The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-02-06
PRESIDENT AND MINISTER
Mr.. Dole's Letter to Mr.. Willis and
the Answer.

| WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The Presi
dent, in a brief note of transmittal, to.
day submitted to Congress the latest
correspondence relating to Hawaii. II
comprises some brief notes of Minister
Willis to Secretary Gresham, which
are unimportant, but the chief features
of it are the letters which passed be-
tween Minister Willis and President
Dole, in one of which the Minister
complains OF the utterance of Dole, as
rejecting on the President of the Uni
ted States, and letter from Dole in
which he specifically inquiries if Will
lis instructions authorized the use of
force. Both these matters appear to
have been settled by the receipt of
the last message of the President to
Congress and the last instructions of
Gresham to Willis.
Following is the Presidents message
transmitting the correspondence:
To CONGRESS: transmit herewith
dispatches received yesterday from
our Minister at Hawaii, with certain
correspondence which accompanied
the same, including a most eXtraOr-
binary letter dated December 81, 1898,
signed by Sanford B. Dole, Minister of
Foreign Affairs for the Provisional
! Government, and addressed to Minis
| ter Willis after the arrival of my mes
sage at Honolulu, with copies of the
instructions given our Minister.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Following is Dole's first letter to
Willis, referred to by the President:
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AT
FAIRS, Honolulu, December %, 1898.
SIR: Pending further action of the
Government of the United States upon
matters contained in your communi-
cation of December 18th, and my re-
ply to the same, dated December 23d,
I desire to call your excellency's most
serious consideration to the dangerous
ana critical condition of this commun-
ity, arising, l most respectfully SUBJ
NIT, out Of the attitude which you
have assumed and the language which
you have used in public and in COM
municatious to this Government, and
also out of the published letter of the
Secretary of State of the United States
and the Presidents message on the
subject of the restoration of the mon
archy.
| do not, however, claim or intimate
that this unfortunate situation has
been Intentionally created by you or
by the Government which you repre-
sent, but arises from the natural con-
struction of your attitude and the am
biguous terms of the statements re-
ferred to.
At the time OF your arrival in this
country the forces of this Government
were organized and amply sufficient
to suppress any internal disorder.
After your arrival you made commu-
nications regarding your policy which
were ambiguous, aud for several weeks
you failed to disclose your intentions,
and have only partially done so up to
the present moment, leaving this
Government to infer what they may
ultimately be from the letter from
Gresham and the Presidents message,
in which it has been declared in very
queen ought to be restored to the
United States, and to leave the United
States to infer that this assumed obi
CATION would be discharged.
Your language, expressed in public,
declared that you intended to perform
some act when the proper time arrived
without disclosing what that act
would be. Under these circumstances
there arose at once a general feeling
of disquiet.
The natural inference from your at
titude, language and refusal to disclose
your purpose, and from Gresham's
letter and the Presidents message
was, and il, that you intended to use
force in maintaining your policy. The
fact is well known that you, as ad-
mitted by yourself in your communi-
cation of December 18th, without the
consent or knowledge Of this Govern
ment, have held negotiations with the
deposed queen for the purpose of over
throwing this Government. The ap-
prehension of both political parties, as
well as that of persons who remain |
neutral in these matters, is that you |
hold instructions to use physical force |
for the restoration of the monarchy. |
/ am not prepared to state that this |
Government entertsins this opinion,
although its want of information to |
the contrary has compelled it to act as !
if il were correct.
In consequence of your attitude in |
this behalf the enemies of the Govern
ment, believing in your intentions to
restore the monarchy by force, have
become emboldened; threats Of assas-
of officers of this Government
have been made; the police force has
been informed of conspira-
cies to create disorders the aged and
sick persons of all nationalities have
been. and are, in state of distress
and anxiety; children in the schools
are agitated by fear of political dis
the wives, sisters and
daughters of the residents, including
many Americans, have been in daily
of civic disorder, many
of them having even armed them
selves in preparation therefor; the
citizens have made preparation in
their homes for a defense against as
saults which may arise directly or in