The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-25
Men Of Commerce
Name Sanitary
Committee.
TO INVESTIGATE
FEDERAL POWERS
Will Discuss With Board Of Health
and Quarantine Officer What
is Needed.

II HREE members of the Chamber
of Commerce will make a thor
u ough investigation of the condi-
tions here, before that body will COM
init itself to any plan for the sanitation
of the city under national control. This
was decided at meeting OF the cham
ber, pursuant to a special call. The
meeting was only fairly attended. but
the sentiment was practically unani-
nous
When IL was found that a quorum of
the members of the chamber were in
the room over Castle & Cookies office at
2 O'Clock yesterday afternoon, +. A
Schaefer moved that ]. 3. Atherton
act as chairman. and this was agreed
to without a dissent The call was
read and as well the resolution of the
Merchants Association When this
, had been done the meeting was ready
Cfor action and the conservative ssnti-
ment which had been crystalliZing dur
ing the wait for the call to order. took
form
Mr.. Schaefer moved, and John Era
seconded the motion. that a commit
tee of three OF which the chairman OF
the meeting should be the presiding OF
ficer should be appointed by the chair'
TO confer with the Board OF Health
and the federal quarantine officer. as
TO what can be done, and TO report
upon IL at an early meeting. In put
ting the motion the chairman called
attention TO the importance of the res
ofttfon and asked for full expression
of opinion Of the members upon the
subject.
II. I.owrie rose first and said that
the proposed action did not seem 20
him the proper one in the premises
although 1t was the usual form taken
by TIE chamber when matter came
up. and action usually was thus delay
ed until the emergency was passed
There might be a difference or opinion
as TO the matter. he said. IL there was
any doubt In the minds of the members
as To the state OF affairs in the city
The conditions which exist. he SAID
were very we'll known. and While there
might be a question as to the propriety
OF bringing up the subject, now tnat
IL had been brought up. there could De
nothing done but to meet the prooieii
squarely.
The sending of a request to the Fed
eraI authorities. he said, was in no way
a committaI OF the chamber TO any
course of action. and it should be for
warded and the case made as strong As
possibIe. The matter rad coTe TO the
front and there was nothing TO do put
make the best of it, and do all possi-
BILE to carry il through
r Atherton said that the question
which was in his mind was as 10 pos
sible results of action by the bodles. ne
said IL was a question whether OF hO'
the mercantile bodies were not unuer-
taking to do something which even t.,e
! Federal authorities could not 40
u hill
would be necessary, and in TINS EVEN
- 1vouId he wise to know just what
Sbould he done in the entire matter.
r-ba committee would ascertain just
what was to be the result or the dc'ioi'
and lust what was needed 10 recon-
neud and provide for in such Dill. II
~ matter must go to Congress, ne
said ..it would be better that we put
our hands in our pockets ana pay an
the expense, rather than nave any au
,-r,isa,uent made of the necessity
-, - ALLEGED TO exist. While there
had been reports of alleged existence OF
nIa,-,e here. such action as is proposed
80 wake these rumors fact
~ w smith. of the committee OF the
,farcbants' Association. said tnat the
Federal quarantine service acteo WI"
or4 any reference to Congress Ihei
was a fund from which the money wa
-, fo- such things. and the chlel
of the service was always coIhPeten,
10 act in the matter ODJeclioh ia
bean made he said, to any action al
.y,ts .i,,a and the point raised was that
4 80 ,,,bIicitv. There are now. he SAID
j reports made by the quarantine oihceI
and these were quoted in Washins con
and the people who sent them out gave
ea-,iro headlines. telling that plague
4 1,as endemic here. and that there was
4 great danger from the prevalence OF It.
All of this. he said. came from the oui-
4 Ietins which were sent on oy Dr- CoLei