The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-10-09
HAWA|I'S NEEDS
ARE MANIFOLD
Secretary Cooper Sends Com.
pIete Report Of Money
Needed.

II 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 a good
showing. The Territorial Government
will ask the next Congress for appro-
priations amounting to 81. 800 900. and
all OF this will be used-prov.ded 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 Il. Cooper. Secretary OF the
Territory, received by the last Austria
liza letter from Secretary of the Treas
ury Lyman j. Gage. request for a
complete statement of Hawaiis 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 it 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 s1.600,000, 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 a 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 fine Fed
eral Building were erected at this point
it would prove a handsome offset for
the Capitol and Judiciary which face
other sides of the square. The plot of
ground which 1t is proposed to buy has
no structures on it now the buildings
which stood on the lot having been
burned during the plague epidemic.
The new Federal Building will be used
as Postoffice Custom house, Internal
Revenue office and for offices for the
Federal courts. 1t will also be recon-
Ia1
house be erected at Hilo.
1t Is advised in the report that con-
siderable sums be expended in the
dredging of Honolulu harbor and also
of that at Hilo. The erection of new
wharves here are recommended as well
as the extension of that at Hilo. The
dredging of Wailoa creek, the stream
that runs into Hilo bay is also recon-
mended. This will give better wharf
age and dockage facilities for the me-
tropolis of the big island.
The Improvement of Pearl Harbor
and the completion of the proposed
Naval station at that point are partic-
ularly mentioned in the report as con-
ducing to the general welfare of the
Islands.
1t is advised that considerable money
be expended in building light houses at
the more prominent points on Oahu,
Maui and Hawaii. as well as on some of
the smaller Islands.
If all the money which is asked for
be appropriated for Hawaii 1t will re-
suit in manifold improvements that will
show the people some of the material
benefits of being part of the greatest
republic in the world