New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-07

Tbere &c also provision that no person who
having been entitled 10 qualify and vote prior
IN October. 1897 and since July 1894, failed to
rcrister as such voter shall have a vote unless
he shall take all oath TO support the Cohstit"-
ton Of the United states. The sessions or the
| LEGISLATURE are limited to sixty days ana each
member 10 to have 800 salary and 10 cents
mile for travelling expenses senator IL re-
ouired 70 be n male citizen Of the United States.
thirty wears Of age. to have lived IN the lerri-
tory three years. to be the owner in his own
TIGHT Of 81 900 worth Of property. or TO nave
in the preceding year received $1,000 income
REPRESENTATIVES. must be twenty-five years DID,
n,a,o citizens must have lived three years In
Hawaii and must either $500 worth or
nronertv or have an income Of 500 year.
QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS
Voters for Representatives are required 10 DE
male citizens twenty-one years old ana Oh o"c
,.oor,s residence in the Territory: to have reg
;etered to have paid all taxes due the HoVe'n-
mont and to be able understandingly to speak,
road and write the English or Hawaiian IAN
guaea To he qualified to vote for Senator's
,orsor must possess all the qualifications and
he subject to all the conditions required FOR
voters for Representatives. and In addition own
in his own right real property worth Slooo on
which valuation legal taxes shall have oeeh
maid for the wear preceding that in which ne
oNers 70 register. or shall have actually re-
coived q money income Of not less than 5000 In
the previous year
Five registration districts are provided. and
the Governor Of the Territory Is authorized TO
appoint registration boards. with the ADVICE or
the Senate.
The bill also provides for the election OF
delegate in Congress by persons qualified 70 vote
for Representatives in the Legislature. this
delegate 10 possess the same powers and priv
ileges now accorded to other delegates In Con-
gress.
The Governor is to appoint Chief Justice and
two Associate Justices OF the Supreme Court,
the Judges of the Circuit Court. the members
Of the Board Of Health. Commissioners or Pun
lie 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 $1,000 a year
other provisions Of the bill are as follows:
The Governor is to possess the veto power
hut his veto may be oyerridden by two-thtdS
vote of both houses Of the Legislature. The
Legislature is authorized TO create town. city or
county municipalities. Foreign goods and ar
ticles imported into the islands after July
1895 are II afterward brought into the United
States. to pay the duties charged on like articles
when imported from any foreign country Inc
the Constitution and laws Of the United States
or this act continue in force subject 10 repeal
or amendment hv the Legislature of Hawaii or
by Congress. The laws or HaWau reiatlng 10
public or Government lands continue in force
until changed by Congress. but no leases Of
agricultural lands are 70 be- granted, sold or re-
newed for longer term than five years. unless
Congress shall direct. The laws of Hawaii re-
latng to agriculture and forestry are continued
in force, except rs they may he modified by Con-
Gress or the Legislature. and the Secretary Of
Agriculture is charged with the duties Of exam
ming the laws If Hawaii relating to agriculture,
forestry public lands and public roads and re-
porting thereon to the President. The bill also
provides that the Constitution and laws of the
United States locally applicable shall have the
same force and effect in the Territory Of Hawaii
as elsewhere in the United states.
THE LABOR QUESTION
This is the usual provision found in the acts
OF Congress and providing for the establishment
Of Territorial governments in the United States,
but the Commissioners regard the provision
exceptionally important in this bill for many
reasons. among which they mention the con-
tinued importation Of coolie labor into Hawaii.
/ Remarking on this point they say:
II has been the policy Of the Government Of
Hawaii both since and before the establish
meat of the Republic. to import men under labor
contracts for term Of years. at the expiration
OF which they are To return to the countries
from which they came. Those brought in ara
mainly from China and Japan. Since he act Of
Congress anneAnS Ha wall was passed prohibit
ing Chinese immigration. the Hawaiian sugar
planters have seemed TO be making an unusual
effort in securing the importation of Japanese
laborers fearing trouble and embarrassment on
account OF insufficient labor for the care and
carrying on Of their sugar pantat ions. or
course. il becomes necessary to extend orr hor
laws over the Islands; 50 as to prohibit all kinds
Of foreign contract labor from coming to the
Territory. first. because il IS the policy of the
country to keep out all kinds Of cheap foreign
labor. including coolie labor. and thereby pre-
fafa ial.f i,,f..
Of American labor, and. secondly. to protect orr
manufactured products from competition Win
manufactured goods produced by cheap alien
labor. The general laws Of the United States
will plac" the people Of the Territory on ,ha
same footing with the people Of the States and
Of other Territories Of the United States in re-
gard 10 foreign labor
The question whether white labor oo !,
prohianly utilized in the sugar plantations s vct
d pr""Ith nut the planters are preparing To
give such labor trial. and some OF them No
lieve II VIII prove superior 10 the Ia bor 81 ai,h
Chinese or japanese. 'i
THE CURRENCY.
OF the other two bills. one relates TO Hava,,a,
silver and Treasury notes. and the other 70 nos-
tai savings banks in Hawaii The first nrovidos
that unmuilated Hawaiian silver coins shall no
received at par value in payment Of all dues IN
the Government OF the Territory Of Hawaii and
Of the United States. and shall not again he
issued. but shall on presentation in sums Of $500
To either Government be purchased and re-
coined as bullion at the United States mint M
san Francisco. All Hawaiian silver certificates
are 10 be redeemed by the Territory Of Hawaii
or before January / 1902
The other is bill which repeats the Hawaiian
laws establishing postal savings banks and di-
reefs the Secretary Of the Treasury to pay the
amounts on deposit in these banks to tho per-
entitled thereto. terminating the intercs, on
all deposits on July |. 1890 and forbidding
further deposits after that date.
The report contains an inventory Of the public
properfy Of the republic which nov inuros 10 ,ho