The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-21

lIDWtA III AAt MAAtu states NWMAN0AE AAt
election OF Presidents. understand
that perfectly we'll. and We ali under
stand IL. / know that the influence OF
patronage In the election Of the Pres
ident OF the United States in a very
powerful and very important matter.
and ! was satisfied. and | am satisfied
now. that n We pass this bill the judges
OF HawaiLRTill pass under the jurisdic-
tion Of the political agencies Of this
Government. and that the people of Ha-
vail will be consulted in regard TO
those judges only To an extent that they
have got some votes to cast, and In no
other way, for the President OF the
United States or somebody else i'm con-
vention or somewhere else. 10 has got
so now that the casting Of a vote by a
Territory i'm a convention. Democratic
or Republican, is as full an expression
OF the influence Of that Territory upon
a Presidential election as II they had
the right 70 vote I'm the electoral coll
lege. They make the nominations, and
the nominations are always followed
by the one party or the other, as either
may be I'm the ascendancy.
wanted TO divorce, II l could, the
judicial establishment in Hawaii from
States. IL that was a Just and proper
motive. that was what wished. / have
not wished that in the passing OF that
government into the control OF the
Government OF the United States there
should be any temptation whatever to
any President OF the United States.
whether he was Democrat or whether
he was a Republican. 10 appoint men
in those islands as judges as a reward
for their political services 10 either par
ty In the United States: and. Mr.. Pres
ident, | think / am entirely justified
/ in that attitude by the history of this
country. and / am certainly JUSTIFIED
/ in II by the highest morals Of political
ECONOMY.
| passed through an experience OF this
kind, and / understand. / think. per-
haps a little better tnan gentlemen who
have not had such an experience, the
principle that ought to control the Gov
ernment of the United States In action
like this. The republic OF Hawaii. be-
ing a government that today exercises
every function and power OF govern
ment within its own limits. as ] obsery-
ed. is precisely I'm the attitude that the
State OF Alabama was In and the state
OF Georgia was in when they were
coupled together in a satrapy for the
purposes OF reconstruction. IL was not
declared when that reconstruction was
introduced here into Congress thai the
states had ost their sovereign rights
or their plpce In the American Union.
That was not declared But the Gov
ernment OF the United States took the
control OF them, and that control was
absolutely unlimited. To such an ex.
tent was IL carried that In my own
State a lieutenant In the command OF
a military company has gone into the
circuit court while the judge was hold
ling court. taken him of the bench, and
locked him up in jail because he in.
ficted a fine upon a drunken soldier
who was in a row In the streets o
Jacksonville, Calhoun County. Ala.
| That was the situation, which at the
time enthusiastically severe upon US
We did not suppose, and ! nevei
thought. there was any constitutions
justification for il at all. Nevertheless
Alabama, after she had seeded from
the American Union. had not been rep
resented In the Senate or in the Hous'
OF Representatives up to that time, ant
LIS governmental reconstruction wa
imposed upon us. and we were com
> PEELED TO accept in order 10 get our rep
lresentatiyes into this body and into tn
other House.
Upon what principle did the Govern
ment Of the United States proceed il
doing that? They proceeded upon tn
, idea that the State OF Alabama. th,
SJaJe OF Georgia, and all the othe
Southern States had come under tn
; supreme power and jurisdiction OF Con
gress In so far as Congress had tn
right to send its military officers ther
; TO compel obedience TO the laws OF tn
United States enacted by this SAM
, Congress.
Upon what predicate was that actor
based? II was upon the predicate tha
we had disassOciated ourselves by on
} own act from the Government OF tn
United States, ard the laws OF nation
} Justified the Government OF the Unite
States in holding us in a state. ma,
call Il. OF suspended animation as
) State government, and OF admitting u
into the Union upon certain condition
I. which we were required 10 accept an
, adopt: for instance, the ratification O
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments.
, Hawaii. when this act OF annexation
| was passed and wnen sne dcctpted II
!, was placed by your statute exactly d
; the same situation. except that in Ha
. wall the civil power OF the Goyernmen
!. OF the United States was extended Owe
, the territory through the act OF IN
, PRESIDENT instead Of the military powe
: which was extended by act OF Congres
. in 1866 and 1867. which / believe wer
!, 1.-The dates. Hawaii, Therefore, today
!. lin the situation that Louisiana was, a
}, | have heretofore observed, under th
|, act approved by Mr.. Jefferson, wher'
, in virtue Of international law. Louis
. lana was held subject 70 the jurisdictio
, and power OF the Congress OF IN
United States. and the President Of th
United States in that act-I do nc
, know in that act by express terms, bu
in this act by express terms-the Pres
, ident OF the United States has u
power:
Until Congress shall provide for N
, government Of such Islands all the civi
= judicial. and military powers exercise
by the officers OF the existing govern