The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-22
INSTRUCTIONS TO WILLIS.
Err CLEVELAND.

The last instructions to Willis, anC
the only ones not heretofore sent Il
Congress, were dated yesterday. They
were sent by telegraph TO +. A. Coop
er, the dispatch agent at San Fran
cisco, TO be forwarded to Willis by the
steamer Mariposa today. The dis
patch is as follows:
"Your numbers IA to Is, inclusive,
show you have rightly comprehended
the scope of your instructions, and
have, as far as in your power, dis
charged the onerous task confided in
you
1.-The President sincerely regrets the
Provisional Government refuses TO &C
.Quiesce in the conclusion which his
sense of right and duty and due re-
gard for our national honor con-
strained him to reach and submit as a
measure of justice to the people of the
Hawaiian Islands and their deposed
sovereign, while it is true the Pro-
visional Government was created to
exist only until the islands were an
nexed to the United States. The
queen finally, but reluctantly, surren-
dered TO an armed force of this Gov
eminent, illegally quartered in Homo
lulu, and to the representatives Of the
Provisional Government, which real
lied its impotence, and, anxious to
get control of the queens means of
defense, assured her if she would sur
render, her case would be considered
oy the United states.
The President never claimed that
such action constituted him an arbi-
traitor in a technical sense, or author
lied him in that capacity between the
queen and the Provisional Govern
ment. You made no such claims
when you acquainted that Govern
ment with the Presidents decision.
The solemn assurance given the
queen has been referred to, not as
authority for the President TO act as
arbitrator, but as fact material to
the just determination of the Presi-
dents duty in the premises.
In "a note which the Minister OF
Foreign Affairs addressed to you on
the 23d ultimO, it is stated in effect
that even if the Constitutional Gov
eminent was subverted by action of
the American Minister and an inva-
sion by the military force of the
United States, the Presidents au-
thority is so limited to dealing with
our own unfaithful officials that he
can take no steps looking TO the cor
rectiOn of the wrong done.
The President entertains q different
view OF his responsibility and duty.
The subversion of the Hawaiian Gov
eminent by the abuse of the authority
of the United States was in plain vio-
lation of international laws, and re-
quired the United States to disavow
and condemn the act of our offending
officials, and, within the limits of his
constitutional power, endeavor TO re-
store the lawful authority.
con the 18th ultimo the President
sent a special message to Congress
comics of RlOunt'S
report and the instructions given to
him and to you. On the same day,
answering the resolution of the House
OF Representatives, he sent copies of
all correspondence since March 4, 1889,
on the political affairs and relations
of Hawaii, Withholding for sufficient
reasons only Stevens No. 30, dated
October s, 1892, and your No. of
November 10, 1898.
'sThe President therein announces
that the conditions of restoration sug-
gested by him to the queen had not
proved acceptable to her, and that
since the instructions were sent to you
to insist upon those conditions he had
not learned that the queen was willing
to assent to them. The President
thereupon submitted the subject to
the more extended powers and the
wide discretion of Congress, adding
the assurance that he would De gratl-
fed TO cooperate in any legislative
plan which might be provided for the
solution of the problem, consistent
with American integrity and moral
ity.
.sYour reports show on further re-
Election the queen gave her unquaIl-
fed assent in writing to the conditions
suggested, but that the Provisional
Government refuses to acquiesce IN
the Presidents decision
1.-The matter now being in the hands
of Congress, the President will keep
that body fully advised OF the situa-
ton and will lay before it from time
TO time the reports received from you,
including your No. 8, heretofore with
held, and all instructions sent you
Meantime, while keeping. the de-
partment fully informed OF the course
of events. Won will. until further no
tice, consider your special instructions