The Hawaiian gazette., 1886-09-14

report from the Special Committee having con
siceratioa Of two items relating to the keep and
repair of mausoleuras, signed by himself and
Reps, halua and hayselGen, to the effect that the
" Committee find that there are number of tomhs
to guard-such as the ROYAL MaUSoleurn, Iunalilo
MarSoleum, and others at North and South Kona,
hsU, etc. The committee are of opinion that to
take proper care of these places. $1,000 viii be
required. They. therefore. recommend that that
amount be inserted in the Appropriation BILL
Tabled for consideration with the bill.
Representative Dole, from the same committee,
presented minority report on the subject, fol-
lows:
Your committee, to whom was referred the
items of $3.50 for pay of ianitors of sepulchres,
and $50 for other expenses of sepulchreS, offer
the following minority report; The said items
were introduced by the late Minister of Interior,
who, IN reply to inquiry upon the subject, replied
thai he did not know where the tombs IN question
were located. The minority of your committee is
IN Ignorance. of the present status of the said
sepulchreS, or what they are intended TO contain,
orvhether they are in the shape of buildings or
burial grounds, or whether they require any care
or not. Neither has the chairman. or any other
member OF the said committee. furnished the
minority of the said committee any information
on the subject, or offered TO do or notified the
said minority of any meeting OF the said commit
tee on the subject.
The minority of your committee therefore re-
port that the committee Is in the same state of
ignorance upon the subject before them denSely
enSHroIoeo the intellect OF the late Minister OF
Interior at the time he offered the same items.
Wherefore, as there are no sepulchres or burial
grounds II the Hawaiian Islands of a national
character except the Lunalilo Mausoleum and
Royal Mausoleum, in Honolulu, and as there is
absolutely no known demand, necessity, or re-
Qulrement for such expenditure ontside of the two
mauS0leunS above referred to. and as the LesiSla-
ture has better objects for the expenditure of the
national revenue than exhuming. disturbing. re-
buryinS and watching over unknown bones, and
thereby mourning the appalling danger of relaying
10 their last slumbers the remains of unfortunate
individuals with sundry important and necessary
bones belonging to them replaced and substituted
by bones belonging to other individuals, who may
thereby be caused great inconvenience and uncer-
talnty, the minority of your committee feel that in
the words of the Holy Writ, this Assembly had
better let the dead bury their dead and proceed
TO matters that will benefit the living.
" In closing their report upon this somewhat
sombre subject, the minority of your committee
feel assured that the majority have, in recon-
mending the appropriation referred to, been led
astray by the delusive and mistaken idea that the
Government is about TO establish scientific and
harmonious network of tombs over the group,
selecting headlands and commanding knolls with
IN speaking distances of each other, where sur
rounded by the silent guardianship of crumbling
Hawaiian idols and weather-vorn and tattered
kahiliS, the peaceful skeletons of members of the
Legislature may commingle and disport them.
selves III happy relaxation with the miscellaneous
Cor conclusion see Page 81