The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-18

Guiding cash hand and estimated revenues
ing full allowances for additional appropriations might
and usually required the succeeding for the
PERIOD apparently only the nonexendre of appropriations to
the amount of about 100000 will prevent deficiency the
end of the period such additional appropriations
The need well the difficulty of making ends meet by
ea reductions expenditures increase revenues shown
by the fact that notwithstanding the exercised by the last
legislature the made and required to be made for
the period will probably exceed the actual for
the same period by more than half million dollars
The should be- still further avoid all strictly
sary expense that much possible be available for
what might be called advance work distinguished
keeping of the machinery of government operation To
appropriate of actual needs for operating expenses
only to waste the peoples money but deprive them of
needed internal improvements and for developing the
Territory
REVENUES The desired end be attained by reduction
expenditures increase in both. 1t
hardly rness propose insist
increase in than does insist decrease
expenditures Taxes and other already high per
CAPITA although also that the people of this Territory
better able high taxes than the people many other
places.
amounted during the last fiscal year So85 per capita the
assumption of population of 10000 What may be classed
the nature of taxes amounted additional $I6I per
capita Other revenues amounted to S324 capita making
total of $3.50 The customs and internal receipts of
the Federal Government in this Territory amounted $o45
making grand total of S25 per CAPITA aggregate of
than four and quarter million dollars
We attempt ourselves with the thought
that the property itself only when in reality
higher than other places for the that property
assessed its full value That only of many
of revenue and produces only half OF the total
1t may be suggested that the material growth of the Territory
such that largely
the loss of receipts nearly nine This has
wholly been the Valuations became inflated
after annexation that of them have since fallen and the
aggregate taxable has increased but little The general
property during last fiscal year only $1,000
than they the fiscal year The income
less by $4,000 than they in the first of the tax
The of all kinds since has been only about
S87ooo which but little less than the increase from
all sources and less than enough the interest and sinking
fund requirements for the public debt of which has been
incurred during that PERIOD and perhaps than enough meet
the due the establishment of
alone Moreover although industries have multi
piled and grown, they for the part have BEEN and will for
some years exempt from taxation is also the
with railroads. In time there be decided
the aggregate rates but we have
consider the present.
There are many which may be increased
without severity and which expenditures may be
cutting reducing appropriations by
TONS combinations Of different services and by the enactment
which will later obviate the necessity whole
or in part of expenditures objects number of these
will suggested under other heads in this message Others viii
appear in the estimates
- - - There is a natural tendency to seek
1865 nn-vonU for the counties larger and larger
nH- 80 - ~ shares of the revenues, and it will
AMI N0oI'A" require fortiude to Withstand this
tendency except far the facts warrant Thus far not
wtstandn during the PERIOD OF
county government counties have received larger amount
each year. the increase being at the rate OF more than
$4,000 YEAR namely ST 3Io4I the fiscal year 1900,
84I3o in 1907 and 81 ooI32883 in 1908 and the
tua for the will probably be at least as
much These amounts it submitted, larger proportion
to they should be- They certainly should not be IN
Of needs from the Territory to the
These exclusive OF other MINOR sources
Of revenue and of the equipment road construction and
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