The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-14

noIulu, winch am unable to approve.
1t seems that two sets of persons
were appointed or employed to per-
form certain services for the CITY and
| County of Honolulu, but that at least
| some of such persons were so appoint
ed or employed without authority of
law and that only a portion of them
performed services. The object of the
/ bill appears to be to authorize the pay.
ment of wages and salaries to all such
| persons whether they performed the
i services or not.
! While | should like to approve this
| bin for some reasons, l find that 1 can
! not do so conscientiously. The Legis-
/ lature and the Governor are in p0si-
! tons of public trust. The money. the
/ expenditure of which may be authoriz-
/ ed by legislation, is not their money,
Tint the people S. It would be entirely
I fistifable to authorize payment for
services actually rendered and the
benefit of which the City and County
! has received, even though the persons
! who performed the services had not
been legally appointed, but to pay
| others who neither were legally APP
| pointed nor performed the services
| would in my opinion be an unjustifiable
application of the people S money. and
would tend to Generalization and lax
ity in the administration of public
trusts by both territorial and local gov
ernments. -
After the reading of the message
Senator Chillingworth moved that ac-
tion on the message be deferred to
Monday, but Senator Woods offered an
amendment for postponement to We'd
nesday
"What are these laborers going to
do in the meantime,' asked Coelho,
"starvea''
The reconsideration of House Bill
No. SO was finally postponed to Tues.
day, Chillingworth suggesting that each
member of the Senate be provided with
a typewriter copy of the message.
Senate Bill No. IS.
Senate Bill No. Sc passed its second
reading on the motion of Coelho. This
is the bill introduced by the Maui
statesman which would. permit the
treatment by anyone of lepers, asthma
ties, consumptives and persons suppos-
ed to have leprosy, asthma, consump-
tion or tuberculosis in any form who
are given up by regular physicians.
The report of the committee says:
1--WE know many instances where the
professional medico has given up hope,
and the Insignificant and apparently ig-
norant herb man saves the abandoned
patient. =
Senate Bill No. 23, an amendment
to the existing law providing that no
child shall be yaccinated without the
written consent or in the presence Of
parent or guardian came up on second
reading with the report of the commit /.
tee. The amendment as presented by |
the committee was as follows:
81 No child shall be vaccinated ex-
eept in the presence, or with the con- |
sent in writing, of the parent or guard !
ian, and then only by a duly licensed |
and authorized physician who shall use |
for such vaccination bovine virus only |
obtained from standard manufacturers; /
such vaccination shall be only by |
means of points put up in Theoretically /
sealed tubes or other antiseptie reeep- /
tacles; each receptacle shall be OPEN
ed Immediately before a point is to I
be used, in the presence of the persons |
to be vaecinated, and no point shall I
be used for the vaccination of more |
than one person.
Amy persons violating any provi-
sion in this section shall be guilty of I
misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by d fine not t
to exceed FIVE hundred dollars or by t
Imprisonment not to exceed one year,
or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
Senator w. O. Smith took the floor
in opposition to the bill as it stood
He argued that the provision of the
presence of parent or guardian would
be sufficient and that to make consent
would materially weaken
the effectiveness of the law. Further
consideration of the bill was deferred
to March L..
The judiciary Committee reported
favorably on Senate Bill No. IS, re-
moving the clause in the City and
County act that prevented the Mayor
from engaging in a private business
and increasing the salary of the
Mayors secretary to $500 year.