Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 38, 19 Pepeluali 1894 Edition 02 — AS EXPECTED. [ARTICLE]

AS EXPECTED.

President Cleveland’s Polic 7 UpholeL The passinR of tho Mc€reary rc‘6olctinn 10 tbe Hoūko of Re prcsciit«tivc8 was of conrse expecled bnt the Iar£e majoritv whieh the Administration side gained w«s hardly anticipated. Prea;dent Clevel»n«l now stands en l>>raed iu his Hawuiian polit cs by the ehoaeu representatives of tLe Amer!can |>eople. iLe def*-at of tbe annexationists and tLe Provisional Government is significaut. Mr. DoIe. Stevens, aml their co-conspira tors Lavo been plainly told tbat the sense of jnstice amoug tLe Amenean peoplo wonld not tolerate tlie outrage comoiitted in the name of. and by the aid of. tho greatest repnblic iu tbe world. TLe ]>atli of President Clevelaml in the Hawuiian matter Las Leen nntde easy now. He will mido tlie wrong committed by Stevens aml preserving tlie independence of the Hawaiian Kiogdom restore the «rtairs Lere to tlie statns previous tothe revo lution and the temporary overtnrow of the lawful ruler Queeu Liliuokalani. Mr. McCreary’s resolutiou rcads ns follows. Hcsoh'ed ; First. TLat it is the seuso of this Houso that the aelion of tlie UnitedStatesrainis ter in employing United States naval forces aml illegally aidiug in overtbrowing tho coustitutional Government of the Hawaiian Islands iu January 1893, and iu settiug up in its plaee a provisional government, not republiean in form and in oppositiou to the will uf a majority of the people was coutraiy to the traditions of our Repubic nud tho spirit of our Constitution and should bo aud is condemued. Socoud. That wo hoartily approve the pn'neiple anuounoed by tlie President of the United States; tbat interference with the domestic atiairs of an iudependent n» tion is coutrary to the spirit of American institutions. And it is furt!ier the seuse of this House tliat the annexation of the Hawaiian lslands to onr ooontrv or the assumption of a protoctorate over them by our governraent is uncalled for, and inexpedient; tbat the |>eople of that c>untrv i shonld have absoluto freedom and f independence in pnrsuing their I owu line of policy, aml that foreign intervention in tho politicaI i atlairs of tlm islnnds will not be regarded witli indirierence by the j government of the United Stutes.” | In presenting the above reso- 1 lution Mr. McCreary censured Presideut Harrison for his ind»*cent hasto in drawing np n 1 treaty of annexation with Hawaii 1 submitting it to the Senate ! before the people of Hawaii had been heard. He severely criti- ; cised the Amenean representa 1 tive in Honolulu. and the United i States nnval commander for their aeiion at tho time ol tho socalled revolution. whieh he said was without pamllel in dip!omatic history. He criticised the forvign policy of the Harrison ' administmtiou in three cases — the case of Samoa, the case of Chili, aud the case of Hawaii. And ke asked wbether anyone wouhl elaim that, with ali the proof that had been laid before President Harrison aud the : secreUiy of state, it was an exhibition of wisdom on the part of President Harr son to send o the Senate a treatv of annexation asking Congress to give awav $6,250.000 iu order to get tbose litt!e islands and ask Congress to recogoize wbat was done by a few American citizens down tbere. He (McCreary) asserted ibat was not io the credit of the last administration. In the furtber course of his •rgument, Mr. McCreary said, that he wonM now eall as a wit-

1 ness James H. B!oant • aan { coBsp:cnous for h:'* «bility aiul integrlty—a nun who ranked . | atnocg tbe best atd ablest men who serred in *he Amenean Congrei»s for the last twenty years. He th> n read extracls from Blonnt's report and 1 from tLe corre5pondence of Mr. Nordboff in the .V<jf York Herald —whom he spoke of as a i distingaisbed :gentleman known to many members.—At the bottom of the whole roovement, Mr. { ' i McCreary said, Lad been the re presentatives of sngar planters, the sogar planters themselves and I the missionariesortheirrepresentatives. The latter were to have the offices if the regolar governmcnt eoulil be set a«ide, and the sngar planters, who had made ?bl .000.000 nnder the reciprocitv treaty were to enriched by gett ‘ng the sogar boontv of 2 ce-nts » pound. But he thanked God ; that the House had vesterdav • • passed a t=»ritf bill in whieh there wonld be no more sug.ir bonnty, ’ and he had no donbt that t e sug,»r plauters were to-day less amioiih for imuexation than they ; i had been. He declared himself opposed to the annesation of | Hawaii. He hoped that his own >ide of the House would sustain his resolution whieh had been □nanimonsly report d bv the : neraocratic committee on foreign : »:rfairs. He hoped tliey would adhere to tlie traditions of tue past and staud up for justice to »11 nations, and for entangliug dliances with none. Mr. Mc : Creary was frequently interrupted | by loudandenthusiastic applause. | ■ -