The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-24
new GOVERNMENT FOR HAWAII
THE ISLANDS WILL he ADMITTED
AS \ TERRITORY WOULD.
Chinese nnd Japanese win Not he
Allowed to vOte--Jnitcd states Sc
cures S1O,OOo,OOO in Property.

Washington, November 23,-The COM
mission appointe; by the president to rec
ommend form OF government of Hawaiian
Islands met in Senator Cul'om's committee
room at the capitol today for the drst time
since leaving Honolulu. Senators Cuilom
Morgan Representative HIT and Judge
Frear being present The meeting was de-
voted to deyising details of the bill and
report which the commission will present
to congress, which had not been fully de-
cided upon at the last meeting.
The legislation which will be recon-
mended by the commission will be in
cludel in a bill which to all intents and
purposes Will be an enabling act and very
much like the bills providing for the ad-
IN ssion of new States into the Union, eX
cept in the one Getail that it provides for
the admission OF Il Territory and not u
State. a bin has been completed, but prob
ably will be amended somewhat in detail.
The report has not been completed, but
the commission has decided upon its i'm
poItant features. one OF these is a rec
concentration that the system OF importing
laboIers uEGer contract shall be liscon-
tinued. The commissioners have coacluded
that as the system is contrary to the laws
apIdD li1s 10 tu.a Cuuh.fy MS Il Whoie II would
not be wise 10 continue 1t even temporarily
in Hawaii. II is Understood that a ma
jority at least OF the members OF the COM
m.ttee do not accept the theory that Amer
iuans and Europeans can not do manual
labor in the Islands.
The commission Will recommend reg
ular Territorial form of government with
delegate in congress ANA legislature.
The legislature Will be elected by the quail
fled voters of the Islands, but there VIII
be property and educational qualifications
imposed upon those who vote for members
81 the upper house of the legislature. The
franchise viii not be extended TO the
japanese or Chinese in the Islands, but the
Portuguese who become citizens will not
be excluded un Ter the restrictions imposed.
The commission will present full details
OF the value Of the property acquired, the
inconc rom tariffs. taxes and other i'm
portart acts bearing upon the government
of the Islands They estimate that the
property secured to the United States viii
amount TO more than $l0.000,000, The public
lands alone are believed TO be worth about
S5OO0,Gu0. Tho report VIII be presented 10
congress soon after 1t convenes.
Mr. Justice Frear, one Of the Hawaiian
commissioners ana member of the supreme
court OF Hawaii, said this afternoon in
answer 10 a question rs TO the so.uton Of
the cooie labor problem in Hawaii: I'm
der the present law coo,ic labor can be i'm
ported by our people. If left to their own
choice. hut We would give 1t up II required.
We realize that tho stability Of govern
ment would be so largely increased under
annexation that we could afford to amend
our labor lava ana sacrifice cheap labor.
''As a matter of fact our planters are
now starting IN to make an attempt to
introduce white aborers. Some have al
ready been brought in from California aad
IL Is believed the experiment will succeed.
Tho potion seems to prevail in some quar-
tiers that white men can not work n the
tropics 1t must be remembered, however,
that thers are differences in tropical coun-
tries Hawaii really Is on the edge of the
tropics Furthermore, the islands are tenn
pered by n cool rain current which reduces
the temperature 10 degrees below that OF
other countries In the same latitude. A
great PROPORTION OF the great coffee lands
are located in very temperate zone"