The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-04
NEW ORDERS TO IMPROVE MILITIA
National Guard of Hawaii,

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governing the National. Guard of Ha
wall
By command of the Governor:
J. w. JONES,
Colonel and Adjutant General, Terri
tory of Hawaii.
Following are the orders referred to:
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Washington, January {, 1907.
General Orders, No. 8.
Article xiv, Army Regulations, is
rescinded and the following substituted
ther efor:
ARTICLE xiv.
The Organized Militia.
ass. The following provisions Of the
and laws govern the call
ing of the militia into the service Of
the United States:
The Constitutional provisions are
The Congress shall have power
to provide for calling forth the militia
to execute the laws of the Union, sup
press Instructions and repel inva-
sions;
To provide for organizing, arming,
and disciplining, the militia, and for
governing such part of them as may
be employed in the service of the I'm: I
ted States, reserving to the States re-
spectively, the appointment of the Of
ficers, and the authority of training
the militia according to the discipline
prescribed by Congress. Cart. I, sec.
8, pars 1910.
The United States shall guarantee to
every State in this Union a republican
form of government and shall protect
each Of them against invasion; and on
application of the legislature, or Of the
executive (when the legislature can
not be conveneO against domestic vio-
lence. Cart. ", sec. -.
In pursuance of the foregoing dele
cations Of authority Congress has en-
acted 1
[Revised Statutes.l
. Sec 52SS. It shall be lawful for the
President, or such persons as he shall
empower for that purpose, to employ
such part OF the land or naval forces
of the United States, or of the militia
thereof, as shall be necessary to COM
pei any foreign vessel to depart the
United States in all cases in which, by
the laws of nations or the treaties Of
the United States, she ought not to re-
main within the United States.
INSTRUCTIONS.
Sec. 5297 In case of an instruction
in any State against the government
thereof it shall be lawful for the Pres
ident, on application of the legislature
of such State, or of the executive when
the legislature can not be convened, to
call forth such number Of the militia
of any other State or States which
may be applied for as he deems suf-
ficient to suppress such insurrection,
or, on like application, to employ for
the same purposes such part of the
land or naval forces of the United
States as he deems necessary.
! Sec. 529S. Whenever, by reason OF
unlawful obstruction, combinations, or
assembIages of persons, or rebellion
against the authority of the Govern
ment of the United States, it shall be-
come impracticable, in the judgment of
the President, to enforce by the ordi-
nary course of judicial proceedings the
laws of the United States within any
State or Territory, it shall be lawful
for the President to call forth the mill
tia of any or all the States and to en-
ploy such parts of the land and naval
forces of the United States as he may
deem necessary to enforce the faithful
execution of the laws of the United
States or to suppress such rebellion In
whatever State or Territory thereof
the laws of the United States may be
forcibly opposed or the execution
thereof forcibly obstructed.
Sec. 5299. Whenever instruction,
domestic violence, unlawful combina-
tions, or conspiracies in any State SO
obstructs or binders the execution of
the laws thereof and OF the United
States as to deprive any portion or
class of the people of such State of
any of the rights, privileges, or irnnu-
mites or protection named in the Con-
stitution and secured by the laws for
the protection of such rights, privil-
eyes, or immunitfes, and the consttt-
uted authorities of such State are I'M
able to protect or from any cause fail
in or refuse protection of the people in
such rights. such facts shall be deemed
denial by such State of the equal
protection of the laws to which they
are entitled under the Constitution of
the United States, and in all such
cases, or whenever any such fnsurrec-
LlOn, violence, UNLAWFUL cOIlU1lfd LiOIi,
or conspiracy, opposes or obstructs the
laws OF the United States or the due
execution thereof, or impedes or OBJ
structS the due course of justice IN
der the same, it shall be lawful for the
President, and it shall be his duty. to
take such measures, by the employ
ment of the militia or the land and
naval forces of the United States, or
of either, or by other means, as he may
deem necessary for the suppression OF
such Instruction, domestic violence,
or combinations.
(Act of January u, 1909
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled, That the militia shall consist OF
every abIe-bodied male citizen of tho
respective States, Territories, and the
District of Columbia, and every able
bodied male of foreign birt44 who mas
declared his intention to become
citizen. who is more than eighteen ana
less than forty-five years of age, ana
shall be divided into two classes-the
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