The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-10-13

Minister Brown said it. was only
necessary that the Appropriation
Bill br proceeded with. He moved
the resolution he land on the table.
Carried.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The House proceeded with the
order of the day.
Consideration of the reports on
postal matters.
Noble Crabbc, rs a member of the
postal committee said that, in the
report laid down before this House.
schedules A. and ID. inclusive, also
letters received from the rural post
masters, rs also atlidavits taken
from clerks in the General Post
Office, were referred to in the ma
jority report, and he considered rs
they were embodied in the report to
the House by reference, that they
belong to that report, and as such
belong to the House, and should be
paid for by the authorization of this
House to have the report printed.
Another point was that before the
majority report was submitted TO
this House, the afidavits were shown
to the members of the minority and
to Noble Baldwin IN particular, who
said, when he had looked at them,
that he would not believe them, the
subscribers to the atlidavits, because
it was evident that if they could not
tell the truth when before the COM
mittee, they would not do so by aili-
davit. He contended that all the
report was regular, and should be
sustained by this House.
Rep. Paehaole held that nothing
that was not presented to the House
should have been printed.
The President asked the hon.
member to take his seat for few
minutes.
NEW MEMBER.
Rep. HOokano, on suspension of
the rules, presented the report of
the judiciary committee, finding that
Patrick Cockett was duly elected as
Representative for South Wailuku.
The President appointed Reps.
Hookano, Nawahi and White COM
mittee to ask one of the Supreme
Court Justices to attend and swear
in the new member.
Mr.. Justice McCully appeared
with the committee ana administer
ed the oath to Mr.. Cockett, who
thereupon took his seat.
THE POSTAL REPORT.
Rep. Kanealii was of opinion thai
the chairman Of the committee eX
celled his authority in printing mat
ter that had not been before thu
House.
Rep. Richard said the committee
had gone far beyond its authority il
bringing in such q report as this
censuring the Postmaster-General
The House would be acting very un
wisely in accepting the report. The
Postmaster General was the head o
the Postal Bureau, and if it was
competent for the committee to ex
anime the subordinates in that bu
reau, regarding the conduct of thu
Postmaster General toward them
he failed to see how discipline coult
be preserved in the bureau. 1t wa
not a matter of the clerks treat
ment, but one of their pay, that th'
committee was seat to investigate
If any of the clerks were not satisfied
with their treatment or their pay
they were not obliged to say in tn
employment. The care and response
bility was in the hands of the Post
master-G General, and he had to pre-
serve discipline among all his sub
ordinates. There was nothing pro
duced to show that the Postmaster
General used any personal violenc
on any of the clerks. 1t was diff
cult position to fill, and the incum
bent would of course make enemie
as well as friends. There had no
been a single thing found wron
with the accounts of that bu
reau during the time since til
present incumbent took office
That was saying a great dea
for an Office in which ther
were so many departments. Pos
sibly the Postmaster General had
temper that got beyond his contrc
in small matters, but when they COZ
sidered the cleanness of his az
counts, when investigated by q
able tiuance committee, his tempe
was very small matter.
Noble Baldwin held that member
should not at this stage discuss I'll
matter of the reports. The quei
! tion was whether they should acceI
the pamphlet before the House Il
discussion of its contents at son
, future time.
Noble Muller rose to questiC
of privilege and said that the linanC
committee had made grave charg'
against the Postmaster Genera
| (Cites pages) He strongly objectC
. TO the remarks made by the no
member from llamakua, especial
5 after the Report of the Finance Coz
S mittee had been adodted by n
> House,
n Rep. Hookano was in favor OF T
ferrlng the question 10 q select col
= mittee. lie thought the charms
u had a right 10 print remarks IN 81