The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-03-12
MORE CRITICISM
Board Of Health Again the Mark
In the Senate.
THEY ASK FOR A STEAM LAUNCH
The Senate Appropriates $1,000.
President Dole Sends
Messages.
SENATE.
Twentieth Day, March IL

twentieth lay, Marcn IL.
The Senate continued the considera-
ton of the appropriation bills. Two
messages were received from President
Dole. One recommending higher sala-
ries for the Cabinet Ministers was re-
ferred to the Finance Committee. The
second giving brief history of his
recent visit to the United States, was
placed on file.
Several committee reports were re-
celved relative to items in the appro-
priation bills. Senator Brown intro
duced his bill to convey to the O. R.
and L. Co. its present wharf front
property in fee simple, under certain
conditions. The bill was read the first
time and sent to the Printing Commit
tee. A communication was received
from the House transmitting and an
nouncing the passage of the bill relat-
ing to coroner's jury. The bill later
passed the third reading and was re-
ferred to the Printing Committee.
Senators Wilcox, Baldwin and North
rup were appointed the special COM
mittee on the claims for damages for
killing tuberculous cattle with power
to employ legal advice if necessary.
The unpaid bills appropriation bill
was taken up. Items passed were
So, 5,161.75 for expenses, Supreme and
Circuit Courts and pay of interpreters.
Items in the Attorney De-
partment, amounting to $2,2S3.55 were
passed. AS were also items in the In
terror Department amounting TO ST.,
997,S items in the Department of
Public Instruction and the Board of
Health. Many of the items were
changes from the figures in the appro-
priation bill and the Finance Commit
tee expressed dissatisfaction with the
method. In the general discussion
Senator McCandless again scored the
Health Department. He called the
trips to Japan a farse and quoted from
a steamship company's report CRITICS.
ing the system of quarantine employed
by the Hawaiian Government in Jap
an. He characterized the two trips of
men to Japan in the interests of the
Government as junketing trips, and
said the more there were of them the
worse off the affairs were.
Senator Waterhouse objected to the
remarks of the previous speaker. He
had accompanied Dr. Day on the last
visit to Japan, had paid his own pass
age money and was a witness to the
untiring efforts of the physician in the
interests of the Government. He COM
plimented the Government on it's quar-
antine regulations in Japan and quot
ed the language of a Board of Health
official of the United States, who was
in Japan at the same time and ex-
pressed admiration Of the Hawaiian
system.
Senator Baldwin also defended the
Board. He protested against the un-
business of the structures on the Board.
He cOmplimented the Department on
it's general efficient work, not only in
the present, but during the past few
years as we'll He instanced especial
ly the cholera epidemic when, as he
said, the Department won the admir-
alton of the whole world by the man
ner in which it stamped out the di-
sease.
Senator McCandless said the trouble
with the Board of Helath was that
the mem D6TS TeSeuC6u CTllIClSu. ne
believed in the Board, at the same time
the Board should not have all the
credit for stamping out the cholera.
The people Of Honolulu did that. They
stamped out the cholera after the
Board Of Health let it in by failing to
make personal examination Of the pas
sengers but taking the certificate of
the ships physician. The Board had
been lax and it was only by criticism
that they kept up to the mark.
Senator Waterh0use spoke again and
Senator Brown also made remarks, dis
agreeing with the general criticism Of
Senator McCandless.
Items in the current account appro-
priation bill were taken up. Appro-
priatiOns were made for Incidentals
of the Finance Office, Customs Bureau
and Tax Office, and for tax appeal
boards, special service fund, the ex-
penses of printing revenue stamps, in
terest on all loans and advances, in
Guiding commissions on remittances to
London.
A sum Of $4,000 was appropriated to
purchase steam launch for the use
of the Customs Department. the