The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-05

forbade seditinus language. III IL was
going TO give the royalists any cpnso
i,t,on 20 talk about the monaiciiy, Ie'
them have it. 1t was all the consola-
ton trey would ever get
Minister Damon supported the
amendment. The freedinnI OF si'e' ci
was "A greater safegu trd for tn Gov
eminent than all tie rifles which
could he bought. Tue greatest iree-
dom of sprt ch had been allowed ny
the Government from the beginning,
and that had been il, strength.
Delegate AbleS was strongly IN
favor of tile Amendment. He hal
intended tn ma ke il himself. LIT the
royaIi~ts get out aud talk as much as
they like. 1t did not cost us nythlng
Delegate IUsepa thought tneTe
should tie something IN the Constilu
tiou To- prevent people from going TOO
far If they were allowed To talk In.
definitely, by and by they would
begin To act. He moved passage as III
was.
Delegate Vivas thought If they were
passing Constitution for monarchy,
such gag on the press would be APP
propriate; but it was out OF place in
that of a republic He agreed with
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that
the sedition laws were all-sutficient.
Councillor Watefhouse asked what
effect this amendment would have on
the constitutionality OF the sedition
laws.
Minister Smith read the provisions
of the old Constitution as follows:
Article 8. All men may freely
speak, write and publish their sentl-
ments on all subjects, being response
bic for the abuse of that right, and no
law shall be enacted to restrain the
liberty of speech, or OF the press.
1t did not interfere with sedition
laws; neither would this.
DeIegste Robertson moved the Ian
guage of the Constitution OF 1887 he
adopted.
Minister Smith drew attention to
the fact that the effect of the two was
the same.
President Dole thought there was
need OF something more than thar
article. There was no law on the stat
utebooks which gave the Government
power To- suppress an Indecent or sedi-
1jous publ ication.
The amendment of Delegate Robert
son was lost aud that of Mipister
Hatch adopted.
President Dole then offered an
amendment adding alter the words
ssabuse of such right in line 8 the
WORKS provided, however, that the
Legislature may enact such laws 81
may be necessary To restrain aud pre-
vent the publication or public utter,
auce of seditious or indecent Language
The President stated that without this
provision the Legislature would have
no power to restrain sedit1ous and
indecent utterances. There were some
papers in this town which had lately
used words which could not be re
peated on the floor of this house. The
provision was necessary to protect the
country from immoral as well 81
seditious influences. It would not do
to say that we could stand utterances
of this kind. They had said the same
of anarchistic utterances in Chicago
and the result had been disaster anC
assassination. Their experience hae
resulted in q measure authorizing the
suppression of such newspapers.
the amendn emit was adopted ane
the section as amended passed.
ARTICLE 4.-MEETING AND PETITION
All men shall have the right to as
semble in an orderly and peaceablt
manner, without arms, to consult
upon the common good and to petition
the President or Legislature fol
redress of grievances.
Passed.
At 1I:55 the committee rose anC
reported, and asked leave to sit agaii
at l:30. The report was adopted anI
the Convention then took recess.