The San Francisco call., 1898-12-07
MEMBERS OF THE HAWAIIAN CO.

ing such labor from interfering with the wages of American labor. and sec ondly, to protect our manufactured products from competition with manu- factured goods produced by cheap alien labor. The general laws of the United States will place the people of the Ter ritory on the same footing as the people of the States and other Territories of the United States in regard to foreign labor.
 4The question whether white labor can profitably be used in the sugar plantations is yet problem, but the planters are preparing to give such a. Dor a trial and some of them believe it will prove superior to the labor Of either Chinese or Japanese"
 The Commissioners take pains to ex- press their united opinion that the plan outlined for the government of lIa- waii cannot be regarded as prece- dent for Porto Rico and the Philip pines, saying on this point: Much has been said to the effect that the policy of the scheme of government for the Hawaiian Islands will be taken an ac- cepted as an index or precedent 10 be followed in the plan of government for Porto Rico and the Philippines. In view of this apparent expectation or belief on the part of many good people in the United States, the commission
 
 Hawaii are capable of self-government and have proven this by the establish ment of the republic of Hawaii and the adoption of a constitution and a code of laws which would compare favorably with those of any other government, and under such constitution and laws have maintained stable government for several years worthy of free peo- pie. The people of these islands are more or less familiar with the institu- tions and laws of the United States, while the laws of the little republic are largely taken from the laws of this country. It cannot be said that either the Porto Ricans or the Fili- pinos are at all familiar with our sys- tenn of government or with any other based on the principles of liberty. The underlying theory of our government is the right of self government and people must be fitted for self govern ment before they can be trusted with responsibilities and duties attaching to | free government" These remarks are made to negative the idea that because | the people of the Hawaiian Islands l cain, in the Judgment of the commis- | sion. be consistently given self-govern- | ment to an extent almost equal to that given the people in the Sts-es, it can be | safely inferred that other insular pos 1 sessions which the United States has
 
 with Spain can be granted equal free | dom in government.
 | The report is unanimous except on l one point. on which President Dole
 makes a minority recommendation.
 This recommendatio is for board of ritory, and he recommends that the Treasurer, Attorney General, Superin- tendent of Public Works, and Commits sioner of Public Ltnds shall be con- stituted special counselors of the Gov l ernor, to be consulted by him concern | ing all matters of public policy.
 l MT. Dole gives as his reason for this l recommendation the fear that without some such provision the Governor may arrogate to himself greater power than is contemplated.
 l The weight of the objection will be better understood in view of the recom-
 mendation of the Commissioners that
 the Legislature shall hold regular ses- | sions but once in two years as hereto | fore, which circumstance would furnish 1 the Governor with the onnortunity if | he should choose to seize it, of remov- | ing any or all the heads of departments l immediately after the termination of and filling their places with persons whose positions would be valid until | the next session of the Senate, which
 might not occur for nearly two years. l The majority in their report express the opinion that the precaution is not
 necessary, saying that ''the history of
 Territories of the United States, cov- i ering many years of experience, has | not, in the opinion of the commission.
 shown a necessity for the creation of any number of advisers"
 Of the other two bills, one relates to Hawaiian silver and the treasury notes and the other to postal savings banks in Hawaii. The first provides that un- l mutilated Hawaiian silver coins shall be received at par value in payment of all dues to the Government of Hawaii and the United States. and shall not again be issued, but shall. on presenta-
 tion in sums of $500 to either Govern ment, be purchased and recoined as bullion at the United States Mint at | San Francisco. All Hawaiian silver certificates are to be redeemed by Ha- wall on or before January i. 1902. The other is bill which repeals the Hawaiian laws establishing postal savings banks, and directs the Secre- 1 tary of the Treasury to pay the l amounts on deposit in the postal saw