The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-05

bis high station and eoussitutssna re-
sponsihillty.
One Of the most disrrscsful pages OF
President CIeseIand's Hawaiian record
wss his suppression Of dispatch No 3.
which revealed the purpose os the queen
on her restoration 10 pat TO death the
authors and engineers OF tise present Hs-
wasian government This dispatch was in
the hands Of the president when Secretary
Graham prepared the instructions OF De-
eenbsr 8 in pursuancs Of which. on De-
eenber Is, Minister Wills demanded the
surrender Of the de fscso Hawaiian gov
eminent. which the United States and
other powers had recognized.
In the instructions of December 3 Mr.
Cleveland ordered Mr. Willis 20 tell LII
iuokaiani that the American executive
woald have no power 80 use force for the
purpose Of sustaining her after her restora-
ton 20 the throne.
II 1.-THE president had no power 10 use force
60 sustsin the queen after Der restoration
be woEld. of course. have no power to use
force to eceree her into keeping any prom
Use OF amnesty TO those who upset her
throne. and they would have been put 70
death within twenty-four hours after her
restoration. It Is perfectly clear Why
President Cleveland suppressed this dis
patch No. 3. He knew that its revelation
OF the barbsroas purpose of the corrupt
ex-queen wocid have excited universal
disgust and indignation In the United
States. and so he deliberately withheld
this dispatch No. 3 from congress. pre-
tending that be did so from consideration
Of the public interest He really sup
pressed IL ont Of regard for his own per-
sonal interest, knowing that its publica-
tion a. that time would injure the progress
Of his shameful intrigue to upset the Ha-
waiian government
President Cieveiand's conduct in all this
matter is shown by Congressman Hit TO
DO totally indefensible and without excuse.
In violation OF the constitution. by an inn
peachabie act OF usurpation, he sent
thither n paramount commissioner to
whom he gave authority which can Be
conferred only by consent Of congress, and
he clothed this creature with q power
which he had no shadow of right to give
under the constitution. On the purely er
ports report of this unconstitutional CON-
missioner President Cleveland proceeded
to violate his obligations to the consti-
tuition by perpetrating the very act
which the whitewashing house resolu.
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inserfered with the Hawaiian government,
tried TO overthrow it and conspired with
the deposed queen to restore her TO the
throne. He had no moro business to do
this than he has 70 instruct our minister
to Chile to conspire with the maicontent
friends of the late President Baimaceda to
upset the present government Of that
country.
President Cleveland has been defeated
in the execution Of his shameful plot and
unconstitutional usurpation of power. He
knew that his policy of infamy must be
executed in secret, and it was not until his
secret was exposed that he desisted from
his dastardiy design and turned the mat
ter over to congress.
In the debate on Saturday not one Of
the presidents defenders attempted to
answer the two crucial charges that were
so ably pressed home by Congressman
Hit, viz: that when Mr.. Cleveland dis
patched Commissioner B.ount to Homo
lulu to override and supplant an accred-
tied minister. he violated our fundamental
law by deliberately ignoring the con-
frming power lodged in the senate by the
constitution, and instructing Minister
Willis to demand the surrender of the
Hawaiian government, which had been
formally, completely and repeatedly
recognized by the United States. Russia
and Japan. Mr.. Cleveland committed an
act of war which the constitution forbids
him to commit without the previous
sanction Of congress. No party vote for
whitewashing resolutions in the house
can wipe out these shameful historical
facts.