Show PERMIT LEPERS i o GOVERN THEMSELVES t Proposition to Be Made in the Hawaiian Le Legislature PLAN TO STUDY DISEASE i t O LAWMAKERS HAVE AVE 1 Avi ROW OVER VER PROPOSED STATEHOOD t Honolulu March 5 S via San Francis Francisco co March 12 The joint committees of the the legislature returned on the 3rd from an Inspection of the leper Jeper settle settlement settlement ment on Molokai island As ts the result of to the settlement the mem mern members m bers of the native home rule tule party an flu announced announced to the lepers le ers that withIn within a few few months they would be granted local government at the settlement They will elect a board of or aldermen a mayor Justice peace officer and all other of ot officer necessary to tIme the t e maintenance and conduct of a c small municipality The general supervision of the settlement will be under the control of 01 the board of health but in the details of the place the lepers are arc to be given tree reign In addition to granting the settlement local government the legislature pro proposes proposes proposes poses establishing an experimental sta station station station tion at a cost df where a systematic systematic systematic tudy of the disease can be made Several lepers were examined and found to be without the slightest evidence of the disease and if they tl are I able to satisfactorily stand a banter bacteriological I l examination they th y will be toe dis dismissed dismissed I missed from the settlement as cured A special deputy from the customs of office offic I fice fic is on watch at Waimea almea Island Ifland of for the arriVal l of four fo f sealing I schooners from Vancouver Waimea is not a port of entry and unless the maSters mas inns masters of these vessels report Immediately to Honolulu and enter their ships snips they will be seized and held until a fine of 1000 will have been paid League The Anti saloon league was organ orgen organized here last evening under the direction direction i iI I tion Uon of the Reverend Rever nd E S Chapman state manager of the league for Call Cali California fornia I The territorial grand jury filed flIed its re Va report report port today The most interesting fea feature feature I ture of the document is the recommendation i I dation that the pictures of political of offenders offenders f fI fenders against the defunct d republic of I Hawaii be removed from the rogues gallery allery at the territorial prison This is a matter which affects many prom promInent promInent citizens here as scores of them were arrested at various times during the revolutions against the government and charged with aiding the natives The legislature resumed its sessions today after the tour of investigation to the leper Jeper settlement The afternoon session of the senate ended in an ani animated anImated animated mated dispute between Dr N Russell the speaker and nd Cecil C cil Brown a lL sena senator senator tor from Honolulu Brown had called for fora a vote on a motion to table a rca res resolution asking ing congress to grant Hawaii statehood When the votes were an announced announced announced It was found fo nd that the speaker had voted in favor Of f the motion thus defeating the resolution asking state statehood statehood statehood hood Brown accused the speaker of acting in an arbitrary manner by vot voting votIng ing Brown was called to order and refused to surrender the floor and the was as ordered to arrest him The men r would have come to blows had not a motion to adjourn pre prevailed prevailed prevailed f |