The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-04
THE CONSTITUTION EXTENDED
BY LAW.

TIE text OF the two different bills in
troduced in the Senate and House las
December, which provide for the gov
eminent of this Territory of Hawaii
were drawn in accordance with tn,
theory of the Republicans that tn
Constitution does not of it's own inner
.ent force cover d territory acquired b,
the United States, but that it must b,
extended by an Act of Congress. Sc
Section ), of the Senate bill, reported
by Senator Cullom provides:
'"That the Constitution and all the
laws of the United States locally appli-
cable, except as herein otherwise pro
vfded, Shall have the same force and
effect within the said Territory as
elsewhere in the United States
If the Constitution covers this Ter
ritOry, the foregoing provision so far
as it relates to the Constitution is I'M
necessary. But the Republicans of the
Senate put their own construction on
the inherent vigor" of the Constitu-
ton, and as they said that it did not
ands, they did just what they ought to
have done and that which the agree
ment in the Newlands' Resolution calls
fOr,-they plainly provided in the bill
for the government of this Territory
a provision extending the Constitution
over it.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Hit in
the House, Dec. 9Th, and reported to
the Committee of the Whole on Jan
aary 23rd, contains precisely the same
language which appears in the Senate
bill, SO far as extending the Constitu-
tion is concerned. 1t may be assumed
that all this was not done without the
approval of the President.
When the local Republican journal
and special organ hopes that the judges
of our Territorial court will be prompt
ly removed for their recent decision in
this matter, it may be assumed that it
was ignorant of what the Republican
view of the subject was, in Washing
ton, or it would not have used Demo-
cratic ammunition in attacking the
court and the Republican leaders.
The birth of the Republican baby in
these Islands, under such circum-
stances, would be an unfortunate event.
However pretty and cunning it might
be, it's voice and eyes and squeal might
betray the lamentable fact, that the Re-
publican maiden had gone astray,
under the influence of the climate" in
Hawaii, and some tramp Democrat had
temporarily won her affections.
Before the Republican journal and
its hackers make another mastery
move to get rid of the Territorial
judges because they have decided a
constitutional question in "a certain
way, it would be a sagacious act for
them to see that the reasons they adj
vance for removal are not reasons cor
daily approved of by the removing
power Il want that policeman re-
moved for swearing at me- shouted
an angry citizen to the Mayor of the
city. If he had sworn at you a darned
sight more, I'd make him a sergeant,
said the Mayor.
Will President Mckinley, when the
spoilS are to be divided, please pear
it i'm mind, that those who are pro-
fessionally devoting their lives and
their sacred honor in these Islands to
the upsetting of the local government
here, are, like the young IriShman who
Internationally whacked his own
father in the dark during the shindy,
Internationally repudiating the Repub-
dican policy. But it should be regard
ed as a mistake of youth, and should
not prevent a share in the coming and
glorious distribution of the contents OF
the flesh pots.