Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-11

ate beuoeFs Nno are 20 com pose
Il have not yet been elected
FeIla Is, IN view of the general
environments and prevailing con-
ditions. it would be more accurate
to say selected. Yet we ara told,
in the latest correspondence. that
lever since the retirement Of
President Dole from the Office of
Minister of Foreign Affairs he
has been engaged In drawing up
new constitution. In the
face of this fact it would seem as
though was work Of super
fully for the patriotic five hun
dred foreign adyenturers % 90
through She trouble OF registering
and holding even a sham election
Of delegates.
The Instrument, as drafted, Is
what one of the former Senators
from California would have de-
signated "a burd " 1t provides
that the new government Is to
take her place among the nations
of the earth under one of two
titles-the Commonwealth. Of Ha-
wall or the Hawaiian government.
As there is nothing common
about this remarkable govern
ment organization, the latter
would seem to be The more APP
propriate name The functions of
government are, as provided for
in this constitution" to be per-
formed by and vested in IA Presi-
dent, a Vice-President, an Exc
cutive Council, a Senate and an
Assembly. There is a solemn
silence as to how the President
and Vice-President are to acquire
title to the respective Offices.
Probably it viii be by that di-
vine right which Senator Nor
gan holds in such profound con-
tempt when it is connected with
pagan barbarity." The divine
right of a missionary Tor the son
of missionary who has robbed
the savages he has professedly
been laboring to convert is, how
ever. a superior article of divinity
and Will pass muster in Homo
lulu Just now. The Executive
Council is to be an er-oficio body
and will consist of the all-power
full Ministers of State. 1t is
when we come to the Legislature
the essentially representative
branch of all governments, that
the full beauty of republican in
situations of government, as they
are understood in what Senator
Morgan designated AN American
State" appears. The coming
Hawaiian Senate is to be appoint
ed by the President, Viee-Presi-
dent and Executive Council. 1t
will consist of twenty-four mem
bers. The coming Hawaiian
assembly will consist of forty
membeys, who will be appointed
by the Executive Council and
the Senate Thus we have a
scheme of government which
though it is divided into depart
ments, is so exquisitely amalga-
mated that friction between its
component parts is almost an i'm
possibility, The outward forms
and nomenclature of republican
institutions Of government has
been as carefully preserved as
their spirit-tbe consent of the
governed has been avoided.
Under the old Hawaiian monar-
chy, Parliament, which was
elected by q full and free vote
of the people. ruled. The Queen 5
prerogstives were merely nomi-
nal. But, as Senator Morgan
justly remarked. the monarchy
rested on the divinity of pagan
barbarity, which is not half so
nice as the divinity of a mis-
sionary of the one living and
true God who has. with saeer
dotal uaction. despoiled his con-
yerts of all the property they pos
sessed and finally wrenehed from
them the empty right to voice
in the affairs of their own coun-