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

trick of theirs to get money. why,
there's another argument against the
purchase, too. Some time the vessel
might strike rock and go down in
the ocean, and the government would
lose all the money it paid for the
boat"
Mossman was not greeted with a
| burst of applause upon his brilliant
flogic.. and seemed to wonder why ey-
erybody smiled while he spoke.
Paele thought a good vessel would
be a great help, but, to buy one of
the old tubs, which the local companies
had discarded, would be throwing
| good money after bad" Firewood is
an article that is needed at Molokai.
AS it is now the supply of fuel is be-
ginning to be scarce. The people on
the Island of Molokai, said Paele.
would be willing to patronize the Ter
ritorial vessel, thereby enabling the
government to make back some of
/ the money expended. The next time
the Legislature wished to go to Mo-
! lokai it would not cost the Territory
$3.50, as it did the last time.
. Monsarrat opposed buying a steam
er. Within year there would be no
cattle shipped from Hawaii. The talk
about taking cattle from the other
Islands to Molokai was nothing more
than so much chaff, INDUCED in for
the purpose of carrying through the
scheme under discussion. Hoogs said
that while the arguments of those who
wished to buy the steamer were very
able, one thing they forgot and that
was, where would the money come
from with which to pay for the YES
sci?
/ Since 1886, S32, 900 had been spent each
year for the treatment and care of
lepers, Aylett said and no good had
been done Now, when $35 900 were
in, 70 ntrih 70
the material comfort of these unfor-
Inmates, a hue and cry was raised that
it was a useless outlay. Better spend
81, 200, 900 and benefit one man, than
to follow the course now being follow
ed. and allow these sufferers to go
i unattended. One thing was sure, if
the Territory owned Its own boat, the
poor lepers would be better treated on
their way to their living grave The
Wilder Steamship Company packed
the lepers with the pigs and cattle.
i No care was bestowed upon the unfor-
tunate victims of this terrible mala-
dy.
Beckley said that while the Legisla-
ture was asking for an appropriation
it might just as we'll ask for 500, 000
and be done with it. When the steam
er had been purchased the expenses
of running her, paying her crew and
keeping her in good condition, would
have to be provided for. A steamer
, under the control of the Board OF
Health could not expect to be a pay
ing proposition. She would have to be
sent here and there, as the occasion
J demanded, and could not be kept on
regular run. The reason that the
lepers had not been treated kindly by
the steamship company was not the
fault of the transportation company
, The Board of Health was to blame
The 100000 spent biennially on the
lepers was not expended with the ex-
pectation of doing the 1epers any good
They were sent to their living tomb in
, order that the rest of the population
might not be contaminated. The
spread of leprosy owed much to the
indiscriminate methods employed In
. vaccination in times past. The disease
. was on the decrease, and no doubt, ;r
the course of time, would be a thing
of the past. While this fact did not
warrant the body polite from slight
, ing these unfortunates, yet at the
same time the House should avoid use.
/ less and excessive expenditures.
) Following Beckley, came Hihio, who
5 spoke along the same lines. The Rep
: resentative had figures to show thai
the cost of running the boat, after II
had been purchased would be $S0,00t
for the biennial period.
El1lfneIuCn SAID tQdI hdkehdu, WnC
had informed the House during, the
morning session that he could not fine
the president of the Wilder STEAMSHIP
: Company, was now seconding the, mo
ton to buy a steamer for the Ter.
2 ritory. Emmeluth said that hi
=. thought there was "a niger in the
= woodpile.'
Upon a vote being taken, the follow.
: ing was the result, by ayes and noes
, Il II
l hio, Hogs, Hawai-, Keiki, Kekaula
Keliikoa, Kumalae, Makekau, Monsar
rat, Mossman, Nailima.
Noes-Ahulii, Aylett, Dickey, Emme
luth, Kauimakole, Kaniho Kawaihoa
Mahoe, Makanai, Paele, Prendergast
) Puuki. Akina.
Ayes, IA; noes, Is.
( 1t was then ordered that the sum Of
$4,000 be recommended, with which
: to secure a new vessel, for the trans.
} porting of stores to Molokai.
A motion by Makekau followed. He
asked that $4,000 be appropriated fol
: medical supplies, the same to be dis.
: tributed to the different government
physicians throughout the Territory.
The military expense bill was not
| considered, on the grounds that this
| portion of the appropriation bill had
been stricken out.
Subsidies were allowed the following
: hospitals: Queens Hospital, 100000
Hospital for Incurables 12,0G0 Ma.
/ ternity Home, $1,000.
: The subsidies for the Waimea Hos.
! pital and the Lihue Hospital were re-
: ferred to Island committees.
For the running of the steamer ths
sum of 100000 was asked for. Emme.
: luth read the following figures, which
the Board of Health had given him:
Captain. $50; chief engineer, SIPS
one assistant engineer, 500; chief Of
ficer, $50; donkey driver, $45; cook, S45
| cabin boy, s35; ten declhands, $500;
two firemen, $50; coal, $500; inciden-
, tails, $50. Total, s1,260.
The estimate called for $50, 900 tc
conduct the running of the steamer
; Hogs suggested that, of course, wear
and tear would be nothing. Hihio add
, ed that it would cost something tc
feed the nineteen men employed In
running the vessel Monsarrat rose tic
a point of information. He wished to
. know whether or not some doctor had
not drawn up the estimate. Hoogs
said that it would take six tons OF
coal a day. There would be at least
: twenty days in each month in which