The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-20
WON'T TALK.
The Hawaiian Representative is
communicative
Regarding His Recall Which
Has Been Asked For.
THE QUEENS MISTAKE.
She Thought She Was Getting
Present from Cleveland.
1t Was Job Put Up by a Prac-
tiCal Joker.

WASHINGTON, March 20-An intimate
friend of Minister Thurston now in
Washington says that Mr.. Thurston- has
no official information as to the request
for his recall, while at the same time, no
doubt exists on the part of the minister
that such q suggestion has been made TO
the Hawaiian government 1t is not
likely however that Mr.. Thurston will
leave this country. He will continue, it
is stated, to look after Hawaiian interests
in an unofficial manner.
Mr Thurston's friends say that as a
matter of fact he has never been treated
at the state department as other minis
tiers have been treated and has not been
accorded the courtesy usually extended
to men holding similar positions.
Mr. Thurston, it is said, does not
know who will be his successor,
but it is intimated that Frank
Hatch may be selected, and he
will represent the ideas and views that
have been prominent during the mission
of Mr. Thurston. Mr. Hatch is said to be
unusually we'll qualified for the posi-
ton. The latest official mail from Hawaii
has arrived here. Minister Thurston de-
clined to state whether it contained any
thing bearing on the request of Secretary
Gresham for Mr. ThursIon's recall.
The minister maintains the absolute
silence on the subject that he has since
the report first appeared The legation
office is open to callers, however. and
the usual business proceeds briskly
between the minister and Mr.. Hastings,
the secretary of the legation. The mo-
ment the recall is mentioned Mr. Thurs
ton and his assistant lapse into silence.
1t is believed from the fact that the
communication relative to Minister
Thurston was sent on February 81, that
there has been ample time for response
from the Hawaiian government in the
mail just received.
That Secretary Gresham asked for Mr..
Thurston's recall, there is no longer any
doubt, though the manner in which it
was put is not yet known.
Before answering Secretary Gresham,
it is supposed the Hawaiian government
will communicate with the minister and
| seek his version of the circumstances,
which in a measure implies personal
| afront to the individual under these cir
cumstances. The communication from
| Hawaii, if it refers to the recall, as is
thought extremely likely, may be short
of reply to Mr.. Gresham's request
Further developments therefore will
be watched with great interest, espec-
tally the answer of Hawaii as declina-
ton to sccede to Secretary Gresham's
request doubtless would be followed by
Minister Thurston being given his pass
| port an act equal to severance of diplo-
matte relations.
In connection with the later Hawaiian
| developments criticism is made by mem
bers of congress still in the city of the
failure of the secretary of state to trans
nit information of his action to congress
prior to its adjournment Cd March A.
The request for Mr.. Thurstou's recall
was dispatched prior to February 81.
Congress had been informed officially
that the government would keep it
posted on Hawaiian affairs and would be
supplied with the correspondence
relating thereto, Notwithstanding
the congressman say that no in-
timation however TRANSFERRED that the
representative of the Hawaiian govern
ment to the U. s. had been declared per-
soma non gratia and a step taken which
may embarrass seriously the relations of
the two governments
The Honolulu Advertiser, which has
just arrived here, clears up a mystery
which has long been a puzzle here as to
an entry in ex-Queen Liliuokalani's
diary, stating that on the day
specified President CIeveland's present
had been received by her. 1t was al
once denied here that the president had
ever sent present to the ex-queen. The
Advertiser now explains that Mrs
Domini received copy OF
the report of public works
at Chicago for the year 1898. Some
one had taken the trouble to
cover it handsomely in cloth, and had
also secured the personal cards of Mr.
Cleveland and Mr.. Gresham. The cards
the paper says, were placed inside the
volume, with suitable statement of re-
gard in forwarding it
The ex-queen did not doubt the genuine
ness of the present, it seems, nor sus-
pect that some practical joker has been
at work and accordingly made the entry
in her diary. The Honolulu paper states
that the report contained ''plenty of use
full information that could be used to adj
vantage by progressive monarchy"