Show WILL IT BE impeachment if the tone of the republican press and the temper of republican statesmen me may be taken as an a criterion it looks very much as though a case of impeachment were being worked up lip against president cleveland because othis ot his action in the hawaiian affair in the list of newspapers who oppose the presidents President Is 8 action however we find the new york sun a democratic but still an anti anil cleveland paper which in a recent issue suggested that if the executive had bad taken certain prominent eit men in n his party into his confidence he be might have escaped some very annoying consequences there is no question as aa to the cun con ution making no provision for special messengers for the head ot of the nation this however does but raise the point of whether or not such power is implied A charter cannot in the very nature or things be a code of laws lawn inside of which everything and ot which nothing I 1 it 1 is merely the fun foundation dation and limitation ot of the lawmaking power setting forth certain rules tut tur our guidance and not in any case saying what under those rules we may or may nut not do this thia being the case we take cake it the president dento lei defense would mainly arise ariee from the section which provides that by and with the advice and consent of the senate he be ahall make maka treaties etc it does not say that he be shall have inter course with no other authority than the senate because t at body pro pre feudally mally feu looks to him not he be to it for official information and he must have some means of acquiring this thia informs information without going in ill personal quest of it As much responsibility rests upon him as upon the upper branch of congress fr for all our foreign tran sao eions and if congress can send bond out for persons papers and information generally which it can indisputably why not he be it will be observed that e situation was becoming critical t ti i t all the powers were on the alert while great britain and germany were quietly overlooking their forces it wag absolutely necessary before con summating sum mating an act whose outcome meant a barlous entanglement if not actual that it be determined beyond peradventure what the status of affairs on the islands as aa whether as aa it was first made to appear to us there was a great popular movement there looking to immediate annexation or not this in the absence of a cable could only be dister deter mined by personal inspection and investigation indeed it is a question if even with that advanced facility for communication we could have had a perfectly satisfactory understanding since the other end of the telegraph service would not have been controlled by those most Intel interested ested that ought to be enough but if more should be wanting it might be fund in the perhaps unwritten but certainly existing requirement that the head ol of the nation be ever on the alert regarding its best interests in teresta and welfare he wanted doubt leu to maintain the friendly relations at present subsisting between us andall and all other powers at least during the present year of grace and could perhaps see no other way of doing it than the he course which he be pursued his emla emis sary seems to have found up to date that thai so far from annexation or even a protectorate being the thing desired by the people of hawaii the thought that is uppermost with them to is by what authority any such thing was ever accomplished at all so 80 long as the stars and stripes floated over the government building at honolulu just so 80 long was wag this country bound to attack or defend agai against neit any other power that made advancer advance ti in that direction thus forcing us into the position of being a protector where our protection was not asked and having all nations that were not indifferent opposed to us besides beside si before utterly condemning condemn ine the hauling down of the flag in hawaii let us first determine whether or not there was sufficient authority lor for raising it |