The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-14
THE GRAND JURY'S
FINAL REPORT
JUDGE GEAR TELLS THE JURORS
DOLE OUGHT TO CALL AN
EXTRA SESSION.
JURORS VIEW OF THE LOCAL
LIQUOR QUESTION.
Primo Licenses Favored and Only One
License for One Corporation is Ad-
vOcated.

vOcated.
The Grand jury made a final report
this 4iIUi uI.s, la Juuge Gears court dis
cuSslng crime among Porto Ricdns the
creation of a department of Public
Health, with salared officers of the
! board of health, changes IN the laws
to do away with the Grand jury in
uictments for petty offences IwiIei.
the liquor question, ana the usual ue-
| partments which all Grand Juries vi
sit and crtucise. After the report had
/ been read Juuge Gear spoke at some
! length, commencing the report and de-
| claring that if the Governor had the in
| terest of the territory at heart he
! would call an extra session of the legis-
! lature to make the changes in laws
/ which the jury recommended.
1t seems to me that if the legislature
| did nothing else than amend these
! penal laws said Judge Gear, 1t would
J save enough to make an extra session
| worth while. Our laws on the subject
! of these small offenses are a crying
l evil. AS the matter stands now if a
! boy ten years old is arrested tomorrow
| FOR stealing ten cents he must be held
/ in Jail until the next Grand Jury meets,
| then he must be indicted and tried and
! If he is finally convicted, at an expense
/ Of four or five hundred dollars the
| court has to suspend sentence or send
/ him to the penitentiary at hard labor.
| The court is reluctant and the attOr-
| ney general is reluctant, to send little
Z boys to the penitentiary.
THESE petty cases keep this court in
| session and make work for the Grand
! Jury which should all be disposed of
in the lower court. This court term
( has been extended at an expense of
SlUO uay and the Grand Jury has been
| kept in session at 500 a day. If the
! legislature did nothing but make our
laws in this respect the same as those
of other places, it would save enough
to pay for its session, and 1t seems to
me that If Governor Dole had the in
( terests of the Territory at heart he
would call a session"
The report of the jury closing with
! an expression Of its appreciation of
| the Dility, thorOughness, fairness, dig
| nifty and courtesy which have been
| the unfailing characteristics through
out its sessions of John W. Cathcart
Esquire, the Deputy Attorney General
of the Territory" is in part as follows:
The Attorney General has brought
| to the attention of this Grand jury 20
criminal cases out of which 46 true bills
have been found.
our attention has specially been
called to the prevalence Of crime
amongst Porto Ricans We submit
| herewith a table of offenses and arrests
of Porto Ricans in the District of Ho-
nolulu, Island of Oahu. from September
l, 1901 to February 2S, 1902 both days
inclusive.
FROM inquiries made from such wit
nesses as were brought before us, the
Porto RiCanS as race appear to prefer
occupations bordering on vagrancy to
those involving hard work.
I'VE recommend that no further Porto
Ilcans be encouraged to enter the Ter
rttOry of Hawaii unless a careful iuves-
tigation into their character and pre-
yious record be made
"It has been called to the attention of
the Grand Jury that young girls are
frequently debauched about Chinese
store premises, and we recommend that
laws be enacted to prevent the gather
ing of children between the ages of 10
and 10 al such places, and for the severe
punishment for debauchery Of children.
These girls will become mothers of the
future generation and an institution
should be provided by the government
for young girls where they can find
home, and be taught plain household
duties; and a law should be enacted to
provide that the government shall care
for such girls where their parents are
unable or unwilling to do so.
AN investigation of the condition at
Iwilei i'm reference to the old stoCkade
and the vicinity show a number of lod-
ging hOusese occupied by a cOsmopoli-
tan class; the moral conditions existing
there are the same as are found In
every cheap lodging house throughout
the city
The buildings known as the old
stOckade are not at the present time
occupied by prostitutes
we recommend that a Department
of Public Health be created with paid
members.
"Tba a aDr,r,rria ti,,,g f,,. tb, p,orI ~
Health during the present biennial per-
iod amount to i37,S6S.34, including ST.
59O.4S unpaid bills. No well conducted
business house would for a moment en-
tertain the idea of eXpending this large
amount of money, except under the di-
rectiOn of well paid manager, deyOtiug
substantially all his time to the duties
of his position. To expect that any
man can, and will be so public spirited
as TO give up his business or profession
and assume such audurOus duties and
heavy responsibilities without pay is
contrary to human experience and, i'm
the long run, this policy must be a saw
ing at the spigot and wasting at the
buughOle.
THE sanitary problems of this Ter
ritOry are peculiarly difficult ana per-
picking, II has I'm round numbers a
thousand lepers To be cared for. 10 is
i'm the tropics and has much low lying
and unsanitary lands in Honolulu and
elsewhere. tt has an extremely mixed
population, "a large proportion of whom
have no idea of sanitation, and win do
nothing TO keep their premises clean
except under cOmpulsiun. IL lies on the
highway between the United States, the
Orient and the British Colonies, and ia
constantly exposed to cOntaEion and
infectious diseases. The problems aris-
ing from these conditions make the
work of sanitation as important and