The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-03

tency of the Republicans in berating
Cleveland for trying to do an act OF
justice to Liliuokalani He reviewed
the diplomatic events of the last ad-
ministration-the New Orleans Maf1a
massacre, the Behring sea arbitration,
the Chilean war scare, and the HaWa-
ian revolution. He then took up the
authority for the appointment of
Blount, citing numerous instances
where such commissioners had been
appointed. He discussed, at length,
Blount's report If Hawaii is annexed,
we will have to annex San Domingo, or
any other island which asked to be
big enough already. All we wanted
was just taxation and commercial
freedom and we would be the greatest
nation in the world.
At the conclusion of McCreary's
speech, Blair offered an amendment to
the McCreary resolution, as follows:
Resolved, That the House of Repre-
sentatives approves the recognition Of
the existing government Of the JIa-
waiian islands. by the last and The
present administration, and will view
with satisfaction the maintenance IF
policy which shall tend to cOnsum-
mate, in the near future, with the
consent of the people, the annexation
of the islands to this country, or some
POlll1Sdl WHICH Will lOlly
preserve and promote the mutual in
terests of Hawaii and the United
States.''
Hit, leader of the Republican mi
nority on the foreign affairs commit
tee, replied to McCreary. Hit made
the point that the majority resolution
was discussion of dead issues, while
the proposition of the minority con-
Isldered live and vital ques-
Itions, which everyone recognizes
in connection with the recent affairs
in Hawaii. The attitude of the admin
istration on the great question at issue
is not known. Hit spoke on the
strength of the provisional government,
which had maintained itself even as
against the medding agents of the
United States, and yet the present adj
ministration attempted hari-kari in
foreign country fully capable of
governing itself Our Intervention was
to restore to a throne queen whose
horrid character had shocked the civil
lied world. 1t was in behalf of a
woman who had told Minister Willis.
While ShiverS ran down his back, she
would behead a great number of her
people. BOmba, by his fierce cruelties,
had awakened the horror of Europe;
but his brutalities did not compare
with the Bartholomew day massacre,
with which this queen intended to cele-
brate her return to the throne Willis
had acted like a soldier, and had per-
formed the loathsome duty assigned to
him. His dispatches showed how his
mate decency rebelled against the per-
formance of such task. He pictured the
condition OF affairs during the reign of
terror existing up to the time Willis
purposes were disclosed. Hit conclud-
Cd with a most terrific arraignment of
Cleveland. He said: Think of it,
! Think of it, While he had in his hand
that letter from Willis, reciting the
story of that brutal interview with the
queen, in which she demanded a holo-
caust of the property and a slaughter
OF American citizens, he sent out still
another order to overthrow a Republi-
form OF government and put back that
wretch in power. Republican applause
Willis instructions amounted to this:
Go find that woman whose folly and
extra IVA GAUGES were checked by the peo-
pie last January; tell her of the de-
/ termination of the president to restore
! her; ask for amnesty for the revolu-
tionists, and then go to the provisional
government 10 get it to relinquish its
! power That was the programme, and
I all there was of it. The best laid plans
publican applause) This romantic
queen of the beautiful isles was not
what had been pictured. Willis found
her a monster incarnate and Cleve-
land has been censured more
for not making public that letter
of November Is, which would
have given her true character to the
world. than for all else in connection
with this disgraceful proceeding
Hit concluded the first portion of hi:
Ispeech this evening, with a tribute ''tC
the brave and resolute men of his owl
trace in charge of the provisional gov
lernment who, when called upon to sur
lrender in the name of the United
Estates, instead of making terms, piled
up sandbags, proceeded TO arm them
selves and prepared to die, if neces
sary. rather than forfeit the property
they had earned and surrender tn,
rights given them by Cod
Without concluding. at o'clock
Hit yielded to a motion to adjourn
and will conclude tomorrow.