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Show MATTERS AT WASHIKGTOX. The Situation on the Sandwich Islands the All-Absorbiner Topic. Washington. D. C, Jan. 5 There ' will be another contest In the Senate over the confirmation ot the man ap pointed from an eastern state as Indian In-dian aent in the west. During the special session of Congress there waB a protracted fight in the Senate against the confirmation of this class of ap-pointements ap-pointements not because there is any objections to the men personally, but because the principal was opposed. The fight this time will open with the Oregon appointment, and both Dolph and Mitchell have said they intend to object to sending appointees from the eat and south into their states. It is believed all the western men will support sup-port them. It is claimed bv those who support the administration in the matter mat-ter that Indian agents are not state appointments; that Indian agents are purely under federal control, and that the appointees can be sent from any section of the country to govern the 1 agencies. ; Washington, Jan. 5 The associated press cable from Auckland, announc- ingthat Minister Willis had notified the provisional government to retire, I as the queen had aereed to grant am- uestv. has been the absorbing topic in j i congressional circles today. Word came from the state department to the foreign affairs committee, but no men- tion was made of the minister's re ported action. The information is doubted by Chairman McCreary, Ray-nor Ray-nor and others of the foreign affairs committee. McCreary said it would give a most startling turn to the situation if it proved true. Hitt, republican leader of the foreign for-eign affairs committee, said if Willis bad taken the action reported, it would "" precipitate a tempest. The president i had turned the whole subject over to congress, and yet before Willis had learned this course, he had executed the policy already abandoned, This would be particularly serious if the minister's action had led to bloodshed. There is intense anxiety in congressional congres-sional circles for further news of the reported course of the minister, and it has let the circulation of wild and boundless rumors on the floor of the 1 home that rioting had begun in the i streets of Honolulu. The state de-, de-, partments as to Willis' actions. Such action is said to be totally contrary to the instructions Bint to Willis by the Corwin, and received by him ou De cember 11th. That he could have written writ-ten to the provisional government after he received those instructions, requesting request-ing they surrender the office, is denied with strong emphasis at the state department, de-partment, and the expressions in the president's message in this connection are pointed to as refuting the statement. state-ment. The statements contained in the dispatch dis-patch seemed to cause no uneasiness or excitement at the Hawaiian legation. lega-tion. They are not inclined to believe that Willis has taken further steps to restore the queen. The Hawaiians do not think the ex-queen's agreement to grant amnesty to the provisional government would make any difference in the Etatus of things. Information leads them to belieye that Liluokalani i would fear to accept restoration without with-out a guarantee of protection and feel confident such a guarantee is now im possible. It will be remembered that in Gresham's instructions to Willis the lol lowing occurs: "Should the queen accept the conditions, condi-tions, and the provisional government refuse to surrender, you will be governed gov-erned by the previous instructions." It will be seen that even if the provisional pro-visional government has refused to yield without force, Willis' latest instructions in-structions would prevent bis going further. fur-ther. In the event the queen should accept the conditions, however. - Will s is to be "governed by the previous instructions." in-structions." The previous instructions, were to notify the provisional government which bad not yet been done, if the queen acceeded to the conditions. So far as the public is informed there is nothing in the instructions to preclude Willis from haying proceeded on these lines toward the provisional government. govern-ment. Washington, D. C Jan. 5. Senator Sena-tor Dubois returned today to Washington Washing-ton irom the Faulkner weddiug. The Senator thinks that no action on the territorial admission bills will be taken until Senator Faulkner returns from h's wedding trip. Sm Haueer of Helena reached Washington Wash-ington this morning, but was recalled to Helena by a telegram. Drs. E. N. Oonroy and J. D. Carna-ban Carna-ban were today appointed pension examining ex-amining surgeons at Ogden, Utah. |