Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-17
Two Lively Public Hearings
Held on Measures Pending
In Legislature

DOL me tuneTCulOSlS, are bringing out
lively public hearings.
One session took place in the hail
Of supervisors Thursday night and an
Other-the Latter Of inspection OF
dairy herds for tuberculosis took
place in the hail OF representatives
last night. the house committee on
agriculture hearing protests from
dairyInen against the bill providing
Tor inspection and destruction of dis
eaSed cattle.
At the hearing Thursday ni"ht,
Oh .irman Ain Of the municipal com,
mitteo of the house presided, and
there were in attendance representa-
tiveS Of the board Of agriculture,
board Of health. chamber Of COM
mercP, the medical faculty. the legal
fratel n:ty. the dairy industry and the
city and county, House bill No. 3A".
to take away the power Of milk and
dairy inspection from the city am
county. was attaC ked and defended
with vigOr by speakers on both sides.
Attorneys r. e. Peters. W. e. Achi
and A. ~ Brown. deputy county at
tOrney: Supervisor AHA and former
Supervisor H. f. Murray were the
principal opponents of the bill. Mr..
Peters spoke at length and more than
once, arguing that there was no ne
Cessity of diminishing county gov
eminent to the extent proposed, the
system being only in its infancy and
cCntendng that the board of agric-
culture, to which il is proposed to
transfer milk and dairy inspection.
had Absolutely no power under the
law creating it to undertake the work
AHA flourished a thick sheaf of pa
pers as reports of inspection Of
diaries made since the present board
took office, assuring the meeting that
no Slackness would be permitted in
the service while he was chairman
of the health committee.
AChi, under the impression that it
was the board of health which was
going to have the duty if transferred.
denounced that body both for illegal
acts and neglect of food inspection
over which it had control
President Albert Waterhouse of the
board of agriculture, answering ques-
tions by Brown, disclaimed the sup
position that the bill was fathered by
that body, but stated that it was pre-
pared to assume the inspection OF
milk diaries. He said it was a meas
ure proposed by the chamber of com
merce as the result of an investiga.
ton made by the sanitary committee
of that organization.
F. NJ Swanzy. who, viii F. J. Low
rey appeared for the chamber OF con-
merces made a statement to the eff.
feet that the bill was recommended b.
the health committee of the chamber
in report made last September, on
account of its findings in an investi-
cation. of the milk question Its taxi
ing up the matter was due to state.
ments made by DR. Norgaard. the ter
ritorial veterinarian, in his official
reports to the effect that many Of the |
diaries were in an insanitarv condi. |
tien, while their inspection was gross !
ly inefficient. The committee had
found that the city and county physi- |
clan. on first being asked, did not
know in what department the respcn-
sibility for milk and dairv inspection
1t was also ascertaineu that, |
instead of weekly reports BY the i'll
spector to the physician as required |
by the ordinance, only one report had |
been filed in the clerks office in 1914
UP to the date of the investigation. !
This report had nothing about the con-
dition Of dairies being merely list
of licensed dairies o. KID over the |
signature of the inspector. In short,
the entire inspection was a farce.
Opponents of the bill made much |
Of the fact that the chambers inves.
tigation was made last year and that
no inquiry had been made regarding |
the enforcement of the ordinance by
the present board.
d. P. R. Isenberg related his expert
ence as the largest dairyman in the
He would not object &c dual +
inspection, but he considered that
the quadruple surveillance of the milk
was too much. At present
the county officials, the board Of
health, the territorial veterinarian
and the territorial food commissioner
all exercised the privilege of entrance
into diaries. His own diaries wereI
open to the inspection of anyone ev-
cry day in the year. yet during the
whole of 1914 the county inspector
never made an appearance on the pre-.
misses. The inspector should. in his |
opinion, be an expert professional
nan, if they had to get him from New !
York, Philadelphia, Chicago or any. /
where. Mr.. Isenberg made a sensa,
tional utterIlce when he declared
hat the tuberculin test for cattle was
no good. Europeans laughed at us for |
Il, he stated, and went en- to say that
he saw DR.. Melvin. chief of the ami
nal industry bureau in Washington.
who advised him that there was no
necessity fer him to bear the total I
oss of a large number of his COWS |
by the local veterinarian |
but that they might be slaughtered !
and their meat placed on the market |
+ passed by the federal inspector.
LAST Nights Hearing.
Last night members of the dairy |
mems association spoke against |
House Bill 80. introduced by Repre- |