Denied By President Cleveland

Washington, Jan. 7.- The attention oC ; President Cleveland having becn calloil to a hint thrown out in the senate cus9ion on Frlday that the visit of a ' tain coinmittee of royalista from the , waiinn islands wasconnected in some way ', with the departure of American ships from that looality, the president said to an Associated Press reporter : "Of course such an inslnuation is very abuurd. lts j propriety and the motive behind it, I nm sure, can safely be left to the judgment of fair and right thinking Americans." Ho added tlmt hu was entirely willing ■ that the people should know ali about it. ! He said the coinmittee of royalists asked an interview whioh he gave them as a courtesy. hut entiruly unofficially. They wantod to know whether thore was any , hope that the president would do 1 thing to restore the queen. The president carefully wrote out a reply intending to I road it personally, and was ill when the coinmittee callcd by appointment and snt it to them. The president read the reply to the Asaooiated Press reporter In '■ brief, it replies in ihe negative to the question asked. The president rominda the coinmittee that the audienee is not oincial and that he meets them merely as Individuáis. Ho relteratei his well-known view that therp was injustiflable interferences, both diplomatic and uave.l, on the part of the United States at the time of tho revolution, and says that his efforts to rectify the wrong havinK fuiled he had turned j the matter over to oongress and had ing further to do with it Congress had refusod to do anytlling, the government established by the annexers had been recognized, but this recognition and the attitude of congress ainoumed to an absoluto denial of present or future aid to ' tho royalists And this ended the in i öident.