The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-15


mert could not he permitted.
Nlr McCandlpss uff red these words
To be- added 10 the end Of his amend.
mrnt: This to take effect at the end of
the present biennial period" This
would give the schools time TO prepare
FOR The disaster referred to 10y MIR. Bald.
win.
Mr.. loscpa objected to the amend
mcnt offered by Mr.. McCandless. The
Government has no schools OF this kind.
The people pay Il school tax and have to
send their children to these boarding
schools because the Government has no
such institutions. Therefore, to cut off
this support would be great injustice
to the taxpayers and the country at
large. He opposed the resolution and
amendment.
Delegate Robertson was heartily in
favor OF McCandlcss' resolution. Many
OF these schools were veritable hotbeds
Tor royalism. He passed some OF them
daily and heard their songs, Good save
Liliuokalani, etc., and he wanted to
give them something else to think
about.
The section was referred to the Judici.
AIRY Committee.
Section 70, lorbidding the establish.
ment OF lotteries, was read.
Mr.. Nivas moved to strike out, as the
people ten or twenty years from now
might want lottery and we should not
forbid it now.
d. b. Smith did not agree with Dele
gate Vivas. He did not believe in any
thing to please the people. Naughter).
The article passed.
Article SO, forbiddirg officers of the
Republic from holding office under any
other Government, passed.
Delegate Carter moved the following
be incorporated as Article 81: "No
commission for services under the Gov
ernment unless otherwise provided
for, shall be valid after six years of
service, except that of Justice of the
Supreme Court. Justices of that court
shall retire at 20 years OF age.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 81, giving the President and
Cabinet power to make rules for adj
ministering oaths and holding elections
not otherwise provided for. Passed.
Article 6S, providing for the first
session of the Legislature to be held
within three months after the promul-
CATION of this constitution, was read.
! Minister Smith moved to make it
four months. Three would not give
Registration Boards sufficient time to
complete their work,
Mr.. McCandless thought three months
| long enough. The Boards could COM
pete their work in twenty-one days.
The territories assigned to each were
not large. He did not wish to ap-
proach Il danger line on the other side by
putting of the first Legislature too
long. Everything demanded that the
machinery of State be put in motion at
once: besides, politicians were loaded
and wanted to divulge some of their
pent up wisdom.
Minister Smiths motion for four
months was adopted and the amended
article passed.
Article 80, providing that the Adj
visory Counsel shall continue to possess
full legislative powers until the conven'
ing OF the first Legislature, passed as in
| the draft.
Article 100, providing for the oath tc
support the Government and requiring
that all officers OF the Republic take
the same, was read.
The last clause of this oath binds the
person taking it to refuse to assist il
any way the restoration OF any mon
archical form OF Government in the Ha
waiian Islands.
Minister Damon moved to strike on
the clause referred to above. The oatl
to support the present Government
was sufficient, and it was not essentia
to bring up the dead past Carried
On motion OF the Minister tn,
. article was referred to the Legislativ,
Committee.
The committee then reported progress
and the convention adjourned to NEE
at 10 O'Clock Friday.