Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-08-03

Acting Governor held up the whole
Legislature and patiently waited for
the next steamer" And Hitchcock |
after many days has responded with |
mo reply at ALL" something that was
not news to anyone" and the local
government knows no more now than
II did before Hitchcock wrote his let
ter" Perish the thought. The foun-
tains of knowledge have run dry and
that too when A. T. Atkinson is Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction and
editor of the inspired evening echo.
But this is but the beginning of the
righteous official wrath. Witness that
"it is not the first experience OF the
kind local officials have had in cor-
respondence with Washington they
say" Worse and more of 1t. Cores
pondence from Washington is not ac-
companied by a map. This the local
officials demand shall not continue.
Having passed a resolution calling for
tIitchcock's removal II should now be
In order to return his letter with no
news in 1t and demand that It be put
such shape" as to meet the appro-
val of local officials, particularly the
Governors OF the Territory.
The horror of the situation Is finally
depicted when It is stated that Secre-
tary Hitchcock did not think it worth
while to submit the question to the
| President" Who is this man Hitch
cock that holds up the correspondence
OF Hawaii's Acting Governor and
doesn't even submit 1t to the President.
Has the Acting Governor no rights un-
der the constitution TO impress upon
Secretary Hitchcock the Importance Of
these propositions that the President
may drop everything else and atten
TO our wants.
Finally comes the verdict of the judge
and jury: this appears to local Off
Gals as a mastery effort at misunder-
standing" Not ordinary but mastery.
This man Hitchcock Is no ordinary
criminal. He is bad man all around.
Second thought suggests that removal
Is too good for him. The local OFF,
Gals" sitting as Judge and jury should
have him sentenced 70 Imprisonment
during an interminable transition Pc
riod" from which there is no appeal.
Failing to accomplish the ends OF
justice in thus dealing with Secretary
Hitchcock. the Bulletin would suggest
that the critical and irate local Off
Gals petition Washington to accom-
pany correspondence with brick that
thu purport and intent Of Washington
correspondence may be hammered into
the head of Hawaii's Chief Executive.
The plain meaning of Secretary Hitch
cocks letter was nothing II not a
polite reminder that the Chief EXccu-
tive of Hawaii must Do business with
the Legislature, that the President has
enough TO take up his time without
furnishing explicit directions for the
government of Hawaii when Congr SIS
has given the Territory an Organic
Act, that Hawaii must shift for itself
and cease botheriDg the Federal de-
partments with its childish troubles.
Had Hitchcock spoken hs mind we
doubt not that he would have asaed
the Acting Governor II Hawaii had a
police force and II so direct that the
Acting Governor summon one of its
members and detail his troubles.
Even thin it is highly probable an
inspired article would appear in ont
of the official organs to the effect tina,
Secretary Hitchcock had not answered
the question at all,