The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-02-27
HAWAII IS ON AGAIN
Reports Of the Senate Investigating
Committee.
NO ONE CONNECTED IS CRITICIZED
Stevens, Wiltse, BIount and Presid ent
Cleveland all Acted Within
Their Duty.
NO ONE CONNECTED is CRITICIZED

foreign relations, today presented re-
port of the investigations of that COM
mittee made under the resolution re-
quiring it to report whether any, and il
so what Irregularities had occurred in the
diplomatic or other intercourse between
the United States and Hawaii. The re-
port was prepared by Morgan, and con-
Cured in by Frye, Dolph and Davis, the
republican members of the committee,
These reports, together with the mass of
evidence taken by the committee, are
very voluminous. Morgan begins with
the proposition that this government
dealing with any form of government in
Hawaii can have no break in its line of
policy corresponding to any change in
the Office of president.
The report declares against monarchy,
and that the people should not be
subordinated to the supposed divine
right of monarch whose title to such
divinity originated in the most slavish
conditions of pagan barbarity.
The report approves Minister Stevens
order landing the troops from the Bos-
| ton on the ground that conditions ex-
listed which led naturally to an apprehen-
sion of a civil commotion endangering
the security of American citizens, and
points out on three or four previous oc-
casions OF similar action being taken.
The report says: ''It is evident the
queens government at that time had no
power to prevent the landing of troops
from any quarter; no power to protect
itself against invasion; no power to pro-
tect the civil government; in other
words, an interregnum existed. The
queen only held the throne under her
oath and the constitution, and when she
declared herself absolved therefrom it
was an actual act of abdication. Fur
thermore she had been oyerthrown by
the white people of the Islands before
the troops from the Boston landed.
The Hawaiian monarchyhad persisted" )"
The report declares the purpose of
Minister Stevens and Captain Wiltse
was legitimate, and that they acted in
good faith and with no interests except
protecting American citizens and pre-
serving order.
The report speaks of the work of
American missionaries in building up
the constitutional government of that
country and says it entities the people of
the United States to sympathize and as
sist in resisting its destruction The
queens desire to Danish or kill her op-
ponents should cause an American not
to hesitate to support the government
opposed to her.
The matter of annexation is discussed
at length, and, while the whole tenor is
favorable to annexation, no direct state
ment to that effect is made. 1t says
Annexation has been the subject of
almost constant contemplation among
Hawaiians since the beginning of the
reign of Kamehama I. In the diplo-
matte correspondence frequent and
favorable allusion is made to the cub
ject." The testimony taken by the COM
mittee disclosed the opinion of several
of our most eminent and military Off
GERS that annexation is indispensable to
the proper defense and protection of
wastern coast cities.
The report then takes up the appoint
ment of Blount and his investigation.
1t says he presented sincere. instruc-
tive report, but that the agitated state
of opinion and feeling in Hawaii at the
time made it next to impossible to OBJ
tain a full, fair and free declaration of
the facts; that the evidence taken by
the committee under more favorable cir
cumstances established the fact that the
revolution originated with Lilliuokalani,
who expected through opium and lot
terry bills to secure funds to carry out
her purpose.
The report upholds the right of the
president to appoint Blount and delegate
to him paramount authority; but says
the president would not have been justi-
fed in using force to restore the queen,
and did not contemplate such action
therefore his tender of his good Offices
for settlement of the differences was
strictly within his accepted right. The
fact that the provisional government
was formed to exist till annexation t.
the United States justified interference
for its protection which would not have
been tolerated under other circum
stances; therefore the provisional gov