The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-09
NEWS CONFIRMED.
State Department officials Admit the
Dispatches Regarding Minister
Willis Action,
Requesting the Provisional Govern.
ment to Abdicate, We're Correct.
Anxiety at the Capitol
To Know Precisely What Has Hap
pened-Officers of the Corwin Still
Keep Mum.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Great reticence
Is shown in government circles cor Germ
ing the advices from Honolulu received
by the Corwin. 1t was learned, how
ever, from official sources that the dis
patches practically confirm everything
stated in the cablegram received by the
Associated Press from Auckland. Off
Gals of the state and navy departments
now accept the cable advice as accurate.
In Captain Munger's report to the de-
partment of the treasury of the arrival
OF the revenue cutter Corwin ut San
Francisco, he stated that the vessel
sailed from Honolulu on the oath of De
cember. The captains report contains
nothing else of interest. If the vessel
left IN the cath she brings news from
the place two days later than that re-
ported in the Associated Press dispatches
from Auckland.
The Emphatic Incredulity
expressed by the state department may
have been changed by the receipt Of a
SLphCA AopaLIA WI1Iu CdluC ny tAC Va
win, as it fully confirmed the news re-
ceived by the Associated Press. 1t seems
that the queen has reconsidered her OBJ
j~ections to a~cceding to the conditions
exacted, and that Minister Willis has
proceeded on the line of his origional in
structions, notifying the provisional gov
eminent that they are expected to re-
tire, in order to allow the restoration OF
the queen.
Nothing can be learned as to the extent
of the disturbance caused by this action,
but that there is a condition of
tension and great excitement in Homo
lulu Is certain. This news is a surprise,
and as much so to the state department
as was the news in the first place that
Minister Willis had failed to carry out
his instructions owing to the refusal of
the queen to accede to conditions. The
disappointment felt by the state depart
ment can be measured by the terms used
to discredit the Auckland dispatch. 1t
was said that the news was impossible,
in the light of Minister Willis instruc-
lions and the presidents message, and
that rumors must have been set afioat n
Honolulu for the deliberate purpose of
throwing discredit upon the good faith
Of President Cleveland.
All Feel Concerned.
There il no doubt that all concerned
feel that this latest phase of the Ha-
waiian imbroglio involves serious conse-
quences. 1t does not appear that there
Is any disposition on the part of the pro-
visional government to yield ~peaceably,
and there is no apprehension that Min
lister Willis proposes to resort to force.
His instruction are explicitly against
such a course. Minister Willis is tell
by the state department to have acted
with bad Judgment, in having thus de-
cided to follow a policy that had been
defined under conditions very different
from those under which he acted.
AT the Capitol there was manifested a
great deal of interest in Hawaiian news,
and u general desire was expressed for
the contests of the cipher kilograms sent
by the steamer Corwin. 1t became
generally known that the Associated
Press Auckland cable was correct.
though some members were reluctant
to admit 1t, and sill express some doubt.
Mr.. Hit OF Illinois was evidently n OF
those who did not doubt the authenti-
city of the Auckland cable.
They will give out nothing at the
state department." he said. What we
want to know is what has been done;
what is the result of the demands Of
Minister Willis on the provisional gov.
eminent. The Corwin must have left
the islands some days after the Alameda.
and ought to have much later informa-
ton"