The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-11
MORE ABOUT JUNKENNG
THE SUBJECT UP AGAIN IN THE
SENATE.
Committee Dissatisfied With Board of
Health Accounts-Ministers Reply
to Questions in the House.

The Board of Health came in for a
lively discussion in the Senate this
morning. The report of the Finance
Committee on items in the Deficiency
bill for the Board of Health precipitat-
ed the discussion. This particular part
of the report is as follows
"The schedule of expenses for this
Department which were handed to the
Committee did not agree with the bill
and a second schedule was presented
This contained new bills to the
amount of $1,517.39, divided among the
items so that it reads as follows: Seq
regation, Support and Treatment of
Lepers, $7,471.57; Support and main
tenance of Hospitals, $55S.61; Support
$65.55; Insane Asylum, S171.50: Quar-
antine Expenses. $2.439.O6; General
Expenses, $1,4O4.41; Medicines, $764,-
At; Total, $12,S75.17.
''It is unsatisfactory to have such
changes in the bill, as it gives an ap-
pearance. of uncertainty as to the
the knowledge of the Department, but
as the bills are all owing, we recon-
mend that the revised items pass"
Senator McCandless asked if it was
of the Board were in such shape that
it was hard to tell anything about
them. Senator Waterhouse replied by
reading the Committees report, but
added that the Committee were able
to get very little information from the
books, and that it was intended to be-
gin an investigation of them at once
Senator McCandless continuing, said
fat &c @, 4
his criticisms the other day of the
Board and of his objections to their
junketing trips. 1t seemed that their
foreign quarantine and other pet
schemes so took up their minds that
they did not have time or opportuni
ty to see the necessity of having a
good booll-keeper. A thorough over
hauling of the accounts was asked for.
Trips had been made to the Orient for
the purpose of establishing a quaran-
tine over there. But it is now farce.
Immigrants are fumigated and quar-
antined at Kobe, but when the vessel
reaches another port where other i'm
migrants are received, the Kobe i'm
migrants are allowed to mix with
those who have not been quarantined.
So it is at other points, with the re-
suit that the value of quarantine on
the other side is entirely lost, and the
real safety for the health of the Is
lands is the quarantine here. The At
torney General had objected to what
he had said, but he believed it true
nevertheless.
Minister Cooper defended the Board
saving that the objection that the
bills for January were paid while De-
cember bills remained unpaid was
easily eXplainable. After the last dav
of December the Board had no au-
thority to pay a December bill until
the Deficiency appropriation bill is
passed. While January bills could ne
paid in regular course.
Senator Waterhouse said the QUAR-
antine service of the Republic abroad
was excellent; and to the extent that
1t was impaired, it was impaired by
the action of the Steamship Compa-
MES, which did not like the law be-
cause they had to support the expense.
Senator McCandless read an article
from newspaper supporting his as
sertions. Senator Baldwin defended
the Board
Senator Brown introduced the bill
of which he gave notice some time ago
providing for settlement of the
wharf and harbor dispute between the
Government and the OahuRailway and
Land Company. 1t provides for the
conveyance to the company of certain
wharf and water frontage in fee sim
pie with the perpetual right of way
to deep water, on condition that the
company shall never seek to secure
any other wharf or water frontage,
and shall never charge more than the
present Government wharfage rates.
The bill was referred to Committee.
Work on the Appropriation bills was
taken up and Senate Bill No. 3, pro-
viding for Deficiency appropriations
was finished reading for engrossing
and third reading.