The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14

| ject of this is to enable the president
to receive these official communications
before any intimation of their char
acter can be telegraphed, l will. on
| Tuesday, acknowledge the receipt OF
| the answer of the provisional govern
ment, notifying them that the presi-
dent has been informed thereof and
that no further step will be taken by
me until l have heard from him.
shall deliver a similar communication
to the queen.
Very great excitement is prevailing
here and the peculiar conditions sur
rounding this people prompt the above
course, which / trust will meet the
appreciation of the president and your
self. l think it proper to acknowledge
in this public way the efficient ser
vices rendered the government of the
United States by Consul-General Mills,
since my arrival at this place.
ALBERT S. WILLIS.
Dole's Reply.
President Dole's reply to Willis de-
mand is as follows, dated Dec. %:
your excellency's - communication
of December 10, announcing the con-
clusion which the president of the
United States of America finally has
arrived at, respecting the application of
this government for a treaty of politi-
cal union with that country, and re-
ferring, also, to the domestic affairs
of these islands, has had the considera-
ton of the government.
while it is with deep disappoint-
ment we learn that the important
proposition which we submitted to the
government of the United States, and
which was at first favorably consider
ed by it, has at length been rejected,
we have experienced a sense of relief
that we are now favored with the first
official information upon the subject
that has been received through
period of over nine months. While ac-
cepting the decision of the president
of the United States. declining to
further consider the annexation propo
sition as the final conclusion of the
present administration, we do not feel
inclined to regard it as the last word
of the American government upon this
subject. For the history Of the mutual
relations of the two countries; the
American effort and influence in build
ing up Christian civilization, which
has so conSpicuouSly aided in giving
this country an honorable place among
independent nations; the geographical
position of these islands and the i'm
portance to both countries of the profit
able reciprocal commercial interest
which has long existed together with
our weakness as a. sovereign nation all
point with convincing force to a practi-
cal union between the two countries,
as the necessary and local result from
the circumstances mentioned. This
conviction is emphasized by the favor
able expressions of American states
men over long period in favor of an
neX3tl0n-
are names as w. L. Marcy, William H
Seward, Hamilton Fish and James G..
Blaine, all former secretaries of state;
and especially so by the action of your
last administration in negotiating
treaty of annexation with this govern
ment and sending it to the Senate with
a view of its ratification.
We shall, therefore, continue the
project of political union with the
United States as a conspicuous feature
OF Our foreign policy confidently hop
ing that sooner or later it will be
crowned with success to the lasting
benefit Of both countries.
The additional portion of your COM
munication referring to our domestic
affairs, with a. view of interfering
therein, is a new departure in the rela-
lions Of the two governments.
your information that the president
OIL the United States expects this gov
eminent promptly to relinquish to her.
meaning The ex-queen. her constitu,
tlonal authority with a question. Are
you willing to abide by the decision
OF the PRESIDENT might well he dis
missed in single word, but for the
circumstances. Your communication
contains. as it appears to me. mis-
statements and an erroneous conclu-
sion based thereon, so preiudicial to
this government that I cannot hermit
eieln 10 pass unchallenged. Moreover.
me Importance and menacing char
acter or this proposition make II an
propriate for me to discuss son,avha+
fully the question raised by it. We do
not recognize the right of the nresi-
cent OF the United States to interfere
IN our domestic affairs. Such ripht
couid De conferred upon him by an act
oI TINS government, and by that alone
or 1t could be accrued by connuest
rms, understand to he an American
doctrine conspicuously announced from
tllne 10 time by the authorities of your
government 'o0i
He declares that the basis On u,biob
the president founded his decision ~ ~,
FAVOR OF the queen, that one of tbe in
oucements held out to the queen to in
ouce her to retire was, that the nresi-
cent OF the United States would hear
ana oetermine her cause, is not well
rounded. A statement to that effect
was made to her by Damon, but not
by the authority of the provisioneI
government, but on Damon's individ-
ual responsibility. Therefore. the nro-
vislonaI government Is not bound Nv n
and could not recognize the author;tv
OF arbitration assumed by President
Cleveland. ''uene
Dole says: at is a fact that the
PRESIDENT OF the United States recog-
nlzed the provisional government WIFI
out qualification and received it's &C.
creolted ENJOYS successfully. How
ever, granting all that President
Cievland claims, 1t must be taken as
conclusive that the president of the
United States had adjudicated and de-
termlned upon the queens claims adj
verse; 10 her and in favor of the
provisional government, while the
business of the government was with
the president Of the United State,
This, however, is set forth in the cor
respondence between the two govern
ments and, if the provisional govern
ment had submitted its right TO tbe
Dnlted States, the facts will appear in
mat correspondence. Such agreement
must be shown as a foundation of the
right of the United States government
10 interfere, for an arbitrator can he
created only by an act of two parties
moreover, 1t appears the queens AFT
torney was refused passage on the
government dispatch boat sent to San
Francisco with the annexation com
missioners less than two days after the
new government had been declared.
II the intention to submit the question
of the reinstatement of the ex-dueen
had existed, why should her attorney
rave been refused passage on this
boat? Furthermore, the queens let
ter to the president two days after