The morning call., 1894-02-03

(boutelle) is a1nlcteu WIN the harmless
mania for making an exhibition of him.
self on all occasions"
Boutelle again demanded the words be
taken down. They were read from the
desk, and the Speaker ruled the language
was not parliamentary. A hot discussion
followed the ruling, but finally Catchings
was allowed TO proceed in order ana the
incident ended.
AT this point the Presidents message
tran shifting the latest Hawaiian corre-
spondence was submitted to the House
and read.
McCreary, chairman Of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs. then had read the ma
Jority resolution condemning the action of
Minister Stevens. and Hit bad read the
minority report condemning the restora-
tion of the Queen.
McCreary then began the opening
speech of the Hawaiian debate. He re-
lated in detail some of the incidents of
the Hawaiian revolution and declared
that Stevens letter OF March 8, 1892,
plainly showed that he was plotting to
overthrow the Government. The revolu-
tiOn was in the interest of the sugar.
planter who wanted annexation in order
huut tuCJ Cuulu o6CuAO tlIC sugar UUuUtN
given to American planters under the Nc
Kinley law. Is il not strange, he asked.
that OF all the distinguished Republicans
who defend this proceeding not one has
raised his voice in favor of annexation,
which was its object?
Here is one." interjected Blair.
well. l am glad to see one, at least"
said McCreary.
McCreary, contin ning. recited the man.
ner in which Mslietoa had been restored
as King of Samoa. partly through the
intervention of the Harrison administra-
tioD, and pointed out the Inconsistency of
Republicans in berating Cleveland for try
lug to do an act of justice to Liiuokalani.
He reviewed the dplom attic events of the
last administration, the New Orleans
Malta massacre, the Bering Sea arbitra-
tiOn, the Chilean war scare and the
Hawaiian revolution. He then took up
the matter of the authority for the ap-
pOintment of Bl0unt. citing numerous in
stances where such mmissioners had
been appointed, and discussed at length
the BlOunt report. Ii Hawaii were an
DeXed we would have TO annex San
Domingo or any other island which asked
to be taken in. We were great enough aud
big enough already. All we wanted was
just taxation and commercial freedom, and
we would be the greatest nation in the
world.
At the conclusion of McCreary's speech
Blair offered an amendment to the
McCreary resolution, as follows:
Resolved That the House OF Represeutatiyes
approves the recognition of the existing Pro-
ViSiOnal (1OVarpmPnr M 40 Hay Iala de-
by the last and present administrations, and will
view with satisfaction the maintenance of a
policy which shall tend TO consummate, in the
near future. and with the consent of the people.
the annexation OF the Islands 10 this country,
or some other political arrangement which Will
fully preserve and promote the mutual inter
ests oi Hawaii and the United States.
Hit, the leader of the Republican mi
nority of the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee. replied to McCreary. He made the
point that the majority resolution was
discussion of dead issues, while the
proposition of the minority considered
live, vital questions. which every one
recognizes in connection with recent af-
fairs in Hawaii. The attitude of the
administration on the great question of
annexation was not yet known. Hit
spoke of the strength of the Provisional
Government, which had mainta ned itself
even as against the meddling of agents of
the United States, and yet the present ad-
mini>tratiOn had attempted interference
in foreign country fully capable of gov
erning itself. Our intervention was to
restore to the throne Queen whose horrid
character had shocked the civilized world.
1t was in behalf of a woman who had told
Minister Willis, while shivers ran down
his back, that she would behead a great
number of her people. King Bonn ba, by
his fierce cruelties, had awakened the
horror OF Europe, but his brutalities did
not compare with the Bartholomew day
sort of massacre with which this Queen
intended to celebrate her return to the
throne.
Willis had acted like soldier and had
performed the loathsome duty assigned
him. His dispatches showed how his in
nate decency had Tebelled against the per-
formance of such a task. Hit pictured
the condition of affairs during the reign Of
terror up to the time Willis purposes were
disclosed and concluded with most ter
rife arraignment of Cleveland.
Think of i'll Think of itP he said.
"While Cleveland had in hand that letter
from Willis reciting the story of that
brutal interview with the Queen in which
she demanded holocaust of property and
the slaughter OF American citizens he sent
out still another order to overthrow the re-
publican form of government and put
back that wretch in power" Republican
applause.]
willis instructions amounted to this !:
Go find that woman. whose vice, folly and
extravaganza were checked by the people
last January; tell her of the determine
ton of the President to restore her; ask
for amnesty for the revolutionists and
then 90 to the Provisional Govern
ment to get it to relinqnish its
power. That was the programme, and it
was all of il, but the best laid plans of
mice and men gang aft agley." [Repuhli-
can applause. ''This romantic Queen of
the beautiful isles was not what she had
been pictured. Willis found her mon
ster incarnate. and Cleveland has been
censured more for not giving the public
that letter of November 16. which would
have given her true character to the
world, than for all else in connection with
this isgraceful proceeding"
Hit cnncluded the first portjon of bie