Mr. Uhl to Mr. Willis.
Washington, June 1, 1895.
Sir: Referring to your No. 107, of the 7th instant, of which routine acknowledgment by subject was made in my No. 89, of the 22d instant, I have to commend your course in reminding Mr. Hatch that your communication to him of Mr. Gresham’s instruction No. 65, of February 21 last, was unaccompanied by any separate intimation from you “that the President would be pleased if the Hawaiian minister at Washington should be recalled for personal reasons,” as stated in Mr. Hatch’s note to you of May 7.
The circumstances which made Mr. Thurston no longer an acceptable representative of the Hawaiian Republic at this capital having been fully set forth in the instruction aforesaid, of which you gave Mr. Hatch a copy after reading it to him, as you were directed to do, and no other intimation in this regard having been made, it is clear that the “personal reasons” mentioned by Mr. Hatch could only be those stated in Mr. Gresham’s communication as having rendered Mr. Thurston personally unacceptable; and it was quite proper for you to make this point plain in order that Mr. Hatch’s statement might not lead to any misconception of what had occurred between you and him.
I am, etc.,
Acting Secretary.