The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-04-07

deplored it. The tidal wave of popu-
lar indignation that swept over the
country far surpassed our expecta-
tions, and the American eagle GER
tainly did scream. Editor Dana of
the Sun set the keynote by his famous
editorial on "The Policy of Infamy,"
and three-fourths of the papers
throughout the country took the same
view of the case. Our legation was
besieged by correspondents and press
agents, ravenous for news. "Have
your people got sand 2" "Will Dole
fght?" was frequently asked by naval
officers, Congressman and others. The
question whether force would be used
was continually discussed, but the
general opinion at Washington was in
the negative. The anxiety for the
next few days was intense, and when
at length on Dec. 9Th we heard by
way of Vancouver that for some un-
known cause the carefully laid tOrpe-
does had failed to explode, there was
q universal feeling of relief. We were
as much in the dark as to the nature
OF the unforeseen contingencies as you
were here. In order TO turn the cur
rent of public feeling, a synopsis OF
Blount's report was given out on the
Goth, and later on the whole of 1t was
revolution of opinion, it fell dead from
the start. It's extreme partisan and
One-sided character could not
fail to strike the most superficial
reader. Senator Davis, of Minnesota,
dissected it in a mastery manner.
Even granting its findings to be cor
rect, it was plainly seen that they
would not justify the ''policy of in
fanny" It's defenders dwindled away
day by day, till at last even the New
York Evening Post threw up the
sponge and reluctantly gave up its adj
hesion to the doctrine of non-interfer-
ence.
The intense interest in our fate
which was displayed throughout that
vast country, and the extreme avidity
with which every scrap of information
was sought for was surprising; but
what was more wonderful was the
fact that this interest was kept up
month after month without any de-
cline. Even the tariff question did
not displace it. 1t was the time for
a campaign Of education" Annex
ton was the favorite subject of debate
in all the literary societies and debat-
ing clubs in the land. 1t was certainly
the greatest advertisement these ISL
andS ever received. At length, as
you remember, the regular session of
Congress opened, and the Presidents
annual message was published, De-
cember 4th, the day before the Corwin
sailed on her memorable trip to these
islands. The succeeding events are
still fresh in your minds. Both houses
of Congress promptly called for in
formation, and nearly the whole cor
respondence of both the State Depart
ment and the Navy Department re-
lating TO these islands for ten years
past, was laid before them and print
ed. Senator Morgan then had resO-
luton passed, authorizing an investi-
CATION by the Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs, of which he is chair
man, and commenced taking evil
dence January I'd. You are all fami-
liar with the work of that committee
and its final report in our favor. The
selection of that subcommittee could
it was by the illustrious Senator from
Alabama, with such distinguished
representatives of his own party as
Senator Gray of Delaware, and Butler
of South Carolina, and of the Republic
can party as Sherman of Ohio and
Frye of Maine. The examination
was conducted with the utmost cour-
tesy and fairness, but Gas the chief
victim) L am sorry to say that the
vi GIlc CcSGiluOHy was very
poorly done.
ilNothing that 1 can say will add
or detract from the reputation
of Senator Morgan, but I can
not refrain from expressing my
admiration of him. A brave and
chivalrous officer in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War, he has
since won higher laurels as states
man and patriot. While he is gen.
orally considered the ablest member
of his party in Congress and high
authority on international law, he is
respected by all parties for the purity
freedom from partisan and sectional
bigotry. No statesman since Seward
has taken broader or more far-reaching
views of the interests of the whole
country, or is more jealous of the
honor of the national flag. The trou-
BILE with our case at Washington has
been the inevitable tendency to
make it the football of party politics;
to use it either to blacken the last adj
ministration or to make party capital
for the next elections. Senator Nor
gan expects, during this Congress, to
carry through the Nicaragua Canal
Bill, with which the future of these
islands is so intimately connected.
The so-called Turpie resolution,
agreed TO by eight out of the nine
members of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations,is all that we could
expect, and will undoubtedly pass the
Senate with but little opposition.
You are, no doubt, aware that seven
out of the nine members of the COM
mittee have declared in favor of the
principles Of annexation.
A similar non-partizan resolution
which was proposed in the House of
Representatives by Holman, of Indi-
ana, was modified under pressure
from the Administration into the self
contradictory and absurd McCreary
resolution, which was passed with the
greatest difficulty under the party
lash after two days vain attempts to
muster quorum. The circumstances
attending the passage deprived it of
all moral weight. 1t called forth,
however elOOuent and StateSmanlike