Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-03-07

Petition from people of Kalaupapa
asking for a repeal of the section in
/ the Session Laws which empowers the
Board of Health to make and promul-
gate rules and regulations in regard ia
! lepers and helpers residing at the leper
settlement.
/ Petition from residents of the Fifth
and Sixth precincts of the Fifth Dis
trict asking for an appropriation for a
public cemetery.
( Petition from residents of Kalaupapa
and Kalawao, Molokai, asking that
a Committee be chosen to come and
carefully investigate the doings of the
Board of Health and its agents and
other officers of the Government at the
leper settlement"
The Printing Committee reported as
follows and this report is what raised
the trouble in the House:
The number of bills introduced in
the House to March 6. 1903, is 1O4, and
they are in the hands of the printers. in
different printing houses at the rate OF
$3.50 page. There has been no type
writing done to this date. The follow
ing are the names of translators en-
gagged to do the work: Enoch John
son, d. II. Kahaulello, John Sheldon.
w J. Coelho. John Gea. George Mark
ham. John Wise, G. Plianaia. William
Rathburn, Charles Blake Charles Not
ley. d. Kalauokalani, Jr., J. A. Akina.
and Joseph NJ. Poepoe. These trans
lators agree to accept what the House
may decide. The report is signed by
Messrs A. Fernandez, Chas. II. Pulaa,
Jonah Kumalae, s X. Oil and F. h.
Greenwell.
After the reading Of this report.
Speaker Beckley arose and reiterated
his remarks of the other day in regard
to the charge for proolreading. He
wanted to know who had given the
committee the authority to appoint the
translators who had been named in the
report. These men should have been
appointed with the endorsement of the
official interpreter and the Chair. I'm
der the rules. the onicial interpreter
was also the official translator, and he
should approve of the people named as
translators. The supervision of all the
work should lie with him. The list as
he had read 1t included competent as
well as incompetent men and he would
again rule that all translation work
would be paid for at the rate OF fifty
cents a folio and no more.
Mr.. Harris arose and moved for the
adoption of the minority report. He
did not see why after the printing
houses had agreed to do the work of
printing and proof-reading at a certain
price, any money should be paid on
the outside. He asked Mr.. Kumalae
q question about the proof.readers and
the la,,er answered that the men who
did the translating were the ones who
did the proofreading.
Mr.. Kumalae was the next speaker
and he told Of the work of the Print
ing Committee. If the House wished
to take out of their hands the work
of supervising the translating, then 1t
was up to them. They had tried to do
their best and he personally was in the
habit of making the rounds of the diff
ferent translators and supervising the
work. However, he wished to say one
thing. II this supervision was to be
taken out Of the hands of the commit
tee then the mistakes that might hap
pen to creep in would be the RESPONSE
bility of the House. The Printing
Committee had sought to facilitate the
work of the House by appointing
translators to do the work. II would
be very grave mistake If these men
who had been asked to 40 the work of
proofreading were not to be paid for
that work. II was not the fault OF the
translators and proof.readers that
there were mistakes in the bills as
they were presented before the House.
This was the fault of the printing
houses.
| Mr.. Kumalae was called to order by
Messrs. Knudsen and Harris, who said
that the speaker was not talking on
the subject. The Speaker told Mr.. Ku.
malae that the only thing he could do
was to move to amend the report of
tee. He could then pursue the strain
which he was talking on at the time.
Mr.. Kumalae said no more on the sub
ject but moved that the report of the
minority of the committee be rejected.
Mr.. Knudsen said the printing
houses had agreed to do the work of
printing and proof-reading for $3.50 a
page. If the House intended to pay
for something outside OF that, II would
be placing itself in a very bad light.
The interpreter used the word "lapu-
ale" in translating the remarks of Mr..
Knudsen and Mr. Kaniho objected. The
notes of the stenographer were called
for and the objection was not sustain.
ed. Mr.. Knudsen went on to say that
II Mr., Kumalae wanted to take on him.
self the work Of supervising the trans
'lating, that was his own affair. He
had no business to do such work.
Mr.. Greenwell followed with few
more remarks of like nature and Mr..
Kumalae again moved that the report