The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-21
APPROPRIATIONS FOR
ISLAND IMPROVEMENTS
Governors Report Gives Estimates
of Amounts Needed for Harbor
and Public Buildings.

Treasury Department about lighthouses
and boats. With their concurrence he
has recommended to the Treasury De-
partment in his estimates, now with
the chief of the bureau of warrants and
appropriations. $15O000 for the construc-
tion OF lighthouse tender and $3.50, 900
for the construction of revenue cut
ter. Mr., Cooper has made a further
recommendation of 500, 900 for the con-
struction of seven new lighthouses one
each for the following localities: Ma
kapuu Point, island of Oahu; Kahului,
Maui island; Puma, Kailua, kawaihae
and Mahukona, ali on the island of Ha~
waii; and Kalaeokalaau on the island
of Molokai. His estimates to the Treas
ury Department also include 80, 900 for
buoys for Honolulu and $4,000 for buoys
on the other islands
After a consultation with Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Allies, and
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Taylor Mr.. Cooper submitted an esti-
mate OF $4,000 for new postoffice at
Hilo and $4,000 for new custom house
at Hilo; also an estimate of $14S .020 for
purchase of a site for a public building
in Honolulu. In this estimate he pre-
sented the cost Of several plots of land,
together with the names of the pres
ent owners. Mr.. Allies advised Mr..
Cooper to make up for the Treasury
Department plan of the amount of
floor space that would be needed for
the proposed building at Honolulu to-
gether Egith a statement of other de-
i L I'll,
would be useful for the Information OF
the supervising architect Of the Treas
ury and other officials. Mr.. Cooper
promised to do this at his earliest op-
portunity.
Attorney General Knox said Saturday
Oct. s. that he had not yet prepared
the opinion for President Roosevelt
about the legality of the legislative act
providing for a new circuit judgeship
He had at that time, however, gathered
considerable material for the opinion
including laws of the Territory. the
specific language OF the Organic Act
and expected to have the opinion pre-
pared before many days II would be
useless to conjecture what the tenor OF
the opinion will be, except that the At
torney General from a casual eXamina-
ton of the law had sufficient doubt
about its validity to caution the Presi-
dent against an appointment till the
matter is thoroughly studied by him
1t goes without saying that, in any
event, it will be some weeks before
there will be an additional judge.
Colonel Samuel Parker of Honolulu,
who crossed the Pacific on the same
steamer with Mr.. Cooper. arrived in
Washington several days after him, and
On the evening of Tuesday. Oct. l, regis
tered at the Arlington. With him We're
Mr. r. c. A Peterson and Mr.. w. j.
Kane. both OF Honolulu, who also regis
tered at the Arlington. Colonel Parker
was under the weather for three or four
days following, and part of the time was
confined to his room, but his illness, due
to the change OF the weather and change
of diet, was not serious. He has filed
at the Department of the Interior re-
quest for a rehearing on and a consid-
Grafton of the decision that the Terri
torial government can not be allowed to
lease for ninety-nine years public lands
In North Kohala for irrigating bitches,
looking to the Improvement and reclama-