The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1898, Page 2

o ‘"THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,” WE OUTLINE OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS RECOMMENDATIONS OF COMMISSION New Offices Created and Others Abolished. CITIZENSHIP IS DEFII}IED QUALIFICATIONS FIXED FOR VOTERS. Precautions Taken to Prevent the Evils of Coolie and Contract Labor in the New Territory. Dec. 6.—The transmitted port of the Hawaiian Commission. con- of Senator ullom and tative Hitt, President Frear of Hawali, to- text of the b drawn n for the government a portion of the United ASHINGTON, dent to-day ngress the sistin Dole and J gether with th by the commiss of th ands & iminary portion of the report descriptive of the Hawaiian the inhabitants, the existing tions, the public domain, produc- , harbors and shipping fa- and various conditions of gen- erest. The remaining portion is y devoted to the discussion of the lation proposed by the commission, in the appendix the various re- titu givin ports of sub-committees and copies of the bills suggested. bills are formulated for the ion of Congress. The first and | 1 one outlines a general plan of nt, and the other two deal ibordinate questions. Of the 1 the commissioners express the that it will prove to be *“such a PRES. <ANFORD B.DOLE SDAY, DECEMBER 7, ‘1 MEMBERS OF THE HAWAIIAN COMMISSION. ure { the government of the Ha- | 1 Isla as will best promote the erests of their people at the same | that it promotes the interests and | maintains the sovereigrty of the peo- ple of the United States.” | It provides for the erection of the isl- | ands into a territory of the United State to be styled the Territory of Hawail. The bill contains provisions for the government of the Territory, | giving it executive, legislative and ju- al officers. A Governor, Secretary | of the Territory, a United States Dis- | trict Judge, a ~ nited States District At- torney and a Uni‘ed States Marshal are | to be appointed by the President, and | an internal revenue district and a cus- toms district are created. The offices of President, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance and Public | Instruction, Auditor General, Deputy Auditor General, Surveyor General and Marshal are abolished. The officers of the Territory under the new regime are an Attorney General, with similar pow- er and duties as now possessed by the Attorney General of thr republic of Ha- with a few exceptions; a Treasur- ilar powers and duties to Minister of Finance, and i ai waii powers and duties regarding »s, corporations and companies | and partnerships and registration of prints, labe and trademarks as are now possessed by the Minister of the Interior. ot as changed; also a Buperintendent of Public Works, a Superintendent of Public Instruction, an Auditor and a Deputy Auditor, a Surveyor with the powers and duties of Surveyor General, .and a Chief Sheriff, to succeed to the duties of Marshal of the republic, all to be ap- pointed by the Governor. Probably the most important portion of the bill is section 4, defining citizen- ship, which provides that *“all white persons, including Portuguese and per- sons of African descent, and all persons descending from the Hawalian race on either the paternal or maternal side, who were .itizens of the republic of Hawall immediately prior to the trans- fer of sovereignty thereof to the United States, are hereby declared to be citi- zens of the United States.” Provision is made for a Legislature to consist of two houses, a Senate to con- sist of fifteen members, as at present, and a House of Representatives, con- sisting of thirty members, double the membership of the House under the Hawailan republic. The members are to be elected at a general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1899, and bien- nially thereafter, The Supreme Court is to be the sole judge of the legality of election to a seat in either house in case of contest. No member of the Legislature is to be eligible for appoint.- ment or election to any office of the ADVERTISEMENTS. ' Handsome Carlsbad China Green, red and blue, gold borders with historical head centers Tea, Cake, Bread and Butter Plates, Tea, Coffee, Choe- olate and Moustache Cups, Sugars, Pudding and Cream Sets, Fruit Saucers, Powder Boxes, Pin and Pen Trays, and everything that’s orna- mental Attractive prices breat American Imparty Tea Co, 661Market, 07, Powsll 708 Larkin St. 419 Pol & 146 N 521 Montgomery Av. 2510 1190 Kentucky_St. 8008 Sixteenth St. 3285 Mission St. 853 liayes St, 52 Market St. OAKLAND STURES: % 0, tondt. 131 San Pablo Ave. ‘I;Bm d’"‘vflg .D‘ 618 E Twelfth St. 1810 Seventh St. Territory, and no officer or employe, no- tary public or agent of the Territory is to be eligible to election as a legislator. There is also a provision that no per- n who, having been entitled to qual- ify and vote prior to October, 1897, and nce July, 1894, failed to register as such voter, shall have a vote, unless he shall take an oath to support the con- stitution of the United States. The ses- sions of the Legislature are limited to sixty days in duration, and each mem- ber is allowed $400 as a salary and 10 cents a mile for traveling expenses. A Senator is required to be a male citizen of the ""nited States, 30 years of age, to have resided in the territory three years, to be the owner in his own right of $2000 worth of property, vr w0 have during the preceding y-ar re- ceived $1000 income. Representatives must be 25 years old, male citizens, must have lived three years in Hawaii and must own property or have an in- come of §250 a year. Voters for Representatives are ré- quired to be male citizens, 21 years old and of one year's residence in the ter- ritory, to have registered, to have pald all taxes due the Government and to be able “understandingly to speak, read and write the English or Hawailan language.” To be qualified to vote for Senators a | person must possess all these qualifica- tions and be subject to all the condi- tions required of voters for Represen- tatives, and, in addition, must own in his own right real property worth $1000 upon which valuation legal taxes shall have been paid for the year preceding that in which he ouffers to register. or he must have actually received a money income of not less than $600 during the previous year, Five registration districts are pro- vided and the Governor of the Terri- tory is authorized to appoint registra- tion boards with the advice of the Sen- ate. The bill also provides for the election of a delegate to the House of Represen- tatives in Congress by the voters quali- fled to vote for representatives in the Legislature, this delegate to possess the same powers and privileges now accorded to other delegates in Congress. The Governor is to appoint a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, the Judges of the Circuit Court, the members of the Board of Health, Commissioners of Publie Instruction, Prison Inspectors, Boards of Registration, Inspectors of Election and other public boards that may be created by law and all officers whose salaries exceed $2000 per annum. Other provisions of the bill are as fol- lows: The Governor is to possess the veto power, but his veto may be overridden by a two-thirds vote of both houses of the Legislature. The Legislature is authorized to f[re“e town, city or county municipali- es, Foreign zoods and articles imported into the islands after July 7, 1898, are, if afterward brought into the United States, to pay the same duties charged upon like articles when imported from any foreign country. - The existing laws of Hawail, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or this act, continue in force, subject to repeal or .amendment by the Legislature of Hawali or by Con- gress. The laws of Hawall relating to pub- lic or private lands continue in force until changed by Congress, but no leases of agricultural lands are to be granted, sold or renewed for a longer term than five years, unless Congress shall direct, This is the usual provision found in the acts of Congress providing for the establishment of Territorial govern- ments in the United States, but the Commissioners regard the provision as exceptionally important in this bill for many reasons, among which they men- tion the continued importation of Chin- ese labor into Jlawail. Remarking on this point they say: “It has been the policy of the government of Hawalil, before and since the establishment of the republie, to import men under labor contracts for a term of vears at the ex- piration of which they are to return to the countries from which they came, Those brought in are mainly from Chi- na and Japan. Since the act of Con- gress annexing Hawaii was passed pro- hibiting Chinese immigration, Ha- wallan sugar planters have seemed to be making an unusual effort in securing the importation of Japanese laborers, fearing trouble and embarrassment on account of Iinsu ~ient labor for the care and carrying on of thelr sugar plantations. Of course, it becomes necessary to extend our labor laws over the islands, s0 : to prohibit all kinds of foreign contract labor from ALAMEDA~1835 Park St. BAN RAFAEIL—B St., near Fonrth, Write for Catalogues coming to the territory, first, because it is the policy of this country to keep out all kinds of cheap foreign labor, includ- ing coolie labor, and thereby prevent- ing such labor from interfering with the wages of American labor, and sec- ondly, to protect our manufactured products from competition with manu- factured goods produced by cheap alien labor. The general laws of the United States will place the people of the Ter- ritory on the same footing as the people of the States and other Territories of the United States in regard to forelgn labor. ¥ “The question whether white labor can profitably be used in the sugar plantations is yet a problem, but the planters are preparing to give such 'a- bor a trial and some of them believe it will prove superior to the labor of either Chinese or Japanese.” The Commissioners take pains to ex= press their united opinion that ihe plan outlined for the government of Illa- waill cannot be regarded as a prece- dent for Porto Rico and the Pnilip- pines, saying on this point: “Much has been said to the effect that the policy of the scheme of government for the Hawaiian Islands will be taken an1l ac- cepted as an index or precedent {v be followed in the plan of governmant for Porto Rico and the Philippines. TIn view of this apparent expectation or belief on the part of many good people in the United States, the commission deems it proper to say that thepeoplect Hawaii are capable of self-government and have proven this by the establish- ment of the republic of Hawail and the adoption of a constitution and a code of laws which would compare favorably with those of any other government, and under such constitution and laws have maintained a stable government for several years worthy of a free peo- ple. The people of these islands are more or less familiar with the institu- tions and laws of the United States, while the laws of the little republic are largely taken .from the laws of this country. It cannot be said that either the Porto Ricans or the Fili- pinos are at all familiar with our sys- tem of government or with any other based on the principles of liberty. The underlying theory of our government is the right of self-government and a people must be fitted for self-govern- ment before they can be trusted with responsibilites and duties attaching to free government.,” These remarks are made to negative the idea that because the people of the Hawailan Islands cdn, in the judgment of the commis- sion, be consistently given self-govern- ment to an extent almost equal to that given the people in the Sta’cs, it can be safely inferred that other insular pos- sessions which the United States has acquired or may acquire by treaty with Spain can be granted equal free- dom in government. The report is unanimous except on one point, on which President Dole makes a minority recommendation. This recommendatio is for a board of advisers to the Governor of the Ter- ritory, and he recommends that the Treasurer, Attorney General, Superin- tendent of Public Works, and Commis- sioner of Public Lunds shall be con- stituted special counselors of the Gov- ernor, to be consulted by him concern- ing all matters of public policy. Mr. Dole gives as his reason for this recommendation the fear that without some such provision the Governor may arrogate to himself greater power than is contemplated. The weight of the objection will be better understood in view of the recom- mendation of the Commissioners that the Legislature shall hold regular ses- slons but once in two years as hereto- fore, which circumstance would furnish the Governor with the onnortunity, if he should choose to selze it, of remov- ing any or all the heads of departments immediately after the termination of the regular session o? the Legislature and filling their places with persons whose positions would be wvalid until the next session of the Senate, which might not occur for nearly two years. The majority in their report express the opinion that the precaution is not necessary, saying that “the history of Territories of the United States, cov- ering many years of experience, Hhas not, in the opinion of the commission, shown a necessity for the creation of any number of advisers.” Of the other two bills, one relates to Hawailan silver and the treasury notes and the other to postal savings banks in Hawail. The first provides that un- mutilated Hawailian silver coins shall be received at par value in payment of all dues to the Government of Hawali and the United States, and shall not again be issued, but shall, on presenta- tion in sums of $500 to either Govern- ment, be purchased and recoined as bullion at the United States Mint at San Francisco. All Hawallan silver certificates are to be redeemed by Ha- wail on or before January 1, 1802, The other is a bill which repeals the Hawallan laws establishing postal savings banks, and directs the Secre- tary of the Treasury to pay the amounts on deposit In the postal sav- ings banks in Hawail to the persons entitled thereto, terminating the in- terest on all deposits on the 1st of July, 1899, and forbidding further deposits after that date. The report contains an inventory of the public property of the republic, which now inures to the United States, which is of an estimated value of $10,418,740, distributed as fol- lows: Government public lands, $4,- 147,700; Government lots, sites, etc., $1,- 481,800; department property, $4,789,240. The report gives considerable data in regard to duties collected, showing that under the Dingley bill the amount would have been much greater than it was. This comparison shows that the collection for 1897, which was $548,483, would have been under the American law $902,706. The report recommends the construction of a cable to the isl- ands, to be under the control of the United States, which, it says, is de- manded by the military condition ex- isting or liable to exist at any time. INDEPENDENCE DAY TAMELY CELEBRATED Hawaiians No Longer Interested. BY HORACE WRIGHT, Bpecial Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, Nov. 29.—Yesterday was Hawalian Independence day, the anniversary of the signing of the joint declaration of Great Britain and France on November 28, 1843, recogniz. ing the independence of Hawali as a sovereign state and agreeing never to take possession, either directly or under the title of a protectorate or under any other form of any part of the territory of which it was composed. It was the final act by which the Hawaiian king- dom was admitted within the pale of civilized nations. Hitherto it has been a great day of rejoicing with the Ha- wailans, but this year it was only the formal fact of a national holiday by an act of the Legislature of 1896, and while all Government offices were closed and the Government band played there was no observance on the part of the peo- ple except by a few moonlight sere- naders in search of reward. The Amer- ican Thanksgiving day has replaced the day and the absurdity of an an- ADVERTISEMENTS. Dyspepsia Good News for Those Who Have This Disease. It Comes From All Over the Land— “Dyspepsia Is Cured.” It is a well known fact that Hood's Sarsaparilla cures dyspepsia, It has been curing it for years, it is curing it to-day and it will continue to cure it whenever it is given a fair and faithful trial by those who s:ffer from this dis- ease. Some of the cures indeed seem wonderful, but when it is considered that Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a medicine scientifically prepared by educated and experienced pharmacists for the pur- pose of curing dyspepsia and all stom- ach troubles; when it is remembered that it has power to give strength to the stomach and tone up the whole di- gestive apparatus, its cures seem only natural and logical. If you have dys- pepsia and want to be cured take Hood’s ®%saia America’s Greatest Mecicine. Sold by all dealers in medicine. Price $1. ¥ are the only pills to tak Hood’s Pills 575,555 rsapariils. nexed country being jubilant over a past independence is universally recog- nized in the desire to accept changed conditions. Since my last report the following soldlers have died: CHARLES B. KENT, aged 25, Second Oregon recruits; November 18. J. SULLIVAN, aged 24, Alger Wyom- ing Light Artillery; November 21. RAYMOND B. DAWES, aged 18, Company C, Twentieth Kansas; No- vember 21 ALBERT GALLASBY, aged 24, Com- pany H, First New York; November 2L CHARLES GRAVES, aged 21, Com- pany C, Twentieth Kansas; Novem- ber 25. B. M. BEARDSLEE, aged 21, Com- pany F, First New York; November 26. ALFRED WELLER, aged 19, Com- pany I, First New York; :ovember 26. E. A. BAILEY, aged 23, Company B, First New York; November 26. The transport Pennsylvania sailed for Manila on the 16th, the City of Puebla on the 17th and the Newport on the | 19th. The city of St. Paul arrived on | the 26th, all well on board and will probably sail this evening or to-mor- row. The United States laws in regard to | Chinese immigration have been put into | practical effect by Commissioner Joshua K. Brown and came into opera- tion for the first time on the arrival of the Belgic. Hitherto, under the Ha- walian law, return permits to return af- ter one year’s absence have been grant- ed to Chinese laborers who have re- sided in the country » certain number of years (it now is seven years), and no further qualification was required. Mr. Brown notified the Chinese Consul and the Chinese bureau of the Foreign Of- fice that return permits could only be granted under United States laws, which require the laborer to be the possessor of $1000 worth of property and a family. ihis disarranged all previous arrangements, the notice being given | the very day the steamer was in port, but matters have been satisfactorily ar- ranged by the return of the permit | money by the Government to those who | could not comply with the law. This | ruling will naturally have an effect on the Chinese labor market for no laborer | can make $1000 out of his three years’ | contract at $15 a month, with more than half that amount expended for his rice alone, and $36 is deducted for return passage. The result will be either that the men will remain in the country and rehire, as they are doing, at higher wages, from $18 to $20 a month, or else they will leave the country for good and all, If the restriction laws are as faithfully administered in the future as they have been in the past then Chinese immigration to Hawaii has | practically ceased, for by the terms of | their contracts and the law nearly all | of which will expire within eighteen | months, the laborers must either work | Q:t agricultural labor or leave the coun- | ry. As regards Galliclan laborers on strike, it was ascertained that twenty- one of those who signed their contracts in Austria were minors. Judge Wilcox accordingly released them from their contracts and they returned to the| plantation to work as day laborers. They now want eight hours a day labor | instead of the usual ten hours. The | other striking twenty-two were again | taken before the Police Judge for again declining to work. They were sent to jail at hard labor until they were will- ing to complete the terms of their con- tract and they are now working on the roads and they claim that they prefer this labor, with three good meals a day and kind treatment under the jailer, to plantation labor, and can afford to wait for three or four months in the hope | that the United States will abolish con- | tract labor entirely. | The engagement has been formally | announced of Major Davis, chief sur- geon of the United States Military Hos- pital here, to Mrs. Charles L. Carter, | the widow of the Mr. Carter who was shot at Diamond Head at the opening| of the emeute of 1895, and who was one | | of the most promising of our young |lawyers and local statesmen. The an- | nouncement was made at a dinner at which President Dole, Colonel (Barber | and other prominent people were pres~‘ ent. One of the principal figures in the ow here engaged in the commission {fn:lness, and the recent publication of Dr. McDonald's letters to his son “Dick” in The Call was particularly interesting to Dr. William Jenningson. At the time of the failure of the bank Dr. Jenningson was its European agent and was eneaged in floating a loan on the Los Angeles Tramway Company, one of the ventures of the McDonalds. The episties of Dr. McDonald were specially vindictive against Jenning- son, who in speaking of them to-day remarked that the whole issue was a dead one to him and he did not under- stand the motive of reviving the fam- ous scandal. The only cause he could divine was that it was in the interest of the depositors, whom he was ready to aid if they or The Call would de- finitely show him how his knowledge could be applied in any effective man- ner. He knew The Call had always done its best for the depositors. } “MYSTERIOUS” SMITH OUTPOINTS WALCOTT Given the Decision at the End of Twenty Hard-Fought Rounds. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—*“Mysterious Bn- ly” Smith met Joe Walcott, the colored fighter, at the Lenox Athletic Club_ to- night, and after twenty hard rounds Ref- eree Charley White decided on him as the winner. The men weighed 14 pounds. Smith outfought Walcott, and in the elev- enth round be knocked Walcott off his feet with a right swing on tne jaw. A few moments later both men went to the floor from a clinch and Walcott stayed down on one knee eight seconds. It looked then as though Walcott would go out with anoth- er good blow, but by repeated clinching he lasted the round out, as Smith was un- able to get to the mark. Walcott was rather siow in_his move- ments and got in so close to Smith that the latter was unable to do much damage at close quarters. Walcott was favorite in the betting. His friends bet 100 to 80 on the colored man, on the ground that Smith’s recent fight with Tommy West at Bridgeport, Conn., was not up to winning form, and they argued that the last time Smith and Walcott met, also in Bridge- port, the negro had the upper hand. Smith won cleverly to-night, and when the referee’s decision was announced theres was very little adverse criticism. Before the big fight Kid Broad of Cleve- land knocked out Mike Kearnes of Phila- delphia in the seventh round. MASKED MEN LOOT A POSTOFFICE FRESNO, Dec. 6.—At about 6 o’clock this evening two masked men entered the postoffice at Clifton, twenty miles south of Fresno, on the Valley Road, and held up A. T. Wilkinson, the post- master. After searching him for weapons and money one of the robbers watched over " the postmaster, pistol in hand, while the other looted the mail and the till of the store. The robbers then took their departure, commanding Wilkinson not to budge from the store for ten minutes, threatening to do him up if he disobeyed. Deputy United States Marshal Boust of this city was notified of the robbery and has organized a posse to pursue the miscreants. No additional information concerning the hold-up at Clifton postoffice is ob- tainable here at a Igte hour to-night. The amount the robbers got away with is not known, but it must have been small. No description of the men was given by Wilkinson. Deputy Marshal Boust leaves for the sensational failure of the Pacific Bank scene of the hold-up in the morning. 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