Senate Ex. Doc. No. 46, Fifty-third Congress, second session.

MESSAGE

FROM   THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

IN  ANSWER  TO

The Senate resolution of February 16, 1894, and transmitting copies of additional dispatches, and exhibits thereto, 
relating to Hawaii.
February 20, 1894.-Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and
ordered to be printed.
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 38th 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 Department or the Executive and 
been withheld from the Senate.
Grover Cleveland.
Executive Mansion,
February 19, 1894.			
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