The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-02


Smallpox has been brought to these
shores twice s.nce then, but largely ow-
ing to vaCc nati,n, oio not spread.
All important lines Of steamers in the
Pacific touch at honolulu, and travel
and CONNIE ce in the Pacific is rapidly in
creasing. There is always more or less
smallpox in the Oriental countries bor-
dering the Pacific, and just now there
are cases of smallpox scattered through
out the United States.
1t behooves us, therefore, to be more
vigilant than ever in our efforts to pre-
vent this dread disease from spreading
in Hawaii, and we should not in the in
terest of the Hawaiians and of public
health, entertain for a moment the prop
osition of repeating the laws relating to
vaccination. H. P. BALDWIN.
At the afternoon session of the Senate
some most wonderful remarks were made
in regard to vaccination, leprosy and
other matters. DR.. Russell was not pres
ent. probably being engaged in vaccinat-
ing Bob" but there was no lack of elo-
quence. Cecil Brown said that he would
never support the arm-to-arm yaccina-
ton. Now, however, vaccine is produc-
ed from farms He believed that one
half of the cases of leprosy in this coun-
try was due to the manner of vaccina-
ton in the year 1853 when a smallpox
derstood that on the transport which had
entered the port In this morning there
were cases of small pox. (The Senator
might have got wilcox and Small
pox" mixed), and he believed in taking
proper precautions against the dread
disease. Under the present system. with
imported vaccine the risks would never
recur which had been taken by the arm
to-arm vaccination of days gone by. The
law has never been seriously enforced,
but if the new Act is passed, and a
smallpox epidemic should occur in Ha-
wall, 1t will be the poor and not Gus"
rich men who viii suffer Epidemics
strike always at the poor, as we have
had ample proofs of right here.
Senator Kalauokalani spoke strongly in
favor of the bill, for the very reasons
advanced by Senator Brown. In 1858,
when vaccination was introduced here,
there was a population of 100000 Hawaii
ans Today there are 10000 left to tell
the sad story of the decrease in a race.
II do not claim" cried the Senator,
that the vaccination bill was introduce
ed except for the purpose of doing good
to my people, but the result, according
to the census, shows that it has deci-
mated NY countrymen. Let each man
protect himself. My constituents are
opposed to forced vaccination. and for
that reason 7 am here to support the
bill"
Here The Father of His Country
drifted into a useless discussion about
Keauu. who was inoculated by DR.. Ar
ming with leprosy. preferring that man
ner of getting across the StyX to being
hanged for murder. and there was
great deal or noise and very loud talk
Senator Paris wanted to know whether
the absent Senator Russelnitsky favored
the bill or not and Senator Kanalua Ka-
nuha explained the law, as 1t exists in
England today, where compulsory vacci-
nation is pau. Senator Paris said that at
all elections there were promises of turn
ing lepers loose and to do away with
vaccination. but he hardly thought any
measure like this would be brought into
the Senate.
At this moment Senator Paris was
speaking in Hawaiian and then in Eng
fish, and his English was interpreted by
Mr.. Bush into Hawaiian and some states
men were puzzled as to whether that
mode of procedure was according to the
Organic Act.
Senator Baldwin expressed his grief at
hearing an intelligent man like Kalauo-
kalani using such expressions on behalf
of the Hawaiians as he had done in re-
gard to the Hawaiians being decimated
through vaccination. There are today
only S76 Hawaiians at the Leper Settle
ment, and the decrease of the race can
consequently not be laid at the door of
the compulsory vaccination law, which
Mr. Kalauokalani says has reduced, since
1853 the population from 100000 to 81, 1000.
Ignorant people jump at conclusions"
and the Senator from Maui was surpris-
ed at the attitude of an intelligent man
like the Senator for Oahu
Senator White objected to being
branded" every seven years as a calf
ft,n
more poison into his system He spoke
strongly on the subject and then the re-
port was adopted and the bill set for the
third reading tomorrow.
Then Senator Carter took the fioor and
presented the following report:
To the Vice President of the Senate:
Your Ways and Means COMMITTEES. to
whom was referred Senate bill No So On
March 90, begs leave to report that the
bill alters section $40 of the Civil Code
by striking out that portion which pro
vides that the assessment value of rent
ed real estate shall be eight years rent
al, unless manifestly unfair and unjust.
but in all other respects the law remains
the same.
The Chief Justice In his report page 2D
states that this rule was adopted on the
assumption that the actual rental was
approxima tely a. fair estimate of the
market value rental. but values have
and most real estate is valued
at a higher figure than eight times its
rental, with the result that either the
eight-year rule must be ignored, or else
II land leased al its fair rental is assess
ed on the eight-year rule, and other land.
because not leased or leased years ago
at less than its present fair rental is
assessed at its fun value, there is unjust
and he recommends that
the rule be repealed.
The committee believes that there Is
land in the Territory leased
many years ago which at present Is as
sessed at nowhere near its market val
ue. We therefore recommend the adop-
ton of the bill.
DAVID KANUHA,
5. E. KATUE,
G. r CARTER.
Committee
A very lively but useless discussion
took place and after a debate between
Senators Carter, Baldwin, Brown and
White, the report was tabled to be con-
sidered with other tax bills now before
the Senate.
Senator White