The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-06
GIVEN LITTLE CREDENCE.
The Administration Party Does Not
Believe the Auckland Story.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5. - The Tribune's
Washington special says: Little credence
Is given here to the report coming by way
of Auckland that Minister Willis has
within the last two weeks attempted 10
carry out President Clevelaud's discredited
and ridiculous programme of upsetting
the Provisional Government in Hawaii
and restoring Lilliuokaani to the throne,
and In no quarter are expressions of dis
credit so anxious and so heartfelt as among
administration officials and cuckoo"
. Congressmen.
Inc mere announcement that Willis, on
the Queens tardy acceptance of the Presl-
dents conditions of the restoration, has
taken formal step toward ousting the
Provisional authorities has thrown admin
istration Democrats, both in and out of
- Congress, into a stale of genuine panic,
the sole dependence OF administration
apOlogists in both houses having been so
far that the restoration policy had happily
failed before any actual effort to dispos-
sess the Provisional Government had been
attempted
The humble acknowledgment of the mis-
carriage of the restoration programme
conveyed to Congress by the President in
his recent message has alone enabled
partisans of the administration to prevent
an outsDOken repudiation by Congress
: Of the absurd and Quixotic project
planned by the President and Secretary
. Gresham. To find their single excuse for
the administration, that its unlCcky policy
was abandoned before any great harm was
done, swept away by Minister Willis be-
lated demand for abdication on the part
Of the Provisional Government would. of
course. ruin all hope of suppressing Con-
gressional discussion and avoiding Con-
gressiOnal condemnation.
1t is not too much 10 saw, perhaps. that
IL the report of Minister Willis notice to
President Dole proves to be true the ad-
ministration's cause before Congress has
been made worse than hopeless. Such
demand upon the Provisional Government
made after the Presidents message of sur
render and apology three weeks ago will
put up1n Cleveland beyond any possible
palliation the stigma not only of fragrant
violation of the constitutional limitations
of the executive power but of culpable
= trickery and double dealing in his inter
course with Congress.
1t Is no wonder that the State Depart
ment officials and the ''cuckoo" Demo-
that the reports from Auckland about
Minister Willis action are wholly un-
founded and practically impossible. With
.lhe information on hand at present it is
the general disposition to accept this
eager disclaimer and to treat the story of
Wills propositions and unjustifable de-
mana lor the restoration of the Queen as
either wild exaggeration or manufactured
out Of whole cloth. To suppose ANYTHING
else is to put the present administration in
as indefensible and peculiar an attitude
" before Congress and the country as has
been realized since the days of Andrew
johnson.
The officials at the State Department
were reported to be in state of indigna
tion over the press dispatches from Anck.
land. and one official, who is in the con
fldence'Of Secretary Gresham, went so far
sas to say that these stories evidently ema-
Rated from the Provisional Government
press bureau, and were being put in circn-
lation at this time while the Hawaiian
question is under consideration for the