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COMMITTEE'S
A JUST
Text of Report Favorable
Refund Bill, Made to Congress Conditions In Islands
Accurately Set Forth and Reasonableness of Claims
Made Plain.
The Advertiser has the following,
relative to the report of the com
mittee to whom was referred the
Hawaiian Refund Bill, in corres
pondence from Washington under
date of April 3:
Hawaiians here are highly pleas
ed over the report which Represen
tative Cole of Ohio put in on the
refunding bill. It covers the ground
very thoroughly and is regarded as
constituting a very complete argu
ment for the enactment of the
legislation.
The report nppears as unanimous
from the House Territories Com
mittee. That is because Represen
tative Lloyd of Missouri, the chief
opponent of the legislation, was
absent when the vote was taken.
The bill, introduced by Delegate
Kalaniaunole February 5 last, has
been amended by the committee so
as to reduce the period for the
segregation of funds from twenty
to five years. That amendment was
noted in n previous letter.
TKXT ov HIM,.
The bill as now amended, follow
ing the title, which is "to establish
a fund for public works in the Ter
ritory of Hawaii and for other pur-poses,'-'
rends:
"Be it enacted by the Senate nnd
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con
gress assembled, That seventy-five
per centum of the customs and
internal revenues collected each
year within the Territory of Ha
waii, for a period of five years from
July first, nineteen hundred and
six, shall be segregated and held
apart in a separate fund by the
Secretary of the Treasury to be
designated the Hawaiian fund and
to be expended only for public
works, including educational and
other public buildings, harbor im
provements, and military and naval
defenses within the Territory of
Hawaii as the Congress may from
time to time specifically authorize
and appropriate."
REPORT OP COMMITTKK.
The report by Representative
Cole, who was chairman of the
sub-committee that first considered
the bill, bears the date of March
29. It notes the amendment already
mentioned, and then recommends
to the House that the bill pass,
adding:
"In making this recommendation
your committee bases its action on
broad grounds of national policy.
"When tbe exigencies of the
Spanish-American war gave us the
sovereignty of the Philippines and
Porto Rico, public sentiment was
reflected by legislation of Congress,
which provided that no revenues
should be collected from either of
those possessions, except to be
returned to their own treasuries.
CASK OF PORTO RICO.
"In the case of Porto Rico, where
it is expected that American sov
ereignty will be permanent, Con
gress has both given to it absolute
free entry of all its products to our
markets, and also further provides
that all customs dues on foreign
imports be paid into the Porto Rican
treasury direct, the expenditure of
those funds being left wholly to
the government of Porto Rico. The
amount of such customs revenues
in Porto Rico in the last fiscal year
was $723,793.63.
"This action of Congress toward
Porto Rico substantially recognized
the principle that fiscal regulations
designed for mainland States, are
not adnpted to insular Territories
over seas. Such insular Territories
are not part of the commercial body
of the mainland., with the currents
of commerce and money circulating
through them; instead, they are
detached units with a definite
amount of circulating medium
within each, To constantly take
REPORT
EXPOSITION.
to Passage ot Hawaiian
revenues from such, a detached
Territory without some systematic
return of the same can not but
result in injury to it.
ILLS OP ANNHXATION.
"In the case of Hawaii we took
over an established government
which had been a separate sover
eignty for, three-quarters of a
century. During that time Hawaii
had built up its own fiscal system,
with its customs receipts furnishing
more than one-third the entire gov
ernmental expenditures. It was
claimed on behalf of Hawaii, when
its organic act was before Congress,
that all those revenues should be
returned to the Territory for its
use, and it was predicted that their
loss would seriously embarrass the
local government. For five years
the Territory has tried the present
system, with increasing difficulty.
"A total of $8,502,146 in local
taxation has been raised by taxes
on land, personalty, income tax,
inheritance tax, licenses, occupation
tax, stamp tax, and every known
form of taxation. Of this sum ap
proximately $850,000 has been
spent for the care and maintenance
of lepers. Their local tax per capita
has during the past five years in
creased 50 per cent.
"Even these means could only
meet the current expenses, and in
order to build schools and necessary
public works an indebtedness, of
$31874,000 has been incurred.
"The total per capita tax of
every man, woman and child in the
Territory is now over $22 per
annum.
"The cost of living in the Ha-
(watian Islands is very high, owing
to the fact that all the necessities of
life, including almost the entire
food supplies, are imported; the
cost of government in Hawaii is
necessarily high, both because of
the high cost of living and conse
quently higher salaries, and also
because of the machinery of govern
ment necessary on each separate
island, and the high cost of inter
island communication. Road con
struction and maintenance is ex
pensive for the above reasons, and
further because of the mountainous
character of the islands and tli
numerous deep gulches to be
crossed.
"During the five years since
annexation Hawaii has paid into
the Federal Treasury $6,323,462.32,
or an average of over $1,250,000
per year. The annual cost of Ha
waii to us for collection of revenues
and for Federal salaries is about
$150,000. The total of all Federal
salaries, expenses and appropria
tions for this same period, except
defenses which are for national pro
tection, have been about $2,200,000,
or an average of $440,000 per year.
"It will thus be seen that, after
deducting all payments and appro
priations that have been made for
the use and benefit of Hawaii, we
have unconsciously drawn a net
sum of $4,100,000 from that Terri
tory, or a net balance of slightly
over $800,000 per year, which has
been withdrawn from the islands'
circulation and shipped in gold coin
to the sub-treasury at San Fran
cisco. PROM NATIONAL STANDPOINT.
"Ignoring, for the moment, the
wishes of Hawaii and acting only
from a national standpoint, your
committee believe that for a time,
at least, three-fourths of these
revenues should be set aside to
meet the need for public works in
these islands and to assist in build
ing up a substantial American
Territory in the mid-Pacific.
"Among the immediate needs for
Hawaii are: School buildings,
$788,000; roads to open new lands
to settlement, $35.oo; asylum for
the insane, $50,000; harbor im
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provements at Honolulu and Hilo;
$2,000,000; smaller harbors nnd
landings for island shipping, $joo,-'
000; Federal buildings, $t,too,ooo
lighthouses, $430,000; total, $5,
11 8,000.
"To the above should be added
$975,000 for fortifications and at
least $1,500,000 for the beginning.
of a repair station and naval base
at Pearl Harbor, appropriations for
both of which objects will be avail
able from this fund under the pro
visions of the bill.
"First in importance among these
items stands the need for aid to the
schools.
"For many years Hawaii has im
posed upon her -citizens a heavier
per capita tax for schools than any
State in the Union.
"Since annexation that Territory
has expended over $2,250,000 for
the. maintenance of schools and for
the erection school buildings.
"The educational problem of
Hawaii is of greater magnitude
than that of any other Territory.
Seventy per cent, of the children
enrolled in the schools arc of
other than Caucasian parentage.
In order to make Hawaii a thor
oughly American Territory,
schools must be provided for child
renpfallnationalities. The Territory
has already borrowed large sums for
school buildings, but the limit of
safe borrowing has been reached.
Lack of funds has already necessi
tated a reduction of 20 per cent, in
all teachers' salaries, mid in those
isolated islands where the cost of
living is necessarily high this re
duction is keenly felt.
"The nation expects a higher
standard and a more general distri
bution of education in Hawaii than
in Porto Rico, yet we are putting
into the Federal Treasury the very
fuuds from Hawaii that in Porlo
Rico are given to that island for its
educational and general expenses.
"A fiscal policy that is sound for
Porlo Rico should be sound also
for Hawaii. The mere fact that a
greater breadth of political rights
has been given Hawaii does not re
lieve her financial strain. Nor docs
it seem just that a country which
voluntarily gave over its own
sovereignty to enter the Union
should be made to labor under har
der financial conditions than one
acquired by conquest.
"Financially, the business man
and the average citizen of Hawaii
is under greater pressure today than
he was in the year preceding an
nexation. That fact does not lessen
their loyalty to this country; but it
is high reason why Congress
should permit that detached com
munity to build up the Terri
tory along sound lines out of their
own resources.
"A community in which the
citizens are overtaxed and with
limited school facilities can never
become a thoroughly American
Territory.
"This bill does not set aside this
fund for the Hawaiian treasury,
nor is it available for current
expenses, as in Porto Rico. It can
be expended only for public works
of a permanent nature, and Con
gress is to be in absolute control of
its distribution.
The 25 per cent, reserved will
more than meet Federal salaries
and other costs of the Territory to
the Government, so that Hawaii
will not be a charge upon the
Treasury.
"It was not the purpose either
of Congress or the American people
to annex Hawaii in order to help
out the Federal Treasury.
"What we desired then and now
is the benefit of a military and
naval base in the mid-Pacific,
which all recognize as indispens
able for the protection of our entire
western coast.
"With and beyond that, we need
the building up of a stonger
American citizenship in the island
population, and to that end a part
of these funds are needed for
school buildings.roads to develop
unsettled lands, and harbors, and
landings to faciliate inter-island
communication. Any balance re
maining will always be needed for
Federal public works within the is
lands. "The $4,100,000 of net re
venues already collected from
!' .
Hawaii have come largely without
the knowledge of Congress nnd al
most wholly unknown to the
American people.
"It is both unsound a? a national
policy and also unworthy of the
dignity of a great nation, that an
insular Territory which voluntarily
gave its own sovereignty to us,
should be compelled to send reve
nues needed to develop its separate
and detached life, merely to form a
driblet intiir national income.
"Your committee, in deference U
conservative opinion, has reduced
the term of this fund from twenty
years to five years, although there
arc strong reasons why it should
be made permanent."
Iteport Krct) Alcohol Hill.
Washington, March 30. The
House committee on ways and
means today authorized a favorable
report on the free alochol bill. The
vote was 16 to 2,Dalzell(Rep.,Pa.)
nnd Grosvenor (Rep., 0.,), voting
against it.
The bill was reported as prepared
by the sub-committee and intro
duced by Chairman Payne. It pro
vides that, beginning three months
after its passage, domestic alcohol
of such degree of proof as may be
prescribed by the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue and approved by
the Secretary of the Treasury
may be withdrawn from bond
without the payment of internal
revenue tax, for use in the
arts and industries and for
fuel, light and power; provided
it shall have been mixed in
the presence of and under the
direction of an authorized gov
ernment officer before with
drawing with denaturiziug mate
rials suitable to the use for
which the alcohol is withdrawn,
but which destroy its character
as a beverage and render it
unfit for liquid medicinal pur
poses. A penalty of five years'
imprisonment and $5000 fine
is imposed for either redis
tillation or the use of any
process to render the alcohol
so withdrawn salable as a
beverage or for medicinal purposes.
There is appropriated $250,000
for the employment of such
additional force of chemists as
may be necessary to the internal
revenue bureau to administer the
act.
YIII Put On Hlir Hout.
"If arrangements are completed
with the merchants of Honolulu,
we shall operate a steamship be
tween San Francisco and Honolulu
of 10,000 or 12,000 tons. It will
be known as tbe local boat."
Captain Matsou, head of the
Matson Navigation Company of
San Francisco which operates the
steamship Enterprise on the San
Francisco-Hilo-Houolulu run, made
the above statement just prior to
his departure for San Francisco on
the S. S. China.
"The Enterprise and the steamer
that is being brought around the
Horn from New York." he added,
"will be kept on the run from San
Francisco but will come first to
Honolulu then to Hilo and then
back to San Francisco. The mat
ter of throwing in a trip to the
Volcano while the steamers are in
port has been considered, but this
as well as other projects are waiting
full discussion."
Deputy Attorney General Mil
verton is reported as finding diffi
culty in the effort to redeem a pro
mise he made to a Korean he had
employed as interpreter at .Hilo.
The man is a Methodist church
member and he asked Mr. Mil
verton to find work for him in
the office of "aChrlstiau lawyer."
Mr. Milverton undertook the ser
vice, but so far has not found the
Korean a place. Advertiser.
Henry S. Townsend, formely in
spector General of Schoois in the
Hawaiian Islands, and his -family,
returning to the Philippines in the
Siberia, were entertained while the
steamer was in port by Mr. and
Mrs. C. Howard Hitchcock. Mrs.
Townsend is Mr. Hitchcock's sister.
Advertiser.
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Subscribe for the Triuuniw Sub
scription $2.50 a year.
Uno TlionRiiiicl Per Month.
Marquis Saionji the Premier,
in his capactiy of Foreign Minister,
has iusructed all the local Gov
ernors in Japan that the number
of cmigrduti to Hawaii shall,
alter April inot exceed i'ooo;
women not to exceed half of
the total, and children under 12
years age not included. Hawaii
shinpo.
WcIIr Sentenced.
C. B. Wells, late postmaster of
Kawaihae, who pleaded guilty of
embezzling $57.70 of postal funds,
was yesterday sentenced by judge
DoIp to be imprisoned six months
and to pay a fine of the amount
embezzled and costs, the latter
being $32.76. Advertiser.
Lingering Couglts.
Presistent coughs that continue
through the spring and summer
usually indicate some throat or
lung trouble and it is a serious
mistake to neglect them. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is famous
for its cures of coughs of this
nature and a few doses taken in
time may save a doctor's bill and
perhaps years of suffering. For
sale by Hilo Drug Co.
vVhon your vitality is low, you
aro miserable all the time.
You ara lanicuM ami depressed, your
nerves are weak, und your appotito la poor.
Read what
Ayer's
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did for the Invalid daughter of a grateful
mother:
"My daughter had for a long time been
troubled with violent licadacbca and ileep
leuuesi. She was pale, had no appetite, and
wai losing flesh rapidly. She tried various
rysiedlcs, hut receded no benefit until she
commenced using Ajcr's Karsaparllla. After
taking lialf a bottle she began to feel better,
lly a continued use of this medlclno her
appetite returned, her cheeks began to 1111
out and show color, she gained In strength,
her headaches dlsapeared, she slept butler,
and now sajs she reels like a now person."
There are many imitation
Sarsaparillas.
Be 3ure you get "AYER'S."
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For Sale by HILO DRUG COMPANY!
MATSON NAVIGATION GO.
Direct Line between San Fran
cisco and Hilo, comprising the
A1 Steamer Enterprise
And the following Past Sailers:
Ship FALLS OF CLYDE
Bark RODERICK DHU
Bark ANNIE JOHNSON
And other Sneclallv Ohnrter1 vesoln
make this trip with at least one of these
uoats eacii tuontii, carrying uotn freight
and Passengers.
The Passenger rate by the Hnterprise
between Sun Piancisconnd Ililohasbeeu
reduced to $60.
Por dates of sailing and terms,
Call upon,
no. D. Sprechels & Bros. Go,
Agents,
337 Market St., San Prancisco.
O. H. PIF.RCR, Agent, lino, Hawaii
Olllce at Matson Navigation Co's
Warehouse, Waiukmi. Tel, 86 h
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