The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-26
CLEVELAND UPHELD.
) His Hawaiian Policy En-
dorsed by the Morgan 5.
Senate Committee.
BLoUNT WAS ALL RIGHT
Preeedents for the Appointment
of the Paramount Com
missioner.
STEVENS WAS ALL WRONG
The -Conspirator Severely Con-
demned-No Sympathy For
Queen Lii
BLOUNT WAS ALL RIGHT
STEVENS WAS ALL WRONG

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 1s94.-A volume Of
nearly eight hundred pages Exclusive of
maps was laid before the Senate today
representing the testimony taken by the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and
their finding of facts thereon, under reso-
luton directing them to inquire whether any,
and if so, what Irregularities have occurred
in the diplomatic intercourse between the
United States and Hawaii in relation to the
recent revolution.
The report of the majority of the COM
mittee was prepared by the Chairman, Mr..
Morgan, of Alabama. It exhaustively re-
views the facts, the laws and the precedents,
iustifies Mr. Stevens actions, excepting in
proclaiming a protectorate, and finds nothing
Irregular in the appointment OF Mr.. Blount,
but In effect saws the evidence taken by the
committee under more favorable circum-
stances leads the committee to different con-
clusions than those which he formed.
REPUBLICANS DISSENT.
This report is concurred in as to all its
essential findings by the Republican MEM
bers of tn committee Senators Sherman,
Frye. Dolph and Davis, making majority
of the committee They characterize it as
an exceedingly able document, but they dis
sent on five points,
/. They condemn the appointment of Com
missioner Blount as unconstitutional.
9 They say the executive orders placing
the navy in the harbor of Honolulu under
the orders of Mr.. Blount or Mr.. Willis were
without authority of law.
g. That the order of Blount to Admiral
Skorrett to lower the flag was unlawful and
susceptible of being construed as unfriend-
ly to the Provisional Government, and they
regard the intercourse of Mr.. Blount and
Mr. Willis with the deposed Queen as viola
tive of international law and unwarranted.
f. They consider the President had no
right to reopen the predetermined legality OF
the Provisional Government.
s. They regard any discussion of the per-
sonal intentions or good faith of either Mr..
Blount or Mr.. Willis as immaterial, lnasmuch
nlent of the Queen was simply the perform
ance of task plainly commanded OF them
by this Administration.
MINORITY REPORT.
The report of the minority, signed by
Senators Butler, Turpie. Daniel and Gray,
without denying or conceding the correct
ness of other portions of the report dissents
from that portion of it (which declares that
the only substantial irregularity in the con-
duct of Mr.. Stevens, the late Minister, was
his declaration of a protectorate by the
United States over Hawaii While except
ing from censure Captain Wiltse of the Bos-
ton and his officers because "their position
was one of extreme delicacy and diff
Guilty and we appreciate their anxiety
to afford protection to the lives and proper
ty of American citizens" they add, 1--WE can
not avoid the conviction that the inoppor-
tune seal of Minister Stevens in the project
of annexation of the Sandwich Islands to
the United States, caused him to exceed the
proper limits of his official duty and of his
diplomatic relations to the Government and
people of those islands. His conduct as the
public representative of this government
ffNI ph01f fba
condition of affairs which resulted
in the overthrow of the Queen, the organi-
zation of the Provisional Government, the
landing of the United States troops and the
attempted scheme of annexation and upon
this conclusion his conduct is seriously rep
rehensible and deserving of public censure." :"
Senators Butler and Turpie file a supple
mental report in which they say that while
the question of annexation was not submitted
to the committee except incidentally, they
think it not improper to say they are heart
ily in favor of the acquisition OF these
manner, but not by taking advantage of
internal dissensiens for which they believe
the United States in some manner re-
sponsibls.
REPORT OF THE MAJORITY.
The views laid down by the majorit. IF
the committee are exactly on the lines fore
shadowed in these dispatches The report
says
The precise hour when or the precise con-
iditions under which the American Minister
recognized the Provisional Government is
not a matter of material Importance. 1t
was his duty at the earliest safe period to
assist by his recognition in the termination
of the interregnum SO that citizens of the
United States might be safely RENTED to
y the care of that Government for the security
of their rights. He gave to them the protec-
tion they had the right to demand, and, IN
respect of his action up to this point, SO far
as it related to Hawaii, his opinions as to an.
nexation have not affected the attitude OF
the United States Government, and the
committee find no cause OF censure either
against Minister Stevens or Captain Whites
of the Boston.
The recognition of the Provisional Govern
ment was lawful and authoritative. and has
continued without interruption OF modlnca-
tion up to the present time. 1t may be
instly claimed for this act of recognition
that it has contributed greatly TO the main
tenance Of peace and order in Hawaii and TO
tbe protection of the establishment OF free,
perInanent constitutional government IN
Hawaii, based upon the consent of the peo-
pie.
The complaint by Lilui0kalani In the pro-
fest that she sent to the President OF the
limited States and dated January lS, is not,
in the opinion of the committee, well founded
IN fact or in Justice. 1t appears from the
evidence submitted with this report that she
was in fact the author and promoter Of a
revolution in Hawaii which involved the de-
struction of the entire Constitution, and a
breach of her solemn oath to observe
and support it, and it was only after she had
secertaiIled that she had made demand
mon her native subjects for support in this
,,invernent which they would not give to her,
that She for the time, postponed her de de-
eject sP and made known her determination
70 ID 80 as soon as she could feel that she
nod 10 ~ the mower to sustain the movement.
'''1es ant III. the President OF the United States,
giying ,s attention to Liliuckalanis claim that
fhat this Government had alarmed her by
vi ~ hpr crown believed that # was proper
and necessary in vindication Of the honor @ Of
- ~ aHawaii who would make a care
FIJI investigation into the facts cts
ossc,,,sions to the President for his informa
tor: % The Gonamissi r s. Blonnt g M went went
smbarrassnent and executed bis instruc-