The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10

HONOLULU, Sept. 3.-It will be the Territory of Hawaii" That is the name which the Annexation Commits sion has decided to recommend to Con- gress. Thus will be preserved in the political nomenclature of the United States the distinctive origin of this part of the United States. just as the names of the States and Territories of Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and California perpet- ua1e their distinctive origin. The his tory and tradition of the islands and the associations that no one resident here wants forgotten will go on in un- broken union with the name.
 The form of the government will be modelled on that of existing Territories. There will be no further depar- lures from this form than local condi- tions and national political considera- tions make necessary. It is probable that in working out the details the form of government will not approxi- mate so closely to that of State gov ernment as the ordinary territorial form of government does. But the ul- timate possibility of statehood will not be barred. Still there will be no Dis trict of Columbia or Alaska form of government proposed.
 Local f-government will be given through the extension of the municipal idea. The islands will be divided into municipal districts having control, un- der restrictions and limitations, of purely local affairs. Honolulu, for in- stance, will be municipal district, em- bracing the whole of the island of Oahu. Hawaii may be divided into two districts, and Molokai, Lanai and Mi hau may be attached to some other municipal district.
 The question of a Territorial Legis- lature has not been fully settled. There will be one probably. but with limited powers.
 All the attributes of sovereignty however, will be exercised by the Ma tional Government of the United States. The people of Hawaii will be called on to consider themselves Amer jeans, looking to the National Govern ment as a source of national power. In local affairs they will have the oppor tunity of exercising the high attribute of American citizenship, local self-gov- ernnent. The form of government the commission will recommend will be one calculated to do away with the associa- tions of national independence which have grown up in the last eighty or ninety years, and to create associations and the feeling of union with the United States of America.
 It is pretty clear from what has been said by members of the commission from time to time that in framing form of government for these islands they have also been charged by the administration at Washington with forming a model which can be adapted to Porto Rico and other new posses sions the war has brought the United States.
 The commission is trying to so shape it's work as to be able to conclude it's labors by September 20. The visiting members will, in that case, be able to return to the mainland by the steamer of September 23. This will be in plenty of time for the prompt presentation of the bill which will be drafted right af- ter the opening of Congress on the first Monday in December.
 The Commissioners visited Pearl har- bor on the 1st. Miller, who Is thor oughly informed as to Pearl harbor from a naval point of view, pointed out