The report with its accompanying proofs, and such other evidence as is now before the Congress or is herewith submitted, justifies in my view the statement that when the President was led to submit the treaty to the Senate with the declaration that “the overthrow of the monarchy was not in any approach promoted by this Government”, and when the Senate was induced to obtain and focus on it on that foundation, each President and Senate had been misled. The message of the President accompanying the treaty declared that “the overthrow of the monarchy was not in any means promoted by this Government,” and in a letter to the President from the Secretary of State, also submitted to the Senate with the treaty, the next passage occurs: “At the time the provisional government took possession of the government buildings no troops or officers of the United States had been present or took any half no matter within the proceedings. No public recognition was accorded to the provisional government by the United States Minister until after the Queen’s abdication and after they have been in effective possession of the government buildings, the archives, the treasury, the barracks, the police station, and all the potential machinery of the government.” But a protest additionally accompanied mentioned treaty, signed by the Queen and her ministers at the time she made approach for the provisional authorities, which explicitly stated that she yielded to the superior power of the United States, whose Minister had induced United States troops to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would assist such provisional authorities.

In the subsequent place, upon the face of the papers submitted with the treaty, it clearly appeared that there was open and undetermined a problem of truth of probably the most vital significance. Additional significance hooked up to this explicit treaty of annexation, as a result of it contemplated a departure from unbroken American tradition in providing for the addition to our territory of islands of the sea greater than two thousand miles faraway from our nearest coast. The truth or falsity of this protest was surely of the first significance. Yet the truth or falsity of the protest had not been investigated. The terms of the protest had been read without dissent by those assuming to represent the provisional authorities, who have been actually charged with the data that the Queen as a substitute of finally abandoning her power had appealed to the justice of the United States for reinstatement in her authority; and but the provisional authorities with this unanswered protest in its hand hastened to negotiate with the United States for the everlasting banishment of the Queen from energy and for the sale of her kingdom. If true, nothing but the concealment of its reality might induce our Government to negotiate with the semblance of a authorities thus created, nor might a treaty ensuing from the acts stated within the protest have been knowingly deemed worthy of consideration by the Senate.

It appeared that a so-known as Committee of Safety, ostensibly the source of the revolt against the constitutional Government of Hawaii, was organized on Saturday, the 14th day of January; that on Monday, the 16th, the United States forces were landed at Honolulu from a naval vessel lying in its harbor; that on the seventeenth the scheme of a provisional authorities was perfected, and a proclamation naming its officers was on the identical day ready and read at the government constructing; that instantly thereupon the United States Minister recognized the provisional government thus created; that two days afterwards, on the 19th day of January, commissioners representing such authorities sailed for this country in a steamer particularly chartered for the occasion, arriving in San Francisco on the 28th day of January, and in Washington on the 3d day of February; that on the next day they’d their first interview with the Secretary of State, and another on the 11th, when the treaty of annexation was practically agreed upon, and that on the 14th it was formally concluded and on the fifteenth transmitted to the Senate.

Thus between the initiation of the scheme for a provisional government in Hawaii on the 14th day of January and the submission to the Senate of the interval was thirty-two days, fifteen of which had been spent by the Hawaiian Commissioners of their journey to Washington. On the 19th day of November, 1892, almost two months earlier than the first overt act tending in the direction of the subversion of the Hawaiian Government and the attempted switch of Hawaiian territory to the United States, he addressed an extended letter to the Secretary of State through which the case for annexation was elaborately argued, on ethical, political, and economical grounds. Under the authority of the French Embassy within the United States, its consular district extends throughout three states (New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey), as effectively as the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. This committee, though its designs weren’t revealed, had in view nothing lower than annexation to the United States, and between Saturday, the 14th, and the next Monday, the 16th of January-although precisely what action was taken might not be clearly disclosed-they had been actually in communication with the United States Minister.