The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-06-10

Dw'ng the space Of time acnoned no other nation
~ nave right to the privileges ports the coded
territory
The treaty thus provided somewhat as it provided in the
Resolution anexlng Hawaii for the continuation of
pal laws of the territory general until further action bv Con
and contained special provisions relating to customs and
shipping matters On October 81 1903 Congress passed
TO enable the President take possession the territory
IN which Act it provided annex
ing Hawaii
That until the expiration of the present Congress-
ritoes be made by Congress- all the military civil and
judicial powers, exercised by the
of the same vested in such person and persons and
shall be exercised such the President the United
States shall direct for maintaining protecting
OF LOUISIANA the free of their liberty property and
religion
Possession delivered December 20 1903 1t was not until
the passage of the Act of February which took effect
thirty days later STILL that Congress extended the United States
customs and shipping laws Louisiana ec u and repealed
the claws laying duties the importation into the United
States of goods and merchandise from the said territories
respecting the commercial intercourse between
the United States and the said territories (Sec 81 and in that
(Sec. 81 special provision made in accordance with the
requirements of the treaty for French and Spanish ships and
goods. 1t until March "a, 1904 that
passed providing for the government of the territory
Sts at L. 2S3 Upon the passage of the Act of October 81
1903 says Judge Baldwin, his article already referred p
Immediately dispatched commissioners to New
Orleans receive the surrender of and invested
them Claiborne of the Territory of Mississippi
with all the powers heretofore exercised the Louisiana ter
ory the Governor General and Intendnt under the author
iy the King of Spain This made him king and
remained until October of the following The Governor
General under the laws and of SPAIN had almost royal
authority He promulgated ordinances which had the force OF
He appointed and removed pleasure commanders over
subdivision of territory He presided the highest
Judicial proceedings were conducted ia
the forms of the civil law. He who revied the
Saviour the Virgin Mary had his tongue cut out and his
property coniscaed married convicted of adultery
and pa14mo be delivered the will OF the
husband with the reserve however, that if he killed one he must
kill both All travellers previous to circulating any news OF
importance bound relate to the syndc OF the district
might forbid 90 further he thought such prohibition
would be for the public good There religious establish
and twenty-five curaes received salaries from
the public treasury
similarly upon the annexation of Hawaii the Pre
dent of the United States invested officers with the powers there
the officers of Hawaii There these in
denal points of difference In the of Hawaii these powers
were officers who had previously exercised
them and the laws Hawaii while different their particular
provisions the part advanced character and in
harmony spirit the Constitution and laws of the
United States The history of the ceon of the Louisiana ter
rory and the legislation following it shows that the Legislative
departments of the federal construed
permitting the acquisition of territory under
special temporary treaty provisions apparently inconsistent with
the CONSTITUTIONS and the continuation of the
territory under the laws then existing there
until such time could be enacted in harmony with
supposed requirements of the Constitution 1t true that the
debate this legislation directed rather to the question
Of the general power of acquiring territory and the general
powers when acquired rather than what could be done
provisional way. And the treaty and the legislation fol
lowing far they harmony with the alleged
requirements of the Constitution, in fact of provisional
character Indeed the members of each of these departments
pressed for consistent arguments support of what
view they undertook defend We know what they did,
whatever they said If they did distinguish sufficiently be
permanent and temporary then they committed
the larger proposition that the provisions of the
Constitution in question did apply all at any