The San Francisco call., 1898-12-07

Territory, and no officer or employe, mo- tary public or agent of the Territory is to be eligible to election as a legislator
 There is also a provision that no per son who, having been entitled to quail fly and vote prior 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 con- stitution of the United States. The ses- SionS of the Legislature are limited to sixty days in duration, and each mem- Der is allowed $400 as a salary and 10 cents a mile for travelling expenses.
 Senator is required to be a male citizen of the T~nited States, 30 years of age, to have resided in the territory three years, to be the owner in his OWE right of S2000 worth of property. or 10 have during the preceding y"ar re- cefved 5000 income. Representatives must be 25 years old, male citizens, must have lived three years in Hawaii and must own property or have an in- come of $250 a year.
 Voters for Representatives are re- quired to be male citizens, q years old and of one years residence in the ter ritory, to have registered, to have paid all taxes due the Government and to be able "understandingly to speak, read and write the English or Hawaiian language"
 To be qualified to vote for Senators a person must possess all these Qualifica- tions and be subject to all the condi- tions required of voters for Represen- tatives, and, in addition, must own in his own right real property worth 5000 upon which valuation legal taxes shall have been paid for the year preceding that in which he offers to register or he must have actually received a money income of not less than $500 during the previous year.
 Five registration districts are pro- vided and the Governor of the Terri tory is authorized to appoint registra- tfon boards with the advice of the Sem ate.
 The bill also provides for the election of delegate to the House of Represen- tatives in Congress by the voters quali- 1 fled to vote for representatives in the Legislature, this delegate to possess the same powers and privileges now accorded to other delegates in Congress. The Governor is to appoint a Chief | Justice and two Associate Justices of 1 the Supreme Court, the Judges of the Circuit Court, the members of the Board of Health, Commissioners of
 Public Instruction, Prison Inspectors, | Boards of Registration, Inspectors of
 Election and other public boards that | may be created by law and all officers
 whose salaries exceed 5000 per annum. | Other provisions of the bill are as fol- lows:
 The Governor is to possess the veto power, but his veto may be overridden by two-thirds vote of both houses of
 the Legislature.
 The Legislature is authorized to
 create town, city or county municipali- 1 ties.
 Foreign goods and articles imported | into the islands after July ', 1898. are
 if afterward brought into the United | States, to pay the same duties charged upon like articles when imported from any foreign country. The existing
 laws of Hawaii, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United | States or this act, continue in force,
 subject to repeal or amendment by the Legislature of Hawaii or by Con- gress.
 The laws of Hawaii relating to pub lie or private lands continue in force until changed by Congress, but no leases of agricultural lands are to be
 granted, sold or renewed for a longer
 term than five years, unless Congress shall direct.
 This Is the usual provision found in the acts of Congress providing for the
 establishment of Territorial govern
 ments in the United States. but the Commissioners regard the provision as exceptionally important in this bill for
 many reasons among which they men, tion the continued importation of Chin
 csc labor into Hawaii. Remarking on l this point they say: Tt has been the policy of the government of Hawaii, before and since the establishment of
 the republic. to import men under labor
 contracts for term of years at the ex- piration of which they are to return to the countries from which they came.
 Those brought in are mainly from Chi
 ma and Japan. Since the act of Con-
 gress annexing Hawaii was passed pro- hibiting Chinese immigration, Ha-
 waiian sugar planters have seemed to | be making an unusual effort in securing | the importation of Japanese laborers. fearing trouble and embarrassment on
 account of insu oient labor for the
 care and carrying on of their sugar | plantations. Of course, it becomes necessary to extend our labor laws over the islands, so to prohibit all
 kinds of foreign contract labor from coming to the territory, first, because it is the policy of this country to keep out all kinds of cheap foreign labor, incIud- ing coolie labor, and thereby prevent