The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-28
GREAT MIXUP
TAKES PLACE
OVER WALLACH
His Backers Hitherto in the Board of Health
Denounce Him and Opponents Become His
Champions Deferred One Week.

case. The Board did not know Mr.
Wallach. 1t had dealt with the Com
mittee of Seven at the Settlement. He
did not know whether the Board de-
sired him to make statement. He
could make a statement of what oc-
Cured at the Settlement.
"All I want to know" DR.. Wayson
warmly interjected, sis whether Wal
ZACH refuses to accept the conditions
if he is not allowed to visit the Set
tlement."
Senator Lane, chairman of the Ten,
started to answer by referring to his
official reply to the presidents noti-
f1cation of the agreement. Then he
gave the now familiar reasons that
had influenced the committee in en-
dorsing Wallach's new conditions.
Wallach thought it would be inhuman
to bring patients down here who might
/ have to be sent back to Molokai in the
event of his finding them unacceptable
for his treatment at Kalihi. After
discussing the matter pro and con the
committee decided that the amend
ments requested were reasonable.
DIR. wayson said it mattered not
whether Wallach visited the Settle
ment or not. Whether the patients
had other diseases was matter en-
tirely to be decided by the physicians.
AS a physician of the Board he had
always been willing to support the Ha-
waiians in their desires, but he now
/ thought it was going just a little too
/ far TO ask that Wallach, and not the
/ physicians, should decide whether pa
! tients had other diseases than leprosy.
/ Wallach merely wanted to go to Molo-
| kai to visit the Settlement and make
! a sensation as he had been trying to
i do all the time.
81 do not think" the doctor contin-
ued. ''you can 4etsfiye reputable physi-
! clans to consent to 1t. I have stood
/ by you all through" he said to Lane
and the others, 'ebut if wallach is to
/ be allowed to dictate anything he
pleases it will ball the thing all up"
Mr.. Lane went into explanations,
| when DR.. Wayson told him that two
kof the five physicians were to be Sc
flected by the Ten themselves.
eff you have no confidence in the
! physicians of your own selection
Committeeman Mossman broke into
the doctors speech to add to Lanes
| explanations telling of the reluctance
I of people at the Settlement to be sep
arated from relatives, the pain of dis
/ appointment which would be occasion
I ed by sending any patients back, etc.
1 DR.. Wayson in turn interrupted the
Democratic leader to inform him
waving a paper-that the conditions
were from the Molokai people them
i selves
: eff I had cure,'' he went on to
! say, 81 would agree to be locked up
I five years. You are willing to support
the Board of Health?''
yes" Mossman replied.
! And you want to prevent heart
| burning among the people at Molokai?
Then you ought to stand by the agree
ment made by the people,
Mr.. Pinkham, on the confinement
! question. said the Board was response
BILE. IF Wallach has key to the out
side and inside gates, where does the
Board get off? The Board would have
no way of knowing whether he is at
! tending to his business or not. He
might absent himself for days at a
time"
DR. Wayson, again addressing the
committee, said he had been in their
country thirteen years. For time he
was in charge of the Kalihi station,
where he had seen people die not only
from leprosy, but other diseases. When
therefore he asked them TO have a lit
tie respect for his procession, and TO
leave the selection of the twelve pa
tients to five reputable physicians,
they ought to comply. IF Wallach
has any honesty in him." DR.. Wayson-
concluded. 'he will not insist on these
things. And if you are honest you will
not encourage him in his objections"
Mr.. Motley then rose ~and made
legal discourse on the elements of an
agreement, arguing that there must be
more than one party to a compact.
Mr.. Pinkham stopped him TO ask If
he was not aware that when the lepers
were asked about the selection of pa
tients they said they would attend to
that matter themselves.
THAT may be all right" the Home
Continued on Page Seven.)