The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-12
MEMBER OF HOUSE OF REPRE-
SENTATIvES MAKES TOUR
OF THE WORLD
WAS GONE NEARLY SIX MONTHS
Visited Hawaii, Guam, Philippines,
the Orient, Amur Valley
and Northern
Russia.
SOME MISTAKES POINTED GUT
FROM THE GLoBE BUREAU,

Washington, ID. {.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-Representa-
tive E. j. Hill, Of Connecticut, during the
congressional recess, made tour OF the
world, occupying five months and fifteen
days. He visited Hawaii Guam, the
Philippines China, Japan, Siberia, going
through the Amur Valley, and home
through Russia. This trip gave him an
intimate personal knowledge of many OF
the questions awaiting congressional ac-
tion. Mr.. Hill in speaking of the trip
today said
II have read in the newspapers that
Judge Humphreys, Of Honolulu, after be-
ing cleared by the attorney general of
the charges presented against him by the
bar association, has gone back to Hawaii
with the purpose of fostering a move
ment for the removal Of Gov. Dole
No greater mistake could be made We
are responsible not they, for the condi7
ton of things which exist there. Tie
Cullom commission, sent to the islands to
investigate, came back and officially ad-
vised the restriction of the suffrage,
practically to the plan which obtained
under the republic, when it was limited,
through property qualification to sub
stantially the intelligent whites and re-
sponsible natives.
when the Hawaiian bill came up, al
though 1 opposed it's present features and
had the support of many Of the leading
members of congress, the bill passed and
by the stroke of a pen 3,G00 intelligent,
financially responsible voters were over
slaughed by 11,000 Kanallas being ad-
mitted to the right of suffrage. l exam
ined the situation at Honolulu with scme
care on my recent visit there, in view
of my participation in the passage OF
that measure. AS expected, the kanaka
element in the campaign raised the cry
of kill the foreigner and restore the
monarchy and came out of the election
in triumph with an overwhelming major
ity of the local legislature, but, FORUM
ately, lacked one of the two-thirds vote
in the senate, so that the veto power of
Gov Dole cannot be overridden. The or
ganic act required that the proceedings
of the legislature shall be in English. The
majority cannot speak English and its
members evade the law by having an in
terpreter and repeating every word that
is said in either language. Their sessions
are limited to sixty days When 1 was
there forty-two days had expired, and
only four measures had been acted upon,
and 1 did not wonder at it as 1 watched
the course of procedure; the whole thing
was the laughing stock of the great ma
jority of the intelligent people Of the
city.
DON'T Want LAW Changed.
at talked with Gov. Dole and many
others, and while my opinion was decid-
edly that the wisest thing would be to
amend the law at the next session of
congress, I could not help but admire the
position which these men took, that it
was better to trust to the rapid increase
of the intelligent vote in Honolulu since
annexation, and to the manifest dissatis-
faction Of the native element with their
own representatives, to change the condi-
ton at the next election; the men believ-
ed it would be better to have things rec
titled by the people themselves, than to
have the law changed by congress.
"As might be expected, the so-called
rarpetbag element is by no means quiet.
The men who made Hawaii, and who viii
give it a great future as a part of the
American republic, are behind Gov. Dole,
and any yielding to the carpetbag ele-
ment would bring about a condition of
affairs surely disgraceful to us as a ma
hon. We have made one mistake in this
matter in enacting the present law; we
should not make another by completely
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