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Military. Police and Health Board
Scored--Report Of Leper
Settlement Committee.
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Fifty-ninth Day = One hundred :
= and twenty-six bills introduced: :
= thirty-four presented for signature.


Despite flying rumors that six, ten
or twelve days adjournment was to
be carried into immediate effect, despite
Saturdays protestations and declarations.
the House came together yesterday
morning like lot of good little boys
and got right down to business. 1t look
ed as If some one had given them good
talking to and told them to behave
There was a crowded gallery assem-
bled to witness the expected fun, but the
visitors had to go home disappointed.
The Oahu Ice and Electric bill came
from the Senate with the regular 21k per
cent tax on the gross receipts attached
to it, The amendment was accepted.
The Loan bill was on the calendar but
still remained in the depths Of Beckley's
secret repository and refused to come out
to the feeble calls that were raised for
t during the session.
The report Of the special Joint commit
tee to visit the leper settlement was read
md adopted. The committee recommend
Ell the government of the settlement by
commission, as already published, to
consist OF three MEMBERS one chosen by
The Board Of Health, one by the lepers
by ballot and the l...rd by these two.
Each of the requests in the long peti-
ton sent in by the lepers received atten-
ton In the report and a Recommendation
is made regarding each. A better water
supply is declared necessary and the piir-
chase of steamer to do the business of
carrying between Honolulu and the Set
tlement Is advised. Better beef Is de-
clared to be needed and 1t is recommend
ed that the lepers be allowed to construct
stores and to conduct coffee shops of.
| their own, but that no outsider be al
| lowed to enter the field.
The report continued as follows:
From statements made by some of
| the witnesses that were sworn in by
your committee, we learned that there
| are some people at the settlement whose
| sickness has been arrested and who do
| not appear now to be afflicted with lep-
| rosy. your committee would recommend
| that all such should be discharged from
| the settlement if, after a thorough bac-
! THEOLOGICAL examination by the Board of
| Health, it should be decided that they
are not lepers.
| BY discharging all such the expenses
1 of the Government in connection with
the settlement will be greatly reduced.
Your committee recommends that
| every child born of leper parents, after
| six years of age, if they are not lepers,
1 a
for sucn children near Honolulu. If,
however, they are lepers and remain al
| the settlement, we recommend that they
receive full reations at the age Of ten
years.
| Your committee recommends that ava
be allowed in the settlement, to those adj
d:cted to its use, but not for purposes of
! sale.
Your committee recommends the in
stallation of a district magistrate and
police officers for Kalaupapa.
Your committee recommends that the
number of pounds of poi given each leper
per week be increased from twenty-one
t. twenty-five pounds"
The long-looked-fo report of the Com
mittee on Public Expenditure then made
its appearance, signed by John Emme-
luth, ]. K. Kekaula, D. K. Kaauwai. C.
H. Dickey and w. II. Hoogs.
The report is decidedly torrid in its
opinions on the Board of Health and the
military and police departments, although
the whole expenditure system is severe
ly criticized.
The report. based upon expert statis-
tics, is unusually lengthy, reading In ef-
feet as follows:
The per capita cost of government in
Hawaii, as shown by the figures of Aud
itor Austin's books and the census, Is
s19.5s In California 1t is only $4.06 and in
the city of San Francisco, which is sup
posed to be very costly, only $1S43.
| Further comment Is unnecessary"
In the Attorney Generals or police de-
partment, the committee finds bills paid
i for meals cigars and whiskey. hack
hire. rent of rifle range, belts and clubs.
There are also bills for gloves and silk
ties. Regarding these the committee
/ says: tYour committee submits that 1t
might have been to the interest Of the
lccmmunity at large If hemp had been
substituted for silk in that last Item"
Bills for brushes and soap, newspapers,
advertising and printing also arouse the
ire of the committee.
For stamps the departments bill
amounted to s91ss2. which the commit
tee thinks is too much and for ice the
bill was $751; 55, which is stated to be ex-
cessfve, where meals, cigars and wh.s-
key were only s16s
The military, previously reported on.
has some more attention. The report
saws: colonel ]. w. Jones drew s2sl7 10
lpay as commander OF the First Regiment
during the month of January and also
SEQ 20 as a member of court OF inquiry
and as shorthand reporter for the courts
5000. to say nothing of the payments ac-
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