People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — TO GOVERN HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

TO GOVERN HAWAII.

Some Features of the Proposed New CoeBtitutlorv. Honolulu, May 15, via San Francisco, May 23.—The constitutional convention, the members of which were elected on May 3, will meet on May 30. The new constitution will be presented to the convention for its approval. Its main features are as follows: The new government is to be called the Republic of Hawaii. The executive power will be vested in the president. The executive council will consist of five members instead of four as at present, a minister of health and education being added. The upper house will consist of fifteen senators. The qualification of a senator will be that he shall be 30 years old, shall be able to read and write the English language, shall have resided in the islands three years, shall own property of not less than $5,000 in value and shall have an income of $1,200 a year. r. The assembly or lower house is to consist of fifteen members, six from the island of Oahu and three each from Hawaii, Maui and Kaui. They will serve for two years only. A member of the assembly must be a cit.zen of Hawaii or a citizen of any country which has treaty relations with Hawaii, and have resided in the islands for at least a year. He must be able to read and write the English or Hawaiian language, except in case of those who voted in the recent elections to whom this requirement does not apply. Meetings of the legislature are to be held every two years. Each session is to be limited to ninety days and neither house can adjourn more than two days without the consent of the other. The president will have the power of veto, which can be overruled by a two-thirds vote of both houses. It is the present intention to have President Dole reappointed for a term of two years, probably six, after which the offices will be filled by regular elections. It is more likely that the present ministers will be retained for a year, as their appointment rests with the president. j The new constitution can be amended or revised in the ordinary way. but it is expressly stipulated that amendments containing a proposition for the establishment of a monarchical form of government shall not be presented. The claim is now made that when the republic is declared the natives will make the looked-for uprising. Royalist leaders say they are only restrained by the expressed wish of the ex-queen, who still has great faith in the United States.