The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-09
FROM HAWAII.
Full Details of the Situa-
tion in the Opera Bouffe
Realm.
DOYLE IS DEFIANT
Minister Willis Dignified Pre-
sentation Of President Cleve-
lands Views.
REPLY OF THE PROFESSIONALS
A Week of Panic at Honolulu
British Marines Landed-Con-
tidence Now Restored.

steamer Warrimoo, which arrived here to-
night, brings advices from Honolulu under
date of January l. On December 13, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs sent the follow
ing letter to Minister Willis
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Dec. 49, 1893.
slR-I am informed that you are in communca-
establishing the monarchy In the Hawaiian Islands
WI VIII 9oa e f 80 e e or K
are acting in any way hostile to this Government!
on your par in view Of your ofciai relations with
this Government would seem impossible, but as the
am compelled to notice it. you will pardon me
for pressing you for an immediate answer
alton with which have the honor to be- sir your
ooedient humble servant,
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
His Exeellency, 4; s Willis. United states Envoy
Minister Willis sent the following reply
STATES Dec 10 1893
SIR: have the honor to inform you that have a
sire to submit to the President and Ministers of
Government at any hour today which 1t may please
with regard and sincere respect, am, sir, your
obedient servant,
Hon. Sanford Dole, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
MEETING AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
The meeting at the Foreign Office occurred
on the afternoon of December 49,
There were present President Sanford B.
Dole, M. Damon Minister of Finance; j. A.
King, Minister of Interior; w. o. Smith.
Attorney General, and Albert S. Willis,
United States Minister. This is the CONVEX
sation that occurred.
Mr.. Willis-Will Mr. Jones be present at
this interviews"
President Dole-sWe wish to have him
present, if you have no objection"
tTc hoe q or
President Dole-"Yes, sirn
Mr. Willis-s'No objection at ALL"
Mr. Willis then said:-
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,
President of the United States has very
much regretted the delay in the Hawaiian
question, but it has been unavoidable. So
much of it as has occurred since my arrival
has been due to certain conditions precedent,
in compliance with which was required to
confer with YOU The President also regrets,
as most assuredly l do, that any secrecy
should have surrounded the interchange of
views between our two Governments.
81 may say this however, that the secrecy
thus far observed has been in the interest
and for the safety of all your people. l
need hardly premise that the Presidents ac-
tion upon the Hawaiian question has been
under the dictates of honor and duty. 1t is
now, and has been from the beginning, abso-
lutely free from prejudice and resentment,
hshed friendship and treaty ties which have
so closely bound together our respective
governments.
"The President deemed it his duty to with
draw from the Senate the treaty of annexa-
ton which had been signed by the Secretary
of State and agents of your Government,
and to establish a trusted representative to
of your revolution, and to ascertain and re-
port the true situation in these islands.
'sThis information was needed the better
to enable the President to discharge deli
cate and important duty, upon the facts EN-
bodied in Mr.. Blounts report, The Presi-
dent has arrived at certain conclusions and
determined upon a certain course of action
with which it becomes my duty to acquaint
you.
1.-THE Provisional Government was not es
tablished by the Hawaiian people, or with
their consent or acquiescence, nor has it
since existed with their consent.
1.-THE Queen refused to surrender her
powers to the Provisional Government until
convinced that the Minister of the United
States had recognized it as the de facto
authority and would support and defend it
with the military forces of the United States
and that resistance would precipitate a
bloody conflict with that force. She was adj
yised and assured by her ministers and lead
ers of the movement for the overthrow of
her government, that, if she surrendered un-
der protest, her case would afterwards be
fairly considered by the President of the
United States. The Queen finally yielded to
the armed forces of the United States, then
auartered in Honolulu, relying on the good
faith and honor of the President when in
formed of what had occurred, to undo the
action of the Minister and reinstate her and
the authority which she claimed as the con-
stitutionaI sovereign of the Hawaiian Is
lands.
rNsTIGATED BY STEVENS.
fiAfter a patient examination of Mr.
Blount's reports, the President is satisfied
that the movement against the Queen, If not
instigated, was encouraged and supported by
the representative of this Government at
Honolulu; that he promised in advance to
aid her enemies in an effort to overthrow the
Hawaiian Government, and set up by force
new Government in its place; and that he
kept this promise by causing a detachment
of troops to be landed from the Boston on
the 10th of January, 1898, and by recogniz-
iflg the Provisional Government the next
day. when it was too feeble to defend itself
and the Constitutional Government was
about to successfully maintain its authority
against any threatening force, other. than
that of the United States, already landed.
1.-THE President has, therefore, determined
that he will not send back to the Senate for
its action the treaty which he withdrew from
that body for further consideration on the
9th day of March last. In view OF these
conclusions, was instructed by the Presi-
dent of the United States to take advantage
of an early opportunity to inform the Queen
of this determination, and of his views as to
the responsibility of our government The
President, however, felt that we, by our
original interference, had incurred response
bility to the whole Hawaiian COM
munity, and that it would not be just to
put one party at the mercy of the other.
was, therefore, instructed at the same time
TO inform her, that the President expected
that she would pursue magnanimous course,
by granting full amnesty to all who par
ticipated in the movement against her. in
cluding persons who are, or who have been
officially or otherwise connected with the
Provisional government, depriving them of no
right or privilege, which they enjoyed before
the revolution of last January, and that all
obligations created by the Provisional Gov
ernnlent in the course of administration
should be assumed
THE QUEEN AGREES
SIN obedience to the command OF the Presl-
dent have secured tine Queens agreement
to this course, and now deliver a writing,
signed by her, and duly attested, copy OF