The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-04-18


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Politics were never so apparent in
the health situation as they were yes.
terday, when what the city political
leaders were pleased TO call "broken
faith smoked out the inside deals
which have plagued those legislators
trying to do their duty in the public
interests until the entire legislative
program has become snarled up with
dirty political trades and trickery.
The board of health yesterday broke
loose from the entire mess, cut all the
political snarls, and is going after what
it believes are measures necessitated by
the public health. At the last moment
yesterday morning before the three
"Board of Health BillsD were passed
at third reading by the senate, the
omitted carriage and excavator''
clause was inserted in the bill, making
the board of health the controlling
power in all health matters.
This clause was originally left out
as a concession to the Honolulu munich
pal government for the withdrawal of
its opposition. 1t was inserted on mo-
tion of Senator Judd yesterday very re.
luctantly, but few votes being recorded
The motion was put after Judd had held
short conference with Chillingworth
to induce him to remain silent on the
proposition, and he did, voting neither
one way nor the other, although he was
recognized as the spokesman for the
supervisors in this particular matter.
There was an immediate stampede on
the part of the county partisans, and
also general attack on President Mott
Smith of the board of health for
breaking faith" ChillingwoEth spoke
to him in the morning, and made the
accusation, but received no satisfaction,
nor did anyone else, except that the
contract" was off
When these bills were being drafted
preliminary to presenting them to the
legislature, there was a scurrv on the
part of the supervisors and other city
officials to save some of their preroga-
tives and control of the situation. The
board of health was at that time in
the center of an attack on it, directed
by most of the peanut politicians in
the city diekering for legislative plums,
who saw this big department rather in
their way. Politics against the board
was so strong that, to prevent further
hampering of the passage of these i'm.
portant bills and to avert the opposi.
tion of the municipal government,
which was not at that time directing
any of the attacks against the board
of health, compromise was effected
by which the board of health left out
the clauses which gave it final powers
IN the garbage and excavator depart-
ments. In return for this concession
the city officials and those who were
standing byN their rights in the leg.
islature, agreed not to hinder any of
the legislation the board of health
might desire, which included the poi
Dill and several other bills then before
both houses.
Broken Faith.''
The next day the senate killed the
poi bill, the measure for which the
board of health and its president had
been fighting tooth and nail. Chilling
worth IS accused of Withholding his sig
nature TO the committee report as long
as possible and keeping the report to-
gether with the bill from the floor of
the senate, and finally turned in a
minority report. In the background,
hovered always Willie Crawford
Whether he had or had not anything
10 do with the suppression of the poi
bill is not on the face of things Chill.
iingwOrth declares that he saw that
there was no "job. -
Following the tabling of the poi bin
by the senate with the aid of Chill.
lingworth, who was supposed to be one
Of those bound by tho understood agree
mena between the board OF health and
the city officials, Mott Smith wrote a
letter 10 him in which the principles
Of 'broken faith" were vividly de.
scfbed
That ended the existence Of the
contract. The hoard 81 health 4
now on IT, own ground and Is not max.
ing any concessions. II put IN the
elanse that Il had left out aud trusts
n0H 10 an appreciation Of the merits
Of The bills q get them through
Cause and Eject.
f9r this last essay in the political
nsld % an attempt b est the measures
thai common sense and good govern
msHi demanded, the board u hoalth