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House Ex. Doc. No. 282, Fifty-third Congress, third session. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN RESPONSE TO House resolution of February 1, 1895, calling for certain information touching the recent insurrection in the Hawaiian Islands. February 4,1895.-Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. To the House of Representatives: In response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1st instant, calling for certain information touching the recent insurrection in the Hawaiian Islands, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers. Grover Cleveland. Executive Mansion, Washington, February 4, 1895. To the president: The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives, dated February 1, 1895, requesting the President- To transmit to the House of Representatives, if not incompatible with the public interests, all correspondence, documents, or other information, if any, in the possession of the Government, in regard to arms having been furnished by British subjects to persons in rebellion against the Government of the Hawaiian Islands; or in regard to any intervention by representatives of Great Britain to prevent the application of martial law as proclaimed by said Government to those concerned in said rebellion who claim to be British subjects, has the honor to report that the Department has no information in regard to arms having been furnished by British subjects to persons in rebellion against the Government of the Hawaiian Islands; but, in a telegram from the United States minister at Honolulu, January 11. forwarded by way of San Francisco, Mr. Willis says: "Arms reported to have been brought from Vancouver by Norma. " 1391