Items of Interest May 10, 1900 Issue

Items of Interest

The bill providing for the establishment of a complete form of government for the Hawaiian Islands was signed by President McKinley on April 30. The law provides for a governor and other executive officers, a legislature of two branches, and a judiciary consisting of a Supreme Court, Circuit Court, and inferior courts. The law also provides that Hawaii shall be represented in Congress by a delegate, chosen by the people. The tariff laws of the United States are to be extended over the Territory of Hawaii. Sanford B. Dole, who has been President of the Hawaiian Republic since the monarchy was overthrown, is to be the first governor.

The Post Office Department now sells the two-cent denomination of postage stamps in small bound books of twelve, twenty-four, and forty-eight stamps each. They are sold at an advance of one cent on the stamp value of each book to cover the cost of manufacture. The pages are of six stamps each, interleaved with paraffine paper to prevent premature adhesion, making a book of convenient size to carry in the pocket or pocket-book.

A substitute for the pending Nicaraguan canal bill has been introduced. It authorizes the President to acquire in behalf of the United States the control of such territory as may be necessary and desirable for the construction of a canal between some point in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

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