The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-11
President to Name
No One Before
October.
FINE SPEECHES
BY ROOSEVELT
Hawaiian Buildings Big Check
Coming-Extra Session
Talk.
Especial to the Advertiser.)


WASHINGTON, D. e., Aug. 29.-By
this mail or that of the following day
on the Sonoma, the territorial authori-
ties will probably receive a warrant for
about $4,000 from the federal govern
ment. The Auditor for the Treasury
Department has been casting up the ac-
count today and Chief w. F. MacLen-
man, of the division of bookkeeping and
Warrants, said this afternoon that he
expected the money due the Territory
in the sum mentioned would reach Ho-
nolulu within two weeks.
This is interest due on the bonded
debt of Hawaii, which the Federal gov
ernment assumed at the time of an
nexation. The interest to the amount
of about $150,000 was paid by the Ter
ritorial government and now the Fed
eral government. under the terms of
annexation, has to make reimburse
ment. Gov. Dole applied to the Interior
Department recently for the payment
of this sum of $150,000 and the mat
ter was referred to the Treasury De-
partment, where a decision to settle
partially was reached.
Mr.. MacLennan, who made trip to
Hawaii last year for the purpose of
settling up the bonded Indebtedness,
which the United States assumed said
today that there remained unsettled of
e
was in Hawaii" he added, 81 closed out
all these bonds except about $31, 900.
Since that time the remainder of the
outstanding bonds have been coming in
in driblets. OF the London loan there
remains outstanding only 9100, or
about $500, while on the loan placed in
the islands there is still about $4,000
outstanding. We do not know where
these bonds are but as they come in
they are paid and cancelled. Because
of this small sum outstanding, it was
decided not to pay the interest due in
full. We understand here that the
money may be used towards liquidat-
ing some of the Hawaiian fire claims"
NO CIRCUIT JUDGE YET.
Circuit Judge Humphreys successor
Will not be appointed before October.
That is the information youchsafed at
the Department of Justice. President
Roosevelt is keeping informed in a gen.
eral way of the press of candidates but,
unless the unexpected happens, he will
not take up the case till after he has
completed his tours of several States,
including states of the southwest and
not until Attorney General Knox has
returned from France, where he has
gone to inquire into matters pertain
ing to the purchase of the Panama
canal The outlook now is that At
torney General Knox will not return
for six weeks, although he may pos
sibly return little sooner.
Papers regarding candidates for the
judgeship are still coming in at the
Department, but as I wrote in my last
letter, the strictest secrecy regarding
the names is observed there, follow
ing the general rule. AS Hawaiians,
who are often here in Washington, are
now all out of town, it is quite inn
possible to get anything definite about
the personality and strength of these
candidates, except that the candidate,
whom the Hawaiian lawyers have gen.
orally endorsed, is regarded as the most
probable selection.
IEeSluSnl 6UuSeNelt HdS ucen HOluIliS
up practically all important appoint
ments, during his sojourn at Oyster
Bay, the only exception being the ap
pointment of a justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. For weeks
the business of the District of Colum-
bia has been at a partial standstill for
the lack of a third commissioner, in
place of Commissioner Ross, lately de-
ceased. But to numerous people the
President has indicated that he does
not intend to take up the task of filing
offices until he has had his summer
vacation.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECHES.
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