[Kindly furnished for The Statesman's Year Book by Secretaries and Auditors of States. For the States of Delaware, Mississippi, New York, and South Carolina, officers were unable or neglected to furnish data.]
| Expenditures from Bonded Loans, 1898 | Net debt Jan. 1, 1898 | Assessed Valuation Jan. 1, 1899 | States and Territories |
| —— | $9,357,600.00 | $256,256,205.52 | Alabama |
| $84,000.00 | 1,139,135.16 | 31,473,540.00 | Arizona Territory |
| —— | 2,050,000.00 | 177,000,000.00 | Arkansas |
| —— | —— | 1,1.30,885,697.00 | California |
| —— | 2,728,667.78 | 192,243,080.00 | Colorado |
| —— | 3,240,100.00 | 534,465,257.00 | Connecticut |
| —— | 1,157,500.00 | 93,900,823.75 | Florida |
| —— | 8,031,600.00 | 411,818,911.00 | Georgia |
| —— | 597,469.64 | 30,423,671.00 | Idaho |
| —— | —— | 778,474,910.00 | Illinois |
| —— | 5,700,615.12 | 1,285,965,056.00 | Indiana |
| —— | 218,214.23 | 544,247,782.00 | Iowa |
| 40,805.19 | 632,000.00 | 325,889,747.00 | Kansas |
| 539,071.47 | 550,105.00 | 552,957,768.00 | Kentucky |
| —— | 10,877,800.00 | 261,545,868.00 | Louisiana |
| —— | 2,203,000.00 | 329,516,244.00 | Maine |
| —— | 3,564,512.95 | 603,326,096.00 | Maryland |
| 11,154,820.30 | 13,598,964.24 | 2,764,242,784.00 | Massachusetts |
| 500,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 1,105,100,000.00 | Michigan |
| —— | 1,300,000.00 | 599,358.546.00 | Minnesota |
| —— | 7,964,797.00 | 1,106,066,625,00 | Missouri |
| —— | —— | 133,969,519.35 | Montana |
| 45,402.76 | 1,800,000.00 | 167,810,764.79 | Nebraska |
| —— | 546,512.40 | 23,517,245.29 | Nevada |
| —— | 1,367,657.61 | 276,118,255.00 | New Hampshire |
| —— | 39,000,000.00 | 812,609,000.00 | New Jersey |
| 44,841.00 | 5,000,000.00 | 39,122,146.00 | New Mexico Territory |
| 298,034.00 | 6,090,850.00 | 265,867,196.00 | North Carolina |
| —— | 845,300.00 | 101,131,016.00 | North Dakota |
| —— | 1,241,665.00 | 1,748,008,639.00 | Ohio |
| 2,890.00 | 348,501.04 | 40,623,816.00 | Oklahoma Territory |
| —— | —— | 133,533,577.00 | Oregon |
| —— | 1,025,981.93 | —— | Pennsylvania |
| 94.753.85 | 2,044,911.30 | 390,912,580.00 | Rhode Island |
| 399,900.00 | 738,300.00 | 120,000,000.00 | South Dakota |
| 550,000.00 | 17,000,000.00 | 355,000,000.00 | Tennessee |
| —— | 3,992,030.00 | 854,619,365.00 | Texas |
| —— | 703,508.30 | 100,241,331.00 | Utah |
| —— | 515,500.00 | 157,265,133.00 | Vermont |
| —— | 26,746,387.70 | 486,447,904.00 | Virginia |
| 34,720.00 | 1,700,000.00 | 226,996,294.00 | Washington |
| —— | —— | 222,195,486.10 | West Virginia |
| —— | 2,251,000.00 | 600.000,000.00 | Wisconsin |
| —— | 320,000.00 | 30,789,291.74 | Wyoming |
United States, and other governments. In 1893, however, the reigning
Queen, Liliuokalani, was deposed, and a provisional government formed ;
in 1894 a Republic was proclaimed, with a Legislature of two Houses and
a President ; and in accordance with a resolution of Congress of July 7,
1898, the islands were on Aug. 12, 1898, formally annexed to the United
States. Five commissioners were appointed to recommend such legislation concerning the Islands as they should deem necessary and proper,
and in the beginning of December the report of the Commission with
their legislative proposals was transmitted to Congress. The principal
Bill provides for the erection of the islands into a Territory, to be styled
the Territory of Hawaii. All whites, including Portuguese, all persons
of African descent, and all descendants of Hawaiian race, either on the
