The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-04-02
is DEMANDED.
Our Envoy Has Managed In Some Way
to offend Mr.. Secretary
w. .. Gresham.
REPUBLICS AGENT DECLINES TIC
TALK AT WASHINGTON.
what the American Papers Say-Talk
of Deporting Mr.. Thurston
INDUCED In.

WASHINGTON, March l9.-Secretary
Gresham has added another sensational
feature to his career as Secretary of
State by demanding the recall of Lorrin
A. Thurston, Hawaiian Minister to
Washington. A letter to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs Of the Hawaiian Re-
public, announcing that Mr.. Thurston
Cleveland Admins ration, was
written on February 2lst, but its
existence only leaked out inadvertent-
ly at the State Department today. The
charge against the Minister is that he
has been altogether to free in publicly
criticising the policy of the Cleveland
Administration toward Hawaii and
furnishing prematurely for publication
information treating of Hawaiian af-
fairs, since the failure Of the attempt
TO restore Queen Lii and during the trial
of the ex-Queen and her accomplices in
the conspiracy to inaugurate revolu-
ton.
Secretary Gresham's letter demanding
Minister Thurston's recall was "a lengthy
one, and gave full specifications of the
charges against him, including the
newspaper publications said to have
been inspired by him and copies from
official documents of the State Depart
meat, showing that the Minister had
talked too freely about matters which
the Secretary thought were still to lie
regarded as State Department secrets.
Minister Thurston tonight admitted
that Secretary Gresham had asked for
his recall, but refused absolutely to dis
cuss the matter or even say how he
knows the Secretary's letter was written.
New YORK, March 25.-The Ttibune's
Washington correspondent telegraphs'
Minister Thurston gracefully accepts the
indignity imposed upon him by Secre-
tary Gresham and has decided to leave
this country without waiting for any
formal notice from his Government to
return. Mr.. Thurston reached this con-
clusion somewhat suddenly and an
nounced his intention to friends while
making farewell visits this afternoon.
He retains the dignified silence which
he has observed from the time he first
learned through the press, not from the
State Department, that he was regarded
by Mr.. Gresham as persona non grata.
He declined to discuss his case in any
manner, and only said that he would
start for San Francisco tomorrow al d
take the steamer sailing next week for
Honolulu.
Asked as to whether he had received
official notice that request had been
sent to his Government for his recall,
Mr.. Thurston replied that he had MOTH
ing to say on the subject. He was
equally reticent as to whether or not he
had been informed through the State
Department of any charges pending or
preferred in his case which might bring
about the severance of his diplomatic
relations at Washington.
1t is also reported that Mr.. Thurston
will become Hawaiian Secretary of For
eign Affairs, and that Mr.. Hatch will
represent his Government at Washing
ton.
Notwithstanding the reticence of Mr..
Thurston and the members of the Ha-
waiian Legation, it is definitely learned
that the retiring Minister has not been
informed by Secretary Gresham or any
one representing him that request for
his recall has been sent to President
Doles Government. Consistently with
its past treatment of Hawaii's diplomatic
representative, the State Department
has let its acts affecting himself and his
country leak out through the medium of
the newspapers.
The Heralds Washington correspond
ent telegraphs the following: Not only
will Minister Thurston sever his official
relations with the Administration, but
he may be compelled to leave the United
States. l am reliably informed that
Secretary Gresham has been seri-
| do 3 ha Itioa " - do
mandiug Mr.. Thurston's deportation
should he try to remain here after his
official relations are closed and persist in
his antagonist to the Al ministration.
Mr.. Thurston is and has been for q
long time personally as well as officially
obnoxious to the Administration author
tiles. 1t was scarcely believed, how
ever, when the rumor was first circu'
lated that in addition to demanding hi
recall Secretary Gresham would insis
upon his leaving this country, hut ther'
are good reasons for believing now tina
Mr.. Gresham contemplates such I
course.
am told that the State Department
officials have been looking into the
question of the right of the United
States to direct the deportation of al
obnoxious alien, and they have come Il
the conclusion that there is no legal OBJ
stacle in the way.
The expressed intention Of Minister
Thurston to remain in the United State
after he had severed his diplomatic rela
tons for the purpose of furtheriDg thu
annexation cause is thought to be thu
i particular reason which caused thu
Secretary OF State at this time to con
slider the propriety of odering him Il
leave the United States.
The particular offense of which Minis
ter Thurston has been guilty, in thu
mind of Secretary Gresham, is that o
discussing, in advance of their consider
alton by the State Depar tment, certain
dispatches describing the court proceed
ings during the trial of the Queen ant
other conspirators against the Hawaiian
Republic.
The ill-feeling was carried to the ex
tent of denying Mr.. Thurston certain
social courtesies due his position, bu
the Minister never complained, bu
found comfort in the reflection tina
nine-tenths of the American peopl
were friendly to him and his Govern
ment. and bitterly opposed to AM
ashamed of the perfidious policy an
actions of the Secretary Of State.
The wahiberg.