The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-03-21
IS EVIDENTLY TRUE.
Said to Be No Longer Any
Doubt ThurSton'S Recall
Has Been Asked.
Y s BODY is KEEPING MUM
5. Would Happen Should
!, , Hawaiians Refuse the
Request.
ARLINGTON. March 21.-An init
FRIEND If MiDictar ThurctOn noxU ir

ARLINGTON. March Alan init.
,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 min.
lister that such a suggestion has been
made to the Hawaiian government. 1t
is not likely, however, that Mr.. Thurs.
ton will leave this country. He will
continue, it is stated, to look after Ha'
waiian interests in on unofficial manner.
Mr.. Thurston's friends say that as q
matter Of fact he has eve been
treated at the state department as other
ministers have been treated, and has
not been accorded the courtesy usually
extended to men holding similar posi-.
tons.
MI. Thurston, it is said, does not
know who will be his successor, but it
is intimated that Frank Hatch may be
elected, and he will represent the
ideas and views that have been promi.
nent during the mission Of Mr. Thurs
ton. Mr.. Hatch is said to be unusually
well qualified for the position.
Official Mail Arrives.
The latest official mail from Hawaii
has arrived here. Minister Thurston
declined to state whether it contained
anything bearing on the request OF
Secretary Gresham for Mr.. Thurston's
recall. The minister maintains absolute
silence on the subject, and has since the
report first appeared. The legation office
is open to callers, however, and the
usual business proceeds briskly between
Minister Thurston and Mr. Hastings,
the secretary Of legation. The moment
the recall is mentioned MI. Thurston
and his assistant lapse into silence. ills
believed, from the fact that the COM
munication relative to Mr.. Thurston was
sent on Feb. 81, that there has been am
pie time for a response from the Hawaiian
government in the mail just received.
Secretary Gresham's note arrived at
San Francisco in time to catch a boat
which would arrive at Honolulu about
the last of February. Since then sew
eral ships have left Honolulu, the last
one reaching San Francisco and Van
couver respectively about q week ago.
They brought the official mail which
has now arrived at the legation. 1t Is
known that it contains a long commun-
ication from Mr.. Hatch, the Hawaiian
minister of foreign affairs, as MI Hast
ings received a brief message saying
that such a communication was on It's
way.
Would Como to Thurston.
If the Hawaiian government had re-
piled, MI. Thurston would be the nat
ural and only channel OF commun1cat-
ing it to the state department., as he
remains the official representative OF
Hawaii until his recall is actually &C.
.complished. That Secretary Gresham
asked for Mr.. Thurston's recall, there
is NO longer any doubt, though the
in which it was put is not
known. Before answering Sec
>retary Gresham, it is presumed
the Hawaiian government will COM
municate with it's minister and seek his
version of the circumstances before &C.
ceding to Secretary Gresham's request.
which in a measure implies a personal
affrout to the individual under these
circumstances. The communication
from Hawaii, If it refers to the recall,
as is thought extremely likely, may be
a sort of reply to Mr.. Gresham's re-
quest.
VIII Be Watched with Interest:
Further developments therefore will
be watched with great interest, and es-
necially the answer of Hawaii, as a
declination to accede to Secretary Gresh-
ANS request doubtless would be
followed by Minister Thurston being
given his passports, an act equal to sew
,erance of diplomatic relations.
Criticisms of Congressman.
Tn connection with the late Hawaiian
,~deyelopments criticism is made by
members of congress still In the city OF
the failure of the secretary OF state to
transmit information Of his action to
congress prior to it's adjournment on
March 4. The request for Mr.. Thurston's
recall was dispatched prior to Feb. 81.
Congress had been informed officially
that the government would keep it
.nosted on Hawaiian affairs, and would
be supplied with the correspondence re-
lating thereto, Notwithstanding which,
congressman say, NO intimation trans
pired that the representative OF the
Hawaiian government to the United
States had been declared persona non
erata, and a step taken which may m
barrass seriously the relations Of the two
governments.