The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-13

receiving the highest number of votes
in the respective Senatorial districts
shall be the Senators for such dis
trict.
Passed.
.pr,c1E 76-oUALIFICATIoNs OF VOTERS
FOX SENATORS.
Tn order to be eligible to vote for
Senators, a person must possess all the
qualifications and be subject to- all the
conditions required by this COnstitu-
ton of voters for Representatives,
and, in addition thereto, he shall own
aud be possessed in his own right, OF
property in the Republic of the value
of not less than three thousand dollars
over and above all encumbrances; or
shall have actually received a money
income of not Il So than nine hundred
dollars during the year next preced-
ing the ii st day of April next preced-
ing the date of each registration; Ior
the proof of which he may be req
to produce original accounts OF the
receipt of such income.
Delegate Vivas moved to change
$1,000 10 $1,000, and $500 income TO
Delegate Kahaulelio moved it be an
income of $500 or $1,000 property.
MANY educated Hawaiians would
have the property required III this Sec
ton.
Delegate Kalua favored reduction of
the property qualification to $1,000 and
income to $500. It would be an in
ducement to a great many persons TO
earn $500 year, instead of standing
around the street corners talking
about it.
Delegate Baldwin moved reference
to the Committee on Legislature. He
did not wish to see it placed so high
as to shut out valuable and Intelligent
voters. The question was of great inn
portance, and should be considered
carefully.
Councillor Brown did not see any
necessity for reference to committee.
He favored passage exactly as it was.
It should not be forgotten that before
1887 no one had any vote for Mob es at
all. There was no ground for com:
plant, as long as the ballot for the
lower House was almost unr. sLricted.
This article was an incentive to every
citizen to make himself of his own ex-
erti0ns, competent to vote for Sena-
tors. If it was too high, let it come
up in regular course by amendment to
the Constitution, and be reduced in
that manner.
Councillor Ena agreed with the last
speaker, except that he did not favor
any change from the Constitution of
1887. Let the income be 1900, as there.
Minister Damon favored the motion
of Delegate Kalua TO fix the property
qualification at $1,000, and income at
$500. Whens man earned $50
month, and could earn it consecutive
ly, that man had intelligence enough
to vote for Senator. Such men are
thinking and reading men. To place
it above $500 was to discourage effort.
He was opposed to several features of
this Constitution, and this was one
OF them. Five hundred dollars would
be better than $500. To place it above
the latter amount was ruling out the
middle class-the small owners and
the intelligent mechanics. This class
was the bone and sinew OF this Re-
public, and should not be ruled out.
Councillor Emmeluth favored MAX
ing q wide distinction between real
and personal property. He favored
giving the builder of homes every OPP
portunity. $500 real property quail
fication and $4,000 personal was what
he favored, and $500 year income.
Delegate Ables read the second sec
tiOn of the Constitution, which states
that the Government was for the
OSilcut Vi hi. he IaVOTou ulahluS tu0
rest of the Constitution in accordance
with that. He believed in placing the
at 5000 That would
be safe. The burden of proof would be
on the voter to show that he earned
$500 q year. The property Qualifica--
ton might be fixed at $1,000.
Delegate Robertson favored placing
the qualifications at such a figure s.s
to insure to the dominant party the
control of the Senate. In the Consti-
tuition of 1887, however, the property
qualification was too high. He fla
vOred Kalua's motion to fix it at
$4,000. They did not believe in placing
either Limitation a bit higher than
necessary. lie did not think it wise
to cut down the electorate for Senators
too low. If 5000 income were required
it would probably cut that electorate
down to about 1000 persons. or only
about one fourteenth of the total cleo
torate. He therefore favored $500 in
come.
Councillor Emmeluth moved to
make the property qualification $1,000
for real property above all incum-
brances, and $4,000 personality.
Delegate IOsepa favored passing the
article as il stood. He did not want
to run any risk of the royalists getting
possession. He should not jeOpardize
what they had gained by relaxing too
much. The paramount influence of
the ignorant was what had made the
revolution of 1857 necessary. That
danger should not be incurred again.
Minister Smith said there was no
one matter in the entire Constitution
of more importance than that now
under discussion. What all wanted
was stable government-One more
stable than there had been in the past,
and Que better suited to the needs of
the country. The Constitution of 1887
had failed to secure such government.
No right-thinking person desired to
deprive any Intelligent man OF his
vote but an ideal Republic could not
be established here. In Victoria
voters of the upper House had to be
owners of a freehold worth $50 a year.
That excluded q large number of Brit