The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-08-15
THE LEGISLATURE.
SIXTY FIFTH DAY.
MONDAY, Aug. Is, 1892.
Morning Session.

Assembly convened at 10 a. m. |
Prayer by Chaplain. Minutes of !
previous meeting were read by Clerk
Mccarthy and Interpreter Wilcox
and, as usual, approved.
The following petitions were pre-
sented and referred:
BY Rep. Akina from 3l6 residents
of Waimea, Kauai, that a new con
stitution be granted. To Constitu-
tional Committee.
BY Noble Cornwell that the sum
of $1,000 be appropriated for the pur-
pose of bringing water from the
Government spring in Kula, Maui,
to benefit residents near Waiohinu.
Referred to a select committee con
sisting of Mobiles Cornwell, Baldwin,
Peterson, and Reps. Kanealii and
r. w. Wilcox.
BY Noble Baldwin from residents
of Makawao that 5000 be appropri-
ated to pay for the land owned by
different parties through which
new road lately constructed by the
Government passes, running be-
tween Makawao and Kula, Maui.
Rep. Kamauoha from Kohala that
a new constitution be granted. To
Constitutional Committee.
Ry Rep. Edmonds, from residents
of Waikiki, Maui, that new Gov
eminent physician be appointed for
that district. To Sanitary Com
mittee.
Rep. Iosepa, from residents of
Hama, that Government school
house be built in that district. To
committee on Education.
Also by the same member, from an
individual named Kamaka Pamai-
aulu of Kipahulu, Maui, asking that
the sum of $500 be paid him for rent
of a house belonging to him and
which had been used as court
house. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
By Noble Ena, from j. r. Robert
son, that D compensation be given
him for permanent repairs to the
. Government rolling stock on the
. Beretania street railway; (2) that
. compensation be paid him for con-
: structing an addition to the Govern
ment bridge at Waianae, Oahu.
By Rep. Waipuilani, from resi-
dents of Kona, that schoolhouse be
} built at Hookena To committee on
/, Education.
. Rep. Ashford presented minority
| report from the combined Labor and
t Judiciary Committee on Bill 81 re-
lating to the registration of male
1 residents, signed by himself and tc
} the effect that he had examined said
1 Bill and "fnd that its scope and pur.
1 pose are not such as | can recon.
1 mend, and at war with the enlight.
a ened sentiments of modern civiliza
l ton and western governments"
$ After several motions, counter
S motions and amendments touching
Q at various times upon the real merits
of the Bill motion to lay on the
table until after the Constitutions
amendments had been disposed o.
a was passed.
Noble Marsden offered the follow
I ing resolution: "Be it resolved tha
: select committee be appointed
@ whose duty shall be to inquire into
t the reasons why SO large percent
S age of the deaths reported by Thu
Board of Health are from "caus
[. unknown" and to report to thi
IS House law or an amendment t.
d any existing law which shall provid
i that no interment shall take plac
s without the cause of death bein!
J. established"
e In support of the measure he SAT-
a that he was constrained to presen
v the resolution, not so much by tn
v
\ article which appeared in the BUI
s LETIN on Saturday last, but, on az
# count of being present when TIN
d writer was receiving his information
A great many people die withou
the actual causes being known am
the earth shrouds the cause i
deeper secrecy. 1t was every man
: right to die without having a phys
20 clan if he felt so inclined, but h
considered that the Government ha
no right to grant burial certificat
until it was found that the deaf
was natural or unnatural. He ha
y received information that some {
the deaths under the head of "caus
unknown" had been foully dea
with. If the resolution passes
physician of high standing in tn
community stood ready TO give il
formation that would open the ey,