Evening star., 1902-03-07

sf the United States" Mr.. Garter said to q
reporter of The Evening Star today. Are
you accustomed to American ideas YETI
and DO the native people take kindly to
free government? are asked me ire
Guenty. AS matter of fact, the people Of
otto In their demonstrations on American
holidays. Hawaiians have had representa-
tive government and elections since 1S47.
and they understand the ordinary term Of
politics pretty well.
The Election Next Fall.
".As to the general conditions in Hawaii?
Well, that is indeed a comprehensive sub
ject. In the first place we are in de-
pressed condition financially. The price Of
sugar. which Is our main industry, has
reached the lowest point ever known. We
haven't gotten over the disastrous fire
which was made necessary to stamp out
the bubonio plague. The people of the
United States never realized the extent Of
that disaster. We have no cable to notify
ton, Johnstown, Jacksonville and other
cities had when they needed help.
I'VE are looking forward to another cleo
tion the coming November. and it will un-
doubtedly be repetition of an OyerWheln1-
ing native vote (the natives are in big
majority and another legislature where
the proceedings will be conducted with a
manifest intent to ignore the organic act
1ish. and will be long and tediously drawn
out by delays necesstated by translating
everything from Hawaiian into English.
''At the last session of the legislature the
Hawaiian majority argued that IL the min
utes were recorded in English that was
sufficient to keep within the organic act
any way it was not fair to take one clause
out of the act and enforce that. for it was
q well-recOgnized law in English as well as
American Jurisprudence that document
must be interpreted as whole: that Of the
three points involving the Hawaiians in
the organic act two were in their favor
and this one against them. Still further,
they argued that 1t was a well-recogniZed
American principle that the majority
proceedings should be conducted in their
own language.
Ignored the Organic Act.
notwithstanding that the Hawaiians had
an overwhelming majority in both houses
they failed to comply with the organic act
and apportion the senators provided in
section 80. In organizing the territory it
was necessary that at the first election fif-
teen senator's the whole number of the
upper house. should be elected. To make
the body continuous one seven were to
retire in two years, to be succeeded by
others, and eight were to be four-year SEN
ators. succeeding elections putting In seven
or eight as the case might be-
I'm this way part of the body would be
returned every year and part would hold
over. The legislature failed, however, to
arrange the details Of such apportionment
and no selection Of the seven two-year SEN
ators was made. This fall under the law,
seven new senators will be elected. but, un-
less Congress comes to the rescue. I can see
no possible way for deciding which of the
fifteen senators shall retire to make way
for newcomers
THE republican minority proposed to the
Hawaiians that the matter be settled by
the selection to go OF those senators who
received the lowest number of votes In each
district. This was not satisfactory. Then
the minority proposed that the seven sena-
tors who received the highest number OF
votes at the last election be selected to re-
tire. But nothing seemed satisfactory to
them They would have much preferred to
make the allotment 30 that the six reub-
lican senators should be In for two years
only. This being simply a failure to COM
ply with the law. 1t Is difficult in any way
TO bring 1t before the courts.
Congress Can Correct Abuses.
There seems to be no other alternative
than to appeal to the power which brought
the territory into existence and framed the
act, for certainly If the question is not
settled there will be only seven senator's,
the newly elected ones. concerning whose
seats there can be no doubt. This will be
not majority. not even a quorum Under
legislature will be ineffective; no legislation
can be done"
Asked about Gov. Dole and the present
administration in Hawaii. Senator Carter
said
II am glad Gov. Dole IS coming here to
confer with the President. OF course, what
] have said to President Roosevelt on the
subject of affairs in our territory must be
made public from the White House. IL at
all. The impression that have gained here
In the United States seems to be that Mr..
Dole is in bad health. In fact. he has en-
tireiy recovered and II refreshed by his
rest and Is apparently as well as ever The
telegram which was sent him yesterday IL
1t caught the boat In time, might reach him
80 that he could get to Washington about
March ~: otherwise about April l. The
whole Hawaiian situation will be gone over
and the President will make up his mind
as to what policy he will adopt In the Is
lands for the future"
The Need Of q Cable.
Senator Carter Is enthusiastically In favor
Of q cable from the United States to the
Hawaiian Islands.