The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-15
SENATE COMMITTEE
ON PLEASURE BENT
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tributed to the patronage distributed by
the governor. w. O. Smith interrupted
the witness to asked if he hadn't made
a mistake. The total cost of the Ieper
settlement, Mr.. Smith stated, was but
$780, 900 which was only 500 per head,
and he asked if Humphreys had not
meant SIS per head. The witness re-
piled that if he had made such a mis-
statement he would correct it himself,
and said that in this instance he had
attempted to carry the figures in his
head, and may have got them mixed
up with something else.
Witness further quoted from a report
made to the Secretary of the Treasury
to show that there were but go lepers
in the United States, and that if Con-
gress intended to establish a national
lazaretto it would be an unheard of
thing, to permit the Hawaiian lepers
to remain under the control of the Ter
ritorial government. He said also that
from conversation with Hawaiians in
the city he was sure that they would
welcome the taking of the control of
the settlement from the Territorial
authorities. Witness then referred to
conditions prevailing at the leper set
tlement, saying that not twenty-five
men in the city could tell who was the
present physician in charge. The last
one he had been informed, by DR..
Sloggett had been a worthless individ-
ual who was discharged after month S
service because of revolving and i'm
moral intercourse with female lepers.
Yet this man was allowed to go with
out prosecution, because the Board Of
Health feared an exposure of conditions
existing at the settlement. The Attor-
ney General though member of the
Board of Health did not raise a hand
to mete out justice to this man, and
the newspapers had not said a word
regarding the reason for the discharge
of the physician.
The witness then made a state
ment concerning the relations exist
ing between the executive and
legislative departments of the gov
eminent. Appropriations recommend
ed by the governor had been
turned down by the legislature, as eX-
travagant and unnecessary, and many
of them were refused altogether. Wit
ness referred also 20 the vetoes of the
governor, saying that there had been
four or five. The one to which partic-
Eular attention was called, was that in
EESdTu ~ lUe TGuuCIlOU OIL the LAX upOIl
female dogs. At the time the governor
had vetoed this the governor of Wis
consin had signed a bill resembling the
tax upon dogs. He referred also to the
poi dog, saying that the veto of the
governor was aimed at the Hawaiians.
A LAW FOR CARPETBAGGERS.
Mr.. Humphreys also produced a copy
of the old blue laws of 1910 as showing
how early in their coming the mission
aries had endeavored to build up class
distinction. One law offering a special
reward for the arrest of foreigners he
said was no doubt aimed at carpet
baggers.''
Coming to the question of the bribery
charges in the last legislature, witness
read the interchange of correspondence
between the Senate Committee and the
governor, saying that Dole's reply re-
fusing a request for an extended ses-
sion to investigate bribery charges
could be compared only to one of the
state papers of King George. Senator
Mitchell interrupted the testimony by
statement that it was time for adj
journment and the witness concluded,
saying that he had much more to offer
but would quit, thanking the Commits
sion for permitting him to take so
much of their time.
CHINESE ON FIRE CLAIMS.
After adjournment Judge Whiting
presented delegation of Chinese from
| the United Chinese society who intro
duced the following memorial:
To the Honorable Sub Committee of
the United States Senate Commit
| tee on Pacific Islands and Porto
| Rico.
Gentlemen;-Your memorialists, rep
| resentatives of the Chinese community
| in Honolulu, deeming it an act
Providence that directed you to come
to these PARKWAY islands of the Pacific
to investigate the affairs of the young
est Territory of the United States of
America, respectfully represent on be-
half of the sufferers by the great fire
of January the goth, 1900;
| That during the months of Deem
Der, 1899, and January, 1900 bubonic
plague was said to have obtained in
Honolulu, and measures We're taken by
the local Board of Health to stamp out
| the deadly malady. At first buildings
where plague patients had died were
ordered to be destroyed by fire, but
hnaily other buildings were burned at
| the discretion of the Board of Health.
A large proportion of the structures
within the plague stricken district,
known as Chinatown, were destroyed
as result of the drastic measures in
stituted by said Board of Health. The
various fires that took place prior to
January the goth, 1900, did not cause
any very great calamity, because they
| We're kept under control; but the fire
OF January goth, 1900. produced such
disastrous results that the effects of it
are keenly felt at this present day.
The Board of Health had decided that
certain buildings at the rear of Kau-
makapili church should--be burned on
| that unhappy day, and at an early
hour torches were applied to the build
lngs at the rear of the church. Soon