Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-02
FRYE CONTINUES
To Worry and Harass the Dem
ocrats on Hawaii.
He HauIs Blount Onto the Goals and
Leaves Him There.
Light from The Committee o! Investigation on
That Infamous Policy.

NAsUtNtIJS, Match i.-hE. Ffyc iS-
sumed bis ,peech OIL the Hawaiian ques-
tion. lie had heretofore, he saii, ex
pressed the belief that there was rot ore
plain unprs jadicej. unvaroished particle
of truth in Mr. Blount's report, and he did
not now desire to revise that opinion. lie
could not account for Mr.. BIount's report
or bis methods Of investigation. He did
not know where Mr.. Blount's prejudice
came from. unless it was from that OH bit,
Ter feel NJ between the Cavali rs and
Rounlheads. Facts were 10 be found by
Mr.. Blount, but Mfr. Blount did not sex
them where they were to be found.
He did not seek them from Presi-
dent Dole or members of the pro-
yisional government vh) were familiar
with all the facts.
Mr.. Bloun, went for hi, facts to
men who had eaten crumbs from the
Queens table. He wcat TO her para
sites. He weut to the British sympath zers
on the islands Over 60 of those men come
before Mr.. Blount. He called upon the
members of the Queens c,binet-on Col
burn, Sam Parker and CorAwell. These
were men who, when The z Teen was under
taking to promulgate the new constitution,
lied from her angry presence, for fear, az
they ssid, that they would lose their lives
fl I'd to the committee of safety and asked
protection, informed them Of all their
Queens secrets, and who, when they found
there was to be bloodshed on the part of
the committee of safety, retained to the
Queen ard proceeded to plot against the
provisional government.
These as the chairman on foreign relations
hal said, were wretched men; in them the
truth did not lie. They deceived Commits
soner Blount and led him to deceive III,
President of the | ni,ed States. 1t was
thus that the ch.irman of the committee on
foreign relations excused Mr.. Blount and
excused the President. Another parson
whom Mr.. Blount had gone to for facts was
Paul Neum tnn, bright, smart attorney,
said to be IS INSCRIPTIONS as ne was bright
and smart Paul Neumann was The
Queens attorney and spent months in
WASH ngton, trying to barter and sell her
crown for mess of pottage. Mr.. Blount
had taken six pages of testimony of Mrs.
Dominis, late Queen of the Hawaiian
islands.
Mr.. Blount hal not gone fo- facts
to officers of the | nited States ship
Boston, lying there. Her off ;er.
were intelligent men, who would
never tell an untruth rs Mr.. Bount
knew. They had been par ic ipstors IN the
ent re affair. They had been on shore IL
vesi eating from the time it Co mmenced I'M
til the time il closed. They could have told
him all shout il. lie had never called on a
single officer of the ship Boston to find
facts, except Lieutenant Swinburne; and
he simply asked Lieutsnaa Swinburne TO
inform him, in writing, ut what time Minis
ter Ssayens recognlz ID the provisional gov
rrnment. Mr.. BIount never asked Minis
ter Stevens n single question. lie had
taken testimony of witnesses dispara!ing -
Mr.. Stevens, but never communicated to
him one word Of what they said.
Frye quoted largely from testimony in
condemnation of Mr.. Blount IN his invesii-
CATION and real portions of statements of
Mr.. Stevens, Mr.. Tnur,ton AMI President
Dolt, whom. he sail, this coIntry hAd
learned TO respect.
A fter reading nun arous ex'rac.s f;nm
testimony. Frye continued 1t what hav,
read is not absolutely ovsrwht lming, then
| clnnot un2erstan the l. lgIi,h Ian luage.
The committee on foreign relat / ms made
no selection Of witnesses. II sim ply asked
the attend inc. of men known to be in the
United States and to have been in the L.
lands during the revolution In all th,se
witnesses and all the Aft LAWS before the
committee, there was n, conflict whatever,
except in three instances.
There was MIR. Il .eder of Iowa, who an
pearcd rs "a witness 1T his oen request, snl
the committee could find out nothing from
him. II was so stupid that even my friend
from Delaware tGra,), who thought there
was something in there which might be
pumped out, gave it up in utter desraic :;
yet the next day after that witness ap
peared The newspapers had the most asto -
ishug reports NJ statement made by him
before tue committee"
Frye. in conclusion spologized for hay 'g
wearled the Senate with snch extensive ex
tracts from the t. stimony and said Il any
weight is TO be given 10 character behind
words, ii there is any such thing as prepon-
derence of testimony, then the foundation
on which President Clevelani builded his
Structure had disappeared and the edtice
had fallen forever
Senate adj burned till Monday.