The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-01-18

dent Dole;s Refusal to Surrender
the Reins of Pcwcr-A Vigorous
Document, Trenchant in Style and
Intensely Patriotic in Tone and
Not lacking in Fathcs.
Washington, Jan. 1.-THE president
to-day transmitted to congress all cor
respondence relating to Hawaii since
his last message. The message trans
hitting additional correspondence is as
follows:
Il transmit herewith copies of all dis
patches from our minister to Hawaii.
relating in any way to political affairs
in Hawaii, except such as have hereto
fore been transmitted to congress. l also
send COPIES of instructions sent on Jan.
T. 1894, being the only instructions to
him that have not been sent to con-
gress In former messages to congress
l withheld dispatches numbered three
under date of Nov. 16, 1893, and also
dispatches No. 10, under date of Oct. 8,
1893. Inasmuch as the contents of dis
patch No. 3 are all referred to in dis
patches of more recent date, and mas
much as there seems to be no longer
reason for withholding it, the same IS
herewith submitted. Dispatch No. 20 is
still withheld for reasons that seem to
be justifable and proper
The last instructions to Minister Willis
referred to as the only instructions not
sent to congress are dated yesterday
They were sent under cover of tele-
gram to w. A. Cooper, the dispatch
agent at San Francisco, instructing him
to forward the following telegram to Mr..
Willis by the steamer Mariposa to-mor-
row (to-day):
Jan. II, 1S94.-To Willis, Minister,
Honolulu: Your numbers IA to IS, in
elusive, show that you have rightly COM
pretended the scope of your instructions,
and have as far as was in your power
discharged the onerous task conhded III
you. The president sincerely regrets that
the provisional government refuses to
acuuiesce in the conclusion which his
sense of right and duty, and due re-
gard for our national honor constrained
him to reach and submit as a measure
of justice to the people of the Hawaiian
isuands and their deposed sovereign
While it is true that the provisional gov
eminent was created to exist only unit
the islands were annexed to the United
States, the queen finally but reluctantly
surrendered to an armed force of this
government, illegally quartered in Homo
lulu, and representatives of the pro
,visional government (Which realizing it,
impotence and anxious to get control O
the queens means of defense) assured
her that if she would surrender her cas-
would subsequently be
Considered by the United States,
the president has never claimed tina
such action constituted him an arbitrato
in the technical sense, or authorized hi:
to act in that caracity between the pre-
visional government and the eX-quee.
You made no such claim when you az
uucinted that government with the pres
dents decision. The solemn assuranc
given to the queen has not been referre
to as authority for the president to &C
as arbitrator, but as a fact material
Just determination of the preside
duty in the premises
I'm the note which the minister of fol
eign affairs addressed to you on the %
ult, it is stated in effect that even if til
constitutional government was subverte
by the action of the American ministe
and an invasion by military force {
the United States followed, the pres
dents authority is limited to dealing wit
our own unfaithful officials, and that
can take no steps looking to correctic
of the wrong done. The president ente
tains a different view of his responsible
ity and duty. The subversion of tt
Hawaiian government by an abuse
the authority Of the United States W;
in plain violation of international law
and required the president to dlsavo
and condemn the acts of our offending o
ticials, and within the limits of his CO
stitutional power to endeayOr to resto
the lawful authority.
ION the 18th ult. the president sent
special message to congress communlca
the instructions given to him and to 70
On the same day, answering reSolutlt
of the house of representatives, he Sc
copies of all correspondence since Mar.
+, 1889, on the political affairs and tt
relation of Hawaii, Withh holding, f or s !!
of Oct. 8, 1892, and your No. 3, of No
1G, 1893. The president therein a
IOunces that the conditions of restorati
suggested by him to the queen, had n
proved acceptable to her, and that sin
the instructions sent to you to insist up
these conditions he had not learned tn
the queen was willing to assent to the
The president thereupon submitted t
subject to the more extended powers a
wide discretion of congress, adding t
assurance that ne WOulu De SfatlHeu
cooperate in any legitimate plan VIII
might be devised for solution of t
problem, consistent with American hon
Integrity and policy.
Your reports show that on further
Election the queen gave her Unqualiti
consent in writing to the conditions 81
gested, but that the provisional gove1
ment refused to acquiesce in the pre-
cents decision. The matter being now
the hands of congress, the president "
keep that body fully advised of the 81
alton, and will lay before it from time
time, reports received from you, includi
your No. 3, heretofore withheld, and
Instructions sent to you. In the me-
tire. while keeping the department flu
informed of the course Of events. you w
until further rGtice, consider that yc
special instructions upon this subj
have been fully complied with.
-"Gresham.'
Willis to Gresham.
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