The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-03-09

days from his Outfng-he is now away
on an alleged fishing and hunting
trip-his nerves will receive a severe
shock.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs has submitted a report uphold
ing Stevens, generating Wiltse, and
apolCgizing for Cleveland.
Morgan, of Alabama, Democrat,
but an American above all things, has
signed the report as chairman, and
the Republican members have con-
Cured.
Not only this, but Butler and Tur-
pie, both Democrats, have declared in
favor of auneXing the islands.
Hawaiian affairs dragged along in
Congress during the past ten days
until the Goth, wheT the report noted
above came in. The particulars of the
report are detailed in the following
despatch from Washington
WASHINGTON, Feb 26. - Morgan,
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, today presented
the report of the investigations of that
committee made under a resolution
requiring it to report whether any,
and if so, what irregularities occurred
in the diplomatic or other intercourse
between the United States and Hawaii
in relation to the secret political revO-
luton in Hawaii"
The report is prepared by Morgan,
and concurred in by Frye, Dolph and
Davis, Republican members of the
committee, who make also a supple
mental report. Butler, Turpie, Daniel
and Gray, Democrats, submit min
rfa IaF-
with the mass of evidence taken by
the committee, are very voluminous.
Morgan begins with the proposition
that this Government, in dealing with
any form of government IN Hawaii,
can have no break in its line of policy
corresponding to any change i'll the
office of President. 1t is in all respects
the same government as If under the
same President during the entire pc
Rod. The President, however, has
the right to change his opinion and
policy, but it must be regarded as a
change of mind in the same person.
The report then declares against
mouarchism in the islands, saying we
exercise at least moral suZerainty over
Hawaii, which, it says, "is an Ameri-
can State embraced in the American
commercial and military SYSTEM en-
titling her to the indulgent considera-
toni not active sympathy, in her en-
deavors to release her people from the
odious anti-republican regime which
subordinated her people to the sup
posed divine right of monarch
"whose title to such divinity origin
ated in the most slavish conditions of
pagan barbarity."
The report approves Minister
Stevens order landing troops from
the Boston, on the ground that condi
lions existed which led naturally TO
the apprehension of civil commotion,
and endangering the security of Anne
rican citizens, and points out that on
three or four previous occasions similar
action had been taken. This condi-
ton, the report says, grew out OF the
effort of the Queen To overthrow the
Constitution, and that her act
amounted to an abdication, ard neu
tralized her power to protect American
citizens.
This report says: at is evident the
Queens Government at that time had
no power to prevent the landing of
troops from any quarter, and no power
to conduct civil government. In
other words an interregnum existed.
The Queen only held the throne I'M
der her oath and the constitution, and
when she declared herself absolved
therefrom it was an actual act of abdi-
cation. Furthermore she had been
by the white people OF the |
Islands before the troops from the Bos-
ton landed. The Hawaiian monarchy |
had perished.n In view of this the |
report lays down the proposition that,
ain a country where there is no power |
of law to protect the citizens of the |
United States, there can be no law of |
nations, nor any rule OF comfy that /
can rightfully prevent our flag from
giving shelter to them under the pro-
lection of our arms. This is without |
reference to any distress it may give
the Queen; who generated the confus-
ion. or any advantage it might give
the people in disputing her right TO
resume her legal powers"
The report declares: "The purpose
of Minister Stevens and Capt. Wiltse
was legitimate, and that they acted in
good faith and with no interests eX-
cept that of protecting American cltl-
zens and preserving order"
The report speaks of the work OF
American missionaries in building up
the constitutional government of that
country, and says it entities the peo-
pie of the United States to sympathize
with and assist in resistingits destruc-
ton. The Queens desire TO Danish
or kill her opponents should cause
America not 10 hesitate to support
the Government opposed to her.
The report then says that President
Clevels nd, as soon as he learned this
disposition of the Queen, abandoned
iurther exercise of attempts at recon-
citation, though, unfortunatel Y, vii |
lis. in the belief that he was following
held two or three inter
views with the Queen thereafter.
The report adds: "When crown
alls in any kingdom of the Western
lemisphereitis pulverized, and when
he scepter departs it departs forever.
American opinion cannot sustain any
ruler in the attempt to re
store them, no matter how virtuous
and sincere the reasons may be that
seem to justify him."
Stevens recognition of the new /