The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-02-02
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PLANS ARE
SNARLED
(From Saturdays Advertiser.l J

(From Saturdays Advertiser.)
According to story which appears
in the San Francisco Call, there is
pilikia in regard to the proposed new
Royal Mausoleum for which the last
Legislature made handsome appro-
priation. The story is confirmed in
most particulars by those who have
local knowledge of the matter. The
Call story is;
"There is tribal trouble among the
chiefs of Hawaii, and the old family
feud between the Kalakauas and the
Kamehamehas is about to be resumed.
The Kalakaua descendants, as repre-.
sented by ex-Queen Liliuokalani, refuse
to allow their family dust to mingle
in the same royal mausoleum with the
dust of the descendants of the great
Kamehameha, while the former queen,
who is now at Washington after an ap.
propriation, has also drawn the line
between royal remains that are the real
thing and royal remains that are only
so through courtesy The matter is
only known to a few here as yet, but
all Hawaiian Hawaii will be stirred up
as it has not been since annexation
when the actual trouble breaks out.
"This comes about through the fact
that the Hawaiian Legislature set aside
100000 to build a new mausoleum for
the remains of the high chiefs of Ha.
waii, and the fact that the selection
of the chiefs who are to grace the new
tomb with their bones was left to
Queen Liliuokalani. The queen, accord
ingly, has Just forwarded list of those
whose blood used to be blue enough to
warrant their removal to the vaults
where she herself will lie some day,
and the list omits the names of prac-
tically all the Kamehamehas. These
are dead anyhow and their minds are
not disturbed, but the adherents of the
family are very jealous and can be
depended upon to raise a row. Prince
Jonah Kalanianaole,. the present dele
gate to Congress, is also not on the
queen s tomb list, and that fact is also
expected to help on the excitement.
+" At the same time there are some
named as eligible whose bones will not
be removed from their present resting
place to another. no matter how digni
fed. without a fuss being made. 1t is
proposed by the Queen, for instance,
to have the body of the Princess Pau
ahi, the late Mrs. Charles R. Bishop,
the wife of the Los Angeles capital
list, taken from the grave and placed
in the vault. If this is done. accord
ing to what has leaked out, the trus-
tees of the Bishop Estate, the big
land-owning corporation of Hawaii,
will obstruct in every possible way,
through court injunctions and other
wise. This would bring the govern
ment up against one of the richest in
stitutions of the Islands, backed up
by the Bishop millions.
"The removal of the present royal
mausoleum, in which are bodies not
included in the Queens selection,
would mean that these would have
burial outside the royal inclosure, and
this would possibly result in lawsuits.
One of the bodies that would be af.-
fected in this way is that of the late
Prince David Kawananakoa, only re-
Gently entombed.'
New Bill May Be Necessary.
It has developed since the matter of
preparing the plans for this mausoleum
has been undertaken, that there is a
ferions faw in the bill if the purpose
Is to be carried ont. The bill as pass
ed expressly states that the money is
to be spent for tomb for the dead
chiefs and chiefesses of Hawaii. This
appears to leave the present Queen,
Prince Cupid and the late Prince
David out, because none of them We're
dead when the bill passed and the
first two are not dead yet. Under
these circumstances the whole matter
is to be held up until new bill can
be passed.
When the matter of plans for the
| mausoleum was referred to Queen Lii
| liuokalani, she declared herself in
favor of tomb for herself alone and
second one for the bodies of the
late King Kalakaua and Queen Kapio-
lani. Other royal dead were to stay
where they are now This was not the
intention OF the bill, however, and the
desires of the Queen could not posi-
bly, be complied with.
THE plan prepared in the office of
the Superintendent of Public Works.
and which is now in Washington for
submission to the Queen and Prince
Cupid, is for circular tomb with
inches for eighteen collins and a CEN
trail space for the body of the present
Queen, the last of the rulers of Ha-
waii. Above the tomb will be a
marble shaft, twcnty-three feet hign.
to be surmounted with a crown.
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