Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-20
NEW Government.
HAWAIIAN RULE WILL BE A
THING OF THE PAST.
United States Laws and Customs Will
Reign-Inauguration
Ceremonies.

Chicago, June pa special to the Record
from Honolulu, June II. via San Francisco.
says:
house and the internal revenue have every
thing in readiness for the change OF the
government OF the HaWaiian ISLANDS
AT that hour the government of the re-
public OF Hawaii passes away forever. and
the laws and customs of the United States
takes its place.
Bert NJ. Thomas. the representative of
the internal revenue department, has in
some respects the hardest and in some re-
spects the easiest job Of the three. He has
to introduce an entirely new system. start
ing it from the beginning, but he has no
old customs or prejudices to encounter.
Every dealer has to take out a license
and give bonds and open the accounts re-
quiredto be kept by the internal revenue
department. The wholesale dealers are CO.
operating with him and he expects to have
e~verythin in readiness by midnight of
June 16.
W. S. Chance and Andrew Smith are here
representing the customs department.
Their work is a task involving an endless
amount of detail. The Hawaii custom SER
vice was a simple affair. There We're just
five schedules of articles, those free by
civil code, those free by treaty, those dutia-
BILE at 10 per cent ad valorem, those dutia-
BILE at 10 per cent and those dutiable at rs
per cent.
From the postoffice department Messrs.
Flint and Hall are here to start the new
system. The Hawaiian system was closely
allied to the American system also. There
will be no radical changes here. Hawaiian
stamps carry a letter If it is deposited in
the postoffice before midnight on June q,
but not if it is deposited after that.
Governor Dole has been busy the last
few days deciding on his appointments, but
none of them have been announced, nor
will they be until June 16. The plans for
the Inauguration ceremonies are nearly
completed and they include a very elabo-
rate programme.
TIL first democratic territorial conven-
ton ever held in Hawaii assembled last
night In the drill shed. 1t elected delegates
to the national democratic convention at
Kansas City. The delegates are Prince
". N. Cornwell, W: $. Withers, John D.
Holt and John H. Wise. Prince Kawan-
anakoa is q nephew of the late Queen Dow
ager Kapiaolani, and with his brother
Prince Cupid kalanianaole, inherited her
estate. Charles T.. Wilder has been Ha-
several years. W. H. Cornwen was in the
cabinet of ~Liliuokalani. John D. Holt is
a part of Hawaii who is at the head of q
large business house. John H. Wise is part
Hawafian, a Gradual OF Oberlin college.
W. S. Withers is a comparatively new
conner in the islands, and is at the head Of
the Honolulu Stock Yards company. The
delegates were instructed for Bryan. A
permanent organization of the party was
effected, with tol. c. J. Mccarthy as chair
and Charles l.. Rhodes as secretary.
One of the last acts of the government of
Hawaii was to destroy $3.50 tins of con-
tiscated opium, worth in the market about
$4,000. This was opium that had been cap
tured in the hands of ~smugglers during
in a vault in the custom house ever since.
1t was destroyed by taking it out three
miles or the high seas, opening the tins
and throwing them into the ocean.