The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-15

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the dispatches numbere Il, 1915, ~
Is and 10 to our dispatch agent at THAT
place. The object of this is to enable
the President to receive these official
communications before anyintimation.
of their character can be telegraphcd.
i will on Tuesday acknowledge the
receipt of the answer OF the provisional
government. notifying it that the Presi-
dent of the United States will be in
formed thereof and that no further
steps will be taken by me until shall
have heard from him. I.shall deliver a
similar communication to the queen.
The very great excitement prevailing
here, and the peculiar conditions sur
rounding this people, prompt the above
course, which trust will mean the ap-s
probation of the President and OF your
self. ALBERT S. WILLIS"
DoLE's REPLY.
President Dole's reply to the United
States minister's demand is dated De-
cember %, and addressed to MIR. Willis.
In it be said:
"While we accept the decision of the
President of the United States declining
further to consider the annexation
proposition as the final conclusion of
the present administration, we do not
word of the American government upon
this subject; for the history of the mu-
tual relations between the two coun-
tries, of American effort and influence
in building up the Christian civiliza-
ton, which has so conspicuously aided
in giving this country an honorable
place among independent nations, the
geographical position of these islands
and tho important, and to both coun-
l. ,I,,I
interests which have long existed, to-
gether with our weakness as a sovereign
nation, all point with convincing force
to political union between the two
countries as the necessary logical result
from the circumstance mentioned.
owe do not:recognize the right of the
President of the United States to intor-
Zero in our domestic affairs. Such right
could be conferred upon him by the act
of this government and by that alone,
or it could be acquired by conquest.
This I understand to be the American
doctrine, conspicuously announced
from time to time by the authorities OF
your government"
President Dole proceeds to cite pre-
cedents from United States history
showing that it is the settled policy of
the American government not to inter-
fere with the internal affairs of other
nations but to recognize the govern
ment which is established.
Upon what. then, Mr.. Minister, does
the President of the United States base
his right of interference? Your COM
munication is without information upon
this point We are informed that the
President has arrived at his conclusions
from Commissioner Blounts report.
We have had as yet no opportunity of
examining this document, but from eX.
tracts published in the papers we are
not disposed to submit the fate of
Hawaii to its statements and conclu-
sions.
s.The whole business of the govern
ment with the President of the United
States is set forth in the correspond
ence between the two governments and
the acts and statements OF the minister
of this government at Washington and
the annexation mmiseioners accred-
tied to it. If we have submitted our
right to exist to the United States, the
fact will appear in that correspondence
and the acts of our minister and COM
missioners. Such agreement must be
shown az the foundation OF the right of
your government to interfere, for an
arbitrator can be created only by the
act of two pa rites.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
eff your conclusion that President
Cleveland believes that this govern
ment and the ex-queen have submitted
their respective claim to the sovereign
ty of this country. to the adjudication
of the United States, is correct, then,
may I ask, when and where has the
President held this court OF arbitra-
ton? This government has had no
Nf "a oil Of n frih
and no opportunity of presenting evil
dence of it's claims. If Mr.. Blount's in
designations were part OF the proceed
ings of such court. this government
did not know it, and was never in
formed of it; indeed, as l have men
toned above, We never knew until the
publication of Secretary Gresham's let
ter to President Cleveland few weeks
ago, that the American executive had Il
policy of interference under contempla-
ton Even if he had known that Mr..
Blount was authoritively acting as
commission to take evidence upon the
question of the restoration OF the ex-
Queen the methods also quoted by him
IN making his Investigations submit,
were unsuitable tosuch an examination
or any examination, upon which human
interests were to be adjudicated. AS
| am reliably informed, he selected his
sWlCQCSSoS anu LllSLu Ill HeCTtb,
freely using leading questions, giving
no opportunity for cross, examination
and often not permitting explanations
OF witnesses themselves as they desired
to make OF evidence which he had
drawn from them. It is hardly neces-
sary for me to suggest that under such
a mode OF examination, some witnesses
would be almost helpless in the hands
of an astute lawyer and? might be drawn
into saying things which would be only
half true and standing alone would be
misleading or even false in. effect Is it
likely that an investigation conducted
in this manner could result in fair,
full and tru thful statement of the case
in point? Surely the destines of friend
ly government admitting by way of ar
gument that the right of arbitration ex-
lists may not be disposed OF upon an ex-
parte and secret investigation without
the knowledge of such government or
an opportunity by it TO be heard or