The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-16

tention to the fact that no notice OF
the introduction of any such amend
ment had been received in the Terri
tory, nor was there any publicly ex-
pressed desire for it, the first intima-
ton Of its existence being by news ca
bled to the effect that the amendment
had passed.
During the year some question has
been raised as to the jurisdiction OF
the Territorial Circuit Courts in nat
uralization matters, and the effect has
been to reduce the number of residents
capable of serving as jurors. 1t is
clearly within the power of Congress,
however, to remedy the evil in ques-
ton by allowing aliens to be natural
lied by any court of record having,
common-law jurisdiction when such
aliens comply with the conditions and
provisions of the United States stat
utes.
Among the most important criminal
cases in the year We're several against
public officials member of the house
of representatives and an attorney at
law were convicted of connection with
scandals concerning vouchers Of the
Legislature of 1903; a former commits
sioner of public lands was also found
S0iI(S VI 6LHbSIZAliiS PuDilG AufluS <tLN
is now serving sentence.
Under the head of needed legislation,
the Governor makes the following rec
concentrations:
l. The passage by Congress of an
act under which the Secretary of the
Treasury shall cause to be set aside
for a period of twenty years IS per
cent of the customs and internal rev
enues from Hawaii. to be used in Ha-
{ wall as may be directed by Congress
for the following purposes, to wit, the
erection of educational and Federal
public buildings, harbor improvements
and Federal military and naval de-
lenses.
?. An act clearly defining the juris-
diction of the Circuit Courts in Ha-
wall in reference to their power of
naturalizing aliens and legalizing their
! previous actions in that respect, by
amending section 100 of the organic
act.
3. The amendment of the organic
act so as to confer upon the Governor
| the power of suspension or removal
| between sessions of the Senate of any
appointed officer; also the removal OF
| the restrictions on leasing agricultural
| lands, and the providing for annual in
stead of biennial sessions of the Leg
| islature.
| 4. The modification of the immigra-
| ton laws. providing for an increase of
population so as to develop the re-
sources of the Territory to the fullest
extent.
The Governor also recommends that
appropriations be made by Congress
for the following purposes, to wit: To
continue the work of dredging the Ho-
nolulu harbor, matter which is in the
interest not only of the Territory. but
| of the entire American trans-Pacific
commerce; for lighthouses, including
the very much needed new front and
rear range lights in Honolulu harbor,
to afford better protection to COM
merce; under the Department of JUS
tice, an appropriation for carrying out
the desire of Congress in the condem-
nation of private fishing rights in Ha-
wall, and an increase in the appropria-
ton to provide for two additional
judges in the Supreme Court; for re-
funding to the Territory the sums ex-
pended between June IA, 1900, and De-
cember 80, 1904, for the maintenance of
lighthouses, an expenditure which no
other community in the United States
has ever been obliged to undertake;
also refunding to the Territory all ex-
penditures during said period in dredg-
ing Honolulu harbor and providing for
quarters for the Federal court in the
Territorial building.