The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
IEEI TO CONGRESS.

LEFT TO CONGRESS.
The President Transmits the Hawaiian
Correspondence-He Has No Comments
to Make.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15-The presi-
dent has transmitted to congress all
correspondence relating to the Ha-
waiian complications since his mes
sage of December Is. The message
transmitting the correspondence is as
follows:
To the congress: I transmit herewith copies
OF all dispatches from our minister to Hawaii
relating in any way to political affairs in Ha-
| wall, except such as have been heretofore
transmitted 10 congress also send copies of
instructions sent on January IL, 1894. being the
only instructions to him that have not been
sent to congress-
In my former messages to congress with
held dispatches numbering three, under date OF
November l6, 1893, and also dispatch No 90 IN
der date of October q, ls93 Inasmueh as the
contents OF dispatch No are all referred to in
dispatches OF more recent date and inasmuch
as there seems to be no longer reason for with
| holding ii, the same is herewith submitted.
Dispatch No. 20 is still withheld for reasons
that seem to be justifiable and proper.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
MINISTER WILLIS COMMENDED.
The last instructions to Minister
Willis referred to in the presidents let
ter of transmittal as the only instruc-
tons not sent to congress are dated
yesterday.
They were sent under cover of tele-
gram to w. A. Cooper, the dispatch
agent at San Francisco, instructing
him to forward the following telegram
to Mr.. Willis, by the steamer Mariposa
tomorrow to-day:
January II, 1894. 10 Willis. Minister, Homo
lulu: Your numbers, IA to IS inclusive show
that you have rightly comprehended the scope
Of your instructions and have. as far as was in
your power, discharged the onerous task con-
ided in you The president sincerely regrets
that the provisional government refuses to ac-
Quiesce in the conclusion which his sense OF
right and duty and due regard for our ma
tional honor constrained him to reach and sub
init il as a measure Of justice TO the people of
the Hawaiian islands and their deposed SOW
ereign.
While it is true that the provisional govern
ment was created to exist only until the ISL
ands were annexed TO the United States and
that the queen finally but reluctantly surren-
dered to an armed force of this government IL
legally quartered in Honolulu and representa-
tive of the provisional government which real
lied lis impotence and anxious to get control OF
If she would surrender, her case would be subse-
quently considered by the United States, the
president has never claimed that such action
constituted him an arbitrator in the technical
sense or authorized him 10 act in that capacity
between the provisional government You
made no such claim when you acquainted that
government with the presidents decision
The solemn assurance given to the queen has
not been referred 10 as authority for the presi-
dent to act as arbitrator, but as fact material
TO a just determination of the presidents duty
in the premises
In the note which the minister of foreig1 af-
fairs addressed to you on the I'D ultimo II is
stated in effect that even if the constitutional
government was subverted by the action of the
American minister and an invasion by a
military force of the United States,
the presidents authority is limited to
dealing with our own unfaithful officials and
that he can take no steps looking TO correc-
tion of the wrong done The president enter
tains different view of his responsibility and
duty. The subversion of the Hawaiian govern
ment BY an abuse OF the authority Of the Unit
ed States was in plain violation of the interna-
tional laws and required the president to dis
avow and condemn the act Of our offending
oficials and within the limits of his constitu-
tional power TO endeavor TO restore the lawful
authority.
On the 18th ultimo the president sent a spe-
Of Mr. Blouni's reports and the instruc tions
given TO him and to you. On the same day, an
swering resolution of the house OF rep
resen tatives, he sent copies of all correspond
ence since March 4, 1889, on the political
affairs and relations of Hawaii, withhold
ing for sufficient reasons only Mr. Stew
ems No 20 of October 8 ls92 and your No 3 of
November Is. 1893 The president therein an
nounces that the conditions OF restoration sug-
gested by him to the queen not having proved
acceptable TO her and since the instructions
sent TO you TO insist upon those conditions he !
has not learned that the queen was willing to
assent to them
The president thereupon submitted the sub !
ject TO the more extended powers and wide dis !
erection Of congress- adding tie assurance that |
he would be gratifed to cooperate in any !
legitimate plan VIII Oh might be devised for a (
solution of the problem, consistent with Amer /,
icau honor, integrity and morality.
Your report shows that on further reflection !
the queen gave her unqualified assent in |
writing, to the conditions suggested, but that !
the provisional government refused to ac- !
quiese in the presidents decision The mat !
ter now being in the hands of congress the {
president will keep that body fully advised of /
the situation and will lay before it from |
time to time the reports received from YOU. in |
GLIDING your No. 3 heretofore withheld and /
all instructions sent to you In the meantime, |
while keeping the department fully informed |
OF the course of events. you will until further |
notice consider that your special instructions /
upon this subject have been fully complied |
with GRE-HAM