The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-20
Fifteenth Day.
TUESDAY, June 10, 1894.

TUESDAY, June 10, 1894.
The Convention was called to order
at :15 AM, President Dole in the
chair. Prayer; roll call; minutes of
preceding meeting read and approved.
At 1885 the Convention went int
committee of the whole, Delegate
Lyman in the chair, and proceeded to
the consideration of Article 10, as re-
commended by the Judiciary Com
mittee.
ARTICLE 19-DENIZATIoN.
Letters of denization may be issued
by the President, with the approval
of the Cabinet, to any person eligible
by the Constitution to become a citi-
zen, excepting that the provision re-
quiring previous residence in the
Hawaiian Islands, intention to be-
come a permanent resident of the
Republic, citizenship of a country
having express treaty stipulati0ns
with the Republic concerning natural
ization, an oath abjuring allegiance to
his native land and of allegiance to
the Republic, and application to the
Supreme Court shall not be required.
Every person to whom such letters
shall issue shall, however, take the
oath prescribed in Article 100 of the
Constitution, and shall thereupon be-
come entitled to all the rights, privil-
eyes and immunities of citizen.
Councillor Brown moved the COM
mittee recommend the rejection of
Article 19 in the draft, and also the
substitute article proposed by the Ju
dietary Committee. He did not be-
iieve i'm placing it in the power of four
or five men to manufacture voters.
Those who wished to vote should be
citizens, either by birth or naturaliz
alton. 1t was not fair to grant privil-
eges to one which were refused to
another. 1t would be a matter of favor
itism.
Delegate Carter moved the adoption
of the Judiciary Committees report.
Councillor Emmeluth asked for in
formation on the purpose of this pro-
vision regarding deniZatlon.
Minister Smith said it was nothing
new. There had always been good
reasons for the provision. There were
cases when it was very desirable TO
make persons denizens who could not
be naturalized. The power to natur-
alize was greatly restricted in this
Constitution, and while they were
waiting for the negotiation of natural
ization treaties it might be very i'm
portant to have this power. A person
could not even practice law unless he
were a citizen or denizen. The power
was more restricted and guarded than
it had eve been before.
Minister Damon said the right of
the Government to grant letters of
deniZenship had been recognized ever
since the Government was established;
so far as he knew, that right had
never been abused. Such a right was
very much needed here, ami, if the
Executive was to be trusted at all, it
should be trusted now.
President Dole said the article re-
ported made one addition to the pres
eDt law in requiring the oath to be
taken, and that was a good thing.
But it granted the right to vote, and
that was a bad and dangerous thing.
He would move to amend by adding
at the end of the article the words
"eXcept the rikht to vote.D AS an
illustration of the necessity of denIZen-
ship, he would cite the case of Prof.
KOebele, of whose services the Gov
ernment would be deprived if he could |
not be made a deniZen. So, if the |
Government should seek military |
officer abroad 1t was not necessary, |
however, to grant the right to vote, |
and granting it might be a prolific |
source of injustice.
Councillor McCandless held that it |
would work Injustice unless the right
to vote were granted. They were re-
Quired to take this oath, and should
vote.
Councillor Tenney said the article
could be abused because it gave su,h
al opportunity to manufacture voters
With a corrupt executive 1t would be
SO used, and would place the Govern
ment in the hands of the corruption
lists every time. II seemed to him a
very dangerous thing, and he hoped
President Dole's amendment would
pas.
Delegate Baldwin favored the arti-
Gle as recommended by the commit
tee. No doubt there were arguments
on both sides. 1t would be II way To
get good citizer,s. There wer- royal
isis now on the fence who wouid