The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-22
THURSDAY. June q, 1894.

ar 10 q. N. PfeSlQenE OOlo III the
.hair. Prayer and roll call. Minutes
a the preceding day read and ap-
proved.
A letter was presented from d. II.
HITCHCOCK, asking to be excused from
further attendance in the Convention
on ACCOUNT of illness.
The request was granted.
Vice President Wilder presented
.ha majority report of the Woman
suffrage Committee as follows:
Hon. S B. Dole, President OF the Con-
Z stitutional Convention:
u Sir. Your special committee, TO
xrf,on WAS referred the petition on
uoruen suffrage, beg leave to report thar
thew have had the same under consider
alton that at q meeting OF your conn IT
tee sixteen ladies were present, and sew
araI Of them made very aole arguments
in favor OF granting the requests asked
for in the petition.
Yoar petitioners ask first that. BY
urovision of the Constitution, women
snail be entitled to the right OF suffrage,
with an rdGcatioral and property quaLh-
cation Or,
That the Legislature shall be author
;zsd To grant such right hereafter.
While the agItaf ion OF women suffrage
ia new departure here, 1t IS not SO in
MANY other places. In several States of
the United States. women have full suit
Sruye in several others they vote on mu-
uieipaI questions, and IN many Others
they vote only on matters relating TO
schools.
In the State of Wyoming women have
had full suffrage for the last twenty-five
gears. and its workings there cannot be
better stated than by quoting what its
Governor and Legislature hav- said:
governor Osborn OF that State, IN re-
ply to q question concerning women suf
fragp, said: 'fFor twenty-five years We
have had W men suffrage, and it Is hig6-
Iy satisfactory in every way"
The LEGISLATURE passed a resolution
there lately which states: THAT it has
! largely aaded in banishing crime, vice
and pau perism from the state; and that
sshas secured peaceful, orderly and in
selligeat citizens; that the crimes are
fsw: that they have no poorhouses, and
iaie. are almost empty; and it advises
EseEy civilized community In the world
aseniranchise women without DELAY"
nS4s DO has also granted full sudrsg e
tSM9n1en In the great state OF New
YUfE. where Constitutional Convention
II roy In session. one of the most i'm
poffant questions before iE is women SUI
rage.
New Zealand has lately granted full
suffrage 10 women, and the reports from
tnere latel received OF the first e,ec ion
held under the new law speak of its
workings in the mos hattering terms.
Bnt. with all these favorable facts be-
: FIRE Es and the many other things that
have been and can be- said In its favor,
vonld It be wise at this time ami In tie
unsettled condition OF this country and
the many complications of the suff. age
question already existing, TO add the ex
pertinent of woman suffrage? Your
committee are of the opInis n that II
would not be wise to do 80, and therefore
recommend that the first request of the
petitioners be indefinitely postponed.
AS 70 the second request in tie pe'i-
ton, shat the Legislature may be author
lied TO grant such right hereafter, a
large majority of your committee can
see noreason why this Convention should
say that no future Legislature can grant
women suffrage without first passing an
amendment 70 the Constitution.
Therefore your committee recommend
that new section be added To Article
Z II, as follows: amendment OF President
Dolel
Section g. The Legislature may en- act
laws extending the franchise To women
Signed: w c. WILDER.
WILLIAM HORNET
:. NJ DAMON.
d b SMITH.
J KAUHANE.
Councillor Brown presented the
minority report as follows:
To THE Hon s. B DOLE, President Com
st.tulional CONVENTION.
SR-We minority of the Commi tee
to whom was referred the petition regard
ing women's right to vote, DC beg leave
70 report that We cannot asree with the
maj 1rity report, believing that woman :
place is at home, and that the less she
has TO do with politics Or any OF the cali
Ings or duties that have heretofore beer
re sarded as those peculiar TO the male
sex, the better eff she will De, and more
ntted for the duties and engagement
thai have been heretofore allotted to anC
Known as her particular sphere IN life.
We therefore recommend that the pc
ut;on be laid on the table.
CECIL BgowS,
A. y WICK.
Honolulu, June 81, 1894.
Delegate KaIua moved adoption o
sne minority report. There was NJ
demand for woman suffrage out-Id'
VI Honolulu. He had never heard o
&c elsewhere. 1t was simply asked TO
by few ladies in Honolulu, siste'
Dy more gentlemen. The great dim
cuity now was that there were toe
many ignorant voters-men wb'
would sell their votes for ten cent
worth of tea. No doubt some womeI
property would make good voters
put the Hawaiian women were no
euncated up to the point OF apprecl
a.ing the ballot. If women had idea
let Them express the m to their nus
lands, and stay ar home and atten'
"a. ~, az home. Letting them vote woul'
simply bring back the old abuses. In