The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-04-30
POST OFFICE CHANGES.


row morning. This information, we
learn by enquiry Of the Postmaster
General, is incorrect, inasmuch as
he has not resigned, but has been
removed by the Minister of the In
terror without cause. For two years
past the public have been in con-
stant expectation of Mr.. Whitney's
official head being demanded, so
as to crafty the spite Of the Gov
ernment and make room for one
of their henchmen clsmorous for
a berth. Thus another faithful pub
lie servant, who had maintained the
most agreeable relations with the
public, is sacrificed to the vicious
partisan principle governing the
Hawaiian civil service. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the degree of
efficiency characterizing Mr.. Whit
ney's tenure of office, for he was so
handicapped by Ministry esteem
ing the qualification Of political
rancor above the welfare Of the
public, that improvements involving
the most trifing outlay were syste-
matically refused to be made, just
because the official recommending
them was not in harmony with the
ruling clique at the Privy Council
board, or elsewhere that he was not
legally or legitimately under the
mailed hands. While it would be
unfair, perhaps, to judge the new
incumbent at the head of this, one
of the most important services of the
kingdom, before experience of his
administration of the Office, yet it is
not too much to say that his ante
cedents, as a violent and unscrupu-
lous partisan of the reactionary
party-the champion of every
iniquitous and retrograde measure
attempted to be forced through the
last Legislature, deserter from the
popular cause Of clean and independ-
ent government-are such that only
thorough purging of the qualities
that have of late made his reputa-
ton unsavory, will enable the man
to fill the important post with any
degree of satisfaction to the public
or honor to himself.
A significant point, in connection
with this change of Postmaster-Gen-
eral, is to be found in this mornings
Advertiser. Under the heading of
"Suggestions," there is a series of
paragraphs, written in the style, if
not the spirit, of the recent "Cam-
paign Notes" These semi-oflicial
editorialettes, among other recon-
mendations of public improvements,
contain the following
"Among other suggestions re-
garding the Post Office is the ad-
visibility Of increasing the public
convenience there by having a
delivery and a receiving window.
The present arrangement is far from
satisfactory. 1t occasions great
delay and unnecessary crowding on
steamer days on the outside, and
certainly impedes the dispatch of
business on the inside. There
should, if possible, be a division Of
labor within the Post Office and at
the windows"
This is uttered with all the unctu-
GUS blandness of an original idea
striking the consciousness Of its
modest author. Yet it is notorious
that the public press has been cry
ing out for these identical improve
ments, and the retiring Postmaster
General has repeatedly asked for
them, within the past few years.
Although these improvements, with
others not mentioned in the above
suggestive suggestion" would not
have cost tithe of the buying
and grading Of the new "Palace
Square" by the way, in
the "Suggestions'- yet the latter
far less important work has been
given precedence of execution by
our wonderfully paternal Govern
ment. Read in the light of these
facts, the suggestion" in question
has a suggestiveness of political
craft and official hypocrisy about it.
In addition to the information
given NV the 1dgeykiser. repardinp