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Official Organ 0 f Irwin
A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r.
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FIIYKICIAN and SURGEON,
* Sycamore, Georgia.
JyjAKK ANTHONY,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Sycamore, Gboboia
Wilt be located for the present at the Dod¬
son House. Patronage respoctfully solicited.
T. VV. ELI,IS,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Ruby, Geouoia.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours.
I lesjiectfully solicit a shale of the public
pan unago. Office iu 11 H. Cockrell’s store.
]J)R. j. *’• GARDNER,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Ashbcrn, Georgia.
Calls answered promptly day or nigbt.
.-ud-otlUdcea, m>’"Hpeuial attention to diseases of women
Jmsnton strange, m. i>.
SPECIALIST.
Cordelle, Georgia.
Diseases of women, Strict ires. Nervous
anil alt privy, o diseases. Scnctur es dissolv¬
ed out iu 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth current
■of Galvanism without paiu or detention
from business; aud given to patient in a vial
■of alcohol. Correspondence solicited aud
ibest references given. Office north-east cor¬
ner Suwuuea House,
O M. FR1ZZELLE,
LAWYER,
McRae, Georgia.
Practices in the Btate and Federal Courts.
Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties.
W A. AARON,
LAWYER,
Arhbubn, Georgia.
Collections and Ejectment suits a Special¬
ty, -Igroffice, Room No. 4, Betts Building.
c XV. FUL WOOD,
LA IV', REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS,
Tiftow, Georgia.
Pic.mpt attention given to all business.
tsT'Ottwe, Love Building, Room No. 1.
JOHN H AHItlS,
SHOEMAKER,
A sub urn, Georgia.
My prices are low and all work strictly
Guaranteed,
DIR KOTOR Y.
Mayer—A. G. DsLoacti.
Councilman—W. B. Dasher, I. L. Murray.
I(,i. W. Cockrell, E. R. Smith, J. P. Fountain,
Superior Courts—First C. C. Smith, Monday Judge, Hawkins- in April
unit (I October.
VilG. Gn.
Sotic.-tor Gmeral—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga.
Cork Superior Court—J. B. D. Faulk, Ir-
WinviUe, Sheriff—Jesse Ua. Faulk, Ruby,
Ga
Deputy Ga.; (Sheriffs—C. Wm. VanHouten, L. Prescott, Irwin- Ga.
vilie, Sycamore,
Comity Court — Monthly session, second
Monday; QuarterL session, second Monday B.
in January. Judge, April. Irwiiuille, July and October. J.
Clements, County Court Bailiff—William Go. Ir-
iviuville, Ga. Rogers,
County Commissioners’ Court—First Mon¬
day in each month. M. Henderson. Commis¬
sioner, OeiJIft Ga.
Ordinary’s Court—First Monday in each
uu-nth. Daniel Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Ga.
School Commissioner—J. Y. Fletcher, Ru¬
by, Ga.
i oimty Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwiu-
vitie, Ga.
Tax Receiver—G. J. Mobley, Vic, Ga.
tax Collector—J. W. Paulk, Ruby, Ga.
l-urveyor—M. Coroner—Daniel Barnes, Halt, Minnie, Ga.
Minnie. Ga.
Board of Education—Juo. Clements Chair¬
man, Irwinviilc, Ga.; Henry T. Fletcher, Ir-
vvinvilio, Go.; L R. Tucker, Vic, G L. D.
Taylor, mila, Irwmvile, Ga.; 8. E. Coleman,
O Go.
Justice Courts—901 Dist. G. M., Second
Saturday tand i-x-olH. in each month. Marcus Luke, N
J. P ; Wm. Rogers, Bailiff,
lrwinville, Ga.
138s Dist. G. M., Third Salurday iu each
iwoiifc •. ii. V. Hanley, J. P ; David Troup,
BuiLtf, Minnie, U.u.
Us.: Di.-,t G. At., Third Wednesday In each
mould). O. L lt .yai, J. P., Sycamore, Go.;
A Jones &P Royal, Bailiffs Sycumore, Ga.
982 Dist. G M. D. A. K>y, iS P. & Kx-
(ili ic.o J. P . j-iyeimore, Ga.
LOJC: DIRECTORY-
Sjo him. Lid;e, no 210 F. & A. M.
1.• Rii.iii o n.iauuicatioiiH 2nd and 4tfi Satu -
a .>. VV. in, S.ury, W. Al.; J. F. Roj ul, S.e.
Oc.IL Do ge, F. & A. M.—Regular coin-
in.in if., i ion 'jliuisduy before the 4th Sunday
in encli moiitu. J. A. J. Henderson, W. M ;
1 W. M. U lutley, Sec’y, OclUu, Ga.
CHU.iCH DIRECTORY-
SYCAMORE CIRCUIT.
CycioneDi—First Sycamore- 2nd Sunday Sunday, and Sunday night.
Piiiey Glove—8rd Sunday and Saturday
before. Glemoii’s Chapel—4:h Sunday and Satur¬
day before.
Datna cus—4th Sunday afternoon and 5tb
Sunday. meeting at Sycamore Thurs¬
Prayer Sunday school Sunday every
day night; moruiug
ur 10.3J o’clock.
J. W. Connors, Pastor.
UNION PRIMITIVE BAPTIST.
Brushey Creek—4.h Suuday and Saturday
(jflforQ. Creek—2nd Sunday
Sturgeon and Sitin'-
day before.
Salem—3rd Hopewell—1st Sunday Sunday & Saturday Saturday before. before.
and
Eld. W. H. Harden, Pastor.
Little River—3rd Suuday and Saturday
beiore. Turner’s Meeting Bouse—2nd Sunday and
Saturday before
Oaky Grove—4th Sunday and Saturday
More let Sunday and Salurday before
Emails— Eud. Jambs Gibbs, Pastor.
*1 NOTICE.
Partiee are nllowwl warned that lots no of hunting land Nos. or fish- 13,
ing w‘U be on
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., DECEMBER 29 1893.
NOTES.
Items of General Interest that are Occur¬
ring at the Capital City.
The joint Senate and House Com¬
mission to look into the methods of
conducting business in the executive
departments is likely to recommend
some important changes in the work¬
ing of the postoffice department.
Some of these changes involves the
lopping ofl' of several bureau chiefs,
matter finally determined upon is
that the postal note must go. That
kes been agreed to with unanimi¬
ty. It is considered by the commis¬
sion as a useless tiling entailing upon
tho department the expense of print¬
ing without giving the people any
compensating benefit. There is
nothing to prevent tiie
theft of the postal note and its being
cashed by persons other thun the one
to whom it is sent. The commission
is of the opinion that paper money
ean be 6ent with equal security through
the mails.
Senator Hill’* Hill.
Senator Hill has completed his bill
for the imposition of a collateral in¬
heritance, legacy or succession tax.
The bill provides that all property,
real and personal, which will pass by
will or by the interstate laws, of any
state or territory, to any persons or to
any body, politic or corporate, in trust
or otherwise, in excess of $5,000 shall
be sabject to a tax of duty.
1. As lineal issue or ancestor at $1
per $100 in value.
2. As brother or sister or descendent
of suoh, $2 per $100 in value.
8 . As brother or sister of the father
or mother of the deceased, $4 per $100.
4. As brother or sister of the grand,
father or grandmother of descendant
thereof, $5 per $100.
5. In any other degree of collateral
consanguinity or stranger in blood,
body politic oreorporate, $10 per $100.
Provided, that all property passing
to husbands’s wife shall be exempt
from tax or duty, unless such duty
shall exceed $50,000 value when the
excess shall be liable to taxation.
Postponed Until January,
The house committee on coinage,
weights and measures has postponed
all consideration of the bill until the
second Thursday in January. When
the committee met Mr. Bland asked to
have the time fixed to take a vote.
Mr. Kilgore of Texas said that he was
a free coinage man and wanted to do
all he could, but was not anxious to
make any better record than he had.
This hint that the bill was being
pressed for a record caused Mr. Bjand
to say that if there was any opposition
among (he free coinage men he would
not pretend to press it, and the bill
was then postponed.
Tke Knight* of Pythias
are to hold a giaud conclave and en¬
campment iu Washington in August,
1894. The House some time ago
adopted » joint resolution authorizing
ihc Secretary of War to permit the
nse of the monument lot and other
reservations in the city for that pur¬
pose. Tiie Senate took up the resolu¬
tion on Monday and it was passed at
once. The Knights splendid will be there by
the thousands and campign
grounds arc thus reserved.
A Pudding for Cleveland.
There are at the presnt time 475 ex¬
isting vacancies among Presidential
postmasters, caused by expirations and
resignations. December 19, 20 and 21
will be the red-letter days iti the his¬
tory of the department. Four hun¬
dred and sixty-live commissions expire
during those days. This makes a total
of 940 Presidential posioffices to lie
filled by appointment this month.
There is a contest, in nearly every one
of the entire list.
The (Jitfarelte Schedule
of the custom bill was increased today
for the purpose of allowing an iucrese
of internal revenue taxes on cigarettes.
It is thought that the increase will
yield about $4,500,000 revenue from
this source.
New Chinese Treaty.
Ly Wing York, Chinese consul gen-
eral at San Francisco, has been sum¬
moned to Washington to confer
the Chinese minister regarding a new
treaty soon to be submitted by China
to the United States. He left
Washiugton last night. He would say
only when interviewed shat the pres-
ent treaty is far from satisfactory, and
that the Chinese have not settled on
the terms of the treaty which they in-
lend to propose as a substitute. For
one thing, however, the Chinese gov-
ernment will not oppose the new regis-
tration law.
The Nevr Tariff Bill.
It is considered certain that (he
Wilson bill will be sent to the Senate
before the first of February. It iu
now the hopes of tho great bulk of
Democrats that the bill can be submit¬
ted to 11m President for his signature
by the 4th of March so that it can be¬
come a law one year from the begin¬
ning of bis administration. If the
Senate sees proper to be ngly about it,
under existing rules a vote can be de¬
layed a Jong time. There is some un¬
certainty as to how Senators Jones,
Stewart, Peffer and Allen, all now ic-
garded as populists will vole. They
were all Republicans and have been
protectionists in the past. If
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
the men classed as Democrats all vote
for the bill, however, there will be
no trouble in securing its adoption in
the Senate The two Louisiana Sena¬
tors are opposed to the sugar features
and the two Alabama Senators have
expres-ed their opposition to free iron
ore and coal and possibly lumber.
None of them, however, would allow
opposition to these features of the
rneasuie to cause them to vote against
it in case they could not amend it to
suit their views.
Throe New State*.
There seems to be no doubt that
Utah, Now Mexico and Arizona will
become states very soon. Bills for
their admission have already passed
the house of representatives, and will
probably find no serious opposition in
tho senate.
Secretary Carlisle’* Report.
Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle
sent in his report to Congress on
Wednesday, lie says: During the
first live months of the present fiscal
year, I lie expenditures of the govern¬
ment have exceeded its receipts to tiie
amount of $29,918,096,66.
There has been not ouly a deorease
of receipts, but also an increase of ex¬
penditures during this period, as com¬
pared with the corresponding five
months of the last fiscal year. The
revenues from customs have fallen oil
$23,589,829,74: from internal taxes,
$7,866,667,96, and from miscellaneous
receipts, $324,152,30,
Some New Bills.
A bill to admit to the mails as second
class matter periodical publications is¬
sued under the auspices of benevolent
and fraternal societies and institutions
of learning has been introduced. The
house committee on public laud ha>
reported favorably a bill to amend the
land act of March's, 1891. The bill
reported is to validate the rights of
any person who had instituted a conte t
prior to the passage of that act, if he
was at that time qualified to make an
entry for the tract.
Senator Cockrell’s bill to promote
aerial navigation authorizes the appro¬
priation of $100,000 for payment to
any inventor from anv part of tiie
world who shall at any time prior to
the first of January, 1900, construct a
vessel that will demonstrate the safety
of navigating the air at a speed of
thirty miles au hour and capable of
carrying passengers aud freight at the
extent of five tons.
In a Lino or Two.
Wayne McVeigh has been nominat.
ed as ambassador to Italy, to succeed
James J. Van Alen.
The President and Mrs, Cleveland
ere very much oposed to exhibiting
their children to the public.
Civil Service Commissi uer Chas.
Lyman, has resigned as President of
the commission,and is succeeded by Mr
Proctor. Mr. Lyman i» stili one of
the board.
A majority of the ways and means
committee have made their report on
the new tariff bill. The report Is
quite lengthy ana gives a history of
the tarifi since 1816.
In The Senate.
15th Day.—I n the Senate today a
good part of the time was devoted to
executive business and many nomina¬
tions were confirmed. During the
brief legislative session Mr. Mitchell
of Oregon took occasion, in securing
an order for the reprinting bankruptcy, of a me¬
morial on the subject of
to say that there was no justification
for the impression throughout 1 he
country that all hope of bankruptcy
legislation was now dead. Mr. Proc¬
tor, republican, of Vermont, intro¬
duced a bill to annex the territory of
Utah to the state of Nevada. At 3:35
p. m. the Senate adjourned until
Wednesday, January 3, 1894.
In The House.
15th Day.— The Hawaiian matter
figured prominently in the last session
of the house before the holiday recess.
Mr. Boutelle and Mr. Blair each off¬
ered resolutions, the former calling on
the secretary of the navy for the in¬
structions whereby the admiral in
charge of the navy forces at Honolulu
was placed uuder the command of
Commissioner Blount and the warrant
therefore; the later instructing the
foreign affairs committees to investi-
gate the question of fact relative to
the Hawaiian resolution. The substi-
tute for the Hitt and Boutelle resolu-
tion was also presented by tho chair-
man of the foreign affairs committee,
Debate on each of these resolutions
was avoided by the prompt action of
the speaker in referring them before
adjournment. Mr. Wilson gave notice
that the debate on the Wilson bill
would begin the day of the reconven-
ing of Congress, At 3:16 the house
adjourned for the holidays.
Fell Into The Grave
At the funeral of Margaret McLure,
only child of the late Chief Justice
Gibson, while the body was being
lowered into the grave in the presence
of a large gathering of people the
undertaker, Alex Ewing slipped and
fell headforemost upon the casket.
He was lifted out of the grave in au
unconscious condition, and it is feared
he will d ie.
__
Nebraska has raised 100 bushels ot
corn for every human being in the
Btate thiB year.
GENERAL NEWS.
Wholesale Summary of the News of the
Week Gathered from Every Quarter.
The Virginia legislature has ad¬
journed until Jan. 1.
Jas. J. Corbett, has moved with his
family to May port Fla.
Atlanta, so the Constiluiton says is
going to have another big exposition
next year.
The Louisiana Kice Mill located at
New Orleans was destroyed by tire.
Loss $75,000.
Gen. Eppa I Inn ton and Thomas
Martin have been elected United Slates
Senators from Virginia.'
Four local banks in Klusenburg,
Australia, are in difficulties owing to
heavy runs upon them.
There have been renewed gales along
the British coast and a number of
casualties are represented.
Three children of John Peterson of
Chicago, were buried in one grave,
all having died from small pox.
At Louisville, Slusher and Vokes
have put up a $100 forfeit each to se¬
cure a fight to a finish on Jan. 4.
Fires have been lighted at the She-
nango Valley Glass works. Employ¬
ment will be given to 200 men.
The report of the minority mem¬
bers of tiie Ways and Means Commit¬
tee on the tariff bill has been submitted.
Fire at Waxahatchie, Tex., destroyed
the entire principal business block of
the town. Loss, $150,000; insurance,
$90,000.
The first of the week the shipment
of coal from Pittsburg aggregated
6,000,000 bushels per day. It goes to
the South and West.
At New Orleans the Italian case of
Monasterio vs. the city returned a
verdict for plaintiff for $2,500. The
Scanfidi case is now being tried.
Reports to the railroad commissioner
of Ohio just completed show that not
one passenger was killed within the
state during the year ending Nov. 15.
Robert Adams, Jr., ex-United States
Minister to Brazil, has been elected to
congress in the Second district of
Pennsylvania to succeed the late Chais
O’Neill.
A rich vein of gold, assaying 9 12
ounces of gold aud 40 percent, of cop¬
per to the ton, is said to have been
discovered at Starr’s cave, near Bur¬
lington, la.
A million for charity, and tramps
coining into Ctiicago at the rate of
several hundred a day to get it, is the
situation as it appears in the general
round-up.
Dr. Wm. S. Lawton, President of
the Augusta and Savannah railroad,
and brother of Geu, A. S. Lawton,
died at his home in Savannah a few
days since.
At Dallas, Tex., a damage suit
brought by Mrs. E. S, Kaudall against
J. 8. Handle for killing her husband
last Christmas has been compromised
for $10,000.
J. L. Bcemati an Ex-Congressman
from Mississippi was called to his
door and robbed of $350 by two
masked men. He was brutally beaten
mid is in a precarious condition.
Charlie Mitchell, the pugilist, says
that if lie win’s the tight between him
and Corbett, he intends to give $10,-
000 of his winnings to the poor of
Jacksonville, St. Louis, Boston and
New York.
In addition to the donation which it
has been the custom of John B. Mc¬
Lean, proprietor of the Enquirer, to
distribute at Christmas, he will this
year give $5,000 to the worthy poor
of Cincinnati.
The acquittal of Patrick Meehan
from the charge of the murder of
Robert McBride in the Fulton county,
Ga., superior court concludes one of
the most exciting trials that has been
held in Georgia for a long time.
The grounds and buildings of the
Crescent City Athletic club, New Or¬
leans, has been sold in accordance
with the order of the civil sheriff.
They brought $10,000 and the pur¬
chasers were tho Southern Improve¬
ment company.
Sixty-five and a half million pounds
of fruit were shipped from San Jose,
Cal., during the season just ended.
Of this amount 28,630,520 pounds
were prunes, an illustration of the re¬
markable growth of prune growing in
the past few years. Eight million
pounds of Bartlett pears were among
the shipments.
Henry Dobson, Bridgeport Conn.,
until within a week an inmate of the
alms house, has come into the posses¬
sion of a handsome fortune by the
death of his father in England. Dob¬
son, it is said, had partially completed
a university course at Oxford twenty
years ago, when he suddenly left for
America.
Will McMillon, of St. Louis, and E.
B. Bronson, of El Paso, an authority
on prehistoric Indian ruins, have dis¬
covered near Eddy, N. M., the remains
of five different Aztec towns that for¬
merly contained, according to usual
estimates, 15,000 to 20,000 people.
Excavations are soon to be made to
expose walls of farms and dwellings
burled by sand from hills near by.
$ 1.00 a Year in Advance.
The Order of tho Ued Crons has hit
upon a novel and practical way of aid¬
ing tho destituie of the sea islands of
South Carolina. These people are
still suffering from the effects of tho
August storm and are unable to help
themselves, The lted Cross Society
proposes to put all able men to work
in the large timber tracts near them and
tin people of Augusta and neighbor¬
ing towns are asked to buy the wood.
It is believed this will bo done read.
ily.
A PREACHER FIBS.
He Finds Himself Alone With a Cra¬
zy Man—He Humored Him.
A special dispatch to the Atlanta
Constitution from Columbus, Ga.,
says: “Parties in Columbus today
from Hurtsboro, Ala., tell of the nar¬
row escai e that Rev. Mr. Andrews,
of the Seale circuit, had from a relig¬
ious crank a few days ago.
Mr. Andrews, while on his regular
appointment at Hurtsboro, had a call
from a vei y well-dressed and nice-
looking white man who asked him to
take a walk. The preacher, supposing
that the man wanted to converse on
religions matters, consented to the
walk.
They strolled until the cemetery
was reached and tiie crank, who up to
that time had been perfectly natural
and rational in his remarks, suggested
that they pass inside and finish their
conversation. The preacher, all uu-
suspecting, agreed to this also and the
two walked in at the gate. Mr. An¬
drews observed that his companion
was careful to close the gate securely
and for the iiist time grew just a little
bit suspicious and wary. They walk¬
ed along, however, until the middle of
the cemetery was reached, when the
crank stopped suddenly, and facing
the preacher, told him that he and all
the people in that town and section
must stop eating meat, or he (the
speaker) would make them. The
preacher now realized that he was
walking and talking with a crazy man,
who was likely to do him harm unless
he humored him and he saw that lie
must act quickly.
“Well,” said Mr. Andrews, “I’ve
plenty of money, so I shall buy up all
the meat and destroy it.” This seem¬
ed to satisfy the crank at first and
they were about to turn their steps
back to the town when the crank
ptiiled from his pocket a pistol and a
knife and demanded that tiie minister
promise to say nothing about his in¬
tention to purchase all the meat in
that section. Mr. Andrews assured
the man that lie would keep the whole
matter dark.
“I am afraid to trust you,” whis¬
pered the crank excitedly and hesitat-
ingly, “and expect I bad better kill
you.” All the time the pistol was at.
most against the minister. Mr. Au-
drews was unarmed and of course was
frightened. He finally persuaded the
man that the secret would be kept aud
it was best for them to return to the
town.
That night Mr. Andrews found the
man prowling around his house with
that same ugly pistol and knife in his
hand. Mr. Andrews then went for
an officer and had the man arrested.
A Curious Phenomenon.
A press dispatch dated at Wilming
ton, N. C., says: “A curious phe
nomenon was seen in the heavens here
frm 6:30 to 7 this morning. It made
a magnificent display, but no one
seonts able to determine just what it
was, some describing it as a meteor
and others as a comet. One eye wit-
ness says it had tiie appearance of a
large star with a tail which to the na¬
ked eye seemed about 100 yards burst, long.
The business end of it finally
leaving a trail of fire behiud, of mauy
and beautiful colors. A colored as-
tronotner says he saw tho letters “VV
W” distinctly outlined, while another
says the word “Prepare” was there
plain as day.
Fell Into Tho Grave
At the funeral of Margaret McLure,
only child of the late Chief Justice
Gibson, while the body was being
lowered into the grave in -the pvesen ee
of a large gathering of people the
undertaker, Alex Ewing slipped and
fell headforemost upon the casket.
He was lifted out of the grave in an
unconscious condition, and it is feared
he will die.
Another Train Robbery.
Somewhere between lloustcn an.
Dayton, Texas, on Tuesday night,
robbers entered the express oar of a
Southern Paoific train, They killed
the express messenger and got awav
with several packages of money.
Some of Their Own Medicine.
A Chicago gambling den was robbed
of $4,000 in cash while the employes
of the place was in their accustomed
places. There wore four of the rob¬
bers two of whom stood guard at the
door whilst the others entered and
emptied the safe. No one daring to
molest them.
Another Train Robbery.
Somewhere between Houston ancl
Dayton, Texas, on Tuesday night,
robbers entered the express car of a
Southern Pacific train, They killed
t he express messenger and got away
with several package* ef money.
VOL,IV, NO. 33.
SECOND MESSAGE Jm
President Cleveland Lays the Hawaii*
Question Before Congressr.
The message is six thousand word*
in length.
lie gives tho history of event* 1*
Hawaii in conformity with the fact*
as reported by Mr. Blount, and com¬
mends future dealing with tho ex»
tended power and wide discretion ol
Congress.
lie says:, By an act of war, com¬
mitted witlfthe participation of th*
diplomatic representative of the Unit¬
ed States, lin'd without authority o*
Congress, < c Government of a feebi*
but friendly people has been over¬
thrown.
The Provisional Government he;
not assumed a Republican or a Constt-
tutional form, but has remained *
mere executive council or oligarchy,
set up without the assentof the people
It lias not •mght to find permanent
basis or popular support, and has gin-
en no evidence of intention to do ro,
Indeed representatives of that Govern
ment assert that the people of Ilawa#
are unfit for popular Government, an#
can be best ruled by arbitrary or den
potic power.
The President says lie had hoped, !»
view of the fact that both the Queen
and the Provisional Government had
at one time uquiesced in (lie refetenc#
of the entire case to the United Slate*
Government, and considering th*
further fact that the Provisional Gov¬
ernment, by its own declared limita¬
tions, was only “to exist until th*
terms of union with the United State#
have been negotiated and agreed up*
on,” that after giving assurance t#
members of that Government tha*
such a union could not be consumma¬
ted, lie might have been able to cor*
pass a peaceful adjustment of the di<$-
culties.
“Not unmindful of the perplexities
of the situation and of limitation ot
my powers,” says the president, “I
instructed Minister Willis to advis#
tlie queen and iter supporters of mf
desire to aid in the restoration of th#
status existing before the lawles*
landing of the United States January.* force*
at Honolulu ou the 16th of
He says that he desires that such
restoration should be effected on th#
terms providing for clemency as well
as justice to all parties concerned.
The conditions suggested were am¬
nesty to all those who had in any wap
participated in setting up the provi¬
sional government and recognition o#
all bona fide acts and obligation*
These conditions have not proved a*
ceptable to the queer,, although sb*
has been informed that they will b*
insisted upon, and that unless accede#
to, the efforts of the president to ai#
in the restoration of her governmen*
will cease.
The president says that lie has no*
yet learned that tiie queen has delaye# yielde#
her acquiescence, and this has
his efforts to bring about a settlement.
lie adds that unfortunate publi*
misrepresentations of the sentiment*
of our people have obviously hindered
the prospects of a successful executiv#
mediation.
He therefore subrn. the corre.
spondence and instructions to emigres*
and closed by saying: the
“in commending this subject to
extended powers and wide discretion
of congress, I desire to add the assur¬
ance that l shall be much gratified to
co-operate in any legislative plan
which may be devised for the solution
of the problem before us, which is
consistent with American honor, in¬
tegrity and morality.”
THERE IS a eoOTSCRIPT.
The President’s Hawaiian message
consists of two printed documents
and one in writing. The important
part of the document submitted iu
writing (which has not yet been read
to the Senate) contains instructions
issued to Minister Willis under date of
December 3.
Two points, having special bearing
upon the situation in Hawaii, are sel
forth. Minister Willis is instructed
to say to the Queen that the condition#
relative to amnesty must be acquiesced
iu by her, or he will do nothing. I#
the Queen should ask what the United
States will do in the way of restoring
her to power and maintaining be*
upon her throne, the minister i* di¬
rected to reply that the President wiB
not authorize the use of the Unite#
States troops, either to restore her o*
maintain her upon her throne, Min’
ister Willis was told to inform th#
Queen that the use of troops could
only be authorized by Congress. Min.
ister Willis was then directed to toll
the provisional government, should
they ask the same question, that he
will do all that he can under execn*
tivc authority to restore the Queen.
The distinction noted between these
two auswers to tiie same question ie
the absence of the very important
matter of detni) as to what tiie Presi¬
dent can do and will do under the
term “executive authority.”
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