The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-03-16
FINANCIAL PROGRAM
OF UPPER HOUSE is
AT LAST complete
Third and Last Appropriation
Measure Is Introduced
BY Senator Single

"This completes the financial pro-
gram said Senator Single, chairman
Of the senate ways and means commit.
tee. in yesterdays session, as he intro
duced the third government appropria.
tion measure.
eve now have" he continued, tfthe
General Appropriation Bill for the
coming biennial period, and the Loan
Fund Act, and this bill which closes
up the old loan fund account. +"
Shingles procedure picks up loose
ends in the matter Of separate loan
fund items, transferring them under
one head. The ways and means com.
mittee is working on the first two bills
and now has the entire proposed appro-
priation schedule in its hands.
Senator Single stated that the last
measure was a government recommen.
dation, having Just been handed to
him by the territorial treasurer, and
added that IL included additions
amounting to $4,000. OF this ESQ, 900
Is for the territorial prison, now in pro
cess of construction, and $4,000 for
harbor work, other items being re-
der the Loan Fund Act.
Cash Balances For Counties #
County and city and county improve
ments provided for in the bill carry
this stipulation:
"Upon completion of the projects
set forth, IL there be any balance in
any of the appropriations, the auditor
of the Territory shall pay the same
over to the treasurer of the county or
city and county to whom the appropria-
tion is herein charged
The old loan fund account, started
in 1911, and amended from session to
session, in the new bill increases the
Honolulu prison item from $l50,0O0
Gas Of 1879 to 100000, and increases
the item for wharf and harbor improve
ments, Honolulu, including purchase Of
marine railway land, from $4,000 to
1925, 900, making the 100000 difference
to which Senator Single drew atten,
ton. The bill totals $4,547, 1876
already expended for work completed
or nearing completion, including Homo.
lulu water and sewer works, 1919, 105;
wharf and harbor improvements, ST.
364,526; new buildings, additions,
equipment and other improvements,
$740,270; belt roads and bridges, ST.
10000; county and city and county
improvements, $265,844; school build
ings and equipments, $273,242; county
buildings, $S7 ,44s. Stq
Increasing school Budget FL, Sit = Z.
Senator Desha, chairman of the edu-
cation committee, reported on the
school budget, asking that his commit
tees report, together with the depart.
mental communication, transmitted to
the senate by the Governor, be taken
up by the ways and means committee
of the senate for consideration of the
proposed appropriations. ,..4.
Since the introduction of the budget
the department of public instruction
has found that more money is needed,
increasing the special fund from $780,
500 to $77l,300. The general fund
amounts to $226,540. .gl"a4 K. H..
The special fund increase comes to
$8,S00. A room and cottage are want
ed at Puukapu, $4,000; $4,000 is need.
ed for lands belonging TO Mrs. N. Scott,
in Kona, and $4,000 is required for
buildings at Kealahou, Waiakou and
Kula, Maui. The education committee
report points out that school appropria.
lions asked for are $456,930 more than
the budget for the biennial period end
ing with this year. '. ,.,.g.,,