The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-01-20
TANGLE OF TALK.
Continued from LIST Pdge.)
PICKING AT WILLIS.


ton despatch of the 1lth says that
in the Senate chamber and in the
Foreign Affairs committees of both
houses Hawaii held the boards that
day. But for the persistent deter
mination Of the Democrats to allow
nothing to interfere with the tariff
debate in the House, that body
would also have discussed the alb
sorbing topic.
Dispatches had been received
from Minister Willis the previous
night, and the Herald correspondent
says: "ln some respects Mr.. Willis
reports are disappointment to the
State Department. II does not ap.
pear that he actually urged the
Queen to agree to the conditions i'm
posed by the President, as 1t was
feared from the press dispatches he
had, but the authorities are dis
pleased by his failure to grasp the
full spirit of his last instructions,
which directed him to inform the
Queen that the President would
cease interposition in her behalf at
once if she refused assent to the
| written conditions.
The correspondent enlarges on
this idea. giving. "a that of State De.
partment officials, the opinion that
the Minister'S discretion should have
caused him to cease intcrposition in
the interests OF the Queen the mo.
ment the instructions of the Corwin
reached him. Referring to the de.
liant tenor Of President Dole's reply.
as he is informed Of its nature, the
correspondent says:
RECALL OF WILLIS MooTEp.
at is OF such nature as would.
under any other than the peculiar
condition of the Hawaiian muddle,
seem to demand the immediate re-
call OF Minister Willis aud the cessa-
ton Of diplomatic relations with the
Provisional Government. Indeed
this may soon come. Rumors were
current to-day that messages sent
out to San Francisco To he forward
ed to Hawaii by the Mariposa direct
the recall of Minister Willis. IL
cannot be learned, however. that
any such decision has been reached.
All the officials will say about the
communication agreed upon at To.
day s meeting Of the Secretaries aud
the President is that all parties con-
cernud should bc advised. through
Minister Willis, that the whole Ha.
waiian subject has been referred to
Congress, and that, pending action
by that branch Of our Government
the Minister should continue tho
present status as far as possible. and
mako il known that the United
States will Wow with disfavor any
interference on the part of any other
foreign Government.
MINISTER TiIrRSToN WOULD 90 TOO.
"After Minister Thurston's very
sharp public rctort to Sccretory
Gresham's letter published some
time ago, and his subsequent action
in encouraging the Provisional Gov
crnment to assume an attitude ol
defiance against the executive branch
OF this Government, IL can hardly be
expected that the relations between
Minister Thurston and the State
Department will DO any more cordial
than those between Minister Willis
and the members OF the Provisional
Government. The appointment ol
new Minister by each country il
not an improbable event very soon
RANT OF SENATOR DAVIS.
Senator Davis made long speech
, against tho policy OF the Admins,
tration. He supposed case OF the
United States taking a notion that
the Republic Of France did not have
the support Of its people, and that
although tho United States Govern
ment had recognized the French re-
public, tho President should take il
into his head that such recognition
was a wrong perpetrated on the
people OF France. Then no went
on supposing course Of action to.
ward France such as Cleveland
bad adopted in the case Of Hawaii
Davis attacked Blount for breach
OF diplomatic law in entering into
correspondence with persons in the
country to which he was accredited
He said that nothing like Blount's
ordering Admiral Skerrett to haul
down the American flag and embark
our troops had ever taken place in
our history.
senator Hawley interposed that il
never would again. No such power
over our forces would be given al
, Enbassador Of this Nation.
Davis said that the flag would
somo day wave again over the isl
, ands, and gave number OF good
, reasons why he wanted il to.
senator Turple followed Davis
and scored Minister Stevens for hi.
Interference in Hawaiian affairs. The
, partisan telegraphic report does moi
give what Turplc said, but claim.
that it applied as we'll to Blount a.
to Stevens.
ELOuNT GIVES EVIDENCE.
j. II. Blount was tclegraphed fol
to give evidence before the Senate
) committee. Outside Of the commit
tee he entertained his old congres
sioual friends with non-politica
talk about his trip to, and stay in
/ the islands. He testified to the
committee that he considered hi,