The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-08-19

simply removed persons who were
merely suspected of leprosy from
liability Of arrest and detention.
Persons with any slight deGormity
were thus put to great inconven
i,uGe. Tive law was sufficient with
out this Objectionable provision, as
lcpers could be arrested the same as
ever.
Noble McCathy moved the bill
be indefinitely postponed. II was
tie duty OF this Legislature 10 do
everything POSSIBLE Tor stamping ont
leProsy. Under the present law no
person could I've sent 10 Molokai
while there was any doubt of his
having the disease The subject
must first hp declared lepcr by Il
councjl OF physicians at the roceiv-
ing station at Kalil,i Ii none we're
arrested unUl 1t was certain that
they were lppcrs, they would be
lianlc to contaminate others in their
liberty. II this bill passed it would
destroy the segregation law, and it
would he Impossible to extcrminate
leprosy.
Minialcr Peterson did not see
what ,hi. III, h,d 70 Il, win the
h,rdshi,,s ,nn,nl,ined of Tho law
sopolt 70 ha amended prohibited the
harhnripy O., l,ners or persons sus-
pected of,leprosy. In the two years
that the law had bcen in force there
bnI onlv horn Two arrests for This
olrense the hill struck at the
nn,irv of scoraoa,ion and OUGHT to
he indc6ri,cIv nostnoned.
Paw. Woinniloni considered that
uho roo,o,,,s of tha At,ornov.Gen-
ora, MIGHT ap,lv TO the first section
If The nin hi tbrv did NOT TO the
second I'ndar The present Inv n
mon in fine ,opntrv having some
st;n disnose had onlv to he accused
h,- an onamv o4 hcino n susnccted
| p@rsnu and he would be arrested
nr,l compelled 10 sell his propertv
and no tn Honolulu Here the
doctors would decide that hs had q
ring-wor, or sometime no worse
and he could 60 home the best way
he nleased This Ind often beer
lie cesn in Kopo where n man had
even accused his wife The docto,
| Ind evamined pcople in the public
road, and. when the speaker remon.
stratcd he told him TO mind his owr
husinaas
Minister peterson soid the oruu
ment of .sopnosite counsel" appjiet
ia the law without the .ssuspect'
provjsion such abuses were liabl,
to arise under The old law.
Noble Kauhane knew that whe,
this law was passed two years ago
certain newsnapnrs soid It was in
tended to stamp ont the Havana,
race. II was rather q law to STAN,
out the disease that is stamping on
the race. The law had been oper
a,ed pretty faithfully in Kau. I
some eases people suspected q
, |eorosv had been found sufferin
: from some other disease and cure
of II on the SPOT Abuses migl
arise upder the law arainst murder
| hut that was no reason for abolish
t inc that law He moved the pre
| vious question Carried.
, Rep KahooI5auo. irtroducer {
the bin. said the author of the la
was Mr. Kinney. then member fo
Hamasua. and it was too sweepin
in its provisions. 1t was too broa
| in subiectino TO arrest any perso
4 suspected of leprosv. He did ne
believe the Acknowledgement woul
: approve of woman being arreste
5 on q SUSPICION LODGED against he
: for snite. people were liable [
/. uniustifiable arrest by pollceme
anxious to make a record of activit
S for themselves. No one believe
r more in SEGREGATION than he did, b,
o he believed if would not be destro,
D 81 h,, Eli, Hill t,o eplo infant ,
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