The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-07
A GOVERNMENT FOR HAWAII
REPORT OF FEDERAL COMMISSION
 SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS,

Territorial Government Recommended Definition of citizenship ip-Member- ship in Legislature-A Senator Must Have $.,ooo Worth ofPropcrty or an Income of $1,00O, Il Representative $500 Worth of Property or a Sa5o In- come.
 Washington, Dec. 6.-The president to-day transmitted to congress the re- port of the Hawaiian commissioners, Senators Cullom and Morgan, ,Represen- tative Hit, President Dole and Justice Frear Of Hawaii together with the text of bills drawn by the commission for the government of the islands as part of the United States The preliminary part of the report is mainly descriptive of the Hawaiian Islands, the inhabi- tants, the existing institutions, the pub lie domain, productions, climate, har- bors and shipping facilities, and vari- ous conditions of general interest. The remaining part is mainly devoted to discussion of the legislation proposed by the commission, giving in the appen- dix the various reports of sub-commit- tees and copies of the bills suggested.
 Three bills are formulated for the consideration of congress The first and principal one outlines the general plan of government, and the other two deal with subordinate questions. On the main bill the commissioners express ' the opinion that it will prove thereby ''such a measure for the government of the Hawaiian Islands as will best pro- mote the interests of their people at the same time that it promotes the ir- terests and maintains the sovereignty of the people of the United States
 It provides for the erection of the is- lands into territory of the United States, to be styled the territory of Ha- waii. The bill contains provisions for the government of the territory, giving 1t executive legislative and judicial officers. A governor secretary of the territory a United States district judge, United States district attorney, and United States marshal are to be appointed by the president, and an in- ternal revenue district and customs district are created.
 The offices of president, minister of foreign affairs finance, public instruc- tion, auditor general, deputy auditor general, surveyor general and marshal are abolished. The offices of the terri tory of the new regime are an attorney general with similar powers and duties as now possessed by the attorney gen. za few exceptions; treasurer, with simi- lar powers and duties to the present minister of finance, and such powers and duties regarding licenses, corpora tions and companies and partnerships and registration of prints, labels and trade marks as are now possessed by the minister of the interior, except as changed; also a superintendent of pub- lie works a superintendent of public instruction, an auditor and deputy auditor surveyor with the powers and duties of a surveyor general, and chief sheriff to succeed to the duties of the marshal of the republic, all to be appointed by the governor.
 Probably the most important part of the bill is section 4 defining citizenship, which provides that "all white persons, including Portuguese and persons of African descent, and all persons de- scended from the Hawaiian race on either the paternal or maternal side, who were citizens of the republic of Hawaii immediately prior to the trans fer of the sovereignty thereof to the United States, are herby declared to be citizens of the United States"
 do for 1QcyiS e la consist of two houses-a senate, to con- sist of fifteen members as at present, and a house of representatives, consist ing of thirty members, double the mem bership of the house under the Ha- waiian republic. The members are to be elected at a general election, to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1899, and bienni- ally thereafter The supreme court Is to be the sole judge of the legality Of election to a seat in either house, in case of contest No member of the leg islature is to be eligible for appointment or election to any office of the territory, and no officer or employe, notary pup lie, or agent of the territory IS to pc eligible to election as legislator Ihere is also a provision that no person Who' having been entitled to qualify and vote nrior to October 1897, and since July, 1894. failed to register as such voter shall have a vote, unless he shall take an oath to support the constitution Of the United States.
 The sessions of the legislature are I;mited to sixty days in duration, and each member is allowed $4OO as salary and 10 cents a mile for travelling eX- penses. ,o
 senator is required to be male citizen of the United States, thlrty wears of age, to have resided in the ter ritory three years, be the owner m ms own right, of S2,0O9 worth of property ar to have during the preceding year re- ceived s1,O00 income.
 Representatives must be twenty-five wears old, male citizens, must nave lived three years in Hawaii and must either own $500 worth of property or have an income of $250 year.
 Voters for representatives are requlr- ed to be male citizens twenty-one years old and of one years residence In the territory. to have registered, to have maid all taxes due the government, and to he able understandirgly to speak, read and write the English or Hawaiian