The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-10-13

carry the mails, and select postmaster
who are Intellectually and education
ally competent, and establish fourth
class post offices, leaving the salaries
to adjust themselves. Il
"At the end of the last term Of this
calendar year, December 81, all Of the
postmasters in Puerto Rico will re-
port, the amount Of their business to
the third assistant postmaster general,
and these reports, having been record
ed, will be transferred to the Office Of
the first assistant postmaster general.
In the salary and allowance division of
the first assistant postmaster generals
office the financial reports of the post
masters of Puerto Rico, as well as the
states and territories of the United
States, will be carefully gone over,
and the salaries of postmasters accord
ingly adjusted.
"For example, assume that ma.
jority OF the fourth-class post offices
established by our commission will re-
main fRurth-class post Offices. But
when the accounts of the postmasters
at such towns as Ponce and San Juan
are considered by the salary and al
lowance division those offices will be
made third class or second class with
large salaries, and then they will be
what we call presidential post offices.
AS soon as the adjustment of the
finances shows that the salaries of the
postmasters of the larger Offices should
be more than 81 1000 per annum, the Of
ices will become presidential in class,
and new postmasters will be appointed
by the president, with the advice and
consent of the senate. suppose that
when these accounts are all adjusted
next January, it will be incumbent
upon the president to appoint at least
five or six presidential postmasters for
Puerto Rico. AS the population in7
creases and the island becomes
Americanized the postal business will
expand just as have seen it grow with
the growth of the country between the
great lakes and the Pacific coast" :
After receiving this interesting in1
formation concerning Puerto Ricoj
the writer called upon First Assist
ant Postmaster-General Heath, and
inquired concerning the proposed
postal service in Cuba, Hawaii and the
Philippines. Gen. Heath said: "You
must remember that Puerto Rico alone
is our territory; and that Cuba and
the Philippines do not belong to us
as result of the war. In Hawaii,
where everything is already American
in spirit, we will permit the postal serv.
ice to remain just as it is. When an.
nexation is complete we will proba.
bly, give American commissions to
those postal agents who are now on
duty there by appointment of the Ha.
waiian republic. That will be the nat.
ural and proper thing to do, at least
at the beginning of our assumption OF
authority.
Gas to Cuba, you must remember
that we have not acquired that island;
but have only assumed the RESPONSE
bility of giving to the Cubans stable
government. We cannot assume SOW.
ereignty there at once, and hence we
cannot establish postal system. AS
to the Philippines, we cannot tell how
much or how little of that archipelago
we shall take until the peace commits
sion shall have concluded its DELHI
erations, and until the Spanish cortes
and the American senate have. rati-
fed their work. Therefore we can
not establish a postal system for the
Philippines, nor make any aggressive
effort in that direction.
1.-THE peace protocol provides that
we shall possess Manila and Manila