Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-14
Speaker To Appoint a
Committee To Go
Into Matter
BRIBERY HINIED Ar IN
CONNECTION WITH A BILL
House Is Thoroughly Aroused Over
Ugly Stories That Are Told
in Corridors and on
Streets

The House is going to probe into the
1 charges of graft and bribery that have
been made against some of it's mem.
bcrs, and unless large bucket of
whitewash is hastily prepared. the
guilty members, II such exist and they
can be discovered, are to be publicly
branded as rocreant to their trust and
unfit to sit among honest men. It Is
probable that n commission will be ap.
pointed today to make thorough in.
vestigation into the charges that have
been freely circulated ever since the
Speaker last Saturday made his insin.
uations of graft In connection with the
resolution to increase the pay of the
stenographer by allowing him compen.
satiOn for transcribng his minutes.
On the floor of the House yesterday
afternoon II was openly stated by Long
that stories are going around the
streets to the effect that some men,
bGrs of the House were bribed in con.
nection with the recent attempt to
pass a certain bill. This matter and
that of the padding of salary accounts
by fees for translation done under as.
sumed names, Long thought should be
thoroughly gone into.
When the Bulletin of yesterday
afternoon was received in the House
and the story Of alleged graft was read
{ by some of the members, there was in.
| tense excitement among the Represen.
tatlves. Some of them did not look
greatly surprise, but from others
there was u gasp of horror at the idea
that any honorable member could
soil his own skirts and disgrace the
House by any such petty graft as that
charged by Long. Kaleiopu immedi.
ately seized his pen and paper and be.
gan buslly writing. As soon as oppor.
tunity offered, he presented the follow
ing resolution, reading It's himself:
"Be 1t Resolved, BY the House of
Representatives ofthe session of 1909,
that a committee consisting of the
chairman of the Committee on Fl.
nance, chairman Of the Committee on
Public Expenditures and Accounts
ana chairman Of the Printing Commit.
tee, to forthwith investigate into the
matter Of certain honorable members
of this House alleged to have done
certain translation work of Hawaiian
bills from English under assumed
names as published in the EVENING"
b. letin of this date. Said com.
mittee Is hereby authorized to sub |
poena witnesses, hire attorneys, and |
do every means of bringing this mat. |
ter to light. Said committee to report |
the results of their findings no later
than Friday"
Sheldon moved that the resolution |
be amended by adding the name of the
chairman of the Educational Commit.
tee-Long, who made the charges.
Rice offered an amendment that the
commission consist of three members
to be appointed by the Speaker. He |
asked not to be appointed on the com,
mlttee himself, as he had not been
feeling well of late.
Castro's Skirts Clean.
Castro was particularly worked up
over the story. He was evidently und.
err the impression that II might seem
In some way to reflect upon himself
as chairman of the Committee on Pub.
lie Expenditures and Accounts, though
1t was not so intended and no one
could have any notion that he would
anything that smelled of
graft. He vigorously urged the adop
ton of the resolution.
"If anything wrong is going on in
his House and any members knows of
II and does not tell of 1t, he is a ras.
CAL" said Castro. IF any member OF
this House has received money, as al.
legged in this afternoons paper, 1t
should be made known and he should
be punished for 1t. II I, as chairman of
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