New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-27

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s.rrvrys.s COURSE CRITICISED -EErrELIrNN
SENATORS DISSENT FROM Mr. MoRGAN's
VIEW As To THY AUTHORITY FOV TIE
.r,RAMorNr'' ONES APPOINTMENT
no VOICE UPLITTED IN
FAVOR OF RESTORATION
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WASHINGTON Feb. 26.-The lonE-eXpec;ed re-
nor, Of the Senate Committee Foreign Rela-
lions on the results of its investigation into the
circumstances attending the Hawaiian reyolu-
lion was submitted this afternoon by Mr..
Morgan. the committees chairman. As has been
generally surmised the report made public
q more than mildly critical Of the Hawaiian
Motley Of the Administration. and must be taken
n nut final and definite end to President
CleveIand's hope Of drae0Onng the Democratic
majority in Congress into approval of the
fantastic and laundering programme of monar-
chical restoration attempted 70 be enforced in
secret by himself and Mr.. Gresham.
Mr. Morgan takes too broad and enlightened
view Of this coun;ry's relations with other
powers Of the American system. and has shown
on too many previous occasions spirit OF
genuine Americanism to warrant the belief that
for mere personal and partisan advantage he
would StOOp 10 alQ III the effort DPeul Ill the
Hou=t 20 exonerate the Administration from all
blame for its Hawaiian plumbers by assailing
the acts done in Honolulu by a Minister serving
under a previous Republican Administration.
Grea, pressure was brought to bear the
Alabama Senator by the friends of the Presi-
dent to induce him to join In the cuckoo
chorus Of eXculpation and apology and TO follow
the lead Of Chairman MCCrcary of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee in advocating some
vague and general measure Of Presidential in
dorsemen, That Mr. Morgan should have with
stood the effort within the party t. extract from
him. chairman of the Foreign Relations Com
mittce OF the Senate some declaration which
would "whitewash" the whole record of the
President and Secretary Gresham in their deal
ings with Iiliuokalani and the Provisional Gov
ernmen, does credit at once to his personal
Independence of character and to his firm de-
votion to those convictions Of sound and pro-
greSsive Americanism in foreign policy of which
he has been for many years rather solitary
exponent within the ranks of Democratic states
men.
Mr.. MORGAN BEYOND CUCKOO" INti.. 'ENCE.
The other three Democratic members Of the
committee who were supposed TO represent the
anti-"cuckoo' feeling in the party Messrs. But
Ter. Turpie and Daniel. were won over 10 sign
the minority report; which Mr. Gray. the sole
repu;ed friend Of Liliuokalani on the committee,
had drawn as frankly he dared in eXculpa-
ton of the Presidents unfortunate diplomacy.
But Mr.. Morgan. preferring to maintain political
consistency and personal self-respect. put his
name with those Of the four Republican men,
bers to report which rejects worthless the
whole fabric of evidence on which the restora-
ton policy was based. and plainly declares that
of hat he
toration of Liliuokalani by armed force-would
have been violation of all constitutional re-
strictions and a confessed act Of war.
The majority report drawn by Mr.. Morgan and
signed also by Messrs Sherman. Dolph. Frye
and Davis, is a long and closely argued review
Of the evidence taken before the committee. 60
ing, as 1t does, minutely into the history of the
revolution to prove that the Information fur
nished the President by Paramount Blount
was wholly misleading and untrustworthy, and
necessarily involved the policy built upon it in
speedy confusion and failure. The Alabama
Senator in the main defends Minister Stevens's
conduct in cordial terms, though he disapproves'
as did the Harrison Administration. Of Mr.
Stevenss premature proclamation OF the pro-
tectorate AS to the record made by the present
Administration in Hawaii, Mr. Morgan considers
its total failure to absolve il from any serious
charge Of "irreguarity." The Presidents theory
that ne had been constituted arbitrator be-
tween the Queen and the Provisional Govern
ment. with power - upset the one and restore
the other. having been punctured by President
Dole's decisive refusal to accept results OF this
sef-assumed arbitration and the failure Of the
President to enforce the decision in the only way
possible to enforce it--by the use Of the marines
Of the Philadelphia-Mr. Morgan judges lenienty
the actual results attained, and adopts the con-
ciliatOry view that arbitration" with the Presi-
dent meant simply an intention to offer the
friendly assistance Of this Government In the
pachcatiOn Of internal disputes in the Hawaiian
Islands. No fOrm1l "irrcgularty' Is therefore
found in Mr.. Clevelands policy. as. luckily for
its author it miscarried at every critical point
TIiE PRESIDENTS POLICY DENOUNCED.
The appoin;men. Of Mr.. Blount as Para
mount" Commissioner is accepted and defended
by Mr.. Morgan as proper and regular though the
other signers with him denounce it in their adj
ditiona statement Of opinion unconstitutional
and without warrant in law. They also decline
70 judg, Mr.. Clevelan1's QuXOtc restoration
scheme simply by It's empty practical results ana
denounce most vigorously the spirit and pur-
pose Of the Presidential programme. the exc
cuon OF which contemplated would have in
VOWED this Government in grave VIOLATIONS OF
international law.
The minority report, signed by Messrs Butler.
TurDie Daniel and Gray, is notable for what IL
omils to say rather than for what it SAYS. ii IS
confined 10 a simple censure OF Minister Stevens's
alleged interference in behalf Of the reVo-
lutionsts in Hawaii. Not word is uttered In
defence Of the elaborate scheme of restoration
undertaken by the President as great moral
duty" Mr. Gray. one Of the signers in his recent
speech in defence Of the Administration re-
iterated mis- belief that the restoration OF
the Queen was the only honorable course
that could be pursued by this Government
after the indefensible interference Of Minister
Stevens But to-day's report Is as omnOusly
silent about the moral duty Of restoring the
Queen as it Is about every other feature Of the
programme which Mr.. Willis tried TO execute.
Is there one moral obligation FOR Mr.. Gray
and his fellow "cuckO0s" when appearing
apologists for the President. and another when
they deal on their own responsibility as 'gis-
lators with exactly the same political ana dlplo-
matte conditions?
SUBSTANCE or THE REPORT
Mr.. MORGAN BELIEVES THAT ELOlNT DID THE
BEST HE COULD But WAS NOT ABLE