St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-27
A DIVIDED ENDORSEMENT.
REPORTS FROM THE SENATE FOR.
EicN COMMITTEE
ON THE HAWAIIAN AFFAIR
Chairman Morgan Approves Of the
Course of Cleveland, Blount
and Willis, but Does Not Criti-
cise Stevens Republicans
Take Few ExceptiOns-Four
Dem ocrats Condemn Stevens.

Take Few EXCeptlOnS-tour
Dem ocrats Condemn Stevens.
WASHINGTON. Feb. Ex-senator Nor
gan, chairman of the senate committee
on foreign relations. today presented
the report of the investigation of that
committee into the Hawaiian affair.
The report prepared by Senator Nor
gan is concurred in by Senators Sher-
man, Frye. Dolph and Davis the Re-
publican members of the committee,
who also make supplemental report,
taking more positive ground than the
Morgan report; while Senators Butler,
Turpie. Daniel and Gray, Democrats.
submit a minority report.
These reports, with the testimony
taken in the secret investigation, make
a bulky document and comprehensive
review of the Hawaiian question, made
after thorough investigation. Senator
Morgan, in his report, says that the IN
quiry related, first, to the conduct of
the government, as shown in its official
acts and correspondence, and second,
to the conduct of the civil and military
officers Of the government in the dis
charge of their public duties and func-
tions. These are matters which do not
concern Hawaii
AT THIS TIME.
He also says that the future policy OF
the government as to annexation has
been excluded from the consideration of
the committee, except where it is allud-
ed to as an incident to the iv vestiga-
tion. Mr. Morgan lays down the
proposition on the first page of
the report, 'as a government dealing
with Hawaii and with any form of gov
ernment in that country, the United
States can have no separation or break
in its line OF policy corresponding to
any change in the incumbency of the
Office of the president. 1t is in all re-
spects as much the same government i'll
every right and responsibility as if it
had been under the same president dur
ing the entire period covered by the re-
cent revolution in Hawaii and the sue
ceeding events"
The president, however, has right to
change his opinion, and change of
policy on the part Of one president from
that inaugurated by his predecessor
must be regarded simply as change of
mind in the same person. A declaration
against monarchism in the ISLANDS fol-
lows next, the report saying that we
exercise at least a moral SuZerainty over
that country. Hawaii" it says. lis an
American state ard is embraced in the
American commercial and military syS-
TEN.
ss,,-s--se~ IN THIS ATTITUDE * @
| nf ho ttRn on re- II a tuQii fflucf no
entitled TO demand of the United States
an indulgent consideration, if not an
active sympathy, while she is enaeavor
ing to accomplish what every American
state has achieved, the release of her
people from the OdiouS anti-republican
regime which denies to the people the
right to govern themselves, and sub
ordinates them to the supposed divine
right of mouarch whose title to such
divinity originated in the most slavish
conditions of pagan barbarity."
Coming to the landing of the troops
| from the United States steamship Bos-
ton, Mr.. MorgaC details the facts of the
| ten days cruise, in which Minister
| Stevens had participated, and says that
upon the minister's aeturn to the har-
Dor a condition of affairs existed i'll
| Honolulu which led naturally to the
| apprehension that violence or civil COM
| motion would ensue, in which the peace
! and security OF American citizens re-
siding in that city would be in peril, as
| had been done on sthree or more Sepa-
rate occasions previously when changes
| occurred, or were about TO occur. In the
| government of Hawaii.
Mir. Morgan's report enters into the
legal reasons for the revolution and
plainly states that the queen by her own
acts had forfeited
HER RIGHTS TO THE THRONE.
It continues:
"Llliuokalani had only been kept on
her throne by the forbearIng tolerance
of the white people, who owned S50,000.-
coo of the property on the islands. 1t
required nothing but the determined
action of what was known as the mis-
sionary party to overthrow the queen.
and that action had been taken before
the troops from the Boston had been
landed. There was no executive head of
the government of Hawaii; it had per.
| ished."
The report then calls attention to the
| fact that In landing the troops there was
no demonstration, and that in passing
| the palace they saluted the queen. 1t
| adds; ''Her attitude at the time was
| one of helplesSneSS, because she found
| no active or courageous support in her
| isolated position, which was self-im-
! posed, and was regretted by few of her
| former subjects. In this condition of
| Hawaii the laws for the protection of
life and property were, in fact, suS-
| pended, so far as the executive power
| was concerned, and the citizens of the
| United States in Honolulu and all the
| Islands and their property rights were
| virtually outlawed.
THE CITIZENS OF HONOLULU
were not held amenable to the civil
authorities. but were treated by the
| queen as we'll as by the people as il the
| country was in state of war"
In view of this state of facts the re-
port lays down the following PROPOSE
tion: sin country where there is no
power of the law to protect the citizens
| of the United States there can be no
law of nations nor any rule of comfy
that can rightfully prevent our flag
from giving shelter to them under the
protection of our arms, and this without
reference to any distress it may give 10
the queen who generated the confusion,
or any advantage it might give to the
people who are disputing her right TO
resume or hold her regal powers. In
every country where there is no effective
chief executive authority, whether it is
newly discovered island where only
savage government prevails. or where
the government is paralyzed by internal
feuds. 1t is the right, claimed and ex-
ercised by all civilized nations. to enter
such a country with sovereign authority
to assert and protect the rights of its
citizens aud their property, and to re-.
main there without the invitation of
anybody until
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
shall have been established that is ade-
quate, in satisfactory sense, for their
protection.
"Tne committee agree that such was
the condition of the Hawaiian govern
ment at the time the troops were landed
in Honolulu from the steam war ship
Boston; that there was then an inter-
regnum in Hawaii respecting the exec
utive off ce; that there was no executive
poWef to enforce tine laws Of Hawaii.