The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-06-04

executed, are laborious and on this account it
salary ($5OO0) has been made the highest In TIT
kingdom, excepting only that of the King.
The late Chief Justice Lee, by the wisdom and
impartiality of his decisions, has gained for the
Supreme Court the highest respect, not only
among foreigners resident mere, but abroad. Ii
is all important that this respect for the Judiciary
be maintained. A Chief j Justice holds his Office tor
life, subject only to removal on impeachment
An appointment is more easily made than revoked.
Such appointment should then only be made de-
iberately, and ought, if possible, to be one In
which there would be an unanimous approval.
In case of the probable elevation OF Mr.. Allen
To the judicial Bench, the office OF Minister OF
Finance, now held by him, will become vacant.
There are many who believe that an entire re-
construction of the cabinet would be beneficial.
Rotation in Office, when not hasty nor made tor
trivial motives, produces a healthy state In gov
ernments or in corporations. The machinery OF
state easily rusts, and requires reburnishing.
There is no doubt that an entire chang. in the
cabinet would impart a healthy vigor to our
state.
The appointment of Prince Lot to be Minister
of Finance would meet public approval. Though
young for such a trust, they have confidence that
he possesses the latent qualifications, which time
and experience only will mature.
The management of the Department of the In
Interior has long been an eye-sore in the kingdom.
1t is the vital, working-part of the body-politic,
and for years has been but halfmanaged. This
failing being evident, the bureau of public works
was two or three years since partially cut off
from it and thrown into the war Office /; but we
doubt if the superintendent of it knows TO which
minister he is responsible. Without intending
any disrespect towards the minister,
HON i'll health has incapacitated, and whose
former services deserve perhaps a pension, we
must say that the public interests demand that
the Department be placed under an active, vigor-
GUS and thorough statesman, who shall infuse
into every subordinate branch of it a vitality
which it has now lost.
Nor is there less need of change in the Depart
ment of Foreign Relations and that humbug
Department of War. Ar occasional manifesto
from the former gives token that life in it is not
wholly extinct but the slumbering drafts of
French treaties and protocols, lying half moth
eaten in its alcoves, with the standing purpose of
the French Emperor to maintain permanently in
our port a vessel of war, however much it may
be needed elsewhere, assure the public. that a
change here might work for their good. The
idiosyncracy of years has wormed itself into every
line, folio and document of the Department, till
the idea of change in policy or purpose is as re-
mote as the prospect of reaching the north pole.
The Department of Public instruction, too,
needs a renovation no less thorough than the
other departments. And the intended return to
the United States of it's present head, which is
talked of, viii render it practicable, should
changes be made in the other departments.