Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-04-21
LATEST HAWAIIAN NEWS
President Dole Drawing Up Q
New Constitution.
legislature to BE Appointed FoyalistS
Declare tho Provisional Govern
ment Is Not u Government
Of the People.

SAN FRANCISCO, April l4.-The steam
ship Monowai, which arrived Friday ,
brought the following Hawaiian ad
vices:
Ever since the retirement of Presiden,
Dole from the Office of minister Of for
eign affairs he has been engaged in draw
ing up new constitution to be sub
mitted TO the convention to be held n
May The government is very reticen
in regard to the new instrument, but il
has been ascertaned on good authorit,
that by the constitution which Presiden,
Dole will propose the executive power
is to be vested III a president who viii
not have a seat in the executive council
as is the case now He will have the
right to veto, but such veto can be over
ruled by two-thrds vote of the senate
and assembly. The vice president will
not have seat in the executive council
either, and his duty will be simply TO
preside over the senate. The executive
council will consist Of five members,
minister of foreign affairs, finance, In.
terror, health and education, and of jus.
tiSe VI altOluty general,
In regard to the legislature. it is un.
aerstood that it will be formed by ap.
pointment. The upper house, to be
called the senate, and to consist of 2aO
sae,sl bose v,piu9keo eoapnaiatoav vhu. tho saJiis
Gil, and will hold Office for the two
years. The lower house will consist Of
40 members, and is TO be appointed By
the executive council the senators and
assemblymen who have been agreed
upon. They are to be called together
and the joint bodies will promulgate a
second constitution and fix date for a
general election of the government Off.
GERS. L. A. Thurston, the present min.
ister to Washington, is expected here
soon, and, il is said, will assume the po-
sition of minister of the interior
Preparations for the constitutional
convention are being made. The elec!
ton Of delegates is to take place on May
=. Tho registration of voters for this
election is now proceeding, but has been
very slow, only 541 having taken the
oath necessary TO qualify as electors. OF
these the greater majority are whites
and Portuguese. the natives being kept
from registration by their leaders, who
are nearly all Royalists. These leaders
openly acknowledge that they are at.
tempting TO keep the natives from the
polls and one political society has even
had printed in a Royalist paper long an.
nouncement to the effect that the
natives should have nothing whatever to
do with the election, as the provisional
government is not government of the
people, and cannot last, and that the
vengeance of the qneen will be visited
tpon all disloyal subjects when she re-
ascends the throne. The American
Union party, although in complete con-
troll Of politics, has met with opposition
on the islands of Maui and Hawai-, the
largest islands of the groups. The an.
nexationists who are all connected with
the plantations, have strenuously objected
to the part of the platform that excludes
Chinese labor and have formed party
clubs under the old platform providing
for Asiatic labor, under proper restric-
tions.
The new central committee of the
American Union party has begun the
warfare against the japanese obtaining
the franchise, having passed stringent
resolution to that effect at its first meet
ing. All the party clubs have passed
similar resolutions, but the japanese
still claim that they are entitled to re-
cognition and will have rights equal 10
those of other foreigners.