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JOURNAL OF. THE HAWAIIAN
GOVERNMENT.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 81, 1874.
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CODE Or ETIQUETTE, JUNE 20, 1874,
Is the title Of a law enacted by the King
and Premier in the recess of the Legislative
Council, pursuant to the constitution, and
heretofore published at length in the Polyne-
sian of the Goth. ult. Such an ordinance
was deemed highly necessary, in order to
prevent collision and conflict among the rep
resentatives of the different nations having
accredited agents at His Majesty's court;
catch of whom would very naturally claim
for himself and his nation, precedence of the
rest, on account Of favors in time past to
His Malesty's government. 1t was equally
necessary on account of conflicting claims
to precedence, on the part of the chiefs and
tunctionaries Of the government itself: and
having most immediate regard to an a%nniver-
sary feast in prospect on the 3lst. July, when,
more than at any other time. offence might
be unwittingly given: His Majesty referred
the subject to his crown adviser. who re-
ported it to be already abundantly provided
for by a general convention of all the prin-
cipal states Of Europe, adopted by all the
minor ones, and acted upon in America.
Thus making the CONVENTION OF VIENNA,
on the general paciication Of Europe, a
general and binding law Of nations. His
Majesty was advised that he could not abro-
gate that law, but pust necessarily adopt it.;
and that it was at once the safest and wisest
rule of procedure that could be devised for
his government. His Majesty, as appears
from the Order in Council, was further adj
vised that the Articles of Vienna might be
legally so construed as to admit Of "distin-
gushing among nations, but not among minis
ters;"-not that it was expedient to do so.
The course adopted by France, and acqui-
esced in by the other powers, is to arrange
the nations represented at her court, by the
alphabetical order Of their Names; as for en-
ample, A, Austria-D, B~elgium-c, Colom-
bia Republic Of ID, Denmark, Sc, which
would bring GREAT BRITAIN, the name ia
ken in the alphabetical order of the French
court, the seventh remove from A; and the
UNITED STATES, at the end Of a royal salute,
or the 2lst. after A. This is evidently what
the Crown adviser meant by its being legal
ly possible to distinguish among nations,
though not among ministers. The RULE should
be of an arbitrary nature, disconnected from
all f%avors; because the sixth article Of Wen
ma expressly enacts that favors shall not
constitute a justification for distinguishing
among nations as to place. Upon the same
arbitrary rule a newly recognized nation
might, instead of the alphabet, take as its
guide the numerical dates Of its recognition,
as numerical dates-not as favors-because,
recognition goes upon the principle of Justice,
and not of favor. Such a nation could saw
it was first known to this powcr; secondly
to that power, &C.; which would be true.
This rule would be especially proper when
it is considered that recognition is simple
acquaintance and correspondence between
nations. 1t is the simple Acknowledgement,
on the part ofthe power making it, that the
nation recognized is politically in esse or ex-
~istence, and entitled to the consideration
and courtesy due to a nation. Going upon
this logical hypothesis, the Attorney Gener-
al advised His Majesty that, at the moment
Of making his report, as well by the literal
wording Of the Articles Of Vienna, as by the
arbitrary rule, the different nations in reci-
procity with him, stood in the following
ordcr:-
LIST. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Cd GRrAr RnIrAyN