The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-03
TO PAY FIRE
CLAIMANTS
Interest on Bonds
Will be Paid
Back.
$4,000 COMING
TO TERRITORY
Will be Used for Paying Fire
Judgments-The Pro Rata
Schedule is Fixed.

The Territory of Hawaii has about
s175 600 coming to 1t from the United
States Treasury for interest paid by LIE
| Territory on outstanding bonds. MS
money is to be used for the payment OF
fire claims. being especially designated
for that purpose Treasurer wright mas
| received no information from Washing
ton lately regarding the payment or this
| amount. but the fact that the Secretary
of the Treasury Is now lquidating the
Hawaiian debt, held in England, leads
local officials to believe the interest mon
ey will soon be paid. The last Hawaiian
bond issue is held in London, and Secre-
| tary Gage, in his last annual report 10
! the President and Congress, announced
| that it was to be paid Immediately. Ihere
will then be no further reason for delay
| in the payment of the $4,000 which was
paid out of the Hawaiian Treasury for
| the United States, after annexation. Con-
| gress appropriated sufficient money TO
pay all outstanding Hawaiian debts
which included interest On bonds: but the
| Territorial authorities continued TO pay
the interest on some of the bonds on de-
mand during what is known as the
transition period.
| This interest, which Auditor Austin es-
| Inmates amounts to $4,000. is specially
designated for the liquidation OF hre
claims, but these cannot be paid until
every claim has been adjudicated. The
commission IS still hard at work on the
evidence before it, and the claims are
| being finished up at the rate of from fifty
| to two hundred per day. The work VIII
Two. .al
the ruling of the fire court none of these
| judgments will be made known until the
entire number, some $780, have been IL
naly passed upon. When this has been
completed pro rata payment Will be
ordered, and by that time the money due
from the National government will NJ
doubt have been paid. There is no reason
why it should not be settled Immediately,
as the money has been in the United
States Treasury for months. for this very
purpose, and 1t would require very little
urging the part of Delegate Wilcox
to have the matter attended to, before
it Is actually required for the payment
of these GAINS.
There is some possibility also of Con-
gress allowing the customs receipts to be
diverted for the payment of fire claims,
missioner J. +! Pratt.
Representative F. w. Mondell. one of
the Montana Congressman appealed to
by the delegation from that State resio-
ing in Honolulu, has written to Mr..
Pratt as follows:
with an overlooking treasury and the
liberal disposition that is being shown
toward our new territories. think that
there Is possibility of carrying through
the matter"
Mr.. Mondell suggests that the bill for
| such action be placed in the hands of
some member of the Ways and Means
| Committee and promises to do all he can
TO assist In the matter. The customs re-
ceipts average s125,O00 a month, and a
year would suffice for the payment of all
claims.
THE PRO RATA SCHEDULE
Secretary Halves yesterday made pub
lie the pro rata schedule agreed upon by
the Executive Council. Yhe fire claims
are not conside: ed in this at all. as this
was a special appropriation. In salaries
and some of the departments no cut
! could be made. The Public Works De-
partment suffered the biggest reduction.
with the money coming in from per
sonal and dog taxes due in March, the
money now in the Treasury will suffice
! for the year.
The following are the monthly allow.
ances In each department under the new
pro rata schedule:
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