. Review of reviews and world's work. ago toreport on the islands system of taxation and rev-enue. Mr. Garrison has had a long experience in responsible positions connected with the Department at Washington. By these appointments, following that of Governor Allen, theadministration has given the best possible guar-antee of a clean and able colonial the settlement of tlie tariff question tradebetween Porto Rico and New York has quicklyrevived. TheHawaiianFranchise. Congress has had to face in Hawaiiconditions somewhat similar to thosewliich led to the Fifteenth Amend-
. Review of reviews and world's work. ago toreport on the islands system of taxation and rev-enue. Mr. Garrison has had a long experience in responsible positions connected with the Department at Washington. By these appointments, following that of Governor Allen, theadministration has given the best possible guar-antee of a clean and able colonial the settlement of tlie tariff question tradebetween Porto Rico and New York has quicklyrevived. TheHawaiianFranchise. Congress has had to face in Hawaiiconditions somewhat similar to thosewliich led to the Fifteenth Amend-ment ; and tliere it has, apparently, committed aserious mistake in tlie civil-government bill whichbecame a law late in April. Instead of giving theright of francliise the same bounds which it hadunder the provisional government (and which arereported to have been satisfactory), the propertyqualifications of senatorial electors have been re-moved, and tlie only limitations that now standare those wliich apply as well to electors for. GOV. SANFORD B. DOLE, OF HAWAII. members of the lower house—the ability toread and write either the English or Hawaiian lan< ;uage. It would seem that the advice of the commission should have prevailed in this as insome other matters, even if the theory of suffragethere did not entirely accord with the traditions THE PROGRESS OF THE IVORLD. 655 here, the conditions being widely dominant in Hawaii receive news of tliismodification of the original bill with grave doubtsof its wisdom, feeling that such an extension islikely to make against Americanism in the island,and to imperil the institutions we are seekingto establish. No important changes have beenmade in the bill as described in our April num-ber, except by an amendment prohibiting thesale of liquor in saloons. The Hawaiians, thoughnot entirely satisfied, welcome the new govern-ment as guaranteeing stability and certainty ofdomestic peace, and hope that when Congressbecome
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