The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-06
Congress Asked to Give Hawaii
Relief on a Great Many
Points.
Fire Claims and Customs Receipts May Be
INSTRUMENTATION Question and Sus-
pension of Officials Noted.

! ton, and deduction showing the
large increase in the number of pupils
in the public schools.
Governor Dole, in his report, also
compliments the efficient work of the
Food Commissioner, and pays consid-
, cradle attention to the subject OF lep-
rosy. The report shows decrease in
the disease, which is attributed to the
strict segregation, and ito general
improvement of the conditions of the
settlement, pertaining to comforts of
life and care of the sick" The number
of persons at the settlement on June
80, 1902, was 915, as compared to $40
of the year previous.
Extracts are also quoted from the
report of the Attorney General, show
ing the installation of the police alarm
system, and a decrease in the number
of arrests in Honolulu.
The National Guard, consisting of
nine companies, has SCI enlisted men,
and is drilled in the regular army
manual.
There is lengthy reference to the
work of the fire commission, with the
findings and the subsequent work of
]. G.. Pratt in appearing before Con-
gress.
Some kind of action by Congress
is essential to the payment of the
awards in question" says the Cover
nor, "inasmuch as the Territory can
not furnish funds for the purpose ex-
cept by borrowing, and borrowing for
such a purpose is not permitted by the
act organizing the Territory.
"The efforts of the government OF
the Republic of Hawaii to suppress
the plague were in the public interests
of the United States. Such efforts
cost $720, 0,4SS.07. and large unestimated
losses to the business interests. OF the
group. The Hawaiian Islands were at
that time under the control and gov-5
ernment of the President of the United
States. Immediately subsequent to the
suppression of the plague, the act Gre
ating the Territory of Hawaii was en-
acted, whereby Hawaii lost its Gus
toms revenues, worth at that time
81, ,200,000 per annum. ..<or 1871 per cent
of its entire current revenues.
With these important reductions Of
the PUBLIC income the Territory is un-
able to Meet its current expense with
out borrowing, much less viii ii be
able to pay these awards, or any sub
stantial portion of them, without pref
udice to the general administration OF
its affairs.
1T is, nevertheless, important upon
every consideration that the awards be
paid without delay. and ] would rec
ommend that the Federal Government
assume the whole payment thereof"
There is also slight reference to
the wireless telegraph system.
The report ends with the following
important recommendations
That an expert forester be maintained
in the Territory for a sufficient time to
enable him, acting with the Territorial
government to organize and establish
a system for the management conser-
vation, and development of Hawaiian
forests;
That the payment of the full amount
OF the awards made by the fire claims
commission be assumed by the United
States;
Or. in the alternative, the Territory
of Hawaii being under conditions diff
fering from those of any other Terri
tory of the United States and carrying
on at it's own expense a system Of light
houses, the dredging OF harbors and
the maintenance of buoys. duties usu-
dtlS iicILOIIltu By Int T ENEI dl ATONtln-
ment, and the expense of these enter
prises, together with the payment of
the aforementioned awards when taken
with the loss of the tariff revenues
formerly enjoyed by Hawaii amounting
at the time of the inception of the Ter
ritory to about 81. 10000 being too great
for the Territory to assume, that the
customs receipts collected at the ports
of the Hawaiian Islands be paid to the
treasury Of the Territory;
That the payment of taxes for the
year previous to a regular election for
Delegate 20 Congress and senators and
representatives of the local Legislature,
and before the end of such year, be
made a prerequisite to registration for
voting at such election, except as to
such taxes as may be in litigation;
That a Federal building for the ac-
commodation of the Federal Court,
post-office, and revenue officials be
erected in Honolulu;
That building or buildings for the
accommodation of the Federal Court,