The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-08-26
TEE LEGISLATURE.
SIXTY-TlIIRD DAY.
MONDAY. Aug. 25.
AFTERNOON SESSION.


convinced. IL was enough for the
Ministers to give the Offices. 1t
should be ours to fix the salaries.
If the arguments are correct we had
better pass our Appropriation Bill
rs follows: BE it resolved that ST.
800, 900 he appropriated for the
uses of this Government to be dis
bursed as the Minister of Finance
sees fit.
Rep. Waipuilani agreed with No
BILE Widemann.
Noble Burchardt considered that
while the salaries in Honolulu might
be fixed by statute, some latitude
should be given the Minister o. the
Board in dealing with the country
districts. He had given reasons to
the committee for raising the salary
of physician in his district. There
ought to be fund from which the
Board could draw for cases of emer-
gency.
Rep. Richard favored the increase
Of the amount asked for in the bill.
A great deal had been said about
the kind of service given by physi-
clans in districts throughout the
islands. II was impossible TO ex-
pect the services required for the
salaries recommended. From $500
10 $500 year was not enough for
anyone worthy the name of physi-
clan. A doctor who had q range
of from five to fifty miles required to
keep four or five horses, and it
would take the whole salary in some
cases to feed the horses. He moved
TO increase the item to S45, 900.
Noble Mccarthy was afraid the
hon. member from lamakua was
running away with the idea that
these amounts were salaries the
same as those paid TO other Govern
ment officials. These items were
rather IN the nature of subsidies to
induce doctors to stay in those dis
tricts. (Noble Isenberg - That's
right The speaker was in favor
of voting for an item to doctor on
| Molokai, but $4,000 for the two
years was more than any doctor, ex-
cept one in Kona, was receiving.
He would move that $4,000 be added
for a doctor there, making the en-
tire appropriation $42, 400.
Rep. Rlckard was aware of the
nature of the items. He did not
suppose a doctor could exist on $50
q month, but the subsidies in some
cases were too small for the services
required. Therefore he still adj.
hered to his motion for an increase.
| Noble Widemann said the hon.
member from Hamakua left entirely
out of the question the fact thai
some of these positions were sought
for with great eagerness, and il
such cases it would be absurd to
raise the pay. Once he engaged {
doctor, who came here as physician
on q steamer, for his plantation
giving him 5000 and the Govern
ment $500 more. This doctor was
given house and made comfort
able, but he left for y little more
pay to settle at Waialua. A maj
had been shot at Waialua and Their,
was no doctor to look after him, an,
it was argued that there should b.
q doctor at Waialua in case some
body else might be shot. Then h
hired another doctor, paying him a
much as the two salaries paid hi
predecessor, but before long Ii
found that this doctor was also TN
der the Board of Health. Some
thing ought TO he done TO proven
the President of the Board hirin
his son-in law and paying him what
ever hepIeased out of the public treas
ury. He would move that the recon
mendations of the committee b
adopted, with the additions move
by Noble Mccarthy and Rep. Rich
ard, or $4,000 altogether.
, Minister Peterson claimed that tn
: emergency fund would not meet tn
cases for which it was intended. N
:. matter how great the extra servic
performed, according to the dec
sion of the Supreme Court no none
could be drawn out of that fund fC
, any district receiving specific al
preparation. And if the amour
! voted to any district was not sufl
,, cient to induce physician to settl
+ there, the Board would be helples
: to fill vacancy however importar
it was for the district to have
doctor.
Noble Widemann asked if til
/, same principle would govern all th
departments of government.
Minister Peterson replied that a
might not be so vital as this service
! Rep. II. w. Wilcox was in fave
of having the salaries voted sepa
: ately as proposed by Noble Wide
, mann. He did not know whethe
) these doctors did any good. I'll
; death rate had increased with th
$ increase of doctors in the country
J just as lawsuits increased in a con
munity with the increase of lawyers
In many cases disease was sprea
by these doctors using impure va,
cine matter. The Attorney-Gener'
had shamelessly sent policemen
c Molokai to fight the people instea
of going there to conciliate them.
Rep. Kauhi spoke at length ON I'll