Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-28
How the Accounts Stand.
A deficiency Of rising
$50, 900 the past yearl
That's how taxes were re-
ducsd. But the bills must
be paid all the same.
Mr.. Stevens vIadica.ed .

The administration has failed dlsmally in
the stsempt to attracs public attention from
the infamou, Haw allan policy by vitupera-
tive attacks upon Ex-Minister Stevens.
No wonder that tie Presiden. was anxious
to 20 fishing before the Morgan report was
submitte to the Senate. That report, COM
ipg from the ablest of the Democratic sena.
tors, was humiliating in the extreme. This re.
port is The only one based upon an intellis snt
investigation Of all the facts from the ties.
timony of people representing all phases of
the matter. 1t is therefore entitled to the
careful attention of the American people
The resolutions which have been brought
forwa ard in the House and Senate by ad-
ministrstion cuckoos, have been based upon
the absurd assumption that the report OF
Param punt Blount WAS infallible. BY the
Morgan report made after the most e,-
haustive inquiry and the summoning of q
very large number of witnesses, both
Mr.. Blount and bis voluminous "find.
ings' upon the IIawsiian situation are
completely discredited. The vindication
of Minister Stevens i, complete and will be
gratifying to patriotic citizens all over the
country. The committee finds that MIR.
Stevens and Captain Wiltse pursued an en-
ti.ely proper course in their attitude toward
the Hawa allan revo' ution; that "the recog-
milton of the provisional government was
lawful and authoritative; that the COM
plants of Liliuokalani against Min.
lister Stevens we're mot we'll found
ed in fact or in justice;' that
she was in fact, ly her own unconsti-
tut.onal and despot:c acts. the author and
promoter of the rev olu,ion which resulted
in her downfall. The language of the &c
port, in some of its closing paragraphs en-
beavers, it is true, to let the administration
down as easily as possible; but this does
not mitigate the fact that the Cleveland
Gresham policy has been thoroughly dis
credited by the committee Of Democi attic
Senate charged with its consideration. The
Republican members of that committee
while coinciding, in the main, with the find
ings of the report, dissent in five POINTS
no one of which, it will be observed, re-
lstes to the conduct of Minister Stevens,
inasmuch as that was deemed to have been
fully yindicated in the regular report. The
exceptions referred TO are as follows:
as They condemn the appointment of
Commis sioner Blount a. unconstitutional.
(2) They say executive orders placing
the navy in the harbor of Honolulu under
orders of Blount or Willis were without
authority of law.
(3) That the order of Blount to Admit
raj Skerret to lower the flag was unlawful
and susceptible of being construed as IN
friendly to the provisional government, and
they regard the intercourse of Blount and
Willis with the deposea Queen as a viola
ton of international law and unwarrants
a. They consider that the President
had no right to reopen the predetermined
legality Of the provisional government.
% They regard any discussion of the
personal intentions or good faith of either
Blount or Willis as immaterial, inasmuch
a. what they did in regard to the reinstate-
ment of the Queen was simply performed
under orders from the President and Score.
tary Gresham.
These exceptions are well taken and will
we feel. appeal alike to the good sense and
patriotic spirit of the American people
The supplementary report 10 signed by foul
Democrats. Two Of these, Gray and Dan
iel, are notorious cuckoos. The other two
Butler and Turpie, while lending them
selves to the work of shiel ling the admins
tration so far as possible in its unhappy
plight, do not hesitate to give it vigost III
punch 10 the ribs by declaring fquarely il
favor of the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands to the United States.
Right is eventually bound to prevail ant
the gratifying vindication that has come II
Mr. Stevens, somewhat tardily, to be sure
from the committee of Democratic Con
gress intrusted with the duty of fully in
vestigating the official conduct of himself
and those associated with him in the Ha
waiian crisis, is just recognition of hi
clear headed and patriotic services, in
/, most important and trying period.