The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-28
D0LE'S REPORT
Is SUBMITTED
Affairs of Hawaii Under the Rule
of the United States.
BIG APPROPRIATION ASKED
LARGE FALLING OFF IN SHIP
MENTs OF MERCHANDISE.
BIG APPROPRIATION ASKED

III ASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The affairs
w of Hawaii during the last fiscal
year are reviewed in the annual
report of Governor Dole of that terri
tory which has just been submitted 10
the interior department. The report
SHOWS that the total cash on hand in
the territorial government on June 80
1902. was s2SI. 13l. The total amount Of
property subjected to ad valorem taxes
according to assessment appraisements
was SIG. 1888. SIS. An income tax imposed
by the legislature of 1901 realized $751;
500 during the fiscal year.
The report submits the estimates for
appropriations by congress for the next
fiscal year, aggregating 81. l06. 900, Of
which $750,OO is for the construction of
a breakwater at Hilo harbor, $3.50. 900
Tor widening channel. Honolulu harbor,
and dredging channel entrance and
harbor 10 a depth of thirty feet, low
water; go, 600 for postoffice and Gus
tom house at HilO and SIS, 900 for cree
ton and maintenance of lighthouses at
Honolulu harbor, Cahua, Makapuk
Point, Oahu; Kahului Maui. Ouna,
Hawaii; Kailua. Hawaii: Kawaikae,
Hawaii; Mahukonu, Hawaii; Kalaneck-
alau, Molokai
Dole's Recommendations.
The governor makes the following
recommendations: That the federal
government assume the management Of
all Hawaiian lighthouses and other
harbOr Improvements; the maintenance
of forester to establish A forestry
system; that the payment of the fun
amount of the awards made by the
fire awards commission, aggregating
Sl,4a3,l73, as indemnity for damages to
property caused by the board of health
In 1898. be assumed by the United States
government. or as an alternative that
the custom receipts collected at Ha-
waiian ports be paid 70 the treasury
OF the territory: provision for a federal
building at Honolulu; the receipt Of
Hawaiian silver coins in exchange for
United States silver coins of like de-
nominations; authority for a limited
immigration of Chinese laborers. sub
Ject 10 deportation at their own ex-
pense if they cease hiring out in agri-
cultural work; authority for the gov
ernor TO dispose. by lease or license,
of the waters belonging 10 the public
lands and authority for the governor
70 suspend certain officers and appoint
their successors until the succeeding
session of the Hawaiian legislature.
Pupils at School.
The number of pupils in all schools
in Hawaii is now 17,51S. an Increase of
y per cent over ten years ago. The
death rate from leprosy has shown a
marked decrease for the last decade,
largely due 10 better sanitary condi-
tons at the Molokai settlement. The
number of patients there June 80 last
was 9I5.
The shipments of merchandise, not
including specie, for the past year are
less in value than the previous fiscal
year by S. 200. 695. All of this except
s6SS7 Is chargeable to the one item OF
sugar and is due solely TO a decrease
in the market value of that article and
not TO a diminished production. Sugar
shipped the past year amounted TO
72.553,S57 poTnds, an increase of 1884,
123 pounds.
OF the total value of shipments. not
including specie. from the territory
during the past year of S24, 1893. 1856.
S3S, S13 represents the value of foreign
merchandise shipped as against a value
of $24, 500 of domestic merchandise
shipped OF this total value the ship
ments to foreign countries were worth
S63, SAT. and those to the mainland were
worth 4.730,lSS.