People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — A SIGNIFICANT SPEECH. [ARTICLE]

A SIGNIFICANT SPEECH.

Senator Gray Announces the Administration’s Policy Toward Hawaii. Washington, Feb. 15. —The Hawaiian ; resolution was again tbe subject of disI sion in the senate on Tuesday. Senator Gray (dem., Del.) resumed his arguI ment in support of the president’s policy and reiterated his charges that the ; revolutionists were dependent on j the United States minister and the | United States forces for support of their movement, and that thereafter I the provisional government depended absolutely upon the United States forces and the flag for protection and for the maintenance of the government they had established. Continuing, Senator Gray said: “If ; the conditions at Hawaii now are such as to make that government a de facto , government, which I do not think it | was in the months preceding, I think the best interests of those people and Of the United States will be subserved by allowing them to pursue their own policy.” The full significance of the present Hawaiian situation came out at the close of the senator’s speech, when in a colloquy with Senator Teller he admitted that as a member of the foreign relations committee he understood the efforts of the president, moral or diplomatic, to restore the queen, were at an end, and that the present minister to Hawaii had no directions to pursue further diplomatic negotiations to that end. He said: “I sav, as an An’erican citizen, that 1 very much regret that th; president of the United States was not able to undo the outrage and ma.;e reparation for the wrong which was committed there on January 17, 1893. I think that the good name and fame of this country of ours was so involved that it would have been a gratification to every patriotic citizen had the president been able to restore tbe status quo of January 16, 1893. Why he failed is wellknown now. That opportunitv is now gone and I suppose it will never return. •’lt seems to me more than wicked and cruel that we do not declare in an emphatic manner that we do not propose to Interfere with the government. Ana if our minister in any way leads the people of that country to believe that we are still disposed to carry out the suggestions of the president to restore the status quo he ought to he withdrawn summarily. He ought to know enough of public opinion in this country to know that the moment the president submitted this question to congress there was no possibdity that tho provisional government would he destroyed and the queen restored to power.”