The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-08

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tive fat nprooi ali the acts Of Cleyelaaa's
administration.
The instructions issued 20 Minister Willis
October ~, is<8. inform the minister that
tie provisional government 20 which be
vas 20 deliver his credentials wss not
established by the Hawaiian people or
With their consent. nor has il existed with
shsir consent. Mr.. Willis was 20 notify
the queen that the president would not
send back to the senate the treaty with
drawn on March Q. He Was TO Inform
the queen. when relnstated, that the presI-
dent expected her 70 grant entire amnesty
to ali those connected with the provisional
government. so they should Be deprived OF
norfght or privilege" Having
scared the queens agreement TO pursue
this wise and humane policy" Mr.. Willis
Was TO advise the executive OF the pro-
visionai government OF the presidents
determination OF the question which their
action and that Of tie queen had devolved
upon him" and that they are expected
20 promptly relinqnish 20 her her consti-
tutional authority" Should either party
decline. Mr.. Willis was TO report and
await further directions"
The appeals from Hawaii Of both parties
had been made not TO the president but to
.'the government of the United States.
President Cleveland is not ''the govern
rnent Of the United States" but in all this
matter he has behaved as If there was no
government of the United States" out
side OF himself. In other words, Presi-
dent Cleveland gave secret instructions to
q minister Of the nited States to intrigue
and negotiate for the oyerturn of govern
ment TO which he had been formally ac-
credited. On the oath of November, ten
days before the assembling of congress,
the secretary OF state teiegraphed Mr..
Willis to put an end to delays. "You
viii insist upon amnesty and recognition
Of obligations Of the provisional govern
nent as essential conditions of restora-
ton
The president not only assumed the right
to intrigue for the overthrow of the de
facfo and de jure provisional government,
but be assumed the right to impose condi-
tons of restoration" upon queen whose
restoration" he declared 10 be "a simple
act of justice" A czar; a Warwick, in
deed. who proposed to displace one govern
Insnt as illegitimate, and then to impose
his own conditions of restoration" upon
what he termed the legitimate. independ-
ent government of Hawaii.
In other words, the president assumed
TO himself the right TO establish protec-
torste of the United States in Hawaii, not
in name but in reality; not by law but
through the presidents sole decision, un-
constitutional act and decree. December
Sd Minister Willis is telegraphed that the
president cannot use force without the
authority of congress" The president
evidently intended originally TO use force.
for otherwise the demand of Minister
Willis that the de faeto and de ja,e provis-
ionai government disperse is only an alb
surd act calculated TO contribute to the
gayety of the provisional government. who
might answer Willis as Hotspur answered
Glendowers boast that he s'could call
spirits from the Vastly deep" "Why, SO
can | or any man, but the question is,
WIN they comet" And yet Minister
Willis has done this thing: he has "cailed
spirits from the Vastly deep" but they re-
fuse to come, and before congress rises it
will be forced to answer the question pre-
sented in the report of the minority CON-
mitsee OF the house when ID says:
IF president, without the consent of
a iv<Ta
matte officer To supersede a minister, leav-
Ing the latter only routine duties he may
do IL In Great Britain or In Germany as
we'll as in the Hawaiian islands. The
same right asserted here TO appoint an am
bassador under the name OF commits
sioner would allow the president TO ap-
point any agent OF his own. without
conference with any other branch OF the
government. TO exercise judicial functions
paramount to judges already in Office by
and with the senate's consent"
The truth IL that the action OF Minister
Stevens last January was proper and
necessary; it was done according to the
standing instructions of tho department OF
state and intended solely to protect Ameri-
can life and property from the dangers In
cident 10 an excited condition of popular
feeling Minister Stevens did nothing
that was not exactly In accordance with
the instructions of Secretary Bayard in
the Hawaiian crisis OF 1887. The Demo-
Gratis in congress cannot well afford to in.
dorss Mr. C!eveland's conduct, and If the
question ever comes directly before the
senate IL is believed the censure of Mr..
Cleveland's conduct cannot be avoided.
let il never tie forgotten that President
cieyelsnd's demand through Willis that
the IL facio and de jsre independent gov
eminent Of Hawaii shall sbdicsts in favor
OF the deposed queen is an insult to the
government Of Hswaii, which if Indicted
by the authority Of this government upon
nation strong enough To resent il would
be the certain initiative Of war. In any
event IL is a bid for rebellion against the
government on the part of the queens
faction.
President Cleveland has usurred uncon-
stitutional powers TO enforce his own will
for the destruction OF friendly power
against The will Of bis own nation Law.
fully expressed in sn act Of recognition
which vas conclusive and irrevocabls.
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