Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-16
President Dole's Charges Against
Americas Representatives.
EVASION AND DOUBLE DEALING
He Hopes That It Was Mutual
Misapprehension.
! STRONG PRESENTATION


ter received at the time he sent to the
state Department the correspondence bear
ing date of January H. and which he said he
had not had time to transcribe. 1t contains
the specifications asked for by Mr.. Willis
to sustain the assertions made by President
Dole In his letter Of December %, charac-
| terized by President Cleveland as most
extraordinary" After rehearing the re-
quests made by Minister Willis, Mr.. Dole
says:
No Charges Against the President.
Il will comply with your request. Before
doing so. however l desire to say. in reply
to your communication of the LIST instant,
that l have made no charges against the
President of the United States or its rep
| resentatives. On the contrary, in order
| that there might be no misapprehension
concerning the matter. specifically stated
| In my communication to you of the nth
| ultimo that L do not claim or intima tie
that this unfortunate situation has been in
| tentionally created by you or by the govern
ment which you represent 1 still disclain
any intention Of charging you or your gov
eminent with intent to produce the re-
suits and conditions described in my COM
munication of December %.
The object of my communication to you
was to formally bring to your attention
certain facts and conditions existing in
this country; what in my opinion. were the
| causes of the same, and to obtain from
you such Information and assurances as
| would tend to allay the prevailing eX-
| element and apprehension.
| Concerning your statement, above re-
| ferred to, that my communication Of the
9th of December contains statements which
You are fully prepared to show are not war
ranted by the facts, l would say that ii
| would give me great pleasure to become
convinced that the alleged conditions and
| facts referred to by me did not in truth
| exist.
The matters hereinafter stated consti-
tute, in part, the basis for MY belief in he
| existence of the conditions referred to and
the cause producing the same; but shall
be glad to receive from you any evidence
| tending to remove from my mind the belief
| that they or-any of them did exist; and
| assure you that upon becoming convinced
| that am under misrepresentation concern
ing any Of such alleged facts. the allesa-
| diately withdrawn
Concerning your statement that my
letter of December % contains no with
drawal or mooincat ton of the statement
complained Of, you will pardon me If
| say that i was not aware that any com
plant had been made concerning any state
ment made 10y me, your reply having been
| primarily directed to eliciting more specific
| informat ton concerning certain points.
| Referring to the suggestion contained in
your note of tine 29th, and your interview
WITH MIR. Damon, that l withdraw my COM
munication of December %, l would say
! that to do so would have been in the nature
| OF an admission that the statements therein
contained were Incorrect, which, unfortun-
ately, in the absence of the information
which you say you are prepared to present,
and with certain other evidence before me,
| 1t was impossible for me to do.
| Written in No Unfrtendly Spirit.
| Allow me to assure you that 1t is with
/ deep qualification that l receive your assur-
! ance that your communication to me of the
18th of December was prompted by no
| improper motive or unfriendly spirit, bu:
was intended to continue the amicable re-
| lations heretofore existing, and to further
J assure you that this and all other commune
cations from this government are written
| in the same spirit, and l trust that no
| statement presenting the claims and views
! of this government concerning any matter
of law or fact. may, by reason of its direct
ness and distinctness, be nstrued as other
wise than of a similar character
The SPECIFICATIONS.
In compliance with your request for GER
| tain specifications concerning my letter of
December 81 l reply thereto as follows:
! First. You inquire as to the meaning Of
! the word attitude" as used in my letter
l reply that the word was used by me in
its ordinarily accepted sense, meaning the
bearing, the posture, as indicating purpose,
of those referred to.
You further say:
VIII you point out where and when and
how the representative of the United States
assumed any attitude toward the supporters
,iIe provisional government, or that gov
eminent itself, other tnan one essentially
and designeiiy expressive Of peace?'
In reply l would say that the attitude
of person is to be ascertained only by in
ferences drawn from the known words and
acts of such person, and the conditions and
circumstances under which they take place
Some of the words and actions of the
United States and its representatives in
! this connection, and the conditions and cir
cumstanceS attendant thereUpon, from
which its intentions and attitude toward the
provisional government must be inferred,
are follows:
l. A treaty of annexation had been nego-
tiated between the provisional government
and the United States government and pre-
scented to the Senate for ratification This
treaty was withdrawn by President Cleve-
land Immediately upon his entering Office
without prior notice to this government or
| its representatives of his intention so to do,
or of his reasons for such action.
| .. Immediately thereafter the President
! appointed Hon. James II. Blount special
! commissioner 10 ItaWan TO investigate the
condition of affairs at Hawaii.
The knowledge of such appointment was
withheld from the representatives of this
government at Washington. Tie press
having announced the appointment, the Ha-
waiian representatives applied tc the State
Department for Information concerning the
same. The Secretary of State refused to
state the objects of the mission even to
admit that a commissioner hs 1 been ap-
pointed.
3. On the 10Th of June. 1895. Mr.. Thurs
ton, Hawaiian minister at Washington, ad-
dressed a communication to Mr.. Gresham,
Secretary of State.
The quotation from Mr.. Thurston's note
represents the bad effect on the prosperity
of Hawaii of the prolonged uncertainty
as to what the decision Of the United States
was to be on the proposition of Hawaii for
annexation. He points on: the Importance
what the intention of the United States is
steps to preserve order and protect the peo-
pie. He asks, therefore, for an early de-
cision by the United States.
President Dole concludes: No reply has
ever been made to such communication
t. Upon the arrival of Mr. Blcunt in this
country he did not communicate nor in any
manner intimate to the Hawaiian govern
ment that his investigations We're to be di-
rected toward the right of existence of the
government to whom he was accredited
All of his investigations and examinations
were private and such persons only were
examined as he chose TO call.
s. An examination of his report, since
publiShed shows that there are statements