t Hawaii.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 12, 1894_.
_To the Congress_:
I transmit herewith two dispatches received a few days ago from our
minister at Hawaii, and a reply to one of them from the Secretary of
State, in which a correct version is given of an interview which
occurred November 14, 1893, between the Secretary of State and Mr.
Thurston, representing the Provisional Government at Washington.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 16, 1894_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a communication
from the Secretary of State, covering the report of the Director of the
Bureau of the American Republics for the year 1893.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 19, 1894_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I herewith transmit copies of certain dispatches recently received from
our minister at Honolulu.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 19, 1894_.
_To the Senate_:
On the evening of the 16th instant I received a copy of a resolution
passed by the Senate, requesting the transmission to that body of all
reports and dispatches from our minister at Hawaii, and especially a
certain letter written to him by Mr. Dole, President of the Provisional
Government.
On the same day I received from the State Department a copy of a
dispatch from Minister Willis, accompanied by various exhibits. I was
not able to send them to the Senate on that day. The Senate adjourned
that afternoon until to-day, and thus prevented the submission until now
of these papers.
The next day after the receipt of the Senate resolution, and on the 17th
instant, other dispatches were received from Mr. Willis at the State
Department. They were copied with all possible haste, and are now
submitted at the first meeting of the Senate since their receipt. They
include the letter mentioned in the Senate resolution and the answer of
Minister Willis to the same.
Since the 18th day of December last, when I submitted to the "broader
authority and discretion of the Congress" all matters connected with our
relations with Hawaii, I have with the utmost promptness transmitted
to the Congress all dispatches and reports relative to the subject,
and I am not aware of any dispatches or documents in the remotest way
connected with these relations which have come to the possession of the
State Departmen
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