Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-01
FRYE ON HAWAII.
Knocks the Administrations S
Props from Under It.
Arraigns Democratic Officials for
Their high-handed Outrage.


ei That '.lniamous Policy
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-In the Senate
Mr.. Frye made vigorous speech upon
| Hawaiian affairs. He sketched the condi.
ton of the islands and their history down
| to the point of the revolution which over
threw the Queen and established the provis-
ional government. His criticism of the late
Queen for her lottery bill, her opium bill
and her attempts to annul the constitution
was quite severe. January, 1898, he said,
the Queen took the final step which "En.
ded monarchy forever on those islands"
In violation of her solemn oath she had
undertaken to promulgate a new constitu-
tivn restoring to the Queen the former
power and taking away all power from the
people, taking away the right of suffrage
and citizenship from all the white men of
the islands, depriving them of their prop
erty and reducing the brightest ana best
men and women of the whole island to alb
ject slavery. That moment there was no
Queen there. She was dead; there was an
interregnum.
Where, Frye asked, had the President of
terfere with the established government for
had been contrivipg to overthrow the exist
ing government and restore the Queen. He
sent James H. Blount to Honolulu with
powers more extraordinary than ever given
any ambassador, minister. consul general
or commissioner from the United States.
Frye read President Clevelands letter to
President Dole, commencing Mr.. Blount to
him and closing with the words May God
have Your E1cellency in his wise keeping"
"Mr. PRESIDENT" Frye continued, II be-
live that God heard that prayer of President
Clevelands and answered it. The magnif-
cent courage of that little band of white
men which enabled them to say firmly and
with dignity, we will never surrender,
could only been divinely inspired.
Frye read the standing naval regulations
which gave the sole responsibility for land
ing United States forces on foreign soil to
the officer commanding the navy at that
point, and then he read a dispatch from
Secretary Herbert to Admiral Skerrett, say
ing: 'You will consult freely with Mr..
Blount and obey any instructions you may
receive from him. There could not, Frye
said, be found parallel to such an outra-
geous violation of law and common decency
as that order of Secretary Herbert.
Gray found parallel for it in the in
structions given by President Grant to Mr..
Babcock, placing the naval forces at San
Domingo sat his disposal
mo senator" said Frye, ''has right to
say that the words at your disposal meant
violation of law or regulations of the
navy. On the contrary, he is compelled
to assume that it meant in accordance with
law and the regulations of the navy
why" Gray asked, "will you presume
that in one case and not in the other?'
Because" Frye replied, Here the
order is direct. You shall obey the in
structions given to you by Mr.. Blount.'"
"What does at your disposal mean in
General Grants instructions to Mr.. Bah
cock?" asked Gray.
at means something entirely different" "
said Frye. Suppose General Grant did
violate the law. Is one violation of the
law justifable precedent for another?
say no."
Gray admitted this, but" he remarked,
s'the senator said there was no parallel to
this ORDER al still say so,' Frye persis-
ted. Frye quoted the instructions given
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the Queen, and from Mr.. Willis speech to
President Dole, in which he gave renewed
assurances of the friendship and hearty
good will of the American government to-
ward President Dole and the people of the
Hawaiian islands, and congratulated them
on having entered into the great family of
the free.
"And when he said that" Frye ex-
claimed, "he had in his pocket instructions
from the President of the United States to
drive them outside the great family of the
free and reduce them into abject slavery,
under an enfeebled, weak, degraded mon
archy."
"Wbat did Mr.. Willis mean" Gray
asked, "by the great family Of the free?'
Free nations was Frye's Interpretation.
Il think that was very good speech" Gray
remarked, "and not consistent with gob
bling them up afterwards"
81 have no doubt" said Frye, with just q
suspicion of a sneer 10 his tone and manner,
"that the senator thinks that is goo1
speech, too. think it very lucky for the
senator from Delaware that he made his
speech in the Senate. supporting the Presi
dent of the United States, before he had
the testimony, because he was not ham,
pered in the least and not limited or pro-
hibited by the facts. / admire the enthu-
siastic support that he always gives, under
any and all circumstances. no matter what
the President does. to President Cleveland"
Diplomacy, he calculated contemptu-
ously, rs that (holding up the report of
Mr.. Willis speech) diplomacy? God for
bid. It's cheating. It's false pretences.
It's wicked juggling, and that has been the
verdict of Abraham Lincoln's plain people
of this country"
Frye quoted the reply of President Dole
to Minister Willis, decli1ing to entertain the
proposition that the provisional government
should surrender its authority to the tx
Queen. He ridiculed the statement of
Secretary Gresham to Minister Thurston
that the members and supporters of the
provisional government would not suffer in
their lives or property if the Queen should
be restored to power. and said sarcastically,
that the meaning of it was that the Queen
would not behead 5000 Anglo-Saxon, with
rifles in their hands"
Farther on Frye burst into passionate
outburst of eloquence. Think of it," be
sail, "a wicked Queen with barbarian in
stincts and evil purposes blindly stumbles
off her throne. A government representing
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