Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-22
REPUBLIC OF HAW All
An Outline Of the Proposed Consti-
tuition
Evidently Modelled on That of the
United States-COnvention ON May
30 ROya1ists' Hopes.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press).
HONOLULU, May 15 via San Francisco.
May p, per steamer Gaelic.
The constitutional convention, the men,
bers Of which were elected on May 3, will
meet on May 80. The new constitution will
be presented to the convention for its ap-
prevail. The Associated Press has been able
to obtain a copy of portions of it.
The new government is to be called the
Republic of Hawaii. The executive power
will be vested in the president. The execu-
tive council will consist of five members
instead of four. as at present, a minister
of health and education being added. The
upper house will consist of fifteen senators.
Senators must be thirty years old. able to
read and write English, shall have resi-
derce in the island three years, own prop
erty not less than 5000 in value, and have
an income of 100 year.
The assembly or lower house is to consist
of fifteen members, six from Oahu and
three each from the other islands. They
Will serve two years only. A member Of
or Of any country which has treaty rela-
tons with Hawaii and have resided in the
Islands for at least a year, able to read
and write the English or Hawaiian Ian
guage, except In case of those who voted in
the recent elections. Meetings of the legis-
lature are to be held every two years.
Each session is limited to ninety days.
and neither house can adjourn more than
two days without the consent of the other.
The president will have the power of veto,
which can be overruled by a two-thirds
vote of both houses.
1t IS the present intention to have Presi-
dent Dole reappointed for term of two
years, possibly six, after which the offices
will be filled by regular elections. 1t is
more than likely that the present ministers
viii be retained for a year, as their APP
pointment rests with the president.
The new constitution can be amended or
revised in the ordinary way, but 1t is ex-
pressly stipulated that amendments con-
tanning a proposition for the establishment
of a monarchial form of government shall
Members of both houses are to receive
$500 for each session.
About $3.50 votes We're cast at the recent
elections. There was very little opposition
on any of the islands.
The claim is now made that when the
republic is declared the natives will make
the looked-for uprising. Royalist leaders
say they are restrained only by the ex-
pressed wish of the ex-queen, who still has
great faith in the United States.
The report that the Ranger was coming
here has again put hopes of speedy restorc-
ton in the royalists' hearts There has
been considerable talk recently of a num-
Der of ardent royalists, who are said to
have enlisted in the army, ready to help
the ex-queens cause in case of revolu-
llOn. Ihat there are very Few, II any, such
cases Is fully believed by the government.
as troops have been considerably reduced.
and only the best-known and trusted men
kept in the service.
The steamer Gaelic arrived here from
Japan, with r. w. Irwin, the Hawaiian
minister resident at Toxic, on board. 1t is
supposed he has brought certain messages
from the japanese government in regard to
the matter of granting the franchise to
subjects of the mikado in Hawaii. 1t is
expected that in the event of franchise
refused to the japanese their government
intends to cut off treaty relations with
Hawaii. and to recall all Japanese in the
islands If this is 50, 1t will be a serious
thing for the planters. as the present num-
be- of contract laborers is largely made up
Of japanese, and it would be next to i'm
possible to replace them in less than a
year. Mr.. Irwin is reticent on the subject,
but 1t is known that he was the bearer of
some dispatches to the government, and a
special session of the council was held yes
terday to discuss the matter