Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-19
ALL QUIET In HONOLULU.
MINISTER WILLIS ASKS THE
QUEENS RESTORATION.
lie Formally Demands the Hawaiian
Government to Step Down-Pres.
ident Dole Refused to COnsid deI
the Demand The Ex-QuCcn's
Promise of Amnesty

Promise of Amnesty
The Canadian Pacific steamer Warrimoc
arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, bring
ing Honolulu advices 70 January /. She re-
ported that the most intense excitement pre-
vailed in Honolulu until the arrival of the
United States revenue cutter COrwin. After
that Minister Willis made his demand upon
President Dole TO surrender the Government
to the Queen. The Provisional Government
refused. and Minister Willis took no further
step to enforce compliance with his order.
The excitement then rapidly subsidized. and
for Il week before the sailing of the Warri
moo there was perfect tranquility. 1t was
then thought that the crisis had passed
President Dole forced action on United
States Minister Willis on December 13, send
ing him this letter relative to his treating
with the depOsed Queen LtliuOkalani:
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
December 13, 1S93.N
''Sir-I am informed that you are in com
municatiOn with LiliuOkalini. ex-Queen,
with view of re-establishinS the monarchy
in the Hawaiian Islands. and of supporting
her pretPnsOn to the sovereignty. VIII you
inform me if this report is true, or ifyoI are
acting in anyway hOsti!etO this Government:
I fully appreciate the fact that any such
action upon your part. in view of your of
fetal relations with the Government
would seem impossible, but as the informa
tiOn has come to me from such sources that
lam compelled to notice 1t. you Will pardon
me for pressing you for an immediate
swer. Accept the assurance of distinguished
consideration, with which have the hOnot
to be, sir, your most Obedient humble ser
want, SANFORD Is. DOLE.
''Minister of Foreign Affairs.
His Excclency A. S. Willis, United States
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
pOtentiary."
Minister Willis six days after replied az
follows:
''HOnoluIu Legation of the
"United States, December 18th 1898.
t'Sir-I have the honor to inform you that
have a communication from my Government
which | desire to submit to the President
and Ministers of your Government at any
hour to-day. which it may please you to
designate. With regard and sincere respect,
am, sir, your obedent servant,
''ALBERT S. WILLIS
''E. i. & II. Z. U. S. A.
"Hon Sanford Dole, Minister of Foreign
In response Minister Willis met President
Dole. Minister of Finance NJ. Darwin,
Minister of Interior J. A King and Attorney
General w. Q. Smith at the Foreign Ofce
on December 10. Mr. Jones was present as
stenographer. Mr.. Willis said
Mr. President and Gentlemen Tho
President of the United States has very
much regretted the delay in the cOnsdera.
ton of the Hawaiian question, but it is un.
avoidable SO much of it as has occurred
since my arrival has been due to certain
conditions precedent, compliance with
which WAS required before was authorized
TO confer With YOU.
Tho President also regrets, most
assuredly do /. that any se3recy should
have surrounded the interchange of views
between our two Governments. [ may say
this, however, that the secrecy thus far OBJ
served has been in the interest and for the
safety of all your people.
Il need hardly promise that the Presi
dents action upon the Hawaiian question
has been under tho dictates of honor and of
duty; il is now. and has been from the be.
cinning, absolutely free from prejudice and
resentment and entirely consistent with the
Hg-established friendship and treaty ties
which have 50 closely bound together our
respective Governments.
The President deemed it his duty 10 with.
draw from the Senate the treaty of annexa-
tion which had been signed by the Secretary
of State and agents OF your Government, and
to despatcha a truSty representative to Hawaii
to impartially investigate the causes of your
revolution and to ascertain and report the
true situation in these islands.
This information was needed, the better
to enable the President tc discharge a deli
cate and important duty. Upon tho facts
embodied in Mr.. Blount's report, the Presi-
dent has arrived at certain conclusions and
determined upon a certain course of action
which it becomes my duty to acquaint you
with.
The Provisional Government was not es.
tablished by the Hawaiian people nor with
their consent nor has it since existed with
their consent,
''The Queen refused to surrender her
powers to the Provisional Government until
convinced that the Minister of the United
States had recognized it rs the de facto au.
thOrity and would support and defend it With
the military force OF the United States, and
that resistance would precipitate bloody
conflict with that force.
she was advised and assured by her
ministers and leaders Of the movement for
the overthrow OF her Government that if she
surrendered under protest her case would
afterward be tairly considered by the Presi.
dent of the United States.
THE Queen finally yielded to the armed
forces of the Unite States, then quartered
in Honolulu relyinC on the good faith and
honor of the President. when informed OF
what had occurred, to undo the action OF the
Minister and reinstate her and the authority
which she claimed the constitutional
sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.
After q patient examination of Mr.
Blount's reports. the President is satisfied
that the movement against the Queen. if not
jnstigatel, was encouraged ami supported by
the representatives OF this Government at
Honolulu that they promised in advance to
aid i1er enemies in an effort to over
throw the Hawaiian Government and
set up by force a new government
in its place. and that they Hert
this promise by causing a detachment
Of troops to be landed from the Boston on
the 18th of January 1898, and by recogniz:
ing The Provisional Government the next
day, when it was too feeble 20 defend itself
and the Constitutional Government was
about to be successfully maintained against
any threatening force. other than that of tn
United States already landed.
THE President has. therefore, determined
that he will not send back to the Senate fOi
its action thereon the treaty which he with
drew from that body for further considera
ton on March 9 last.
in view of these conclusions, 1 was in.
structed by the President of the United
States to take advantage of an early OppOr
tunlty to inform the Queen of this deter
Gl1nation and OF his views as to the re-
sponsibility Of our Government.
The President, however felt that we, by
our original interEerencr, mad incurred a
responsibility to the whole Hawaiian COM
mun-ty, and that it would not be just to put
one party at the mercy % the other.
IL was, therefore, instructed at the same
time to inform her that the President ex.
pected that she would pursue magnan1mous
course by granting full amnesty to all who
participated in the movement against her
including persons who are or who have been,
officially or otherwise, connected with the
Provisional Government, deprivinS them o.
no right or privilege which they enjoyed be.
fore the revolution of last January. and that
all obligations created by the Provisiona!
Government in the course of administration
should be assumed.
I'm obedience to the command OF the Presi
dent, I have secured the Queens agreement
to this course and now deliver a writing
signed by her and duly attested. copy OF
which will leave with you. Twill now read
that writing. I will read from the original,
leaving with you certified copy.
~. Liliuokalani, in recognition OF the
high sense OF justice which has actuated
the President of the United States, and
desiring to put aside all feeling of per-
sonal hatred or revenge and to do what
is best for all the people of these islands,
both native AMI foreign born, do hereby
and herein solemnly declare and pledge
myself that if reinstated as the constitutional
sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands, will i'm
mediately proclaim and declare unconditiop-