The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-02
MORE ABOUT HAWAII
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs Make Two Reports on
Hawaii.
Queen Lii a Bad Girl to Rule Over
People Longing for
Liberty.
President Cleveland's Course in the
Matter Considered Fair and
Honorable.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Morgan, chair
man of the senate committee of foreign
relations, today presented the report of
the Investigations that committee made,
under the resolution requiring it to re.
port whether any, and il 30 what irregu-
l~arities had occurred in the diplomatic
or other intercourse between the United
States and Hawaii. in relation to the re-
cent political revolution in Hawaii. The
report was prepared by Morgan and is
concurred in by Frye, Dolph and Davis,
republican members Of the committee,
who made also a supplemental report.
The 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 Office Of the president. 1t is in all re-
spects the same government as il under
the same president. The report then de-
clares against monarchism in the islands,
saying we exercise at least a moral SUI
eranity over Hawaii, which it says is an
American state embraced in an Ameri-
can commercial and military system, en-
titling it to indulgent consideration il
not active sympathy in the endeavor to
release her people from an anti.republi-
can regime, and the supposed divine
right of the monarch whose title to such
divinity originated in the most slavish
conditions of pagan barbarity. The re.
port approves Minister Stevens order
landing troops from the Boston on the
ground that conditions existed which
led naturally to the apprehension of a
civil commotion, endaDgering the secur-
ity of American citizens, and points out
that on three OF four previous occasions
similar action was taken. This condi-
ton, the report says. grew out of the
effort of the queen to overthrow the
constitution and that her act amounted
to an act of a%bdication and n%eutralized
her power to protect American citizens.
The queens desire to punish or
kill her opponents should cause
Americans not to hesitate to support
a government opposed to her. The re-
port then says that President Cleveland,
as soon as he learned this disposition of
the queen, abandoned further exercise
of attempts at reconciliation, though I'M
fortunately Willis, in the belief that he
was following instructions, held two or
three interviews with the queen there
after. The report then takes up the ap-
pointment of Blount and his investiga
ton. 1t says he presented an instruct
i've report, but that the agitated state OF
opinions and feeling in Hawaii at the
time made it impossible to obtain a full,
fair, and free declaration of the facts;
that the evidence taken by the commit
tee under more favorable circumstances
established the fact that the revolution
originated with Lilinokalani, who ex-
pected through the opium and lottery
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 justified in using force to restore
the queen and that he did not contem-
plate such action. The fact that the
provisional government was formed to
exist till annexation was consummated
justified the interference for it's protec-
ton which would not have been tolerated
under other circumstances. The provis
ional government cannot complain that
the United states would scrutinize all
%pretentions of their right to thus dis
pose of the country and people. The re-
port of the democratic minority declares
Stevens guilty of unbecoming participa-
ton in the events which led to the revo-
luton, but exonerates Capt. Wilt. But
Ter and Turpie submit a statement in ia
vor Of annexing the islands.