Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-21
The New Constitution.

waiian Republic has been cut
aud dried and folded up several
months %, although the p g
PRESS Sould lead the public 10
suppose that the .precions chatter
Of our Liberties mignt have been
sent by Its trainers for revision to
the caliph Of Bagdld, or senator
Morgan, or the Patriarch of Jeru
salem, and Is on its way oHt here
by gravel train or some other pro
tracted means Of locomotion
booked to arrive by the first Of
Jnue. On Is arrival, the country
Is to start on new basis as a full
blown Republic with House of
Representatives Of its own, and a
senate to De nominated by the
Executive Council. Nobody in
Hawaii, outside of the oligarchy.
Is particularly DESTROYS OF posses
sing an upper house, but the pa
ternal so,icitude of the Stevens
directory 5 as bougdless as its
capacity for Doodle and military
kindergartenism, and therefore it
considers It necessary that the
old irremovable disease of sugar
bag House of Lords should be
bestowed upon the inhabitants
lest they become too happy. Of
course the new Senate will be
chiefly composed of men who have
been defeated candidates at pre-
vious elections, it being assumed
that because a man was regarded
bv the electors under the Mon
archy as unfit to legislate for a
brief term of years, he is therefore
eminently qualified to boss the
legislation of the country for the
period of his natural life, and
when the supply of cast-off pol
iticians runs short, the vacancies
will be flied up by the derelict
returned vard-heelers and used
up nominees, left over from the
boodle-reform era.
There is an excellent material
on hand out of which to construct
this new a1istocracy, and when
the old holorables are assembled
there is a prospect of healthy
and enliveling scrimmage for SUI
premacy. A great deal depends
on whethe the Lower House hits
the Upper with sufficient vigar at
the start, and scares the misfit
oligarchs ilto prompt submission,
if it fails the performance of
this duty, trouble is inevitable
The fact tlat the Lords will
possess a long lease if not long
life authority while the members
of the Lower Chamber being sub
ject to biennial election have only
an ephemcral existence, fills the
exalted senators with deranged
idea of their own Importance
which can only be taken down by
judicious and well directed viol
ence. Thu constitution which is
intended or submission to the
convention increases the Exec
utive Co,ncil--independent of
the President-to six members.
and SO far marks an increase in
extravaganza and corruption of
irresponsi Die rule.
1t woul, be supertluous at pre-
sent to inc ulge in speculation as
TO whether the world will continue
revolving long enough on its axis
to allow the proposed constitu-
tional con ention to assemble, bnt
assuming hat the convention will
meet, and a majority vote for the
establishing of an Upper House
the contin yency viii still remain. /
suspended like the sword of |
Damocles, that the nine-tenths of
the people who are not represent
ed In the convention may impress
Its opinion on the superhuous
peerage that the dignity of an
Upper Ho use doesn't amount to
anything. and that the House it.
self had letter crawl under the
bed and keep out of sight.
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