Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-02
MORGAN'S REPORT
Conclusions Of the Foreign Relations
Committee, Investigating Ha-
waiian Matters
Laid Before the Senate-Republican
Members Present a Supple
mental Report,
While Four Democrats Dissent From
PartIOf It-Annexation Indirectly
Favored.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator Nor
gan, chairman Of the senate committee
on foreign relations, presented the re
port of the investigation Of that COM
made under the following reso-
''Resolved, That the committee on
relations shall inquire and re-
port, whether any, and if so, what
irregularities have occurred in the dip
lomatic or other intercourse between
the United States and Hawaii in rela-
ton to the recent political revolution in
Hawaii, and to this end said committee
is authorized to send for persons and
papers and to administer oaths to wit
nesses.'
The report prepared by Senator Nor
gan is concurred in by Senators Sher-
man, Frye, Dolph and Davis, the Re
publican members OF the committee,
who also make a supplemental report,
taking more positive grounds than the
Morgan report, while Senators Butler,
Turpie, Daniels and Gray (Democrats)
submit a minority report.
These reports, with the testimony
taken in the secret investigation make a
bulky document and a comprehensive
review Of the Hawaiian question made
after a thorough investigation. Senator
Morgan, in his report, says that the in
quiry related, first, to the conduct of
the government, as shown in its official
acts, and correspondence; and second,
to the conduct of the civil and military
officers of the government in the dis
charge of their public duties and func-
tons. These are matters that do not
concern Hawaii at this time. He also
says that the future policy of the gov
eminent as to annexation has been ex-
Guided from the consideration of the
committee, except where it is alluded to
as an incident to the investigation.
Lays Down a Proposition.
MI. Morgan lays down the proposition
on the first page of the report: GAS a gov
eminent dealing with Hawaii and with
any form Of government in that
try, the United States can have no sep
aration or break in it's line of policy
corresponding to any change in the in
cumbency Of the Office Of president. It
is in all respects as much tie same gov
eminent in every right and responsible
ity as if it had been under the same
president during the entire period Gov
cred by the recent revolution in Hawaii
and the succeeding events"
The president, however, has a right
to change his opinion, and a change Of
policy on the part Of one president from
that inaugurated by his predecessor
must BIZ regarded
Simply as a Change of Mind
in the same person. A declaration
against monarchism in the islands fol-
lows next, the report saying that we ex-
ercise at least q moral suzerainty over
that country.
Hawaii" it says, lis an American
state and is embraced in the American
commercial and military system. In
this attitude of the two governments,
Hawaii must be entitled to demand of
the United States an indulgent consider
alton, if not an active sympathy, while
she is ~endeavoring to accomplish what
every American state has achieved, the
release Of her people from the odious
anti-republican regime which denies to
the people the right to govern them.
selves, and subordinates them to the
supposed divine right of a monarch
whose title to such divinity originated
in the most slavis1 condition of pagan
barbarity."
Landing of the Troops.
Coming to the landing of the troops
from the United States steamship Bos.
ton, Mr.. Morgan details the facts of the
10 days cruise in which Minister Stevens
participated, and says that upon the
minister's return to the harbor, a condi
ton Of affairs existed in Honolulu
which led naturally te the apprehension
that violence or civil commotion would
ensue, in which the peace and securit,
Of American citizens residing in tina
city would be in peril, as had been don.
on three or more separate occasion,
previously when changes occurred, O.
were about to occur, in the government
Of Hawaii. Whatever we may conclud,
were the real causes of the situation the,
present in Honolulu, the fact is tina
there wa q complete paralysis Of execu
tive government in Hawaii. The actor
Of the queen in an effort to overturn tn
constitution to which she had sworl
obedience and support, had been accept
ed and treated by alarge and powerful
bodySof the people as a violation of he
constitutional obligations, revolutionar,
in it's character and purposes, and tina
it amounted to an act of a%bdication O.
her part SO far as her powers and tn
rights Of the people under the co,nstitu
ton of 1887 were concerned. This stat
Of opinion and this condition Of the e1
ecutive head Of the Hawaiian govern
ment @&9 lsslg
Neutralized It's Power
to protect American citizens and othe
foreigners in their treaty rights, an
also all their rights under the laws {
Hawaii. There was not in Honolulu a
that time any efficient power throug
which the rights Of American citizen
residing there could be protected i
accordance with local laws. It is evi
dent that the queens government at tina
time had n % power to prevent the land