The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-14
LEGISLATURE. TWENTY-SECOND DAY.

many of them, now getting only from
IS to so cents.
ONE DOLLAR THE WAGE.
Achi was willing TO accept the dollar
rate for outside districts, but did not
believe it would answer in Honolulu,
where he knew, in spite of all that had
4 been said to the contrary, it cost more
to live.
I The vote came on the motion of Paris
to fix the rate at one dollar a day, a
minimum, in all parts of the Territory,
and the motion carried. The bill as
amended passed second reading, ana
! will be read for the third time tomor-
row.
At the opening of the session yes
| terday morning, the House Informed
| the Senate of the passage of a number
| of bills, all of which We're deferred I'M
| der the rule for twenty -four hours to
| give the junior body a chance to
| change its mind. Later in the day,
notice was sent up that the House
| had passed the County Act and that
took like course being set down for
first reading this morning.
The Senate was likewise notified by
| the House that its resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of a Joint
Committee to manage the Molokai
junket had been tabled. There was
some slight manifestation of impa-
tience at this, McCandless from the
Special Committee wanting to know
what ne should do about it. But the
thing passed. and the incident, pre-
sumably is closed. The House will pay
the bill. and the Senate viii go along
and be good.
LANE LEPROSY BILL QUEERED.
From the Health Committee, Dow
sett submitted the following minority
report on the Lane leprosy bill:
AS "a member of your Health Com
mittee, to which was referred Senate
Bill No 20. entitled "An Act to amend
Section of Chapter 81 of the Penal
Code. providing for the isolation and
confinement of lepers, 1 do not con-
cur in the report of the majority of
your committee for the following rea-
sons:
The bill proposed by the majority of
the committee completely does away
with Section 1922 of the Revised Laws
of Hawaii and inserts in its place
section which is entirely different in
its terms.
Among the matters abolished in Sec
ton 1922 are
First. The power of the Board of
Health to cause to be isolated and
confined leprous patients in some place
or places for that purpose, provided
that such leprous persons are deemed
capable of spreading that disease. As
a matter of fact there is in nothing
in this bill which takes the place of
the authority given the Board of
Health to isolate the lepers and there
fore, if it should become a law there
would be no longer any power in the
board to isolate them at Molokaf or
any other place and, therefore, no
longer any segregation of lepers.
Second. Under the old law the
Board of Health can investigate Sc
cretly and without any publicity per-
sons accused of having this disease,
and the different District Magistrates
must act whenever requested by the
board this provision is entirely done
away with, and if the proposed bill is
made law. every time a person is sus-
pected of having the leprosy, an ap-
plication must be made to the District
Magistrate, with all the publicity of
any criminal proceeding. No longer
can person be privately examined and
discharged. Each case must be treat