The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-03
WHERE Is DOLE'S LATTER?
The State Department Has Not Yet
''OfficialIy" Received 1t.
BUT THEY SEEM TO KNOW ABOUT
ITIN WASHINGTON.

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stalIment of Hawaiian News-It Con
tanned Only Letter from Mr.. Willis,
Referring to the Letter from Dole,
Which Everybody Is Eager to Read
The Presidents Message Ia Model of
Breyity,
Washington, February 2.-The Presi-
dent sent to Congress today additional
correspondence in the Hawaiian matter,
but disappointment is felt that the cor
respondence did not include President
Dole's reply ito Minister Willis, and the
disappointment is not lessened by any
explanations given. Statements pro-
ceeding apparently from well informed
sources were heard at the Capitol and
seemed to plesage with positiveness that
Mr.. Doles letter was received at the
State Department last Saturday. Its
transmission was only delayed so as not
to interrupt the tariff debate in the
House. The intimations given as to the
length of the letter correspondent exactly
with Mr.. Willis's statement even to the
number of specifications contained in
Mr. Dole's letter, 27 in ALL The cores
pondence transmitted today indicates
that this letter was not received OF 'soffi-
cially'' transmitted to the State Depart
menU. The full text of Secretary Gre
sham's letter to the President follows:
II send herewith, with view to their
transmission to Congress, if in the opin-
ion of the President such action be not
inconsistent with public interest, two
copies of despatch No. 27 1-2, under date
of January II, from Mr.. Willis, our min
lister at Honolulu, it being the only COM
munication received from him since jan
uary 23, bearing on the relations between
the United States and Hawaii. Three
other dispatches, Nos. 25, 26 and 27, en-
closing requisition for stationery, du-
plicate accounts and other papers having
no relevancy to the matters which the
President submitted to Congress in the
special message of December Is, came
by the same mail"
To this letter, the President attached
the following message:
ITO the Congress- hereby transmit a
communication from the Secretary of
State accompanying despatch received
a few days ago from our minister at Ha-
waii. sGRovER CLEVELAND,
Executive Mansion, Feb. 2. 1894"
The letter of Mr.. Willis to Mr.. Gresh-
am follows:
"LEGATIoN OF THE UNITED STATES,
HONOLULU, FL. L.,
January 12, 1894.
"Hon. W. @. Ores ham, Secretary Of
State:
''Sir-On yesterday, at 80 p. m., / re-
ceived the Hon. S. b. Dole's answerilto
my letter of; January /, requesting him
''at his earliest convenience" to give me
the specifications contained in his prior
letter. His answer is about so pages of
closely written official paper, and has
been delivered to me too late to either
copy OF reply to it in time for the steam
er leaving at 2 p. m. today There is
one extract, however, to which 1 think
your attention should be called, wherein
it is stated this government has been
and noac is subjected to the necessity of
tional expense, which but for such atti-
tude would have been unnecessary
ssThe emphasis above is mine. In a
previous letter of December 27, Minister
Dole had stated the government offices
have been placed and still continue in a
condition of defence and preparation for
siege, and the community has been put
into state of mind bordering on terror
ISM
1.-The emphasis above is mine. Some
portions of the letters from which these
extracts are made confirm the state
ments, while others seem to negative