The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-21


Road implements ...... $50. 90
Building courts and station
ton houses, Wailuku ...... $4,000 90
Total observation-disclosures. SAG, $50. 90
The unfinished business of the House
being next in order, Dickey took the
chair, the House going into commit
tee of the whole. The incidentals of
the commission of public lands came
up for reconsideration. The day be-
fore it was reduced from $3.50, to
$500. Emmeluth stated that the COM
missioner had threatened to resign his
position if the item remained at the
reduced figures. The speaker thought
the item had better be reconsidered
under the circumstances. Beckley
moved that the matter be referred to
a special committee for investigation
and consideration. The motion was
carried.
Makekau asked that new item be
inserted, on preliminary roads and
trails, and that the amount set aside
for this purpose be $1,000. The mo-
ton was carried.
Emmeluth suggested that the consid-
Grafton of this matter be referred to
special committee. In Introducing
his remarks, Emmeluth said it was to
to be hoped that before the end OF the
present biennial period the natives
would know more about politics than
they do at present. Makekau respond
ed by saying that before the end of
that time, it was to be hoped that GER
tain haoles would know more about
politics, also.
The Board of Health came next
The general expenses of that depart
ment were given as $4,000 in the Gov
ernor's estimate. The committee sug-
gested that the figures be raised to
$13,0 900. When asked why the increase
had been made, Emmeluth requested
that he be given time in which TO MAKE
a systematic report on the same.
Disinfectants and vaccine followed.
Two thousand dollars were allowed for
this item.
| For the support of non-leprous
children, instead of $4,000, an appro-
priation of $4,000 was suggested and
carried.
The Governors estimate of $4,000
was passed for the insane asylum.
For the segregation, support and
| treatment of lepers, $4,000 was CIV
en-.
There was some argument on the
appropriation for the Kalaupapa store,
which had been set at $45, 900. Moss
man did not favor giving this appro-
| priation as lump sum- He asked
InaI the matter pe given INTO TIE
hands of a special committee, to seq
regate and to file a report, before 1t
be accepted.
MonSarrat moved that the item be
passed as it stood. He said the store
would need all the money given il.
! Before annexation, it had been said
! that when the Islands became u part
of the United States, money could be
picked off the trees On the contrary,
! h t-le 10 not h n
under the old order of things.A Prices
were higher. Even American goods
cost more. The lepers would need the
entire $4,000. Emmeluth moved that
! Monsarrats words go on record, but
the motion was not seconded.
| Beckley moved that $4,000 be allow
ed the lepers for stamped envelopes.
| The motion carried.
The finance committee recommended
that $4,000 be allowed for substituting
! a steamer for Molokai. Hoogs said
that if this We're the report of the
finance committee, they ought to be
examined as to their sanity. He made
a motion to that effect, but it was not
seconded. Emmeluth presented a de-
tailed report on the subject of a
steamship for the leper colony. Such
a vessel should not be a common car
rier. 1t should be able to carry fifty
I n6dQ cattle IOTWdEQ- ne ~ pc oI
conveyance best adapted to the pur-
pose would be a steam schooner, capa-
BILE of making not less than eight knots
an hour BY means of sails, such a
vessel would not burn more than six
! tons of coal day.
| Hogs said he was opposed 10 the
government going. into the steamship
| business to a greater extent than at
present. Prendergast said the govern
ment should own its own boat. The
steamer now subsidized goes to the
Island with paiai, but on account of
rough water, often did not land it.
Sometimes the paiai was kept on
board for ten days or two weeks at a
| time, and when it was landed at the
| leper settlement, it was unfit for use.
The accommodations at present ON the
steamers We're unfit for human beings.
The lepers We're put up forward. when
taken to Molokai, where the cattle are
generally kept, and the rolling of the
vessel, in addition to their own mala-
dy, made their experience most IN
pleasant one, on the voyage over,
In the midst of the discussion a re-
cess was taken until 1870 in the after
noon.
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