Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-12

| legged participation of the American forces
| in events following the revolution. Presi-
| dent Cleveland was intent upon restoring
| the government to the natives If it could
be done. The American Congress and the
| American people were still more vigorously
| intent upon preventing such an act of in
fanny, and in offering aid and encourage
ment to the struggling republic.
| January 3, 1894, Senator Frye of Maine
offered a resolution in the Senate declaring
| that, pending the investigation by the
| committee on foreign relations, there should
| be no interference on the part of the
| United States government by moral infu-
| ence or physical force for the restoration
| of the queen or the maintenance of the
| provisional government in the Hawaiian
| Islands. A resolution was subsequently
| offered by Senator Turpie of Indiana de-
| claring annexation to be not advisable, but
asserting with equal emphasis that the pro-
vlslonal government was the sole legal and
| recognized power in the islands and must
| be allowed to develop it's own policy with
out interference from the administration in
| Washington. The resolution further as
serted that Intervention on the part of any
| foreign government would be regarded as
| an act unfriendly to the government of the
United States. The Turpie resolution was
reported favorably from the committee on
| foreign relations January % and placed
| upon the calendar for further action
Meanwhile, in the House of Representa-
| tives. at that time democratic, Mr.. Nc
Creary of Kentucky reported from the
strict party vote a resolution which depre-
Gated the alleged action of the United States
forces In connection with the revolution
of 1893, and declaring 1t to be the sense of
the House that the annexation of the Ha-
Wal1an Islands to the United States or the
assumption Of protectorate by this gov
eminent, was uncalled for and inexpedient.
The McCreary resolutions were adopted in
the House, February T. by vote of 1T
to Is, the affirmative vote being cast by
the democrats and three populists. Three
democrats voted In the negative. A resolu-
tion offered by Mr.. Boutelle Of Maine, dep
recating the interference Of President
Cleveland was defeated by a strict party
vote, the democrats opposing it.
In the Senate Senator Morgan had Of
fered resolution directing the committee
on foreign relations to inquire and re-
port whether any, and If so what, irregu-
larities had occurred in the diplomatic or
other intercourse between the United States
and Hawaii in relation to the political revo-
luton in Hawaii and authorizing the COM
mittee to send for persons and papers. I'm
der this authorization the subcommittee
had examined large number of witnesses
including citizens of Hawaii, spectators and
participants in the revolution of January,
1893, officers of the United States navy
and others possessing desired information
Their testimony, with the reports and ap-
pended documents, made volume Of nearly
800 pages The majority report under the
to the Senate February 20, 1894, was
signed by Senator Morgan, democrat, and
all the republican members of the commit
tee: who were Senators Sherman, Frye
Dolph and Davis The majority report
justified the United States minister in his
action during the revolution. except in pro-
claiming a protectorate. The other demo-
Gratis Of the committee, Senators Butler
Turpie, Daniel and Gray Submitted a mi,
nority report.
The majority report, which was drawn
by Senator Morgan, was considered a very
important and mastery state paper and at
the time evoked wide interest and discus
sion.
Hawaiian affairs were discussed during all
that session of Congress. and Senator Nor
gan held the floor probably oftener than
any other senator, and always in advocacy
OF the struggling republic and opposed to
the efforts of his party and his President to
overthrow 1t. He called attention to the
plot of the friends of the deposed queen to
overthrow the republic with the aid Of Great
Britain and to establish a British pro-
tectorate over the islands Every one is ia
miliar with the outcome. Grover Cleveland
did not restore Queen Liliuokalani; the
struggling Hawaiians maintained their pro-
visional government, extending it finally
into a republic, which eventually was an
nexed to the United States territory.
Senator Morgan realized in that far-off
day fact which is peculiarly patent at
this very hour. namely the Importance of
| the Hawaiian Islands as a military outpost
of the United States. He saw the time
| when the craving interests of the United
States In the far east would make the is
strategic point That was years before the
Spanish war and the acquisition of the
Philippines; 1T was years before the growth
of Japans power in the east, but Senator
Morgan agreed with the great men in the
Senate on the republican side, such as Frye
and Sherman and Davis, who put public
policy above the narrow politics of Grover
Cleveland. that the islands must not be al
lowed to revert to the corrupt government
of the queen They knew that it would be
only question of time when the queens
government would offer the islands to some
! foreign power, and the United States might
some day have to resist by force of arms
their cession to another government.
! There is probably not man on either
| side of the Senate char~Ier today who
| in the light of subsequent developments in
| the far east and the expansion of the
| interests of the United States in that region
| would not be profoundly grateful to the
| little band of senators who with John T.
| Morgan in 1894. prevented the adoption of
| resolutions which would have given Grover
| Cleveland encouragement and authority to
carry out the Infamous plan of restoring the
| Islands to the deposed queen.
| Worked for an Isthmian Canal.
Senator Morgan after the settlement of
the Hawaiian question resumed his efforts
In behalf Of an isthmian canal. He was
| regarded at that time as the greatest friend