Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII.

Annexation Committee Decides on a Form of Government anti a Name. It will be the “Territory of Hawaii.” That is the name which the annexation committee Ims decided to recommend to Congress. The form of the government will be modeled on that of existing territories. Local self government will be given through the extension of the municipal idpa. The islands will be divided into municipal districts having control, under restrictions and limitations, of purely local affairs. Hawaii may be divided into two districts and Molokai, Lenai and Niyhan may be attached to some other municipal district. The question of territorial legislature has uot been fully settled. There will probably be one, but with limited powers. All the attributes of sovereignty, however, will be-exer-cised by the national government of the United States. The people of Hawaii will be called on to consider themselves Americans. looking to the national government as the source of national power.