Arizona republican., 1898-06-18

Hawaii presents the next problem which the administration has to solve n the difficult game of international chess which the Spanish war has started. The decisive action taken by he house on the Newlands annexation despite the powerful op- position of Speaker Reed. has con- irmed the president, so those best able to know his intentions say, in deter mination he had half formed before the emphatic majority of the house him in his conclusions, to seize the Hawaiian islands and hold of them with their consent, as military necessity, should the senate adjourn without action on the question.
 CONGRESS WITH HIM.
 The president would much prefer to avoid this course. In every step he has taken since the beginning of the var he has sought to have congress with him. and he has thus far sue ceeded beyond the expectations of his warmest admirers. He has never inti- mated even to his closest friend, as Grover Cleveland did,. that he consid- cred it a disadvantage to have con gress on his hands, On the contrary. he has called the leaders on both sides into conference on every important move and they in turn have honored him by support which no president has before received. So. MT. McKin- ley hopes that the senate will even tually come to believe that patriotism and policy and national gratitude alike demand the gathering in of the Ha- waiian islands under the folds of the stars and stripes.
 MINISTER STEVENS HANDICAPPED
 The suggestion which MT. Hit of H. linois, skilled diplomatist, chairman of the house committee on foreign af- fairs, made at the opening of the de bate in the house that Hawaii unless protected by the United States flag would be liable to claims for damages and to reprisals on the part of Spain for its conspicuous refusal of neutral ity and the valuable aid it had given our warships has great weight with the administration. This appeals to that chivalrous element. of gratitude for favors conferred which marks MT McKinley's conduct in his individual capacity and which he is equally de sirous of carrying into effect in na- tional matters.
 Lieutenant Lucien Young of the navy, who was executive officer of the United States cruiser Boston during the revolution which resulted in the dethronement of Lilioukalani, other wise Mrs. Dominis, has issued book adding many valuable facts to our knowledge of those events. He mod estly decries his work as being now back history, but explains that he was peremptorily refused permission to publish it by MT. Cleveland's secretary of the navy. and has only just secured from Secretary Long that permission which navy regulations require. to make public what he saw and heard in Hawaii.
 MT. Youngs disclaimer is not called for. His book is a valuable and oppOr- tune contribution to current his tory, and will have considerable ef- feet on the Hawaiian debate in the senate. He shows-what most of us suspected, but lacked the conclusive proof to establish-that Paramount Commissioner Blount deliberately SUD- pressed some important facts and per verted others. and that his re- port was an outrage upon Minister Stevens and Commander Wiltse the captain of the Boston. Both these deserving public servants are now dead, their deaths hastened, in the opinion of their friends, by the unjust contumely to which they were sub jected.
 Lieutenant Young defends theil memories with a vigor which some times runs away with the graces of his literary style; in fact, his whole book