New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-06
VILLISS LATEST EFFORTS.
no one IN WASHINGTON BELIEVES HE TIa2
ASKED DOLE TO SURRENDER.
IF HE HAS THE ADMINISTRATIONS LAs4
PROP Is GONE-PIEsIDENT CLEvEL,ND'S .
FRIENDS IN A FLUrrER OF EXCITE. AH3
MENr OYER TIE REPORT. iH1
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washington. Jan. 5-Little credence Is given
here TO the report coming by way Of auckland
that Minister Willis has within the last two
weeks attempted to carry out President Cleve-
| lands discredited and ridiculous programme or
upsetting the Provisional Government OF Hawaii
| and restoring Liuokalani 70 the throne. In
no quarter expressions Of discredit SO
| anxious and so heartfelt as among Administra~
| ton officials and Cuckoo Congressman. The
mere announcement that Mr.. Willis the
! Queens tardy acceptance Of the Presidents con-
ditons OF restoration. has taken a formal step
toward ousting the Provisional authorities has
thrown the Administration Democrats both IN
and out of Congress. into state OF genuine
panic the sole dependence OF the Admnstra-
tion's apoogists IN both houses having been so
| far that the restoration policy had happily
failed before any actual effort To dispossess the
| Provisional Government had been attempted
ADMINISTRATION APoLOGIsTs DEMoRALIzED.
| The humble acknowledgment Of the miscar.
riage OF the restoration programme conveyed to
| Congress by the President in his recent mes
sage has alone enabled the partisans OF the
Administration to prevent an outspoken repudia-
ton by Congress OF the absurd and QuiXotic
project planned by the President and Secretary
Gresham To find their single excuse for the
Administration. that It's unlucky policy was
abandoned before any great harm was done.
swept away by Minister Ws's belated demand
for abdcation on the part OF the Provisional
Government would. Of course. ruin all hope OF
suppressng Congressional discussion and avoid
ing Congressional condemnation.
1t Is not too much to say. perhaps. that II the
report OF Minister Williss notice to President
Dole proves to be true. the Administrations
cause before Congress has been made worse than
hopeless. Such demand on the Provisional
Government made after the Presidents message
OF surrender and apology three weeks ago. will
put upon Mr.. Cleveland. beyond any possible
pall.ation. the stigma rot only of hagrant vio-
lation Of the Constitutional limitations of Execu-
tive power. but OF culpabc trickery and double
dealing in his intercourse with Congress.
1t is no wonder that the State Department
officials and the Cuckoo Democrats at the
Capitol vehemently declare that the reports from
Auckland about Minister Wis's action are
wholly unfounded and practically impossible.
With the Information on hand here at present 1t
is the general disposition to accept this eager
disclaimer and to ueat the story OF Mr.. Williss
preposterous and unjustifable demand for the
restoration OF the Queen either wild ex-
aggeration or a manufacture out OF the whole
cloth To suppose anything else is to put the
present Administration In as ndefensible and
perlous an attitude before Congress and the
country as has been realized since the days Of
Andrew Johnson.
TRYING TO ARGUE 1T AWAY
officials at the State Department were reported
TO be in a state OF indignation press dis
pa tches from Auckland. One cficial who is In
the confidence OF Secretary Gresham. went 50
far as to say that these stories evidently ema-
mated from the Provisional Government Press
Bureau, and were being put In circulation At
this time. while the Hawaiian question Is under
for the purpose Of creating a sent-
ment against the Administrative policy by init
mating that. Notwithstanding his representa-
tions Congress, the President is still secretly
intriguing to restore the Queen This official
said that the President had furnished Congress
with copies OF all the instructions to Minister
willis up to the date OF his message Of Decem-
ber 49, and that this. Of course. included the
latest instructions sent TO Willis by the revenue
steamer Corwin. which reached Honolulu on