The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-09
FROM HAWAII.
Full Details of the Situa-
tion in the Opera Bouffe
Realm.
DOLE IS DEFIANT.
Minister Willis Dignified Pre-
sentation Of President Cleve-
lands Views.
REPLY OF THE PROFESSIONALS
A Week of Panic at Honolulu
British Marines Landed-C0n-
fidence Now Restored.

night, brings advices from Honolulu under
date of January 1. On December ID, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs sent the follow
ing letter to Minister Willis:-
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
SIR-I am informed that you are in communica-
Establishing the monarchy IN the Hawaiian Islands
and of supporting her pretensons to the sovergnty
are acting in any way hostile to this Government?
fully appreciate the fact that any such action UP
this Government would seem Impossible, but as the
Information has come to me from such sources that
for pressing you for an Immediate answer.
Accept the assurances OF distinguished consider 91
obedient humble servant,
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
His Excellency, A. S. Willis, United States Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Minister Willis sent the following reply
HONOLULU, LEGATION OF THE UNITED
STATES Dec. 49, 1893
SIR: have the honor to inform you that have g
sire to submt to the PRESIDENT and Ministers Of your
Government at any hour today which it may please
With regard and sincere respect, I am, sir, your
obedient servant,
Hon. Sanford Dole, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
MEETING AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
The meeting at the Foreign Office occurred
on the afternoon of December 10.
There were present President Sanford B.
Dole, NJ Damon, Minister of Finance; J. A.
King, Minister of Interior; w. Q; Smith.
Attorney General, and Albert S. Willis,
United States Minister. This is the conver-
sation that occurred.
Mr.. Willis-Will Mr.. Jones be present at
this interview"
President Dole-'sWe wish to have him
present, if you have no objection"
Mr.. Willis-"Is he stenographer"
President Dole-'.Yes, sir.o
Mr.. Willis-'No objection at all"
Mr.. Willis then said:-
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,-The
President of the United States has very
much regretted the delay in the Hawaiian
question, but it has been unavoidable. So
much of it as has occurred since my arrival
has been due to certain conditions precedent,
in compliance with which / was required to
confer with you The President also regrets,
as most assuredly I do, that any secrecy
should have surrounded the interchange of
views between our tive Governments.
81 may say this, however, that the secrecy
thus far observed has been in the interest
and for the safety of all your people. I
need hardly premise that the Presidents ac-
tion upon the Hawaiian question has been
under the dictates of honor and duty. 1t is
now and has been from the beginning, abso-
lutely free from prejudice and resentment,
and entirely consistent with the long-estab-
so closely bound together our respective
governments
'sThe President deemed it his duty to with
draw from the Senate the treaty of annexa-
ton which had been signed by the Secretary
of State and agents of your Government,
and to establish trusted representative to
Hawaii to impartially investigate the causes
Of your revolution, and to ascertain and re-
port the true situation in these islands.
ssThis information was needed the better
to enable the President to discharge deli
cate and important duty, upon the facts EN-
bodied in Mr.. Blount's report, The Presi-
dent has arrived at certain conclusions and
determined upon certain course of action
with which it becomes my duty to acquaint
you.
1.-THE Provisional Government was not es-
tablished by the Hawaiian people, or with
their consent or acquiescence, nor has it
since existed with their consent.
s'The Queen refused to surrender her
powers to the Provisional Government until
convinced that the Minister of the United
States had recognized it as the de facto
authority and would support and defend it
with the military forces Of the United States
and that resistance would precipitate a
bloody conflict with that force. She was adj
vised and assured by her ministers and lead
ers of the movement for the overthrow of
her government, that, if she surrendered un-
der protest, her case would afterwards be
fairly considered by the President of the
United States. The Queen finally yielded to
the armed forces of the United States, then
quartered in Honolulu, relying on the good
faith and honor of the President when in
formed of what had occurred, to undo the
action of the Minister and reinstate her and
the authority which she claimed as the con-
stitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Is
lands.
INsTIGATED BY STEVENS.
ssAfter a patient examination of Mr..
Blount's reports, the President is satisfied
that the movement against the Queen, if not
instigated, was encouraged and supported by
the representative of this Government at
Honolulu; that he promised in advance to
aid her enemies in an effort to overthrow the
Hawaiian Government, and set up by force
new Government in its place; and that he
kept this promise by causing detachment
of troops to be landed from the Boston on
the 18th of January, 1898, and by recogniz-
ing the Provisional Government the next
dav. when it was too feeble to defend itself
and the Constitutional Government was
about to successfully maintain its authority
against any threatening force other than
that of the United States, already landed.
ssThe President has, therefore, determined
that he will not send back to the Senate for
its action the treaty which he withdrew from
that body for further consideration on the
9th day of March last In view of these
conclusions, was instructed by the Presi-
dent of the United States to take advantage
of an early opportunity to inform the Queen
of this determination, and of his views as to
the responsibility of our government. The
President, however, felt that we, by our
original interference, had incurred response
bility to the whole Hawaiian COM
munity, and that it would not be just to
put one party at the mercy of the other. |
was, therefore, instructed at the same time
TO inform her, that the President expected
that she weuld pursue magnanimous course,
by granting full amnesty to all who par
ticipated in the movement against her, in
cluding persons who are, or who have been
officially or otherwise connected with the
Provisional Government ,depriving them of no
right or privilege, which they enjoyed before
the revolution Of last January, and that all
obligations created by the Provisional Gov
ernffispt in the course of administration
should be assumed.
THE QUEEN AGREES.
ssIn obefisnoc to the command Of the Presi-
dent have secured tile Queens agreement
to this course, and ! pew deliver q writing,
signed hYsheIs and duly attesteds . cVpy Of