The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-16

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taken up again at any time.
Second reading Of the Dangerous
Persons Act
referred to the judiciary Commit
tee.
second reading Of the Constitu-
tiOnai Convention Bill
The bill was read section by see
ton.
Section ].
Section I.-There shall convene ~
the call 81 the President convention
To frame a constitution. Said conyen-
ton shall consist Of the President, the
Executive and Advisory Councils and
eighteen delegates, To be elected az
herein provided
Mr.. Emmeluth moved the number
81 delegates be increased 70 twenty
four.
Mr.. Alien seconded the motion.
Mr.. Emmeluth said they were en-
deavOring 10 create a. representative
government as possible. He be
lieVed the interests for which the last
thirteen months had been spent
would be best subserved by such an
increase.
Mr.. Morgan moved and d. p.
Smith seconded that consideration be
deferred until next week. Lost.
Mr.. Wilder said If Mr.. Emmeluth's
motion should carry the whole bill
would have To be revised. He thought
the bill very liberal az il was
Mr.. Emmeluth saw no objection to
making any amendments necessary.
The motion was lost.
Sections and passed.
Sec. 2. The election shall take
place on such day as shall be pro-
claimed by the Minister Of the Inter-
ior.
Section 3.
Sec. 3. For the purposes of this
election there shall be four electoral
divisions, viz: a. The island Of
Oahu, from which shall be elected six
delegates; ~ the island of Hawaii,
from which shall be elected five dele
gates; ~ the islands of Maui, MolO-
kai and Lanai, from which will be
elected four delegates; a. the islands
of Kauai and Niihau, from which
shall be elected three delegates.
Dir. EmmeIuth asked how the APP
portionment hsd been made.
Minister Hatch stated it was APP
proximately according to population.
Oahu getting a little less than its
share owing to the fact that the
members of the Councils were from
this island.
Section 8 passed.
section 4.
QUALIFICATIONS Or ELECTORS.
Hawaiian Islands, of Hawaiian, Amer
lean or European birth or descent,
who shall have taken the oath by this
Act provided; who shall have paid his
taxes for the year 1893, unless exempt
ed by law from paying taxes; who
shall have attained the age OF twenty
years; who shall have been domiciled
in the Hawaiian Islands for one year,
and shall have caused his name to be
entered on the list of voters of the pre-
cinct in which he resides, and who is
not insane or an idiot, or who shall
not have been convicted OF a felony,
unless pardoned, shall be entitled to a
vote for the delegates to be elected
from the island on which such voter
resides.
Minister Hatch offered an amend
ment as follows:
Provided that thu payment of taxes
for the year 1898 and residence for one
year shall not apply to any person
otherwise qualified, who on offering
from the Colonel of the National
Guard of Hawaii or the Marshal of |
the Hawaiian Islands, setting forth |
that the person was duly enrolled as a |
of one of the lawfully organ |
lied bodies of the military or police |
force prior to January j. 1894.
Mr.. Emmeluth said he would favor |
the amendment il a time were fixed, |
say prior to January 1, 1894.
ID Il Smith thought the police and |
soldiers should vote.
Mr.. Young favored Mr.. Emme-
luth's views
Minister Hatch moved that March |
1st be fixed as the date, as in the me-
mortal.
The amendment, with the date of |
March LIST, was voted on, the result |
being a tie.
The Attorney-Genera said he OPP |
posed the amendment. Persons who |
had not resided here n year were not |
identified with the coun- |
try to vote.
Mr.. Emmeluth said men who had !
legally Iisked their lives for the Gov |
should vote.
The date, March 1st, was lost.
The amendment was adopted, fix !
ing the date ut January 1st.
Mr.. Emmeluth moved the proviso |
exempting from the payment of
taxes be stricken out.
Minister Hatch said the motion
was out of order, as the amendment
had been adopted.
The section as amended was
adopted.
Sections aud passed.
Sec. ). Each voter for delegates
may cast as many votes as there are
delegates to be elected from the divis-
ion in which he resides, and may cast
nanh 1nlonatn
them all for one delegate, or may
otherwise divide his votes among the
several delegates.
The required number of candidates
receiving the highest number of votes
in the respective divisions shall be the
delegates for such divisions.
Sec. 6. The election shall be by
ballot The ballot shall be printed by
the Minister OF the Interior at Gov