The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-01

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| LAWYERS MAKE LUCKY STRIKE.
Two Americans who are practicing
law in Manila have won a case before
the United States supreme court, the
fees of which are larger than most law
yers earn in a lifetime. These two
1 young men are John W. Haussermann
| and Chas., c. Cohn, the former being
from Leavenworth, Kansas, and the lat
| ter from San Francisco. The case in
point related to the refund of duties
collected by the United States govern
| ment from the merchants of the Philip
pines. 1t seems that upon the declara-
tion of war with Spain, President Me
Kinley ordered the collection of war
tax upon imports. This impost should
have been suspended when the Paris
treaty was signed, but was continued
during the Philippine insurrection be-
cause the officials interpreted the law
to mean that duty should be collected
as long as any kind of hostilities were
in progress. The supreme court has de-
insurrection are two different matters,
therefore the duties which were col
lected after the signing of the Paris
treaty must be refunded.
The amount involves between seven
and eight million dollars. The firms
who paid this money are to receive
sixty-six and two-thirds of the refund,
and the attorneys thirty-three and one
HI nd nd
have worked on the case for five years,
in connection with the law firm of Cou-
dert Bros. of New York. Cohn and
Haussermann will each receive $780,
900. A motion for a re-hearing has
been filed on the ground that the re-
fund of this money would be in the
nature of gratuity because the duty
was added to the cost price of the
goods at the time, so that in reality
the public paid the tax. While this is
true the supreme court regards the
matter from a legal standpoint only,
and it is said that congress will hardly
refuse the payment of bill against
the country which has been approved
by the highest court in the land.
MANILA IS MODERN NEWSPAPER.
Manila has been the scene of much
newspaper enterprise. The Cablenews,
with the exception of the Honolulu Adj
vertiser, is the best equipped journal
under the American flag outside the
States. 1t was established by Israel
Putnam. Saratoga capitalist, who was
formerly an officer in the regular army.
Mr.. Putnam IS idea was to give the
Americans in the Philippines, and the
people of the Orient in general, the
viewpoint. He spared no money In
equipping the paper, supplying limo
types, perfecting presses and stereotyp-
ing machinery, all of which are run by
Fflipinos, there being no printer or, me-
chanic of any other nationality en-
ployed on the paper. The Cablenews is
housed in it's own building of concrete
and steel, which is the handsomest,
largest and most costly of it's kind in
the Orient. Everything is run by cleo
tricity.
About two years ago Mr.. Putnam
leased the Cablenews to Mr.. Frederick
o 'Brien, correspondent who is well
known in San Francisco, New York
and the Far East. The cosmopolitan
atmosphere of the paper is shown by
the personnel of its staff, the editor
being an American, the city editor an
Englishman, while the reporters are
Irish. English, German and Filipino.
The paper is published in English with
daily TRANSACTIONS from the Spanish
and Tagalog papers, and is literally
illustrated with half tones, In former
times little news was received IN Ma
Mia by cable on account of the ire
mendous tolls, but the Cablenews
struggled along under a great burden
of expense until it finally built up a
clientele that paid.
EXPORTING TO CHINA.
Squires & Bingham. dealers in pho |
tographic supplies, were enlisted men
from Minnesota and Pennsylvania, |
Both were expert pho |
tographers and as soon as they were |
out of the army went to work |
with their cameras. Their business has |
crown until they not only have job |
bling trade all over the Philippine arch |
ipelago, but are beginning to export to |
China. They are installing plant for |
the manufacture of all kinds of photo |
graphic paper and will push their line
the whole East.
E. c. Mccullough & Co, the pioneer |
printers and stationers of Manila, have
built up one of the finest printing es-
Establishments in the Orient. They made |
a small beginning, gradually adding TO |
their facilities until they are now |
equipped to do all kinds of book work |