The record-union., 1894-01-15
LAID BEFORE CONGRESS.
Cleveland Sends to the House the Cor
respondence Asked for.

NioVelanu SENDS TO the House the Cor
respondence Asked for.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE President
yesterday morning sent to the House the
correspondence asked for on Hawaiian
matters, anaccompanied by any special
message, aside from the letter of transmit
tai. This letter is as follows:
ITO Congress: l transmit herewith cop
les of all dispatches from our Minister to
Hawaii relating in any way to political
affairs IN Hawaii, except such as have
been heretofore transmitted to Congress.
l also send copies Of the instructions sent
January Il, 1884, being the only instruc-
tlons to him that have not been sent to
Congress.
In my former message to Congress I
withheld dispatch No. 5, under date Of
November is. 1898, and dispatch No. 20.
under date Of October s, 1893. Inasmuch
as the contents of dispatch No. are all
referred to in dispatch Of more recent
date, and inasmuch as there seems to be
no longer reason for Withholding it, the
same is herewith submitted. Dispatch
No. 20 is still withheld for reasons that
seem to be justitiable and proper.
GROVER CLEVELAND"
The last instructions to Willis, and the
only ones not heretofore sent to Congress.
were dated yesterday. They were sent
by telegraph to w. A. Cooper, the dis
patch agent at San Francisco TO be for
warded 10 Willis by the steamer Mari
posa to-day. The dispatch is as follows:
~ our numbers IA to Is, inclusive. show
you have rightly comprehended the scope
of your instructions, and have, as far as
in your power, discharged the onerous
task confided in you.
The President sincerely regrets the
Provisional Government refuses to ac-
quiesce III the conclusion which his sense
OF right and duty and a due regard for
our national honor constrained him to
reach and submits as measure of Justice
to the people of the Hawaiian Islands
and their depOsed sovereign. While it is
true the Provisional Government was
created to exist only until the islands
were annexed to the United States, the
Queen finally but reluctantly surrendered
to an armed force OF this Government,
illegally quartered in Honolulu and to
the representatives of the Provisional
Government, which realized its inn
potence, and, anxious to get control of
tho Queens means OF defense. assured her
if she would surrender, her case would be
considered by the United States.
''The President never claimed that
such action constituted him an arbitrato {
in technical sense or authorized him to
act in that capacity between the Queen
and the Provisional Government. You
made no such claims when you ac-
quainted that Government with the
Presidents decision.
1.-The solemn assurance given the
Queen has been referred to, not as au-
thority for the President to act as arbI-
traitor, but as fact material to the lust
determinatioh OF the Presidents duty in
the premises.
''In note which the Minister of For
| eign Affairs addressed to you on the 23d
ult., it is stated in effect that even if the
| constitutionali Government was sub
verted by the action Of the American
Minister and an invasion by the military
! force OF the United States, the Presidents S
authority is SO limited to dealing with
our own uniaithful officials that he can
/ take no steps looking to the correction of
! the wrong done.
"The President entertains a different
view of his responsibility and duty. The
! subVerSion of the Hawaiian Government
! by the abuse of the authority of the
! United States was in plain violation of
/ international laws and required the
! President to disavow and condemn the
! act of our offending officials and within
the limits OF his constitutional power en-
/ deavor to restore the lawful authority.
'On the 18th ult. the President sent a
special message TO Congress communicat-
/ Ing copies Vi D1OuHt = report ana The IN
structions given TO him and to you. on
4 the same day, answering the resolution
/ of the House Of Representatives, he sent
copies of all CORRESPONDENCE since March
! T. 1889, on the political affairs and rela-
tions of Hawaii, Withholding for suffi-
cient reasons only Stevens No. 20, dated
! October s, 1892. and your No. of No
vember 15 1893.
! The President therein announces that
! the conditions of restoration suggested
! by him to the Queen had not proved ac-
! ceptable to her, and that since the in
! structions were sent to you to insist upon
/ those conditions be had not learned that
/ the Queen was willing to assent To Them
/ The President thereupon submitted the
subject TO the more extended powers and
I the wide discretion OF Congress, adding
the assurance that he would be gratIfied