The herald., 1894-01-07
DONE GONE AND DONE IT.
Minister Willis Has Played
the Wrong Card.
His Attempt to 3sRe-Nig" Came
Entirely Too Late.
The Hawaiian Imbroglio in Worse
Tangle Than Ever.
Confirmation of tho Report That willis
requested the Dole Governments
to Resign-Ths State De-
Psrtment Annoyed.

To use a homely expression, with
which Minister Willis is perhaps not
unfamiliar, that worthy representative
OF the administration at Washington in
Hawaii has ''been done gone and done
it," The Associated Press dispatch
from Honolulu few days ago, via
Auckland, N. D.. announcing that Mr..
Willis, in accordance with his original
instructions, had made a formal de-
mand for the surrender of the provis-
lonai government and tbs restoration of
the queen, is fully confirmed by Captain
Munger Of the Corwin, who has at last
so far unboeomed himself as to make
that acknowledgment. This is all he
would say, and the official dispatches
which he brought and forwarded to
Washington have not vet been pub
lished; but the meager information at
hand is sufficient to indicate that some
extraordinary things have happened at
Honolulu within the last fortnight.
1t is not presumed that the provis-
ional government has yielded. but on
the other hand it is most probable that
it has made vigorous demonstration Of
its ability to stand on its own merits
and an emphatic assertion of its deter
mination to resent foreign interference.
1t is not improbable that Minister
Willis has ere this received his pass
ports, and ae like as not some blood has
been spilled il the Roy emboldened
by the stand of the United States gov
ernment. have made any attempt to re-
gain their lost power.
This unexpected action on the part OF
the Afasrican minister, in view of his
later instructions. has been like pouring
fat in the FIRE. and has no doubt further
embarrassed the administration. Wash
ington dispatches indicate that the state
department officials and friends of the
administration feel deeply chagrined at
the unexpected turn in affairs, and we'll
they may. Certain it is that the Hawaiian
imbroglio is in a worse tange than
ever. The subjoined Associated Press
dispatches tell the story.
MUNGER's ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
SAN Francisco, Jan. Captain
Munger OF the Corwin has at last been
interviewed. To an Examiner reporter
tonight he said that the Associated
Press Auckland dispatch, which stated
that Minister Willis had made formal
demand for the surrender of the pro.
visional government, WAS true. Beyond
that Munger would say no more.
DoLE's PROBABLE REPLY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-It is considered
altogether improbable that the Corwin
left Honolulu without the reply Of Dole
to the demand of Willis that the pro-
visional government surrender ita
authority back to Liliuokalani. Minx
ister Thurston arrived in Honolulu on
the Alameda, December 22d. The Cor
win left there December oath. Dole,
therefore had the benefit of Thurston's
counsel in framing reply. Agentle-
man OF this city whose relations with
both gentlemen is intimate, ex-
presses the conviction that Dole's
reply follows closely the lines
of Thurston's letter of December 9th,
delivered to Gresham the day Thurston
left Washington. In that letter Thurs-
ton contended that the United States
has acquired no Jurisdiction over the in
dependent sovereign state of Hawaii. 1t
is believed the points made by Thurs
ton, who is now advising Dole, embody
the main points Dole will cover ia his
reply to Willis demand.