10 congress.
 In my former messages to congress with held dispatches numbering three, under date of November le, ls93 and also dispatch No, 70, un' der date of October {, lS93 Inasmuch as the contents of dispatch No. are all referred to In dispatches of more recent date, and inasmuch as there seems to be no longer reason for with holding it, the same is herewith submitted. Dispatch No. 70 is still withheld for reasons that seem to be iustifube and proper
 GROVER CLEVELAND.
 MINISTER WILLIS COMMENDED.
 The last instructions to Minister Willis referred to in the presidents let ter of transmittal as the only instruc- tions not sent to congress are dated yesterday.
 They were sent under cover of tele- gram to w. A. Cooper, the dispatch agent at San Francisco, instructing him to forward the following telegram to Mir. Willis, by the steamer Mariposa tomorrow (to-day):
 January i2, l,9L To Willis, Minister, Homo. lulu: Your numbers, IA to IS inclusive, show that you have rightly comprehended the scope of your instructions and have, as far as was in your power, discharged the onerous task con- fded in you. The president sincerely regrets that the provisional government refuses to ac- quiesce in the conclusion which his sense o' right asd duty and Il due regard for our na" tional honor constrained him to reach ana sup init 1t as a measure of justice to the people Of the Hawaiian islands and their deposed seV- ereiGn
 While it Is true that the provisional govern meut was created 10 exist only unt;' the isl auds were annexed 10 the United States and that the queen finally but reluctantly surren' dered to an armed force Of this government H. | legally Quartered in Honolulu, and representa- | tive of the provisional government which real ized 1 impotence and, anxious to get control Of | the queens means of defense, assured her that, | if she would surrender, her case would be subse Quently considered by the United States, the president has never claimed that such acuo1 | cons i :uted nim au arbitrator in the technical | sense or authorized him 10 act in that capacity | between the provisional government 1ot made no such claim when acquainted tha | government with the presidents decision
 The solemn assurance given to the queen has | not been referred 10 us authorit' for the presr 1 dent to act as arbitrator, but as fact materia | to a just determination of the presidents dutJ | iu lhe premises.
 | In the note which the minister of foreig at fairs addressed to you on the 23d ultimo II + | stated in effect that even if the constitutions | government was subverted by the acron of tn l American minister and an invasion by | military force of the United States
 the presidents authority is limited u
 dealing with our own unfaithful officials, an'
 that he can take no steps looking to correc
 tion of the wrong done The president enter
 tains different view of his responsibility an' | duty The subversion of the Hawaiian govern
 ment bT .au abuse Of the authority of the Unlt
 ed States was in plain violation of the interna
 tional laws and required the prOsid mt to dis
 avow and condemn the act of our offending
 officials and within the limits of his constilu
 tioaal power to enleavor 70 restore the lawtu
 authority.
 On the 18th ultimo the president sent spe
 cill message to congress communicating cople
 of Mir, Blounts reports and the instruction
 given to him and to you On the same day, GI
 swering a resolution of the house Of reI
 resentatives, he sent copies Sf all correspond
 encc since March {, 1889, on the politica
 affairs and relations Of Hawaii, withhold ing for sufficient reasons only Mir SteN
 ems No 70 Of October & ls92 and your No. ( November l5, 1893 The president therein ar nounces that the conditions of restoration sue gested by him to the queen not having prove a, ceptable to her and since the instruction sent to you to insist upon those conditions h has not learned that the queen was willing ) assent to them.
 The president thereupon submitted the su, feet to the more extended powers and wide al [ erection of congress, adding tfe assurance tha 3 he would be grataed to cooperate in an legitimate plan wh cA might be devised for ' solution of the problem. consistent with Ame B icau honor, integrity and morality. l. Your report shows that on further rehecno r the queen gave her unqualified assent I writing, to the conditions suggested, but th @ l the provisional government refused to a . quiese in the presidents decision The ma |. ter now being in the hands of congress Il
 president will keep that body fully advised |. the situation and will lay before 1t fno {: time to time the reports received from vou i j. cludng your No. 8, heretofore withheld aI d all instructions sent to you. In the meantim d while keeping the department fully inform r ot the course of events. you will until furth' J. notice consider that your special instruction IL upon this subject have been fully compile 1T with GREsHAA