The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-01-12
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missionaries and spectators have
combined to fashion, and if we were
to annex the islands to the United
States at the behest of these rapa-
cious gentlemen who have establish
ed their transient tyranny we should
inherit the bitterness and have TO
maintain our dominion by armed
force.
Let us see what these people who
have control OF the archipelago and
who have subverted its government
think of the people they are under
taking to govern. l hold in my hand
copy of the constitution which
these gentlemen got together and
adopted. They call it Republic"
Let us see what kind OF republic
it is they have inaugurated. Sena.
tors, they have inaugurated the only
kind of republic that can live in
such climate. They have set up
the only sort OF republic that ever
did live in equatorial regions
AN ARIsTooRATIc oLIeARoHY.
of the most exclusive sort. They
have shut out from voting, 1 think,
every single native-in fact, every
body except the foreigners who have
gone there and seized the land.
In the, first place, Article %, with
regard to the President, says:
"---is hereby declared to be
President Of the Republic OF Hawaii,
to hold Office until and including
the 31st day Of December, A. D.
1900, and thereafter, until success
sor shall have been duly elected and
qualified"
| understand they have since filed
the blank with the name of the
present President, so as to be sure
to consolidate their cause, SO as to
be sure, before they let go the reins
Of government, to place it beyond
possibility that anybody opposed to
them shall have property enough to
be voter. Now what do they pro-
vide2 After 1900 how will they fill
the office of President Of this 3D.
called Republic2
"For the purposes of such cleo
tion,"-for the purpose of electing
a President-"the Senate and House
OF Representatives shall sit together"
Now comes the most
REMARKABLE AND INGENIOUS PROVISION
in any written constitution OF re-
public under the sun:
The election shall be by ballot, and
the person receiving majority vote
Of all the elective members to which
the Legislature is entitled, which
majority shall include majority Of
all the Senators, shall be President
for the succeeding term; or for the
unexpired portion of such term in
case no person shall have been elect
ed prior to the first day OF such
term"
Then the constitution provides
that the House shall be composed
of Is members and the Senate of 15
members. Then it confers upon the
lower House, to be elected by a sort
OF popular suffrage the right to sit
with the Senate and elect Presi-
dent. Then it provides, no matter
how many votes candidate may
have in the House, that he must
have, in order to be elected, maj
ority OF the Senatel Whom were
they trying to fool by inviting the
House into such conferences? Let
us look further. Each OF the Is
Senators is required to have this
qualification before he can become
a member of the Senate. He must
"be the owner. in his own right, OF
property in the Republic of the
value OF not less than $1,000 over
and above all incumberauces; OF
have been in the receipt Of money
income of not less than ST, 800 during
the year Immediately preceding the
date OF the election, for the proof
of which he may be required to pro
duce original accounts of the re-
ceipt of such income"
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