The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-12-19
OUR RStAvloNs WITH HAWAII.
Speech of Hon. j. +. stallings of
Alabama, In tho House of Repre-
sentetives, Tuesday, February
g, 1894.
Continued from yesterday)


1t was the only thing left to be
DONE We fud Endorsed upon this
paper, which was found among the
files at the American legation, SAC
copied on the 18th day of January,
1893"
Mr.. Post. Was that accepted"
or simply received9
Mr.. Stallings 1t was received
and accepted both, L think | have
here the exact language used.
Mr.. Post. l ask for information,
Mr.. Stallings. l thought that l
had the exact language, but l find
that | have not, or that / can not
put my hand on it just now.
Now, Mr.. Speaker, it is evident
that the Queen did not yield her
authority to the so-called Provis-
ional Government, "but to the supe-
rior force of the United States OF
America, whose minister, she claims,
at the very time and he does not
deny it, had said that he would sup.
port the Provisional Government.
Impelled to yield she said by force
to avoid collision, not with the
troops of the Provisional Govern
mentor they had not single SOL
dier--but the troops of the United
States, who stood ready at their
guns only seventy six yards away.
She did not yield as fnality, but
only until such time as the Govern
ment of the United States upon
full and,fair presentation of all the
facts, could undo the wrong our
minister had perpetrated and rein
state her as the Constitutional
Sovereign of Hawaii"
Here is an appeal from the action
Of our minister in dethroning the
Queen, directly to our Government
Ito Mr.. Cleveland. She did not
appeal to some neutral power, but
with confidence in our fairness and
honesty, our integrity and national
pride, she leaves it to us to arbitrate
"a party to the wrong. The conf
dence of this woman has not par
allel in the worlds history Mr..
Cleveland could not but accept the
unpleasant duty thus thrust upon
him, and when once accepted he
had the honor of the nation in his
keeping, and we'll has he protected
her fair name, her policies and tradi-
tions.
When the position as arbitrator
was accepted, and it could not be
avoided, as Mr.. Cleveland has said,
"the truth or falsity of this protest
was surely of the first importance"
He proceeded to settle it aud set
about deciding this disputed ques-
ton of fact, aud appointed in Mr..
Blount, as special commissioner to
investigate it, man of great learn
ing, Of wide experience in foreign
affairs, chairman OF that committee
in this House, and who had been
twenty years in Congress.
On this report, accompanied by
great mass of undisputed evidence
taken at Honolulu, together with
the official records in the State De-
partment, Mr.. Cleveland decided
against annexation, and keeping
within the bounds of his constitu-
tional authority, as chief magistrate
of this great nation, he said in his
message:
In commencing this subject to the
extended powers and wide discretion
of Congress | desire to add the
assurance that / shall be much graf
fled to cooperate in any legislative
plan which may be devised for the
solution OF the problem before us
which is consistent with American
honor, integrity and morality.
The question is now with Con-
gress. The President has fully sus-
tanned himself in the exalted posi-
ton he holds as the head of the in
vincible National Democratic organ
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