The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-07
LEADS ALL NORTH GAROluM DAES DIM NEWS AND CIRCULATION.

Immediately prior to the transfer of the
sovereignty thereof to the United States,
arc hereby declared to be citizens of
the United States
Provision is made for a legislature to
consist of two houses, a Senate, to CON
sist of fifteen members as at present,
and House of Representatives. consist
ing of thirty members. double the mem
berShip of the House under the Hawaii
IN Republic The members are TO be
elected at Il general election to be held
ON the Tuesday after the first Monday
i'm November. 1899. and bi-annually
thereafter. The Supreme Court is to be
the sole Judge of the legality of election
to seat in eithe house in case of con
test. The sessions of the legislature are
limited to sixty days III duration, and
each member is allowed S400 as salary
and ten cents mile for travelling eX-
penses.
A Senator is required to be n male
citizen of the United States, thirty years
of age. to have resided in the territory
three years. he the owner in his own
right of $4,000 worth of proprty, or to
have during the preceding years received
81 900 income.
Representatives must be y years old,
male citizens. must have lived three
years in Hawaii and must either own
$500 worth of property or have an in
come of $3.50 year.
The bill also provides for the election
of a delegate to the House of Represen-
tatives in Congress by the voters quail
fed to vote for Representatives in the
Legislature. this delegate to possess the
same powers and privileges now accorded
to other delegates in Congress.
The bill provides that the Constitution
and laws of the United States locally ap-
plicable shall have the same force and
effect i'll the territory of Hawaii as else
where in the United States
This is the usual provision found in
the acts of Congress providing for the
establishment of territorial governments
in the United States. but the commits
sioners regard the provision as eXcep-
tionally important in this bill for many
reasons, among which they mention the
continued importation of coOlie labor into
Hawaii.
The commissioners take pains to ex-
press their united opinion that the plan
outlined for the government Of Hawaii
cannot be regarded as a precedent for
i l.
The report is unanimous except upon
one point on which President Dole makes
a minority recommendation. This re-
cOmmendatiOn is for a board of advisors
to the Governor of the Territory and
he recommends that the Treasurer, At
torney-G General, Superintendent of Pub
Tic Works and the Commissioner of
Public Lands shall be constituted special
af a to If
suited by him concerning all matters of
public policy
The majority in their report express
the opinion that the precautien is not ne
cessary.
OF the other two bills, one relates to
Hawaiian silver and treasury notes, and
the other to postal savings banks in
Hawaii. The first provides that unmu-
tiiated Hawaiian silver coins shall be
received at par value in payment of all
dues TO the Government of the territory
Of Hawaii and of the United States. and
shall not again be issued, but shall. on
presentation in sums of $500 to either
Government be purchased and recOined
as bullion at the United States mint at
San Francisco All Hawaiian silver GER
titicates are to he redeemed by the ter
ritory of Hawaii ON or before January
LIST. 1902.
The other is bill which repeats the
Hawaiian laws establishing postal saw
mgs banks and directs the Secretary of
the Treasury to pay the amounts on
deposit in the postal savings banks in
hawaii to the persons entitled thereto.
terminating the interest on all deposits
on the first of July, 1899, and forbid
oino further deposits after that date.
The report contains an inventory of
the public property of the Republic.
which no inures to the United States.
which is of an estimated value of S1O.-
41S.740.