The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-03-04
NOTHING BUT REFUSALS
What the Hawaiian Commits
miSiOners Got from SeCre-
tary Foster.

Perpetual Union, Territorial Govern
ment, Residential Qualifications
for Office, Payment of Debt, Ha-
waiian Ownership of Lands, Tele-
graph Gable, Opening of Pearl
Harbor, Free Trade, Admission of
Agricultural Laborers, All Re-
fused.
WASHINGTON, February lit may
be Paul Neumann will be able to
find consolation in the fact that the
Commissioners may expect rather a
hard time of it when they get back
to Hawaii. The Senate correspond
ence shows they were instructed to
ask for great many things Foster
ruthlessly denied them, and many of
them were matters of paramount
Importance to the people of the ISL
ands.
Among tho demands which Foster
refused we're:
"First-That such treaty may
secure full, complete and perpetual
political union between the United
States of America and the Hawaiian
islands.
"Second-That the form of local
government to be established in the
Hawaiian islands shall be substan-
TALLY the form now existing in the
Territories of the United States,
with such notifications, restrictions
and changes therein as the exigen-
cies of the existing circumstances
may require and as may be hereafter
agreed upon.
"Third-That all appointments to
Office in the Hawaiian Islands shall
be made from among persons who
have lived in said islands for torn
Of not less than five years.
"Fourth-That the payment OF
the Hawaiian national debt, inclu-
ding the amounts due by the Gov
ernment to depositors in the Hawaii
an Postal Savings Bank, shall be as
sumed by the Government of the
United States of America.
"Fifth-That the lands located at
the said Hawaiian Islands, hereto
fore known as Government lands
and crown lands, and all other Gov
ernment property and all the pro,
ceeds thereof and receipts there,
from, shall continue to be the prop
erty of the local government of the
said islands under whatever form il
may be established, and all the pro
ceeds thereof devoted to the pur
poses and uses of such local govern
ment.
"Sixth-That within a given pc
Rod, say one year, or such other pc
Rod as may be mutually agreed
upon, the Government of the Unit
ed States of America shall la,
and thereafter maintain a tele
graphic cable between the Pacifi,
Coast of the said United States 0
America and the Hawaiian Islands.
"Seventh-That the United State
Government shall, so soon as is rea
sonably practicable, open an en-
trance to Pearl harbor, and estab
} fish coaling and naval station adj
jacent thereto.
"Eighth-That articles, the pro
duce or manufacture of the Hawai-
ian Islands, shall in all respects hi
treated and considered as product:
of the United States.
"Ninth-That the United State
laws now or hereafter to be enforced
in the United States of America sh al
not be taken to prohibit at any tim
the introduction into the Hawaiian
islands of laborers who may be in
troduced exclusively for the purpos
of agricultural labor and domesti
; service, and who by appropriate
, legislation shall be confined to sue
employment and to the Hawaiia
islands.
. 'Tenth-That contracts for labo
under the Hawaiian labor contrac
laws now existing, or which shall b
4 entered into prior to the promulgi
= ton of the notice of the final ratif
l cation of such treaty, shall not b
: abrogated, but shall continue i
: force to the end of the several term
: thereof. That with the exception {
= such labor contracts no labor COZ
3 tracts shall hereafter be penalty Ell
forceable."