The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-21
Form of Government Favored By
Senator Morgan.
WORK OF COMMISSION
RECOMMEND TERRITORIAL GOV
ERNMENT AT PRESENT.
Natives, at a Mass Meeting, Ask For
the Restoration of the Queen-Lo-
cal Land Laws Will Remain In
Force-Depredations Committed
By United States Soldiers.

Honolulu, Sept IL (via San Fran
cisco, Sept. 20).-The American soldiers
| in Honolulu are causing the good peo-
pie of this once peaceful community
much worry. Acts of vandalism are
becoming frequent and General King
! has issued orders for court of in
quiry to investigate alleged lawless
acts committed by soldiers and TO as
! seSs the amount of damage caused
! Chinese fruit growers and vegetable
] gardeners have been for the most part
victims of the soldiers and their gar
| dens have been raided and destroyed.
The Hawaiian archipelago is now the
military district of Hawaii in the de-
partment of California. An order Gre
ating this district, dated Sept. 4, has
| just been promulgated by Major Gen
eral Merriam. The order has no sig
nificance as to the civil government to
be adopted here outside OF military APP
plicGtion and no further significance
than being an indication that the is
lands are really annexed and are a
part of the territory of the United
States and are being treated in exact
ly the same way that all other terri
tory of the republic is.
The Hawaiian commission has been
holding daily sessions. but nothing has
been given out for publication. The
commission will probably not leave for
San Francisco before Sept. 70. Sen
ator Morgan in an interview is quoted
as saying: Il have always been in
favor of a state government for Hawaii
and am so still. Speaking for myself.
however, and not for the commission, L
am inclined to think that you will have
only territorial government at pres
ent. You have not asked for state
government, and / doubt very much II
the commission will recOmmend one.
AS the territory of Hawaii, you VIII
have your own legislature, OF which
you will elect the members. The terri
torial officers to be appointed by Pres
ident Mckinley will be a governor and
secretary, the three district judges, who
will compose your supreme court,
United States district attorney, whose
duties are similar to those of your at
torney general, but who only acts In
cases in which the united States is in
terested and a United States marshal,
who performs the same duties as your
present marshal, but only in United
States business. The United States
will, of course, take charge of the GUS
tom house and postal department, but
in all other matters you will be your
own masters. You will make your own
laws, subject to the approval of con-
gress. The territory of Hawaii has
great future before it and with the in
crease of population and business that
must come from annexation and all
that is implied by it the road to state
hood cannot be a long one. The open
ing of the Nicaragua canal, an enter
prise which must be carried to con-
summation in a very short period, will
still further advance to prosperity of
the islands," ff11
A mass meeting. of natives will be
Z -1,.r, n1r1ti nrac
asking for the restoration of Lillouka-
lani will be adopted
The Planters association has pre-
scented a memorial TO the commission,
asking for an extension of time that
they may be in O position to secure new
labor conditions.
The chamber of commerce, in me-
mortal. asks for territorial form OF
While the bar associa- (
ton wants the judicial system of the
islands to remain unchanged.
Senator Cull0m has announced that
the land laws of the United States do !
not apply to the public lands OF Hawaii. |
The local land laws remain in force.
Mr.. Dole for the time being still signs |
as president of the republic of Hawaii
and processes of court will run as here
tofore.
Antoine Rosa, the we'll known Hawa- |
ian lawyer, ex-attorney general and |
ex-circuit judge, died. Sept. 8, aged 43 |
years.
Princess Kaiulani'S reception in !
honor of the American-Hawaiian COM !
mission party gwen at Ainahau on the |
7th, was a brilliant success. General |
Merriam and staff. Admiral Miller and
staff, General King and staff, Colonel |
Barber and staff, government officials, |
Amy and navy officials, ex-Queen Lii
ioukalani and several hundred. promi- |
nent society people of the city attend
ed.
A committee from the annexation
club waited on Senator Morgan at the |
residence of S. NJ. Ballou on Saturday ,
evening to receive from the senator a
large photograph of Congressman
Frank G. Newlands, who introduced
the annexation resolution in the house
at Washington.
General Merriam leaves for San
Francisco today.