The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-05
OUT AT LAST.
CIeVeland's Orders to
Willis.
RESTORE THE QUEEN.
No Matter What May Be
the Conditions.
CARRIED BY THE CORWIN.
Instructions Sent While Congress
Was in Session.
MINISTER WILLIS OBEDIENT.
lie Demanded the Offices of Dole,
With What Result Is Yet
to Be Known.

AUCKLAND. New Zealand, Jan. 4.-Ad-
vices from Honolulu to December q have
been received here by the steamer Ala
media, Just arrived from San Francisco.
The officers OF the vessel stated to an As
ISOLATED Press correspondent that the eX-
element at Honolulu over the political sit
ustion is growing in intensity. The Pro-
visIonal Government is firm as ever in its
determination to maintain the position
and is completing its preparations to resist
any effort which might be made to restore
the monarchy.
The members Of the police force Of the
island have been notified that they would
be expected 10 take up arms in defense of
the Government and a number have been
dismissed for refusing TO obey the order.
The Minister Of the United States had
written to the Provisional Government
requesting the surrender Of the offices. as
the United States had decided to favor the
restoration of the Queen. The Minister
informed the Government that Liliuoka-
lani had agreed TO grant amnesty to all
who had taken part in the revolution, to
Tatiiy the obligations of the present Coy
ernment and to govern faithfully in ac-
cOrdance with the present constitution.
The Government was preparing a long
reply to the Minister.
The Commercial Advertiser of Honolulu,
In an article supporting the Government,
declares that the United States Congress
has taken the matter out of President
Cleveland's hands by calling for the
papers and Hawaiian correspondence, and
asserts that the Provisional Government
will not retire from power unless CON-
PEELED to by force. which. it says. will not
likely be employed.
Temporary repairs have been made to
compsny's steamer Miowera. which was
stranded at Honolulu last October. and
she will proceed to San Francisco.
Now we know what orders were sent
down to Minister Willis by the Corwin.
In the face of the fact that Congress was
in session; in the face of the further fact
that it would almost certainly demand of
the President an explanation Of his con-
duct in reference to Hawaii, even in the
face of the fact that the Hawaiian Ques-
tiOn had been touched upon by Senator
DOlph 10 q reference to the Presidents
message sent TO Congress on December 4
las, Grover Cleveland, by a Government
steamer leaving San Francisco at midnight
on December 5, sent to Minister Willis
orders to proceed TO the carrying out of
his previous instructions for the restOra-
ton Of the ex-Queen, and this in spite of
the fact that Willis had reported the exist
ence upon the Hawaiian Islands of state
of affairs entirely at variance with that
alleged to have existed by Paramount"
Commissioner Blount, upon whose report
the administration confessedly based its
policy of restoration. 1t was a last, des-
perate cast, and it failed-or at least it is
to be hoped that it failed. If it has not
American troops have been landed to re-
store the Kanaka regime, blood has been
shed, and no man dare say what has not
occurred at the islands since the Alameda
left there on the 22d of December.
On December 6 Senator Hoar offered his
resolution calling for all of the nforma-
tiOn and correspondence In the possession
of the President and the Secretary of State
relative to the Hawaiian matter. and. al
though that resolution was passed within
a few days thereafter, the information
called for was net forthcoming at once
Day after day passed and still there.was
delay, and it was not until December 10
that the message and the correspondence
upon Hawaii were transmitted to Con-
gress. Was the President waiting to hear
of the arrival of the Corwin and of the res
toration of LiIiuokalani, after which be
deemed it would be too late for Congress
to act. before giving the information de-
sired? In the light of this dispatch from
Auckland it looks that way. President
Cleveland has played his last card at all
events, with what result will not be GER
tainly known until the next advices reach
here from Hawaii, although it is certain
that the Provisional Government would
under no circumstances consent to sur
render its authority without a struggle. 1t
remains now for Congress to act. That
body has been defed and flouted as never
President has ventured TO defy and fout
1t in the history Of this republic.