The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-01

plague. I wish to have the news accur-
ately, with the stamp of the Board of
Health upon the statement which would
be made as to the sanitary and hygienic
condition of the town. Now, are you
willing 10 consider the idea of issuing
bulletin for the afternoon press and a
bulletin about o'clock for the benefit of
| the morning press? In that way q speak
for our paper). We will be satisfied.
DR.. Emerson: 1 wish to state that
anticipating this very point, I wrote out
this little motion, which l will read and
offer a motion.
DR.. Raymond: The Board is not in
regular session; this is merely a confer
ence.
DR.. Emerson: 1t can be taken as the
sense of the Board. THAT daily bulle-
tin be furnished by the Board of Health
stating the situation as regards the pub
lie health"
Mr.. Dole: / offer an amendment, Mr.
President in the form suggested by the
Editor of the Advertiser, that a semi
daily bulletin be furnished to accommo-
dat the evening press ard the morning
press.
amendment.
Mr.. Hogs: The Star will be perfectly
willing to join in a proposition of that
kind, but as a concession to us we would
prefer to have a bulletin at as late an
hour as possible. Something might hap
pen between u and that we would not
want to miss. I would be only too glad
to join in on proposition with the I'M
derstanding that you people would put
the matter in the hands of man who
would not dismiss it with four lines ev-
cry day.
DIR. Raymond: 1 do not see any rea-
son why that suggestion should not be
carried out. I am satisfied that the dis
position of the Board will be to do ev-
erything in its power to enlighten the
press upon all points from time to time
Senator Baldwin: Mr. President, I have
been little surprised at the remarks
you made on the Legislature. / have
just talked with some of the members of
| the House, and / am familiar with what
| is going on in the Senate, and I have
not heard of any feeling of distrust of
! the present Board of Health. Those I
have spoken to here have not heard any
| thing of that sort. There is as / under
stand it bill in the House to reorgan-
ize the Board of Health. At such time
as this am sure the feeling of the Leg
islature would be to support the Board
as long they attend to their duty.
First of all, 1t is the health of the coun-
/ try, keeping any epidemic of this sort
| away from the large number of working
people throughout the Islands who have
| been brought here, that we have to look
out for carefully, and who cannot take
care of themselves; then, next after the
health of the community, our situation
is such and our industries are such that
we have to guard carefully the question
of our foreign commerce. Now, I speak
Of that simply in connection with news
paper work, and say that I consider that
the truth should be adhered to.
Wy u l.,x-
been some remarks made here regarding
an agreement by the press to do thus and
so. L would like to state here for the
Bulletin that the bulletin will not enter
into any agreement with any paper or
any Board of Health or any organization
of this Government to print or not to
print any matter. Our attitude towards
this was plain Saturday evening. We
published nothing because We did not
consider we were justified in publishing
anything until the facts were known
whether the case were plague or not.
And so far as | have ever had any con-
necton with the Board of Health here,
in a newspaper capacity, 1 have never
had any trouble in getting facts from
the Board if they come to the right
source.
So far as issuing bulletins are con-
cerned, that would be of assistance, but
l should consider if I sent a man up
here to the Secretary and asked him if
there was anything new in the line OF
plague matter. and he said no, should
take his word for it, as 1 would that
of the board. And l see no reason for
publishing bulletins myself for this
reason, that until this case is decided
to be d case of plague it gives an I'M
due Importance to the affair.
Dr. Emerson renewed his suggestion
about bulletins and when the meeting
Id ,~ l1a,-c fIanf how
would be issued.