The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-10

operations for city indigents, the right
of visitation and the right of auditing
the hospital accounts, together with the
right of the City and County Physician
TO discharge city indigents from the
hospital.
IAN ordinance viii be necessary to
regulate the sending of indigents to the
hospital and to define the duties of
the City and County Physician and the
physician to the police station, which
your committee will have drafted and
submitted as soon as possible. -
The report was adopted as read, with
out opposition. According to the terms
of the agreement referred to, the
Queen s Hospital viii admit all indi-
gent persons at the rate of $l.50 per
hospital day of ID hours on requisition
by the City and County Physician, or
in cases of emergency and in police
cases, by the Police Physician. No
person shall be reckoned as INDECENT
who is entitled to receive a sick bene-
fit from any person, corporation or or
ganization. amounting to $3.50 per day.
Discharges of INDECENT persons from
the hospital shall be made upon the
written order of the City and County
| Physician. Payments tor INDECENT sick
! admitted to the hospital shall be- made
by the City and County monthly.
| Rights of visitation and inspection shall
| be accorded by the hospital authorities
| to the Mayor and the members of the
Board of Supervisors. The treasurer
of the hospital shall furnish the Board
with copies of all annual accounts as
rendered to the hospital trustees.
/ No INDECENT sick are to be sent to
any other hospital, nor shall the hos
pital refuse to admit any such persons.
| The agreement is to be in force until
| the first Monday after January 1, 1911.
A Lapse of Memory.
A lapse of memory on the part of
| Supervisor Logan In connection with
the plumbing ordinance gave Mayor
| Fern the notion that an attempt was
being made to job him, that the Board
was attempting to put one over with
out his knowing it, and he said so
quickly and emphatically. He got the
| idea that an attempt was going to be
| made by the Board to throw out all
his appointments, and he manned his
batteries and stood ready for action
| should hostilities arise. But nothing
serious happened.
| The plumbing ordinance came up
for second reading after having been,
| as Logan explained, revised by Depu-
| ty County Attorney Milverton and the
| Committee and some unimportant
changes made. Logan stated that the
| changes were merely technical, to make
the ordinance conform to the law and
| prevent any trouble from arising. He
moved, therefore, that the measure, in
| stead of being read throughout, pass
| its reading by title merely.
But Kane, who had sat quiet for
some time and was apparently paying
| no attention to what was going on,
aroused himself enough to say that he
wanted the first paragraph of the or
dinance as well as the title read. This
being a small request, the Clerk start
ed to read the paragraph.
1t was here that Mayor Fern sat up
straight and looked hard at Supervisor
Logan. For the paragraph in question
provides that the Board of Supervisors
shall appoint a suitable person as
Plumbing Inspector, the salary to be
fixed by the Board.
A Put-Up Job.
sfThis looks like a put-up job to
me, said the Mayor 1t s a good thing
that Supervisor Kane wanted that
paragraph read. What are you trying
TO doe Is the Board going to throw
out all the Mayor 8 appointments ~
9 That's not the intention at all, -
said Logan.
''Well, it S good start, anyway, -
commented the Mayor.
Aylett explained that the Board had
no intention of meddling with any of
the appointments that had been made
but that the change in the paragraph
had been made to make the ordinance
conform to the new law passed by
the last Legislature.
Logan said he had forgotten all about
that little change in the paragraph
Well, | was taken by surprise when
| heard it read,' said Mayor Fern.
g You took us by surprise by APP
pointing those officers when YOU knew
you did not have any right to do so, -
replied Logan. You are about as slick
as any of us.
The controversy was allowed to drop
at that, however, and the measure pass
ed its second reading.
Unfairness Charged.
A communication from Emmeluth &
Co., Ltd, was read by the Clerk and
received by the Board with gasp
OF astonishment and by Kane with a
vigorous protest against what he term
ed its impertinence. The communica-
ton, which reflected in no uncertain
way upon the Board, was as follows.
To the Mayor and Board of Supervisors.
City and County of Honolulu.
Sirs: The undersigned desire to call
your attention to violation of bust
ness principles and incidentally dis
elimination by a subcommittee of the
Board of Supervisors, which, if permit
ted to go unchallenged, might easily
become the stepping stone to greater
lapses from :" a square deal'' We re-
fer to the action by which the con.
tract for kitchen range and furnishings
for the city and county jail was award
ed to Messrs. Dimond & Co. by the Com
mlttee on Police and Prison, on their
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