The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-03-24
ADMITS FAULT BUT D|SCLAIM Responsibility


made a statement to the press or to
any member of the press TO the effect
that the Health Committee of the
House had overridden him. He did not
remember making any such statement
to the Governor of this Territory.
1t was between IL and IL that he
first found that passengers were being
landed from the Kinau and were min
Cling with the patients. Passengers
were beyond the warehouses. beyond
the line they should have gone.
HE TOOK THE POLICE.
He was asked why he had taken the
six policemen to the Settlement and an
swered that he did so with a view to
assisting Superintendent Mcveigh. He
had no conversation with any leper re-
garding the landing of people from the
Kinau. nor had he told any one there
that the Health Committee had taken
charge of that matter.
He did not know that 25 permits had
been issued from his office. The per-
mits when taken up are preserved at
the Settlement. He did not know what
had become of the parties who were
not landed. 1t was the duty of the Off
GERS at the Settlement TO wise the
passes as the different passengers
landed, the superintendent, he sup
posed, or his deputies. AS to the un-
used permits they could not be used as
they are marked Legislature ON the
face and would not be accepted.
WHO OWNED THE COPS?
Respecting the policemen, he an-
swered Andrade. he had asked for six
and the House had asked for six. Six
policemen went along but Pinkham did
not know who had got them. Two po-
licemen came ashore, he did not know
ON which boat. He had told them after
consultation with McVeigh that Nc
Weighs people could handle the visitors
and the patients would feel sensitive at
returned to the landing he found the
conditions different from what he ex-
pected. He had not expected to see
any inside the line at the warehouses,
but there was a crowd of them at the
landing place and on the breakwater.
BLAMES McvEIGH.
He asked McVeigh If his people could
get the lepers back and McVeigh said
he thought they could.
But that was a failure?" asked
Smith.
Lots of things are failures on a
junket," answered Pinkham.
ITO what or whom do you ascribe the
failure?" asked Andrade.
ITO a general condition of circum-
troll" he answered. Some people
blame me-"
NEVER BLAMED COMMITTEE.
And have you ever blamed the
Health Committee of this House for the
failure?" Andrade pursued.
II have not"
And you have never blamed 1t t
the Health Committee in speaking t.
any persons"
II have not"
In two or three instances while a
Kalaupapa he had interfered and go
between lepers and n-leprous visi
, tors.
WANTS MORE MONEY.
IF the Legislature would give a lit
tie more money to fix up the place 4
would be possible to prevent the Law
being violated even under conditions
such as those of last Sunday. TIL,
crowd that went along was too larg'
for existing conditions"
| Asked as to what he could sugges
to improve the enforcement of the seq
regation law, Pinkham replied that II,
had been given to understand that be
fore the elections the people had beer
told that their friends would be al
lowed to go and see them and tina
, many thought the trip last Sunday wa
a fulfllment of this promise. He ais
' thought that the corral should be i'm
proved and made more attractive wit
glass or wire instead of being built Xix
a prison.
THE KALIHI MATTER.
AS to the Kalihi receiving station
Pinkham was asked If it were correc
| that the House committee had been re
fused permission by the Board G
Health to visit the station and hav
the lepers examined by three phys
clans. He answered that the commit
tee had not been refused but the eS
animation by physicians had been dc
MED. By the law he had to refuse. II
had not stated to Chairman Fernando
that he had refused permission for til
inspection because the Health Commi
tee had failed to keep its promises O
the Molokai trip.
DOCTORS BARRED OUT.
He would restrict a visit to an II
spection by members of the Hous
The House, in his view, had no rigl
to send a committee with physicians
the Kalihi station to make examine
tions without permission OF the Boar
of Health. He based this on the r,
vised Statutes and the Rules of Il
Board OF Health.
He was asked to turn up the sectio
in the Revised Laws on which he base
this claim and he quoted Section 113
He claimed the right under this TO kee
DIR. Rice and DIR. Augur from visitir
the station. He would not permit the
to review the decision of the five Boar