[Untitled]
December 18, 1893.—Referred to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.
To the House of
Representatives;
In compliance with a resolution passed by your honorable body on the 13th
instant, I hereby transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with
copies of the instructions given to Mr. Albert S. Willis, the
representative of the United States now in the Hawaiian Islands, and
also the correspondence since the 4th day of March, 1889, concerning the
relations of this Government to those islands.
In making this communication, I have withheld only a dispatch from the
former minister to Hawaii numbered 70, under date of October 8, 1892,
and a dispatch from the present minister, numbered 3, under date of
November 16, 1893, because, in my opinion, the publication of these two
papers would be incompatible with the public interest.
Groves Cleveland.
Executive
Mansion,
Washington, December 18,
1893.
The President:
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred a resolution adopted by
the House of Representatives on the 13th instant, requesting the
President to communicate to that House—
if not inconsistent with the public
interest, copies of the instructions given to the
representative of the United States now in the Hawaiian
Islands in regard to the protection of the lives and
property of American citizens there, or any contemplated
change in the form of government, and all correspondence
since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine in regard to Hawaii; not already transmitted to
Congress;
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has the honor or to lay before the President, with a
view to his determination touching their transmission to the House
of Representatives in response to that resolution, copies of the
correspondence called for.
In order that nothing might be omitted that may be deemed to come
within the purview of the resolution, the Secretary of State has
endeavored to include all correspondence of a political character
concerning the Hawaiian Islands. It has seemed advisable in so doing
to incorporate also sundry papers within the specified period which
have been heretofore communicated to both Houses of Congress,
together with the correspondence of the described character
communicated to the Senate in February and March last, and printed
by order of that body, to the end that the present collection may
fairly respond to the request of the House of Representatives.
Respectfully submitted.
W. Q. Gresham.
Department of
State,
Washington, December 18,
1893.
