The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-03
TREASURY MEN ARE IN FAVOR
WITH THE LEGISLATORS

dry verbal changes in following sec
tions, together with a new section, all
to prevent complications with county
government.
House bill No. 5, appropriating 3d.
600 for the expenses of the House of
Representatives in the extra session.
came up for third reading.
BARELY PASSED.
Senator Dickey moved to make the
amount in the bill $4,000, which was
lost. Senator McCandless was laughed
down when he then moved $4,000. The
bill passed by the narrow shave of one
aye to make a majority of the whole
body, on the following vote:
Ayes-Achi, Baldwin, Brown c.,
Crabbe. Kaiue, KaIauokalani Kaohi,
Nakapaahu-S.
Noes-Dickey McCandless-2.
Senate bill No. 9, making special ap-
preparations for departmental uses for
the eighteen months ending June 80,
1905. was resumed on second reading.
In accordance with the special commit
tees report, items were amended IS
follows:
HEALTH APPROPRIATIONS
A new item of $500 for medical de-
partment was inserted.
Segregation, support and treatment
of lepers, instead of s1S2.5OO. was made
$40, 500. and this new item inserted,
viz, Provisions and ration supplies for
Settlement, with paiai rations % pounds
and beef pounds weekly, $106.500.
Kalaupapa store was given $42, 900 in
stead of sSS, $50, with the proviso of a
clothes allowance of SIC for each per-
son.
Support of non-leprous male and fe-
male children of lepers was made S.
625 each instead of $4,000.
Eleele hospital was reduced from ST.
go to 81 $50 to correspond with the six
months bill. and Queens hospital from
sS7, 500 to $4,000 on the same ground.
Leahi Home. or Hospital for Incura-
bles. received $4,000 instead of $11,25O,
and Kapiolani Maternity Home was
raised from $1,000 to $4,000
ORPHANS REMEMBERED.
A new item of $1,000 for Kona Or
phanage was inserted. To Senator
Baldwin's suggestion that this should
be in the educational department, SEN
ator Cecil Brown replied that to put
it under education would bring it into
conflict with the Organic Act. The
Senate appeared OF one mind in re-
garding the orphanage as an institu-
ton worthy of public aid.
Addition to Malulani hospital, Wal
luku. $4,000, was struck out as being
in the six months bill, and there be-
ing $4,000 in the latter for increase
of water supply to the Leper Settle
ment the item of $4,000 here for that
purpose was reduced to $4,000.
Senator Dickey had $500 inserted to
buy instruments for the Settlement
band.
Other items for the Health bureau
were passed as follows, each recon-
bill: General expenses, s11,250; disin-
fectants and vaccine, s3,75O; freight on
parcels for Iepers from all islands. So
$50: stamped envelopes for lepers $3.50;
Insane Asylum, $50, 900; quarantine and
fumigation expenses, $11,2 emergen-
cy quarantine and fumigation, $4,000;
running expenses garbage crematory,
$4,000; furnishing receiving hospital,
dispensary and morgue, $500; main
tenance receiving hospital. etc. $500;
waimea hospital 81. 625; Lihue hospital,
81. 700; Malulanf hospital, $4,000; Hilo
hospital $4,000; freight and passenger
service. weekly between Honolulu and
ports of Maui and Molokai to lowest
bidder. $4,000; repairing and furnish
ing quarantine hospitals, 1880; medi-
cines for free distribution in all dis
tricts, $500.
LIBERAL AMOUNT.
The aggregate of Board of Health
items for the IS months is S435. 925.
Senator Isenberg promised a report