The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-09-09

! TO whom was referred An ACT 10 amend
an Act entitled an Act relating to stamp
/ duties, approved September27, \. 1876, y
introduced by the Hon. c. IL. Dickey, hav-
! ing had the same under consideration, re-
spectfully recommend that in line 3 the
word .POStmasters" should be inserted
III said Act instead of Judges of Circuit
Courts, and in line the words land the
Collectors OF Customs at all ports OF entry
Of the Kingdom" be erased; and in line 5,
after the word denominations" the
words up to and including five dollars. "
That section of said Act, to be known as
Section 3s. be struck out. With these
amendments, your committee recon-
mendS the bill pass.
GEO. f. RICHARDSON,
L. A. THURsToN,
CECIL Brown,
JOHN T. DARE,
Mr. Brown moved the report be laid
upon the table, to be considered with the
minority report. Agreed to.
MAUsoLEUMs.
Mr. KaunamanO presented report on
the following items: Keepers of MausO-
leums. 81 1870; repairs to mausoleums,
/
/ number of tombs to guard, such as the
ROYAL Mausoleum, LunalilO MauSOleum,
and others at North and South Kona, Kau,
etc The committee are of opinion that to
take proper care of these places, 81, 600 will
be required. They therefore recommend
that that amount be inserted in the APP
preparation bill.
tSigned): J. X. kAUNAMANO,
]. w. KALUA,
F. H. HAYsELDEN.
On motion of Mr.. Brown, the report was
laid upon the table. to be considered with
the bill.
Mr.. Dole presented the following mi
nority report on the same matter
Hon. J. S Walker, President Legislative
Assembly-Sir: Your committee, to whom
was referred the items of $4,320, for pay of
janitors of sepulchers, and $500 for other
expenses of sepulchers, 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 that he
did not know where the tOmbs in question
were located. The minority of your COM
mittee is in ignorance of the present status
of the said sepulchers or what they con-
tain, or what they are intended to contain,
or whether they are in the shape of build
ings or burial grounds, or whether they re-
quire 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 so, or notified the
said minority of any meeting of the said
committee on the subject.
The minority of your committee there
fore report that the committee is in the
same state of ignorance upon the subject
before them as densely enshrOuded the in
tellect of the late Minister of Interior at
the time he offered the said items. Where
fore as there are no sepulchers or burial
grounds in the Hawaiian Islands of Il nation
al character except the LunalilO MausOleum
and Royal MausOleum in Honolulu, and
as there is absolutely no known demand,
necessity or requirement for such expendi-
ture outside of the two mausoleumS above
referred to, and as the Legislature have
better objects for the expenditure of the
national revenue than eXhuming, disturb
ing. reburying and watching over unknown
bones and thereby mourning the appalling
danger of relaying to 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 uncertain
", the minority of your committee feel that
in the words of the Holy Writ this Assem-
blv had better 'let the dead bury their
dead" and proceed to matters that will
benefit the living.
In closing their report upon this some
what sOmbre subject, the minority OF your
committee feel assured that the majority
have, in recommending the appropriation
referred to, been led astray by the delusive
and mistaken idea that the Government is
about to establish scientific and har-
mOnious network of tombs over the group,
selecting conspicuous headlands and com
manding knobs within speaking distances
of each other, where, surrounded by the
silent guardianship of crumbling Hawaii
an idols and weather-worn and tattered
kahilis, the peaceful skeletons of members
of the Legislature may commingle and dis
port themselves in happy relaxation with
the miscellaneous and reassorted bones of
the ancestors of the Hawaiian race. But
we assure them that this is not the policy
of the Administration; and if they look
forward to any such consummation, they
will be disappointed when it is too late to
remedy the matter. s. B. DOLE.
The report was laid upon the table, to be
considered with the majority report and
bill.
GEORGE LUCAS CLAIM.
Mr.. Nahale presented a resolution that
the two reports relating to the claim of
George Lucas, for work done at the Palace,
be taken from the table and considered
with the Appropriation bill to-day
On suspension of the rules, bill to pro-
vide for the payment of certain bills CON
tracted by His Majesty's Chamberlain at
the time OF the Coronation, and for repairs
to the Palace. was read second time by