The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-08
GRESHAM aUA.ILIATED

And tho President Surprised Over tho
News From Notwithstanding 4 scape-
E GOAT of5Iyilis.
WASHINGTON, Jan. President
Cleveland and Secretary of State
disguised men in Washington. Al
though they would not publicly admit
it, they have been compelled to state
to the members of the foreign affairs
committees of the two houses who
called upon them that Minister Willis
has actually called upon the provisional
government of Hawaii in the name OF
the United States to resign and make
way for the restoration OF. Queen Lillu-
okalani, who has pon reflection con.
sented to be restored to the throne.
This Information came to the state
department. in a long cipher dispatch
from Honolulu. brought to San Fran
cisco by the revenue cutter CorWin.
The dispatch has been translated at the
state department., but its contents will
not be given out for republication. 1t is
now the:intention OF the administration
to inform Congress of this latest phase
of the Hawaiian situation as soon as the
mail advices brought to San Francisco
by the Corwin are received at Wash
ington, which will be on Thursday or
Friday next.
GRESHAM Is uUMILIATED.
The administration officials say that
it will not be necessary for Representa-
tive Hit to press the resolution which
he introduced and which was sent to
1.-THE committee on foreign affairs, as
Congress will be promptly put in pos
session oil all the facts without compul-
sion.
Secretary Gresham feels very much
humiliated by this latest turn of affairs,
and, after a long conversation with
President Cleveland at the white house,
he intimated to several of his callers
that Minister Willis had placed the adj
ministration in q most embarrassing
situation by proceeding without any
authority.
This intention to make Mr.. Willis the
scapegoat of the administration is based,
it is understood, upon the fact that
when the Corwin sailed from San Fran
cisco IN December 4, it carried definite
| instructions to Minister Willis to sus-
pend further proceedings until the adj
ministration could obtain the co-opera-
| ton of Congress in some plan Of legis-
lative action.
These instructions to Willis, it is as-
serted at the department., were SO clear
ana pOSlIlVo GluC II WAS DellCSeu Io
would hold the matter in allegiance and
AXE no step in the restoration policy
| after the arrival of the Corwin.
REPUBLICANS X JUBILANT. n
Friday the administration boldly
rushed to the front with the assurance
that it was too absurd for any belief
that Minister Willis had called upon
the provisional government to resign,
and Secretary Gresham repeatedly said
that he had such great confidence in
the minister that he did not believe a
word of the Auckland dispatches.
Now alter being compelled to admit
thatthe minister has proceeded to do
what he was first told to do and then
told not to do, the friends OF the admin
istration say, "well, what of it? He has
simply notified the provisional govern
ment that the queen intends to be re-
stored and mae a ~perfunctory demand
upon them to abdicate. Having done
that, he refers the whole matter to the
President and Congress-
This sort of talk is only laughed at in
Congress. Tho Republicans are abso-
lutely jubilant at the mess which the
administration has made. OF course no.
body thinks for a ~momentthat any pro-
ceedings followed Minister Willis re-
quest for the resignation OF the pro-
~visional government.
Ys F