The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-07-15


September /, 1855? ?. How many Chimes
have left the Islands since September
1855? 3. How many Chinese have arrived
in this Kingdom since September l, 1888
| 4. What fee Is charged for is uing such
passports? s. Is such fee turned into the
/ Treasury as Government realization?
! Z soARD OF GESEALoGY.
/ Mr.. Kaulukou read first time joint
| resolution tor the relief OF the Board OF
Genealogy OF Hawaiian chiefs.
/ Mr.. Brown moved it be laid upon the
table, to be considered with the Appropri-
alton bill. Motion lost.
! On suspension of the rules, the resolu-
ton was read second time by it. title.
Mr.. KauIukou moved it pass to be en-
crossed.
Mr.. Castle said that by this motion the
matter had come up for discussion. He
thought the House would do itself credit
by letting the matter stand over until
something was heard about this Board. If
it is doing any good the House should
know it, If it is collecting the genealogy
of chiefs, and it is worth paying for, let Us
pay for it. He was aware something had
been done and is now being done. The
ancient history of this Kingdom ought to
be collected under the direction of the De
partment of Foreign Affairs. The amount
that has been paid over TO the Board Is
$4,000, and there ought to be something
very valuable to show for such an amount.
For himself, he failed to see any result
whatever from the expenditure. 1t seemed
to him that the way this joint resolution
was brought in did not look well. 1t was
an attempt to pass it through without the
House knowing what the Board had been
doing. Anything that the Board does
should be known by the members of this
House. He had heard a great deal about
economy from the Ministerial benches
The taxpayers ought to know what this
$40, 900 in the resolution is for. There was
no reason for it to be rushed through
without information from the Board being
laid before the House. He moved it be
referred to the Committee on Education,
with instructions that said committee re-
port inside of u week.
Mr. Dole seconded the motion He
could feel that the bringing in of this re-
quest and the failure of the Board to pre-
sent report could be reasonably termed
public scandal. The law creating the
Board was passed i'll 1890, in order that, in
case of a vacancy on the throne, the Legis-
lature might know who to choose for King,
and that the King might know who the
chiefs were from whom to select members
of the House OF Mobiles. The object was
good one. The commission had been run
ming for six years. Al last session volum-
nous report was handed in and printed,
and he valued it more than all the other
reports put together as n curiosity. 1t did
not contain the genealogy of a single Ha-
waiian chief, and there was little evidence
that anything had been done in that di-
rection. The report dealt mainly with
geology, and what had geology to do
with Hawaiian chiefs? 1t discussed Oar
wins theory of descent of man, but what
had that to do with Hawaiian chiefs, un-
less it WAS attempted to prove that they
had descended from monkeys? He re-
Spected the views of Darwinians and was
disposed to accept them to some extent
that is, that they descended from the same
ancestors as monkeys. The report also
went into questions of the identity of Skel-
eton5, which threw no light on genealOgy
or history. 1t laid claim to the discovery
of the bones of chief who never set foot
on these Islands, but lived and died in the
Marquesan Islands. In the hands of
proper person, such as Judge Fernandez,
the work of the Board might be of value.
The tendency was to hunt up bones of
Hawaiian chiefs, which was not the OBJ
ect of the Board No bones of chiefs
could be found, because they were always
hid. When money was offered there |
would always be somebody to say that his |
grandfather tod him the bones of a certain |
chief would be found in a certain place. A |
place so indicated in KOna was found to
contain three skeletons, and it was puzzle |
to know which was that of the chief. In |
that case a pig was let loose and the first |
skeleton it sRelled was decided to be the !
chiefs Was not that childs play? Were |
they to turn themselves into Chinese and |
worship their ancestors in that way? One |
had been washed away in
storm, and the man in charge had been |
ever since searching for bones with which |
to restOck it. The whole amount voted |
last session had been drawn-not a dollar |
more or less-and he wanted to see an ac-
count of it, If it was wasted, it would be |
better to vote it to Mrs. Swan or even to |
Mr. Kaulullou, for then some good might !
come from it. He would be willing to
have a law passed to prevent Hawaiian an
Equities being taken out of the country. !
One OF the finest collections of Hawaiian
antiquities ever made was taken out of the |
Kingdom within two weeks past. 1t
could have been purchased for half of
this appropriation. 1t had come to
this, that anyone wanting to study Ha-
waiian antiquities must go to Paris or
Berlin. The spending OF this $4,000 does |
no good-it passes out of sight.
Mr.. Dickey said that $4,000 meant ten
good school houses in the outer districts.
The House ought not to vote money for
such a purpose as this.
His Excellency Mr. Gibson said that Mr.. |
Dickey stated that So 900 spent on this OBJ
iect in quest of knowledge is equal to the |
for ten good school houses.
When the Assembly voted $4,000 for the !
statue Of Kamehameha, the founder OF the |
country, it voted for sentiment; but |
when this House voted for sentiments it
did not neglect the schools or the care of |
the public health. AS the Savior of man
kind said, Man cannot live by bread |