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VOL. XLTX., NO. 8311.
HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS,
PUBLIC HEALTH AFFAIRS
TO BE TURNED OVER TO
Senate Plays With the
Publication Bill and
Now Doesn't Know
Where It Is.
The life of the resolution placing the
legislature on record as favoring the
sippointment of citizens of the Terri-
tory to judicial offices reached an
abrupt end in the Senate yesterday
afternoon by a vote of nine to five.
Senators Smith and Chillingworth
made a determined attempt to convince
the majority that the resolution could
he passed with propriety, both making
dear statements showing the wisdom of
Jetting the Federal government know
what the opinion of the people of the
Territory is in regard to the filling of
government positions. , But their ; ar
guments were without avail, the votes
of Senators Baker, Brown, Coelho, Har
5 vey, McCarthy, Quinn, Robinson and
Woods killing the resolution that was
designed to show that the Territory
wants to be governed by citizens of the
Territory. .
The Senate devoted' its, attention to
the publication bill again yesterday,
V and its work was so successful that it
is impossible to tell, what the. parlia
, men tary status of the measure is at the
present time. The bill failed to pass
on a tie vote, Senator Chillingworth be
ing absent from the morning session.
Seven members of the upper house were
for it and seven "agin" it; the motion
to pass on third reading being lost and
" President of the Senate Smith ruling
that the bill was dead and no parlia
mentary procedure could resuscitate it.
Senator Knudsen held a contrary view,
and, with the majority of the Senate
members, thought that the bill should
go on the order of the day and be con
eidered again on third reading this
morning. . But it is understood that
President Smith is going to adhere to
his original ruling and that the paretic
and troublesome measure dropped into
oblivion when it failed to pass yester
day. The bill carrying an appropriation for
the payment of county claims arising
out of the act of 1903, held invalid by
the Supreme Court, passed third read
ing, Senator Makekau's affirmative
vote being stricken from the records
after he explained that he was a claim
ant that would receive payment through
the passage of the bill.
Bills From House..
. Senator Chillingworth was not in his
seat when the roll was called in the
upper house yesterday morning. House
Bill No. 91, granting authority to the
Territory for the deposit of public
funds in banks, was received and pass
ed third reading. House Bill 163, re
lating to the payment of eaurt officers,
was received and passed first reading,
as did also House Bill 164, regulating
the examination of persons alleged to
be insane and providing for the forma
tion of a board of lunacy commis
sioners. A communication was read from the
House, stating that it had sustained
the Governor's veto to House Bill 136,
the Cohen income tax law..
A letter was received and read from
President John Gilmore of the College
of Hawaii, asking that the Senate con
' sider the needs of the new educational
institution, and stating that the col
lege's field of usefulness had greatly
increased and was entitled to the care
' f ul consideration of the Legislature.
President Gilmore ' also invited the
Senate to inspect the college at any
time that would be convenient. The
invitation was accepted on the motion
of Coelho, and referred to the Eduea
tion Committee for the necessary ar
rangements. , Petitions were submitted by Senator
Baker, asking for appropriations for
various persons. One document was
signed by thirty-seven citizens residing
T( in the vicinity of Napoopoo landing.
South Kona, asking for money to build
a new wharf and wharf shed at Xapoo
(Contlnued on rase Two.)
CONTROL 0 COUNTIES
A Bill With Sweeping
Powers Presented in
House Castro Has
Sane Views.
It was a question of giving the coun
ties more power again yesterday in the
House, a bill being introduced for one
thing to turn over to the Board of
Supervisors some of the most particu
lar of all work, that of safeguarding
the public health. This is a bill pre
sented by the Public Health and Police
Committee, stripping the Territorial
Board of Health of all power and du
ties except those relating to the cafe
of lepers and their children.
If this bill should become law, it will
be in operation on July 1 next, by
which time, of course, the various coun
ty supervisors will have fully qualified
themselves to undertake for the public
what most of them can not do now
around their own homes. The bill
opens up a fine opportunity, also, for
one county to quarantine against an
other and for the various rural solons
to carry out their own little methods of
dealing with plague and other like mat
ters. . -.Tr- V V , .;
Along the same line as the above was
a proposal made inrtne.committee of
the whole for the eutting out of license
commissioners and the turning over of
their very particular duties to the va
rious deputy sheriffs around the coun
try, with all the political advantage
thrown in with the job. Castro made a
plucky stand against this vicious pro
posal, but with the exception of Ka-
mahu all those who spoke on the mat
ter were opposed to him. From the
tenor of the remarks of the out-of-town
members, Oahu has the only license
inspector worth the salary he gets. Just
how much superior the average deputy
sheriff is in the back country districts
was not elaborated on.
Biee denounced the amendment pro
posed by Shingle to the Hawaii Li
brary Bill an amendment knocking
out the appropriation but stating that
the Territory may appropriate as a
bait to induce the country members to
swallow the bill. He announced though
that he would support the amendment
as something much better than the sec
tion it substituted for.
Kaniho resumed his talk against Adjutant-General
Jones and the National
j Guard, his remarks creating much mer
j riment. Otherwise considerable prog
ress was made with the appropriation
bill items.
Work of House to Da4.
The Speaker gave a summary of the
work of the session up to Saturday's
adjournment as the first matter of busi
ness iu the House yesterday, showing
that to that time there had been 174
bills introduced into the House, of
which twenty-nine had become law and
thirty-five others were in the Gov
ernor's hands as yet unacted upon. Of
the remaining 110, thirty-five had gone
' the way of all flesh and been tabled
and thirteen had been indefinitely post
poned, leaving sixty-two still struggling
for a. chance at life. Of these, thirty-
five are in the Senate and four are
ready for third reading in the House.
Expenses to Date.
Up until Saturday, according to the
figures given out by the Speaker, the
House had spent $17,541.04, leaving
available for the balance of the session
$12,339.68 from the Federal appropria
tion and $10,119.23 from the Territorial
appropriation.
A Sweeping Measure.
Coney, for the Public Health and
Police Committee, introduced the bills
desired by Shingle to make it legal and
j possible to turn over to the counties
much of the work now done by the
1 Board of Health. One bill is all-embracing
in its provisions, being, in full,
' as follows:
"Section 1. Subsection 5 of Section
62 of Act 30 of the Session Laws of
1-1905, as amended by Section 1 of Act
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DOLE SPEAKS 01)
SI1SU1SI1S
Interesting and Forceful Speech
Is Given at the Parish
House.
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"There is only one cure for bad de
mocracythat is more and better de
mocracy. We are beginning to return
to the idea of local patriotism, to the
idea of the intelligent, prosperous bus
iness man taking an active interest In
the progress of affairs in his municipal
government. It is not the humbler
class now that we fear, nor do we fear
thei:r numbers, but it is the careless
ness, the lack of public spirit, and th
indifferent attitude that is too often
displayed by the intelligent people of
a community. The ones we now fear
are those who neglect the government
of their home city in order to forward
their selfish interests in getting richT"
Eev. Charles F. Dole, the noted di
vine and literary man, spoke before
a. large audience at the parish house
of the Central Union church last even
ing, taking for his topic, "Modern So
cial Movements," the above being
quoted from his address. He intro
duced his theme by saying that thW
age was a most interesting one to be
living in on account of the trend of
things. "Never has there been a
time," he said, "when there were so
many social movements going on as at
the present day. It is like looking at
a great breakwater, work on which has
been going on in ages past, and seeing
the top reach the surface. Great is
sues which concern the entire world
are to be found right here in Hono
lulu in fact, the whole world is com
ing together, working together, in the
interests of the social problems. .
' ' For an example, there is the prob
lem of handling the liquor traffic. It
was once counted as an individual prob
lem; now it is coming to be seen as
one of the great social problems. Once
it was considered as a habit which ef
fected the drinker only; now it is seen
as affeeting the business society. Gam
bling was never reeognized as an evil ;
until recently. It is now looked upon
as such because of its effect upon so
ciety, demoralizing homes and people.
A new question is made here. Gam
bling is deemed an outrage wherever
respectable people abide, but it seems
to me a greater outrage for these same
'respectable' people, who have their po
(Continued on Page Four.)
LEGISLATORS INSPECT ;
NSANE ASYLUM
Under the auspices of the Public
Health and Police Committee, the mem
bers of the Legislature yesterday vis
ited and inspected the Queen's hos
pital and the asylum for the insane.
Both institutions were found to be in
excellent order.
At the asylum, where there are now
213 patients, an hour was spent. A
number of the inmates presented re
quests to the members for an inquiry
into their sanity, a usual proceeding.
A great many questions were asked
relative to the work of the guards, it
being stated that these officers are ob
liged now to work twelve hour shifts
and carry on the work of watcning
the institution with an insufficient num
ber. It is probable that the matter
of increasing the number of guards will
come up later in the House.
"
LEGISLATIVE EIFLE MATCH.
The Representatives have issued a
challenge to the Senators to meet them
in competition at the butts in the rifle
gallery of the N. G. H. General Af
fonso of the House, and General Chil
lingworth of the Senate the titles go
ing with the chairmanships of the Mil
itary committees will lead the respec
tive teams, the shoot to come off next
Saturdav afternoon.
REFORM BUREAU BILL TO
DESTROY LIQUOR TRADE HERE
(Special Cablegram to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, March 30. The National Reform Bureau is preparing a
bill to establish the Indian Territory dispensary system in Hawaii for the
protection of the natives from the liquor traffic. Tne bill empowers the Gov
ernor to establish dispensaries where they may be needed in the Territory from
which liquor may be procured on the prescription of a physician. The private
manufacture and sale of liquor is prohibited. WALKEE.
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EN SHELLS
EXPLODE HERE
Red Cross Will Have Work in
Caring for the
Wounded.
In times of peace prepare for war,
or at" least the horrors of war, was
the burden of an important talk by
Dr. C, B. Wood before the Eed Cross
Society yesterday afternoon in Judge
Dole's chambers. In case Hawaii
should be i called upon to stand the
brunt of an attack by a hostile force,
the members of the Eed Cross Society
should be qualified to attend to the
injured, and in order to do this sys
tematically the Red Cross should dis
trict the city, provide a chief for such
work, and do it now, and, in addition,
learn where certain necessary adjuncts
to aiding wounded persons can be
quickly procured.
The Aeeting was largely attended
and was presided over by Judge Dole,
with Mrs. W. W. Hall as secretary. A
report from the national society was
read on the work of the Eed Cross
in - the recent disaster in Italv and
Sicily,- showing where and how the
great jtmojfnt of money was expended
and the good results attained.
Judge Dole spoke of the apparent
necessity for making a change in the
manner of turning over certain moneys
of the local branch to the national
society, and suggesting that in future
moneys raised here be kept on deposit
to meet any emergency that might
arise in . our midst. He read the fol
lowing resolution which he had pre
parea: . . ; -
"Whereas, The 'regulations for
branch societies of the American Na
tional Eed Cross' provide, in Section
12, that 'one-half of the gross receipts
except as otherwise specified,' for each
year, be transferred to the treasurer
of the general fund, 'to be credited
to the society from which received,'
and whereas this provision is an ob
stacle to the work of keeping up the
interest of the people of this Territory
in the work of the Hawaiian Branch
and in its financial support; therefore,
be it
""Resolved, That it is the sense of
the Hawaiian Branch of the American
National Red Cross, that .such regula
tions should be modified so that all of
the receipts specified in the said Sec
tion 12 should remain with the said
Hawaiian Branch.'?
Dr. Wood offered the resolution as a
motion, which was seconded by R. S.
Hosmer, and eventually carried after
some discussion.
Someone asked in what way would
such a fund be useful, or to what def
inite purpose it could be put. Judge
Dole suggested that a day tuberculosis
camp was something that could be pro
vided. Miss Ida Pope of Kamehameha
Schools read a report on the day tu
berculosis campaign. She said that
Mrs. Moses, the nurse for this cam
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DONATIONS FOB KALATJPAPA.
Chairman Coney, of he Health Com
mittee of the House, has stated fhat he
hopes the merchants and others who
usually donate gifts of supplies for the
residents at the Molokai Settlement
and send these over with the legisla
tive committee, will this year send not
so much fruit and more supplies whicn
can be kept for a day or so. There is
usually so much fruit sent that a part
of the supply spoils before it can be
used,
.
E. Shibukiwa, editor of the Tokio
Asahi, one of the greatest newspapers
in Japan, is a passenger on the Japa
nese liner Chiyo Maru. He will visit
many of the leading Eastern cities
while in the. States.
STEERAGE PASSENGER
WANTED TO TAKE THE
LIFE OF
The Man, an Italian, Was Quickly Captured and
Ironed Utah Corporation Pays $200,000
Fine Rear Admiral Converse Dead.
(Associated Press Cablegrams.)
LONDON, March 30. Ex-President Eoosevelt has arrived at the Azores.
It is reported that his life was sought by Guiseppe Tosti, a steerage passenger,
who sought to climb to the upper deck to reach him. The man was captured
end ironed. Few noticed the incident.
'
THE OKLAHOMA WAR
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 30. In a fight between the deputies
and militia on one side and the Indians on the other, one Indian was killed
and eight captured. The chief has been surrounded.
MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma, March 29. Troops are pursuing the revolting
Indians.- It is reported that Chief Crazy Snake has deserted his followers.
' '
CORPORATION HEAVILY FINED
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah,. March 30. The Utah Coal Co. pleaded guilty
in the United States Court of the fraudulent acquisition of 140,000 acres o
coal land and paid a fine of $200,000.
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SUSTAINS NAVAL POLICY v
, LONDON, March 30. By a vote of 353 to 135, the House of Commons re
fused to express a lack of confidence in the government's naval policy.
. .. , , , ,. '
SEATTLE AND ST. PAUL
MISSOULA, Montana, March 30. The last spike of the Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad, connecting Milwaukee and Seattle, has been driven.
WASHINGTON'S
OLYMPIA, Washington, March 30. Lieutenant-Governor Hay was sworn
in as Governor yesterday, to succeed Governor Cosgrove, deceased.
,
ADMIRAL CONVERSE DEAD
WASHINGTON, March 30 Eear-Admiral Converse, U. S. N., is dead.
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AFTERNOON CABLE REPORT.
WASHINGTON, March 29. The President bas sent the following nomi
nations to the Senate: Solicitor General, Lloyd Bowers of Illinois; Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, Charles Norton of Illinois; Consul -General at Singa
pore, James Dubois of Pennsylvania.
BELGRADE, Servia, March 29. The Servian government has consented
to yield to the demands of European Powers. It has recognized the annexation
by Austria of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
AUBURN, New York, March 29. Mary Parmer, who was convicted of
murdering Mrs. Brennan, was today put to death in the electric chair.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29. The Kimon Ginko Japanese Bank of this
city closed its doors today on account of financial embarrassment.
HAVANA, Cuba, March 29. A fire on the docks of this city today dam
aged the steamer Heligoland and other craft.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29. Seven of the nine alleged graft conspirators
have been released on bail.
CHINESE ARE NEEDED IN
PHILIPPINES, SAYS LANIER
"While in Washington I am going
to do everything in my power to do
away with the Chinese Exclusion Act
as applying to the Philippines. At
present the exclusion act is in full
force against the Celestials in the Phil
ippines and consequently these, the only
people there wbo will really develop
the country, are shut out."
Judge Alexander Sydney Lanier, as
sistant Attorney General of the Philip
pines, was the speaker. He is a pas
senger on the Toyo Kisen Kaisha liner
Chiyo Maru, and is bound for Wash
ington, where he will do everything
possible to aid in the pro-Philippines
legislation which is now being urged,
He stated that in addition to his regu
lar agitation with regard to the coffee
and sugar tariff, he would work stren
uously for legislation that would allow
the Chinese to come into the Philip
pines or be brought in under eontract.
"The Filipino simply will not work.
It is entirely against his way of think
ing for a "son of the soil" to do any
ROOSEVELT
NEW GOVERNOR
manual labor. The Chinese are the
best developers of that country we
have ever had there, and it is a crying
shame that they cannot be even
brought into the Islands under contract
to do the work that the Filipino re
fuses to do."
"Last year I prosecuted over three
hundred deportation cases. A regis
tration act was passed which com
pelled all Chinese already in the Isl
ands to register. Of course, there were
very many of the ignorant class who
never heard of the law, and, after a
certain time, it became my duty to en
force the deportation act against them.
I think it was a shame. These Chi
nese are the best people in the Orient;
far and away the best workers. The
Chinese Exclusion Act, of course, was
never intended to apply to the Philip
pines in the first place, but was, with
a number of mainland laws, slarvped
on the insular possession without any
consideration as to whether or not it
fitted. Well, the Chinese Exclusion
Act, in my opinion, does not fit. Tfiet
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