Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-31
A BATTLE ROYAL
The Hawaiian Debate is Scheduled
for Friday.
BOTH SIDES READY FOR THE FRAY
The Administration is to Be Duly
Defended.
THERE IS ANOTHER SIDE

The Hawaiian situation is to have three
days discussion in the House, commencing
next Friday. At the instance Of the conn.,
mittee on foreign affairs rule will be
brought in from the committee on rules set
ting apart three days for discussion Of the
resolution reported by the committee on
| foreign affairs.
1t Is expected that a very lively time will
ensue in the House as soon as this matter
Is brought up. 1t is known that a number
Of republicans are preparing to make Wig
| crous onslaughts upon the administration g
| policy and its treatment Of Hawaiian
affairs. On the other hand. the democrats
are preparing to defend the administration,
and to attempt to make 1t unpleasant for
the republicans by dwelling unfavorably
upon Minister Stevens action.
Views of the Democrats.
The resolution Of the majority of COM
mittee, representing the position to be
taken by the democrats. is as follows:
Resolved. first. That 1t is the sense of
this House that the action Of the United
States minister in employing United States
naval forces and illegally aiding in over
throwing the constitutional government of
the Hawaiian Islands in January, 1893, and
In setting up in its place a provisional
government not republican in form and in
opposition to the will Of majority of the
people. was contrary to the traditions OF
our republic and the spirit of our Consti-
tuition, and should be and is condemned.
Second That we heartily approve the
principle announced by the President OF the
United States that interference with the
domestic affairs Of an Independent nation
is contrary to the spirit of American in
stitutions. And 1t is further the sense of
this House that the annexation Of the Ha-
waiian Islands to our country, or the as
sumption of a protectorate over them by
our government, is uncalled for and mex
pedient: that the people of that country
should have absolute freedom and inde-
pendence in pursuing their own line of
policy and that foreign Intervention in the
ponticai anairs of the islands will not be
regarded with Indifference by the govern
ment Of the United States"
The Republican, Position.
The minority of the committee on foreign
aHaifs mas presented a report embodying
the views Of the republicans as follows:
whereas executive communications to
Congress disclose hat the Executive De-
partment has instructed a minister pleni-
potentiary of the United States to conspire
with deposed and discarded monarch for
the overthrow Of a friendly republican gov
ernment to which said minister was ac-
credited, duly recognized by all the civil
lzeo nations, and to which his public in
structions pledged The good faith and sym-
pathy Of the President. the government and
the people of the United States
..Resolved, That 1t is the sense of this
House that any such Intervention by the
Executive Of the United States, its civil or
military representatives or officers without
authority OF Congress. is q dangerous and
unwarranted invasion of the rights and
dignities of the Congress of the ITnited
states and violation of the law of ma
ions; and, further. that the manner of
such attempted Intervention by the Execu
tive and methods used are unworthy of the
Executive Department Of the United States.
while the confessed intent of such inter-
vention is contrary to the policy and tradi-
tons OF the republic. and the spirit of the
Constitution"
This declaration will form the ba sis of the
position to be taken by the republicans in
the coming discussion.
More Hawaiian Letters.
The President 1t is understood, will not
SEND to Congress the latest batch of Ha-
waiian correspondence. which includes
President Dole's reply to Minister Willis,
till Friday.
President Dole's reply has been in the
possession of the State Department since
Saturday last. Those who have been per-
mstted to glance over it say it is an ex-
ceedingly vigorous and pointed document,
about ten thousand words in length Min
lister Willis in his letter of December %
asked for seven specifications. President
Dole gives him about thirty. Most Of them,
however, center round Mr.. Willis first in
Quiry.