The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-02-27

the United States forces. he READ an
affidavit in which il was deposed that
John H. Soper, now commander OF the
national military At Honolulu, had
declined at first TO accept the COM
mand, but afterward accepted, saying:
II have had satisfactory assurance
from the old man himself minister
Steyens) that the American forces Will
give support, and 1 intend TO take a
hand.n
On the l4th the following dispatch
was received: 1T is the understand
ing tonight that the State Depart
ment viii have some further CORE
spoudence from Minister Willis in
three DAYS. Just wha: the nature OF
il will be is not known, but nothing
extraordinary is anticipated. Presi-
dent Dole's letter will probably be
submitted. This letter, it will be re-
called, is one in reply to Willis asking
for specifications, and for which he
was called TO account by President
Cleveland when he submitted ii TO
Congress, calling it an 'eXtraor-
dinary' epistle. The Senate Foreign
Affairs Committee has begun Its
labors in the preparation ot.lts report.
From evidence secured there Is very
little reason for changing previous
statements TO the effect that the re-
port will probably be of compromise
nature, and will probably give an op-
portunity TO permit this Admlnistra-
ton 10 crawl out of q bed predica-
ment without calling the attention OF
the Senate and the public TO TIE seri-
Gus blunders that it is pretty evident
still were made in dealing with this
Cu s.iOu. Senator White was again
sIdetrackei in the Senate to-day in
the delivery of his speech on the
Hawaiian question. To the surprise
OF everybody the Hawaiian matter did
not bob up in the upper branch
to-day"
\ dispatch from Chicago, dated the
18th, says: st. Clair Mckelway, ed
itor of the Brooklyn Eagle, said in an
interview todGy: 81 am in position
to know what view Senator Morgan,
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, hopes TO be able TO
maintain in the final report he will
make on the Hawaiian question. In
deed, he appears TO be developing and
treating the testimony with relation
TO lines OF the report already laid out
in his own mind, rather than defer
ring the conclusion until all the evil
dence has been heard.n
sDO YOU mean that he is trifiing
with or has prejudiced the subject?n
.'NO, not at all. He is, however,
such a fertile-minded man, and the
evidence his committee is receiving
in q formal manner has informally
haAs, npNTnrrslr- ar forth lnrrArS
dispatches and interviews, that il
would be affectation on his part TO
maintain judicial reserve on subject
on which no other citizen withholds
his views
"What, in effect, will his final re-
port be?n
There is reason to say from the in
formation at my command that Sena-
tor Morgan will undertake the ingeni-
Gus task of sustaining both Harrison
and Cleveland. He will contend that
President Harrison was misinfOrmed
by Minister Stevens, but that even
within the area of such misinforma-
ton, he acted with moderation and
patriotism and left the political dispo-
sition of the matter to the Senate as
the treaty-considering power, while
he left the executive or diplomatic
treatment of il to the Cleveland Ad
ministra;ion in circumstances that
enabled the latter freely to deal with
it,
"What will Senator Morgan in your
judgment say in effect on Cleveland's
course in the matter and up to what
date?n
The date will be that on which
Cleveland sent the message to the two
houses, unloading the whole subject
on them. / think the Senator will
magnify the excellence of the charac-
tiers of Blount and Willis, that he will
cortend that these proceedings were
only tentative and st no time in con-
travention of the duty of the EXecu-
tive TO strive to undo the wrong which
he believed had been done, and that
as soon as it was found out that repair
alton was impossible, without COM
mitting an even greater wrong, the
effort was abandoned and the whole
subject was transferred to Congress"
"What will Senator Morgan, do you
think, advise as a settlement of the
question:
"a course of mastery inactivity
now, but looking 10 ultimate annexa-
tion.n
(which will be a virtual endorse |
msnt Of President Harrison's policy?'
''Not too quick. Mr.. Morgan will |
be unlikely 20 put it in that way. I
predict that he will 20 back 10 Jeffer- !
sons acquisition of Louisiana and 20 |
Marcy's sentiments toward these very
Islands when he was President Pierce's |
Secretary of State, as Democratic pre-
cedeut's long Outdating President |
Harrisonis Hawaiian policy. Mr. Nor |
gan will, l feel certain, advise that |
the Sandwich Islands be permitted a |
long period OF internal repOse, before |
he would favor the exercise OF what |
he regards as the historical hospitality |
Of the United States TO the idea of ac- |
quiring them"
4 dispatch from Washington dated |
the 18th says: The Senate sub-Com- !
mittee On Foreign Affairs, which has
been conducting the Hawaiian inves-
will meet tomorrow, and i'm |
portant action is anticipated. Chair
man Morgan will submit his report |
to the committee. Inside infornia-
ton is TO the effect that the burden of |
testimony taken is strongly adverse
to the Administration Tne investi-