The Portland daily press., 1895-03-28
MARTIAL law ENDED.
Everything is Peaceful Once More at
Honolulu.
THE LAST OF THE REBELS SEN
TENCED BY THE COMMISSION.

Important Acts Passed Providing for the
Stability of the Government-Crimina
Will Find No Refuge in Hawaiian
Act to Revent Seditious Publications.
San Francisco, CAL, March 27.-Ad-
vices from Honolulu per steamer Aus
trailia, arrived today, and say that on
the 18th instant. the President declared
martial law at an end and the writ of
habeas corpus restored.
United States Minister Willis gave
reception short time ago to Admiral
Beardslee and the officers of the Phila-
delphia, for which a largeinum ber of in
vitations were issued. President Dole
and his wife were not invited and this
caused sensation.
President Dole was interviewed upon
the subject and said: II attach no
Importance to it, The reception was
a very informal affair" To.the question
as to whether his relations with Mr..
Willis were strained, the President re-
piled: Not at all, not in any way"
The stories published in San Francisco
to the effect that the government is op-
posed to annexation and Quarrelled with
the American League, which is urgent
fOor annexation, have no foundation. y
No one in Honolulu needs to be assured
that the government has always been
thorough and heartily for annexation
and will continue SO. Nine hundred
Japanese immigrants arrived on the 14th,
seven hundred of which were contract
laborers 1t is expected to supplant this
Japanese immigration by Portuguese.
Niue native rebels were sentenced on the
hQ
last of cases before the military commits
sion
In anticipation of the end of martial
law the councils have been busy for
week in considering and passing num-
ber of acts deemed necessary to provide
for the safety of the government after
martial law ceases. Under the new con-
stitution of the Republic, legislative
power is reserved TO the combined exec
utive and advisory councils until the
legislature should meet. OF this power
the councils are making very impor-
tant use. The first act passed secures
indemnity to the officers of the govern
ment and Others for acts done under mar
tial law in suppressing the rebellion.
1t confirms and declares lawful all such
acts done in good faith for the purpose
of suppressing tue insurrection, either
IN the esta blishment of military tribu-
nal for the arrest, detention, deporta-
tioI, trial. conviction, or sentencing of
any person charged with sedition or in
Eurrection. An act supplementary TO
the foregoing provides for the evidence
of d1e authority for the acts specified,
and furth er protects the actors from mo
lestation by legal process.
The third act passed prohibits the
| landing here of refugee from justice, or
criminals, or persons who have escaped
thence to avoid trial, and especially
prohibits the return here of any persons
deported under martial law or banished
| by sentence OF any court unless they re-
ceive permis ission to return from the min
| lister of foreign affairs. and pretty severe
penalties are provided. This act was SO
framed as to apply to those persons who
accepted exile in lieu of standing trial,
like Creighton and Ashford.
The fourth act is for the suppression
of seditious newspapers, it's chiet provis-
| ions being: IF any person convicted OF
the offense of publication of seditioua
| libel with reference to the publication
of words i'll newspaper OF which he il
editor, publisher, owner or proprietor,
the judge or magistrate trying the case
may inladdition to the sentence awarded
against suchsperson, suspended further
publication OF such newspaper for any
period not exceeding four years, and
every such suspension of the newspaper
| shall extend to and include any news
paper that may be started in the place
| of such suspended newspaper, having a
| person so convicted of seditious libel as
editor, publisher, owner or proprietor
thereof.
| The fifth act passed is known as dan
gerous persons" act. 1t provides that
| any person having lawless intentions
hostile to public order or government
may, upon complaint to the attorney
| general or marshal, or their deputies, be
brought before circuit judge and there
summarily examined. If the intention be
shown to have existed this person shall
be adjudged dangerous'a and be sentenced
to expulsion from the Hawaiian Islands.
If the judge be not fully convinced, he
may place the person under bond. the
| person 10 remain in custody until the
bond is furnished. The person so ex-
PEELED cannot return for six years with
out the consent of the cabinet. Ii he
does return, he viii. be guilty of misde-
meanor and will he imprisoned for the
| balance of six years.
| Armed with these five statutes for it's
| defense against conspiracy and sedition,
| the government has again committed it,
self to the protection of the ordinary
courts and writ of habeas corpus re-
| sumes it's sway
| The large mum Der of political prisoners
were put to. work on the roads III Haw-
ali. Among them are: Leaders Wilcox,
Greig, Woodman and Marshall. The
Englishmen Packard, Seward, Ashford,
Gulick will be kept in prison for the
present at least. Seward is said to be
quite i'll.
| The II onolulu Iron works was award
ed the contract for repairing the engines
of the Philadelphia.