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think, and makes perfect sense of it.   It is only a comma.   It does 
not make a full sentence after the amendment. 
But the legislature shall not grant to any corporation, etc.
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there further amendments 
as in Committee of the Whole?
Mr. CULLOM. I think section 104, which is the section that 
provides that the act shall take effect sixty days after the date of 
the approval thereof, ought to be transferred and made the last 
section of the bill. That can be done by the clerks after we get 
through. I merely thought I would call attention to it.
Mr. PETTIGREW. I should like to ask the Senator why he 
considers it necessary to defer the taking effect of the act for 
sixty days, if there is such great haste in its passage. If they 
can not have a legislature or protect themselves, and this law is 
not to take effect for sixty days, it seems to me there is no very 
great haste.
Mr. CULLOM. The trouble is, there is a good distance between 
us and the islands.
Mr. PETTIGREW.   It is only twelve days from Washington. 
Mr. CULLOM.   I want to make the time as short as we can 
consistently, so as to have the law go into execution as soon as 
possible.
Mr. PETTIGREW. Thirty days is certainly an abundance of 
time, because it is only twelve days from here to Hawaii.
Mr. CULLOM. Does the Senator from South Dakota think 
that is enough time?
Mr. PETTIGREW.   Undoubtedly it is an abundance of time. 
Mr. PLATT of Connecticut.   That is a pretty short time. 
Mr. PETTIGREW.   I should like to terminate these slave 
labor laws as soon as possible.
Mr. CULLOM.   I have no objection to making it thirty days. 
Mr. PETTIGREW.   Certainly that is an abundance of time. 
Mr. CULLOM.   I will consent to that change so far as I am 
concerned now.   If I find by inquiry that it will be impossible to 
retain that clause, we will change it.   But I will consent to make 
it thirty days instead of sixty.
Mr. PETTIGREW. There are copies of this bill in Hawaii, and 
the moment the bill becomes a law the telegraph will take the news 
to San Francisco, and it is seven days from San Francisco to 
Hawaii. So that in fact ten days would be abundant time.
Mr. CULLOM. I will consent to the change suggested by the 
Senator from South Dakota.
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Chair understand the 
Senator, from South Dakota to make a motion to strike out "sixty " 
and insert "thirty?"
Mr. PETTIGREW. I understood the Senator from Illinois to 
accept the amendment, striking out "sixty" and inserting 
"thirty."
Mr. CULLOM.   I consent to that. 
Mr. PETTIGREW.   It ought to be twenty days. 
Mr. CULLOM.   I am afraid that would not operate. 
The PRESIDENT pro tempore.   The amendment to strike out 
"sixty" and insert "thirty" before "days " will be agreed to if 
there is no objection.
Mr. ALLEN.   Mr. President, I have no desire to speak on the 
amendment, but there is another matter which I desire to call to 
the attention of the Senator from Illinois. 
The PRESIDENT pro tempore.   The amendment is agreed to. 
Mr. ALLEN.   I wish to call the attention of the Senator from 
Illinois to section 4, defining citizenship.   I notice that section 4 
provides:
That all persons who were citizens of the republic of Hawaii on August 
12, 1898, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States.
Who were citizens of those islands on the 12th of August, 1898?
Mr. CULLOM. I do not know whether I understand the ques- 
tion.
Mr. MORGAN. All persons who were born in the islands or 
naturalized up to that time.
Mr. ALLEN.   That is rather indefinite.   How many persons 
were there and how many persons were deprived of citizenship? 
Mr. MORGAN.   We were not sent there to take a census, and 
we could not have done it.   We had no opportunity to do that, 
and we could not find out in any other way.
Mr. ALLEN. Relatively speaking, how many citizens were 
there?
Mr. MORGAN. I do not want to make a guess about a matter 
that I do not know anything about.
Mr. ALLEN. The Senator from Alabama was sent there to 
find out something about these matters.
Mr. MORGAN.   We discharged our whole duty.
Mr. ALLEN. I have no doubt of that; but it has never fallen 
to my lot to even inquire successfully into this matter. My field 
of operation, so far as our foreign relations are concerned, has 
been somewhat circumscribed, and I presume it will be here- 
after. Therefore I must appeal to learned and distinguished Sena- 
tors who, presumptively at least, know all these things for the
information I desire. I have the impression in my mind some 
way that there is a very limited citizenship in that country, and 
that the citizenship rests upon a property qualification. I should 
like to ask the Senator from Illinois if that is not true?
Mr. CULLOM. I think not, Mr. President. The voting is 
limited.
Mr. ALLEN. Probably I should distinguish between citizen- 
ship in its comprehensive term and the elective franchise.
Mr. CULLOM. There was a property qualification under the 
republic for those who voted for senators larger than that which 
was found in this bill. I think I can anticipate what the Senator 
from Nebraska desires to know especially. There were a portion 
of the people there who declined to take the oath to the republic 
and become citizens of the republic, who were residents of the 
island, and my recollection is (the Senator from Alabama per- 
haps will correct me if I am wrong) that there were possibly 800 
or 900 who declined to take the oath to the republic and refused 
to vote on that ground; and they have not yet voted, as I under- 
stand it. I ask the Senator from Alabama whether that is a  
correct statement or not. I do not recollect very distinctly the 
number.
Mr. MORGAN. The statement has been fully made on the 
record in this debate. It has been fully made according to what 
the Senator is now suggesting.
Mr. CULLOM. I suppose that is what the Senator from Ne- 
braska was trying to ascertain.
Mr. ALLEN.   Yes.  Were all male persons 21 years of age, who 
were domiciled in those islands, who were compos mentis and not 
disqualified by crime, eligible to vote on the 12th of August, 1898? 
Mr. CULLOM.   Not all persons.
Mr. ALLEN.   I do not mean all persons; I mean all males. 
Mr. CULLOM.   They were eligible to vote for. representatives, 
provided they could speak, read, and write the English or the 
Hawaiian language, but they were not all eligible to vote for sen- 
ators unless they had at that time more than $1,500 worth of prop- 
erty or had an income perhaps of $1,000.   The voting capacity was 
limited by that kind of a property qualification. 
Mr. ALLEN.   Are those restrictions removed by this bill? 
Mr. CULLOM.   This bill allows all persons to vote who are 
citizens of the United States and of the islands who can speak, 
read, and write the English language or the Hawaiian language. 
So that substantially all the population of the islands who are 
male citizens 21 years of age are to be voters.
Mr. ALLEN. What I wanted to know and what I wanted to 
insist upon if this bill does not cover that feature, and I want to 
insist upon it in good faith, is that suffrage in those islands shall 
be unrestricted, or restricted no more, I should say, than it is re- 
stricted in the United States, in the State of Illinois, or the State 
of Nebraska.
Mr. CULLOM. There is no restriction that does not prevail in 
the Senator's State and mine except the intelligence provision 
that the voter shall be able to speak, read, and write the English 
or Hawaiian language.
Mr. ALLISON.   That ought to be satisfactory. 
Mr. ALLEN.   I find on page 13 of the bill, section 25, prescrib- 
ing punishment of persons not members of the legislature, it 
provides for certain things, some of which I will read:
That each house may punish by fine, or by imprisonment not exceeding 
thirty days, any person not a member of either house who shall be guilty of 
disrespect of such house by any disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its 
presence: or
Who shall, on account of the exercise of any legislative function, threaten 
harm to the body or estate of any of the members of such house; or
Who shall assault, arrest, or detain any witness or other person ordered 
to attend such house, on his way going to or returning therefrom; or
Who shall rescue any person arrested by order of such house.
I thought that those provisions, necessary and well enough in 
themselves, ought to be supplemented by a provision that would 
give power to a committee duly appointed by either house to con- 
duct an investigation, the authority to punish witnesses for a fail- 
ure to attend when properly subpoenaed, or for contumacious con- 
duct, such as declining to answer proper questions when before 
the committee. If this bill is to stand as the constitution or in 
lieu of the constitution for the government now being erected in 
the Hawaiian Islands, it ought to be specific, and the legislative 
branch of that government ought to have full power to ascertain 
the truth that may affect its own standing or the standing of its 
members, or that may affect the condition of legislation. With- 
out some provision of that kind both the legislative bodies would 
be powerless to act. Yet I do not know that it is my duty to offer 
an amendment. I do not think it is. I call attention to it, how- 
ever, as a defect in the bill.
Mr. SPOONER.   Is the Senator from Nebraska through?
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Ne- 
braska yield the floor?
Mr. ALLEN.   Yes; I yield.
Mr. SPOONER. Mr. President, some days ago in the debate 
upon this bill I stated it as my recollection that the Senator from

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