The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16
DOLE PUTS
SENATORS
STRAIGHT
Shows Up Many
]. Misleading
.u..HPoints..
DECLARES IN FAVOR
OF LEPERs PEACE
viii Not Agree to ANY Further
Segregation Postmaster
Oat Speaks.

After day of hard work the Senate
rial Commission closed its work yester-
day with DR.. Sloggetts hearing incom-
plete. Today will be given largely to
the leper question, for Senator Burton
has letter which has started him to
investigating the Father Wendelin
matter and the settlement officials are
to be heard today as well. This prob
ably will fill the entire day though Su-
perintendent of Instruction Atkinson
and E. Tappan Tannatt are waiting a
hearing.
When the session opened yesterday
morning at the Hawaiian Hotel Attor-
ney General Dole testified concerning
his office. and paid high compliments
to his subordinates. OF the total per-
sons employed 22S are Hawaiians His
deputy. he said, had not had vacation
for three years, and the increase of
work was such that it was only by
could be paid. The incidental fund Of
$780, 600 had been slightly exceeded, as,
he explained, every item of expense not
specifically appropriated for came out
of this fund. Every cent spent was
paid upon voucher.
The appropriation for his own sal
ary he said had been cut, he recon-
mending $4,000 and the Legislature
making it s9O0O He then read the en-
tire appropriation for his department.
Senator Mitchell wanted to know about
the police system and in response to
questions Attorney General Dole said
the government here was centralized to
an extent unknown in the United States
but it was possible to run the govern
naent so only because of the small size
of the country and because in certain
portions Of the Territory there was
such sparse population as to make local
self government impossible.
He went on to show that whereas in
the United States there were separate
kaxes for each item of expense, here
there is only one tax and this money
is expended in every branch. As to the
government. he said that every one who
spoke the truth would say that it had
been run in the interest of the public
good.
Explaining the high cost of living, he
told how when seeking an assistant he
sought five young men here and could
not get them to take the place at the
salary which is too low, and had to
SEND to the mainland for man. He
thought the cost of living here was
nearly twice that in San Francisco.
Coming to the Board of Health he
explained its make up and the breadth
of its labors, reading for the Commits
sion the appropriations. AS to the lep-
ers he showed how the settlement was
divided and said the cottage system
was favored, the privilege of living in
families being granted to those whose
condition made it suitable The helper
system was explained as was that OF
taking away the children. Senator
Burton brought up the existence of the
family relation among the lepers, and
as we'll asked if men and women were
permitted to live together without mar
riage. Attorney General Dole denied
this and Senator Burton began ques-
tioning him as to his opinion upon the
piopriety of separating men and wom-
en- there, saying that in this way the
disease might be stamped out entirely.
Il think this" said the attorney gen
eral there is no other place where the
segregation of the lepers is carried on
so closely as it is here. They are taken
from their homes, banished to this lit
tie strip of land, bounded by high cliffs
en- one side and the sea on the other.
where they must spend the remainder
Of their lives. 1t might stamp out the
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