The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-06
Congress Will Be
Asked For. Big
Amount.
A MILLION AND A
HALF DEMANDED
Secretary Cooper Sends Com.
plete Report of Money
Needed.

If Hawaii gets all she wants from the
Federal Government this coming year
the sum that will be expended for pub
lie improvements ought to make good
showing. The Territorial Government
will ask the next Congress for appro-
priations amounting to s1,60O,000, and
all of this will be used-provided al
ways that Congress lends an ear to the
wants of Hawaii-in public improve
ments about the whole group such as
light houses, harbor betterment and
public buildings.
Henry E. Cooper, Secretary of the
Territory, received by the last Austria
liza letter from Secretary of the Treas
ury Lyman j. Gage, a request for a !
complete statement of Hawaii's needs |
in the way of public improvements |
He asked that this statement should be |
as full as possible, that all the needs of |
the Territory be set forth in full so that
in making up the Appropriation Bill in
the next Congress the members of the
House and Senate committees may un-
.derstand fully what Hawaii desires.
Mr.. Cooper has taken Mr.. Gage at
his word and has drawn up list of
Hawaii's needs that covers the whole
subject very carefully and no Con-
gressional committee can plead for not
giving Hawaii her dues in the matter
of appropriations that 1t did not know
what was needed. The sum total of the
estimates as presented by Mr.. Cooper
in the report that he will send to Sec
, ,retary Gage is about s1,6O0,000, a very
respectable amount, considering that
Hawaii is the youngest Territory in the
Union.
Mr.. Cooper's report is a lengthy one
and goes carefully into an estimate of
the cost of all of the proposed improve
ments as well as a description of why
the request is made for the appropria-
ton. 1t is accompanied by a large
number of maps which will help to elu-
cidate the points to which Mr.. Cooper
calls attention.
Included in the report are requests
for the appropriation of funds for the
purchase of Federal Building for Ho-
nolulu. The lot which it is recommend
ed be purchased is the one facing Union
Square at the junction Of Merchant
street and King street. If a fine Fed
eral Building were erected at this point
lit would prove a handsome Offset fol
the Capitol and Judiciary which face
other sides of the square The plot OF
ground which it is proposed to buy has
no structures on it now the buildings
t burned during the plague epidemic
7 The new Federal Building will be uset
: as a Postoffice Custom house, Interna
: Revenue Office and for offices for tn
Federal courts. 1t will also be recon
e mended that a postoffice and custom
$ house be erected at Hilo.
, 1t is advised in the report that con
siderable sums be expended in tn
{ dredging of Honolulu harbor and ais
h of that at Hilo. The erection of ne'
e wharves here are recommended as we
Y as the extension of that at Hilo Th
/ dredging of Wailoa creek, the strear
n that runs into HilO bay is also recon
IF mended. This will give better whar.
!. age and dockage facilities for the mt
s. tropolis of the big island.
"a The Improvement of Pearl Harbt
w and the completion of the propose
= Naval station at that point are parti
d. ularly mentioned in the report as col
=, =, dueing to the general welfare.sof Il
is Islands.
It is advised that considerable mon,
ct be expended in building light houses
ne the more prominent points on Oah
IN Maui and Hawaii. as well as on some
- the smaller Islands.
n If all the money which is asked
~. ne be appropriated for Hawaii 1t will T
suit in manifold improvements that W