The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-23

of the House against lobbying.
| Having decided that the press was
to be muzzled the Speaker concluded
that the House had done enough in this
line for one day, and answered that the
right of the common people to petition
had not been abridged
Under this ruling, a petition from
seventy-four citizens of Puma was pre-
sented. The Punaites asked the Legis
lature to appropriate $4,000 for the
opening of new road from Kaimu to
Kamaili Kealawaa presented the petit
ton for his constituents.
Senate Amendments and Bills.
The Senate returned House Bill 81,
considerably amended, the amendments
being concurred in.
Senate Bill %, Coelho s vaccination
bill, and Senate Bill 90, to provide for
the vesting of title of trust estates,
were presented and given a first intro
| ductory reading.
New Bills.
| A bill relating to public shows was
presented by Furtado. This bill allows
the county treasurer and sheriff to
license all shows ''not of an immoral
character and to grant the license
upon such conditions as he or they
may deem reasonable The bill in
full is:
''The Treasurer or the Sheriffs upon
| their respective islands may license for
any term not exceeding one year, any
| theater, circus, public show, lecture,
| moving picture show, or any exhibition
not of an immoral character to which
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| which a fee is collected, upon such con-
ditions as he or they may deem reason
able.
''The fee for each performance under
such license shall be five dollars except
| such performances as shall be given in
a regularly licensed theater, opera house
or moving picture show, holding an an
nual show license, but no fee shall be
| charged if the Treasurer or Sheriff is
satisfied that the entire proceeds of
| the performance or exhibition are to
be devoted to any school, religious or
charitable institution, or for the pro
motion of art and not for profit
! 1.-The annual fee for a regular theater
or opera house shall be one hundred
| dollars, payable in semiannual Install
ments in advance on the fret day of
July and first day of January.
"The annual fee for a moving pic.
ture show shall be FIVE hundred dollars,
| payable in semiannual installments in
! advance on the first day of July and
| first day of January
| GA regular theater or opera house
within the meaning of the act, shall
mean building having an auditorium
with inclined floor and containing at
least three hundred folding opera chairs,
stage with a proscenium arch, foot
lights, electric switchboard, fly gallery,
| gridiron, paint bridge, border lights,
dressing room and supply of scenery
necessary for the production of plays.
. A moving picture show within the
meaning of this Act shall mean a place,
| building or enclosure, where the princi-
pal business is the display of moving
| pictures, thrown upon screen or back
! ground, from a moving picture machine
and for which an admission fee is
charged
An Atcherley Effort.
| Kaniho rose to present a bill Just as
DR.. and Mrs. Atcherley, with Attorney
Magoon as rear guard, filed into the
| gallery. Kaniho's offering was:
A bill prohibiting the segregation
of any leper patients to the Leper Set
tlement at Kalaupapa, Molokai, before
receiving treatment at the Kalihi Re-
ceiving Station Hospital or any other
hospital set up in the Territory of Ha-
wall for the treatment of leprosy.
I All patients examined and certified
| by medical examiners that he or she
is leper, shall have the privilege of
the use of room in any of the gov
eminent hospitals for leper either at
! the Kalihi Receiving Station Hospital,
! Honolulu, or elsewhere of the Terri
tory of Hawaii, for the term of one
year before they are finally dispatched
to the Leper Settlement at Kalaupapa,
Molokai.
"All leper patients residing in any
of the hospitals as provided in the
preceding section, may have the privil-
eye Of choosing their own medical man
| to treat them.
| All expenses incurred for the 'care
and maintenance and medical attend
ance' of any INDECENT leper patient, at
| any of the hospitals set forth in Sec
ton | of this bill, shall be paid by the
Board of Health from the funds set
aside by the. Legislature for the Care
ana maintenance of lepers.
Sat the request of any leper pa
tent residing at Kalaupapa on Molo-
kai, which request must be made in
| writing, that such patient or patients
wishes to return to any of the hospit-
ais set forth in Section l of this bill.
the Board of Health shall at once grant
the request after a final agreement is
made with the physician whom the pa
tient or patients have arranged to do
the treatment for them.
SIN cases where the Board of Health
is satisfied that patient can afford
i to pay for his or her own medical
treatment, such patient or patients
! shall at once be notified to that effect
/ "The Board of Health may at its
discretion lengthen the period of treat
ment when necessary. upon the request
of any patient and his or her physi-
elan.
"Any person who has been under
treatment may return to their respec-
tive homes, six months after the re-
ceipt of a certificate issued by his or
her nhVSician to the fact that he or