Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-12
Mr.. Bl0uNr EXAMINED.
The Senate Committee Ask Him 10 Explain
Several Little Points.

peAred before the Senate investigating com
mittee on Hawaiian affairs this morning
All the Democratic members of the sub
committee were present. There were two
Republican senators present, however, for
in addition to Frye, there was Dolph, who
is not member of the sub committee. Al
II O'Clock Frye left the committee room
and went to the rooms of the committee on
commerce, which was in session and before
which Mr.. Frye has number of important
bills pending, leaving Mr.. Dolph to repre-
sent him. During the morning Mr.. Bioun,
was simply subjected to such questions as
Dolph saw fit to ask, and in general, it may
be said, occupied the time in reiteration
and elaboration of the statements made ia
his report, viii :h he stood by from first to
last
There are several things, however. the
Republican members of the committee and
Senator Morgan endeavored to bring out by
DR.. Blount and amorg them was the mat
ter referred to by Prof. Alexander in his
evidence last week, when ne said ~ the
committee that Blount appeared to be
airs id to meet the friends of the provisional
government, held all his intercourse with
r R,yalists and refused to consult with those
who represented the provisional government
and were friendly to IL.
Mr.. Blount, before he left the stand, was
also asked to explain how it happened, il
the statements he is reported to have made
are true, that he declined to incorporate in
bis report statements concerning affairs at
the islands which he asked to be compiled
by friends of the provisional government.
Ha otan
to refute the evidence Of Prof.
Alexander and others to the effect
that friends of the provisional government
were not asked to give their testimony, and
that if such matters as were supplied him
upon which to base his report. as these wit
nesses have testified, why he suppressed
such portions as pleased them and made no
reference. to them in his report as to the
causes that led to the acts of The provisional
government.
1t was the things that did not appear in
his report upon which the committee cross
examined Mr.. Blount most closely. As
one member expressed it., the committee
was anxious to know, in view of what had
been told them since the investigation be-
gan, what Blount knows that he
did not tell the state department and
if lie did not know them at the time
he made his report, why he did not make
use of them. 1t is also very probable that
effort will be made by at least one-member
of the committee to examine Blount as to a
certain conference he is said to have had
with the President and Secretary Gresham,
both before his visit to Hawaii and after bis
return. In other words, the committee
wants to know if there was any instruction
given him other than appears as matters OF
record, and if so, what they were.
Up to this time much of the testimony
adduced before the committee has beer in
the direction of proving or disproving the
existence of a conspiracy between Mr..
Stevens, the American minister, and the
gentlemen who afterwards formed the
provisional government. The naval
officers and j. c. Jones, Mr.. Spauld-
ing, Mr.. Emerson and Prof. Alexander
have given testimony upon this PROPOSE,
tion. and it is ssi that Blount will be re-
que. te d to 60 into this matter at length.
1t is also said that this witness is pos
sessed of information which he will give
the committee on this point, which, fol-
manifest reasons, could not be put in re,
port which would be given to the general
public. The question to be determined is
whether there was a conspiracy. There il
one witness who may be called, or who may
speak to the committee by means of depo,
ii ion; who had conversation with Com
mander Wiltze on this very subject. Thai
witness is Rev. DIR. C. NJ. Hyde of Homo
lulu, formerly of Massachusetts, where he
ia we'll known