The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-06-15
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AO6rrtlse.
SATURDAY, JUNE IS.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
sSSIoN OF 1872.

TnrErr-sNrH DAY, June lo'h-
PETITIONS.
From Hamakua, praying that $500 be aPPropri-
atel for 4 road between WAiPio and A'nAumAn'
To be considered with Appropriation Bill
From KoolaupOko, praying that S2o,OO be sP-
propriated for a road over Nuuanu pail To be con-
siJerei with Appropriation Bill
From hoOlaupoko, praying that q strong la~ be
passed TO prevent married persons from deserving
each other. To be considered with Act to abolish the
existing law.
From Koolaupoko, praying that tax on cattle
under two years OF age be abolished To be consld-
cred with bill regulating tax on animals
From Koolaupoko. praying that the pay OF day Ia
borers be raised to 623 cents per day. and that en-
blowers give their sick laborers tea, bread and other
warm food when sick. Rejected. a
From Koolaupoko, praying that actions under the
Masters and Servants Act in future be brought as
civil suits instead of criminal. Referred to Judiciary
Committee.
From Koolaupoko, praying that S hours per day
be made a legal days work. Referred to Judiciary
COMMITTEES.
Mitigate = be repealed that the tax on horses be
reduced to so cents per head that sheep be taxed
l28 cents per bead that q hospital for lepers be
established on Kauai that the present Governor
of Kauai be retained that parents who send their
children to independent schools be exempt from
school tax that the Masters and Servants Act be
repealed that the salaries of the Kings Ministers
be reduced that the salary OF the King De sus-
tanned. Laid on the table.
From Waimea. Kauai. praying that u. Is. Rowel
be appointed Collector of Customs at Naimea-
Referred to Minister of Finance. Also that par
ents having mere than four children be exempt
from school tax. Tabled Also that $500 be
appropriated for repairs to Court House at Wal
mea. To be considered With Appropriation Bill.
Also a petition forbidding the sale OF intoxicating
g1iquors to naturolized foreigners. Tabled.
\ From Honolulu, praying that the Government
provide hitching posts for horses: Returned.
: Through Hon. J. O.. Carter. the Sanitary Com
mittee to whom was referred the petitions from
HonoIn1u and MaEawaO- DrayIQp that the - law TO
mitigate the evils and diseases arising from prosti-
tuition - may be repealed, and also the act introduced
by the Hon. Mr.. Mikalemi repeating the said law,
report: That they have carefully considered the
petitions and have held two long laborious sessions,
during which they have listened to voluminous evil
dence from medical gentlemen of reputation, and
from some twenty or more OF the women registereu
charge of the Barracks and Oahu Prison, on exam
ination, said THAT for the past two years there
has been a large increase of disease arising from
prostitution. = Drs. McGrew and Stang
enwald have told me that their experience has been
the same as nv own. 3 = g In my opinion the
law has not been productive of the good for which
it was intended; but 1 consider tEis partly owing to
the fact that the women are not sufficiently under
CONTROL y = = DR.. F.. w. Hutchinson, President
of the Board of Health, said The late DIR. Beraz
informed me that a large number OF women VINO
came to Maui from Honolulu were diseased, the type
of disease being mild. DR.. Saunders, OF Hawai-,
bears the same testimony. L have been particular in
questioning the physicians under the Board OF
Health, and the testimony that L have is to the effect
that the disease is increasing. L do not consider
that the law has had the desired effect. In fact, L
believe the evils arising under the law are greater
than the good obtained under it. / believe that 1t
has the effect to encourage prostitution
DR.. r. Mckibbin, Jr, physician in charge OF the
Queens Hospital, and lately in charge of the Dis
pensary, established under the law to mitigate, &C.,
said Have had charge of the Dispensary, es-
tablished under this law II years. do not intend
to discuss the morality OF the law. FOR
A. - 49, -o1-. hut 40 uOpau have hapn diseased
Contrast these figures with the experience OF the
first quarter of 1860, when the law went into opera
ton, when Ill women were found to be diseased.
From October 9th, 1860. to January LIST, 1867, two
years, ZIP women were diseased. L admit that there
has been more disease the past two years than for
merly, and / attribute it to the fact that the law has
not been enforced by the police as efficiently as IN
former years. = = = I have the power under the
law to send registered women to the Marshal, who
may commit them to prison for a term not to exceed
60 days. I have done so in very many instances
within the past ten years. AT the queens
Hospital, during the first quarter of 1860, 40 cases
of syphilis were treated; first quarter Of 1866, ~
cases were treated, first quarter OF 1877, 90 cases
were treated. = = = l believe. most decidedly,
that the evils and diseases arising from prostitution
have been lessened by the workings of this law,
chiefly upon the other islands. Honolulu is
the centre, and if the disease is not controlled here,
the effects will be felt upon the other islands.
So much for the evidence of the medical gentlemen.
OF the weight of testimony the Assembly may judge
for themselves; but your Committee desire to refer to
the remark of DIR. Hoffman,, that ore reason why
the law has not worked the desired end was, that the
women we're not sufficiently under control; and yet
we find that the doctor having charge OF the Dis
pensary may, and has in very many instances sent
women to prison, for one or two months, without
benefit of a trial or examination before a Court OF
Justice. the arrests and imprisonments being an out
rage upon the Constitutional rights of the Kings
subjects, and your Committee can hardly conceive
how the control over the women can be enlarged.
The details of evidence given by the women, your
Committpa deem IL best to suppress IN this report, only
giving such matter as may bear directly upon the law
under examination. Your Committee may say how
ever that the testimony obtained, after making every
allowance reveals a condition of affairs under the law
which would shock any Christian community, freely
bearing US out in the assertion that the practical
working of the law has demoralized not only the
women but those to whose control and supervision they
were committed. The report of the Committee EN-
braced the testimony of different women, the burden
of evidence from 25 women being that they had cen
forced to take out licenses in many instances when
they did not wish to, and they were assured that the
possession of a license protected them from arrest.
The report in conclusion says that" After mature
deliberation, your m is Of the opinion that
the enforcement Of the law has utterly failed to mitl-
gate any of the evils or diseases arising from prosti-
tuition, but that it has aggravated many of the evils
We have no room for doubt, and we therefore believe
that the law should be repealed, and we do now rec
ommend the passage of the Act referred to by US
Signed by the Committee
RESOLUTIONS
Ply Hon. Mr.. Kaukaba to the effect that the Minis
ter Of the Interior report separately on the item
= pay of mail carriers Adopted.
By Hon. Mr.. Naihe, to the effect that the Minister
of the Interior send vaccine matter to the different dis
tricts ON the islands, with orders to vaccinate the peo-
pie Immediately. The Minister of the Interior sug-
gested that people be instructed to furnish the doctors
With healthy matter; at present it seemed as though
when the people had been vaccinated they thought
they had nothing to do with giving the doctors the
matter. The resolution was returned to the intro
Queer.
4ByH Hon. Mr.. HalemaDu, that $500 be a~pprOpri-
ated for pay of Postmasters in Hilo, Puma and Hama
kha. Pending discussion the House passed TO the
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The Appropriation Bill was taken up in Committee,
Hon. A. +. Judd in the Chair. The item of pay Of
mail carriers was read in detail. Motion made TO
increase the item so as to include the pay Of a mail