Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-04-11
ROW P2E(Ip|IATED
0VFR TIFF JOURNAL
Lyman Accuses HolStein
Of Bad Faith In
The Matter
SAYS CONTRACT WAS NOT
AWARDED ON LOWEST BID
The Harmony Of the Lower House
Is Shattered by Trouble Be-
tween the Speaker and
the Clerk


House Journal had been let To the two
lowest bidders is denied by N. X. Ly-
man, who saws that he submitted bid |,
about $500 lower than the ones which |
were accepted.
Hulstcin announced yesterday that
the contract for the English edition |
had been let to c. X. auckland for
$3.50 and for the Hawaiian edition to
Bernard Kelekolio at $500. a total OF
s225O This, he said, was the lowest
bid.
But Lyman fatty denies the truth of
the Speakers statement. He says no
submitted a bid much lower than the
other combined bids. He offered to do
the work on both the English and the
Hawaiian edition. for Sl5l0-sS40 low
err than Buckland's and Kclekollo's
bids combined. In proof of the truth
of his statement, he shows copy OF
his bid the figures In the copy bearing
out his story.
He states further than Speaker Hol-
stein as an explanation of his action
says that he signed the contract with
| auckland without reading II, and In
| the belief that It was another paper
| he was signing.
The awarding of this contract Is an
| other blow TO Clerk Wise of the House,
as Wise was In with Lyman on this
| bid II Lyman had been awarded the
| contract Wise was to look after the
! English edition.
Meanwhile, Wise is by no means
whipped In his row with the Speaker
over the House Journal On the sur
lace of things Holstein appears to have
u little the best of 1t, but Wise Is be
lieved to have several big cards up his
sleeve which will fall on the table at
the psychological moment and change
things very considerably.
The Committee. consisting of Speak
er Holstcin and Representatives
Hughes and Quinn, have taken away
from Wise the work of preparing the
journal for printing, thus cutting him
out OF u comfortable sum which he
was counting on making.
But after the Journal Is prepared and
set up. II must be attested by the
Clerk. without his signature IL will
not be legal. And the committee, as
a salve to the wounded feelings Of the
Clerk, proposes to turn over to him
the supervision OF the work-after the
House rises, which will leave him
about ten days.
Wise declares that he will not sign
the Journal without going through II
carefully, for he will not be responsible
for anything of which he knows moth
ing. And he declares that he cannot
, go through the Journal carefully In ten
days, and therefore will not attest It.
IL looks at present as II he had the
whip hand.
or course, another Clerk might be
Dbtained-if il were not for the fact
that Wise has too many friends in the
House for the Speaker To be able ia
get rid of him summarily, as he might
wish TO do.
The fight has only just commenced
declare several members of the House
and before II ends there will be things
doing around the legislative halls,
The harmony that has characterized
the proceedings of the House of Rep
resentatives for two-thirds of the SEES
sion received a rude Jar yesterday af
tcrnoon from which IL Is doubtful Il
II can recover. The dove of peace tina
had perchcd screncly above the doOl
and looked down benignly upon thu
amicabe, IL sometimes curious doing
Df the Representatives, got a frigh
that sent her soaring away with ;
startled cry into the blue empercan
and Il will take much coaXing to in
luce her to return.
The trouble all arose over that yeXe,
question of the House journal. For
day 1t might have appeared to the out
4 slider as II this matter had been settle
and dropped, but to those who knew
u strong underCurrent Of feeling wa
" perceptible, and no one was surprise
when the trouble came within an inc
y Of breaking out into open warfare.
Q Pail started II. The House had bee
working all afternoon on the Salar
Appropriation Bill Four o'clock ha
come, and Pail arose, as everyone SUI
4 Losed TO put his usual motion TO ad
D journ. Instead he asked IA question,
{ mild, inoffensive question in a mil'
- lnofensiye little tone OF voice. An
Z then the row was on.
s The Speaker had announced earle
. In the, afternoon that the COMMITTEES
= consisting of himself, Hughes an
Z Quinn, had signed the contracts fc
q the printing of the Journal, the En-
, fish edition going to the Bulletin /
Sl.30 a page and the Hawaiian edltiO
u to the Gazette Company at $3.50
Z page. The contract for printin
\ proof-reading and indeXing the En-
y lish edition had been awarded TO G,
{ auckland at $3.50, and that for Il
Hawaiian edition to Bernard Kelik
Ito at $500, which the Speaker sa
4 were the lowest bids.
I Pail started OFF by inquiring gently
Z he above figures were correct and
y they represented the lowest bids. III
Speaker replied that they were Al
= lid.
Z Pail made few more inquiries alol
< the same line, always in the san
= small voice, and The Speaker repli'