The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-27
SEATTLE. 1UEsDAY. FEB. ~
SENATOR :moKcAxs nEroKr.


Senator Morgan's report on the
Hawaiian question jussifes the action Of
Minister Stevens aud Capt. Wiitse, jasti-
ies Stevens recognition of the new gov
&efnment and his landing OF marines from
3ths Boston. The subsequent raising of
She American flag on the government
building and the declaration of the United
eta1ss protsctorate was void and had been
disavowed by Secretary Foster under the
Hasrison administration. Senator Nor
CANS majority report declines to sustain
Cleveiands policy of restoration OF the de-
posed queen. and describes her as rebel
agsinst her own constitutional oath, who
had bsen overthrow by the white people
Of the islands before the marines from the
Boston landed. The Hawaiian monarchy
had psrished. and Senator Morgan says:
American opinion cannot sustain any
American rnler in an attempt to restore
them. no matter how virtuous and sincere
She reasons may BIO thai seem to Justify
hinL"
Senator Morgan begins with the proposi-
Non that "this government in dealing with
fany form Of government in Hawaii can
have no break in its line of policy CORE
ppondiag 10 any change in the Office Of
president. IL Ii In all respects the same
kovernmsnt as If under the same presi-
dent during the entire period" This
Aroposition In sound Il was maintained by
attorney General William Writ under the
administrations of Presidents Monroe and
tAms; by President John Quincy Adams
by Caleb Cushing, attorney general
Yer President Pierce. There is nothing
remarkable that Senator Morgan should
decline TO sustain President Cleveiand,s
policy, as the question is q non-parsisan
one, and Senator Morgan knows that our
foreign policy in regard to Hawaii has been
the same hitherto no matter what party
was In power.
In discussing the McCreary resolution
In the house, Gen. Daniel Il. sickIes, q life-
long Democrat, refused 10 vote for this
Cleveland whitewashing resolution, say
i Ing:
s.I do not believe that the administra-
tion 10 q court Of appeal or review for the
acts OF preceding administration. Ii
live 80 long. shall look with surprise and
regret at review. tive years hence of
President Cleveland's action in sending
Mr. Biount to tho Hawaiian islands, as /
now look with surprise and regret at an
attempt To review the action of President
Harrison and his accredited minister
there. Mr.. Stevens. President Harrison 10
out OF office; Mr.. Stevens is out of office
and the constitution OF the United States
gives rs jurisdiction alone of those who
are actually In office, the civil officers of
the United States"
Gen. Siekles refused TO vote for the Nc
Creary resolution, saying that he pre-
ferred the Democratic doctrine concerning
the Hawaiian islands of William L. Marcy,
the greatest of Democratic secretaries of
state. and the doctrine OF Marcy was the
same as that held aud expressed by Web
ster. Calhoun, Legare. Buchanan, Everett,
Seward. Blaine and Bayard.
So far from being Democratic doctrine
Cleveland's policy" Ia the Hawaiian
islands is an anti-Amerioan doctrine that
has always been repudiated by Demo
cratic, Wing and Republican administra-
tions. President Cleveland, If he had been
familiar with the history OF his own party
would have known that his policy of in
fanny" violated all the great Democratic
rrecedents. IL is not partisan question,
and Senator Morgan has net treated Il as
saeh. nas be has. like Gen. S.ckles In the
house, had the mAnliness 10 eourteously
reinse 20 cry cuckoo" when the Clevs-
land clock struck tho hour on the ua-
waiian question.
President Cleveland may plume himself
on his capacity 10 make history" rather
than follow Democrats pTecedents. There
are two Ways OF making history" Jesus
made history, and 50 did Judas; Mirabeau
made history. and SO did Robespisrre;
Lincoln made history. aud SO did JEFF
; Davis, George Washington made history.
nnd 30 did Benediet Arnold