Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-01-24
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From All Quarters.
CLEVELAND ARRAIGNED.
Senator Cu||om Attacks His
Hawaiian Policy.
ALL SUGAR on THE FREE LIST.
State Troops Have Arrived
in Jacksonville.
The aoRMAnnIA BADLY DAMAGED.
Incandescent Lamp Pat
ents Have Expired.
The HoRMAnnIA BADLY DAMAGED,
SENATOR oULLOM,s ATTACK.

! ents Have Expired.
SENATOR CULLOM,s ATTACK.
| The A diminish alton Attacked In Ref.
erence to the Hawaiian Matters
Would Not Have Been SURPRISED
Had Blount Been Mnrdered-COm-
| missioner BlOunt Was a Public
Enemy.
WASHINGTON, Jan. .23.--In the senate to-
day Senator Cullom made sharp attack
on the administration in references to Ha-
waiian matters. Senator Cullom reviewed
briefly the history of Hawaii and the in
cidents which led to the revolution of last
year, occasioned, he asserted, by the queen
when she attempted to revoke the consti-
tuition of 1887. He spoke In sharp terms
| of this action and then directly attacked
| the policy of she administration. Contin-
uing. he said:
"Thus 1t will be seen that for either es-
tate, whether crown or people, to attempt,
without full acsuiescencs by the other, to
withdraw, revoke, abandon or abolieh,
this most solemnly adopted supreme con-
stitution, would be q clear act of revolu.
ton, reasonable in its character, equiva-
lent at the very least to abdication. By
the sct of Queen Liliuokslani in publicly
announcing that she should abrogate the
constitution and issue one of her own,
and by taking the necessary steps to COM
plete the royal revolution, she became
simply Mrs. Dominis, having stripped her
self of all regal authority. The people
took her at her word, and In q most
usual, decent and proper way, proceeded
toorgsuize temporary government of the
people by the people. Had the people at
tempted by revolution to dethrone her by
armed power, cast her into prison, banished
or executed her, where would have been the
power of the United States to interfere in
the mstter2 In Brazil to day armed revo-
luton exists, which, If 1t be successful,
will overturn governments and possibly
imprison or execute leaders. Where is
the prerogative of the United States to
interfere any further than has already
been done for the protection of American
interests?
'The queens act was as much q crime,
and as certainly revolution, in 80 far as
1t affected the people, az was the coup d.
etat of Napoleon on declaring himself die
tator or emperor of France. 1t was in
effect q crime, and az really an shdicatiop
of all right to the throne would be the act
~A
some fine morning. renounce his oonstitu-
tional allegiance and create a revolution by
declaring himself the dictator paramount
of the United States.
"She had, by the withdrawal and at
tempted practical revocation of that con.
stitution, which WAS the written limitation
of her power and authority, and the e.
tablished guarantee of the peoples privi-
leges, become public enemy and was guilty
OF treason to the country whose throne
abe had disgraced. The moment her de-
clared purpose was manifest, the people,
in their own right, took upon themselves
fully, organized q provisional or temporary
government.
Abundant testimony has been furn-
fshed on every hand, in controversion of
the assumed theory of the presidents and
secretary of state and the repeated declara-
tons Of Minister Willis that the revolution
was primarily melted and fostered by
United States Minister Stevens and by
Captain Willis, who was In command of the
Boston.
"The assumption, which we have so Of
ten heard, that the act of Minister Stevens
In recognizing the provisional government
was an act of unjustifabls interference and
intimidation, in the face of which the queen
was compelled as by force to retire, is un-
true. But suppose the American forces
which l deny committed the act so al
legged, what difference would that make as
regards Mr.. Clsveland's act In attempting
to recrown Mrs. Dominis2 Mr.. Cleveland
found there an established government
Mr.. Cleveland knew this, for be accredited
his special detective commissioner to its
chief executive.
sPsssing by some of the intermediate
steps taken by the United States govern
ment, euch as the withdrawal of the pend
ing treaty from this senate, and sending of
a special commissioner as a detective to act
as q spy upon q foreign government with
out the advice and consent of the senate,
then in session, and other equally ridicu-
lous blunders of Falsts fisn diplomacy, We
have found government in Hawaii recog-
nizsd by the world In full control of at
fairs.
"Acting under instructions, this Ameri-
| can spy performed his duty by furnishing
secret reports to the secretary of state, as
| to what he found and "a to what he did,
which included tho singular incident of
| pulling down the American flag.
"On another occasion, in earlier history,
| distinguished citizen Of New York state,
| In his capacity as q member of the cabinet
of President Buchanan, issued an order
something Is follows:
| IF any man pull down the American flag,
shoot him on the spot
| "At q later day by the order, If mis-
take not, of General Butler at New Or
leans, one man was shot for the same act,
for which another now receives the thanks
of the executive of the United States.
"Whatsver may be said of desecrating
our flag in Honolulu, that was only hu-
initiation to Americans and Q self-inhicted
disgrace to this administration. But the
stealing of an American spy into Hawaii,
/ with credentials to the head of the recog-
nizsd government addressed
"My Great and Good Friend" for the
simple and secret purpose of lotting and
negotiating with Mrs. Dominis, then an
enemy of that government, and secretly
and stealthily endsavorfng to arrange for
her re- enforcement upon the ruins of the
temporary or provisional government; was
not that such an offensive act that the pro-
visional government would have been fully
justified under the rules of war in declar-
ing him to be public enemy and treating
him accordingly. In the United States
treason consists In levyinR war against the
government or in adhering to Its enemies
| giving them aid and comfort. What wal
| Blount in his relation to Hawaiii Neither
more nor less than public enemy. Per
sonslly, am very glad to see the ex- par
amount here in Washington, walking safely
| about the capitol, out must CONFESS Ina
there would have been good deal of grin
justice in the act if the Hawaiian govern
ment had caused his trial either by th,
civil authorities or by court-martial q
Honolulu, as would have been done in an,
, other government.
S"Just look at it, purporting to be q,
, | ambassador and accredited to a recognized
!. goverDment his secret instructions no
r even made known to this senate, If obeye,
I by him. put him in the attitude and effsc
Of the most despicable of offenders agains
International propristies. True, his Of
} fence was that OF his supsriors merely, bu
the punishment IL melted to the agent VIII
10 caught in the act. Major Andre suffere.
death; Commissioner Blount receives CON
penaation from the United States, but tn
world condemns both him and his en-
n ployers."
NEW JERSEYS MIDDLE.
QUO warramtO Proceedings to b
Brought Against the Republica
Senate. 49,.
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 23.-Governe