Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-16

en- was to be regarded as privileged
communication. Deputy Attorney
General whitney was appealed to by
Chairman Single as to whether or
not the committee could force the
witness to answer the question, and
replied that II could. The witness,
| however, still insisted that the COM
nunication was privileged, and ask
d the committee to withdraw the
| question, as he did not wish to be
laced In the position of having to
l efuse to answer. The committee af-
ter consultation withdrew the ques-
tion for the time being but stated
that It would expect to have It an
swered this morning.
The witness said that as the state
ments in the story rererred to had
come indirectly from Representative
! Long, and as the latter had later
corroborated the story, there was
nothing to- be gained by attempting
to find out the name of the person
to whom Long had made the allega-
tons of graft referred to In the story.
| For some inscrutablc reason the
committee seemed to think that this
was essential, and although Single
said that he was once a newspaper
man himself, he still insisted upon
trying to make the reporter violate
confidence.
The committee Insisted upon refer
ring constantly to the charges of,
graft made by the Bulletin"
though the b u let | n has made no
charges OF graft, but has said that al
legations OF graft have been made by
Others and has editorially expressed
its doubt as to the grounds for the
allegations.
The reporter was. asked what he
had heard In the way of allegations
OF graft or irregularities, and mem
toned in reply the incident of the
refusal Of Castro to approve vouch-
er presented by James Apao, the
House messenger, on the ground that
the work had been done by Sheldon.
This matter was more -lullylgone into
by subsequent witnesses.
The witness referred also to the
stories that We're freely circulating
about the Capitol at the time the
Liquor Bill was before the House, of
bribery and attempted bribery. He
said that ut the time he had not cred
tied the stories and shad. not publish
cd them, but they wire Certainly suf-
ficient grounds for tie Statement that
ALLEGATIONS of bribery were being
made, whether groundless or NOT. lie
also regarded the charges made on
the floor OF the House that graft ex-
listed as amply sufficient basis for the
story that allegations OF graft and
bribery were being made,
whitney made an attempt to dis
credit the work of newspaper report
ers in general by asking II II were
not the custom to walt until near the
end OF a legislative session and then
publish such stories as had been pub
llshed, and suggested that most stor-
Ies were based on lunches" lie
quickly dropped that line OF ques'
tloning.
Bulletin Right
Long was the second witness call.
ed Miss Bernice Dwight was called
to take his testimony in shorthand
lie was shown the first story in the
Bulletin under the head OF ALE
, cations of Graft" lie replied that
he had tofd the reporter after the
story was published that the stor,
was true. THE majority of that
: story is true. The general complex
ion OF II. | said, is true"
i Did you mean that certain Repre-
sentatives were padding their sala
! RESP"
mo; what mean was that certain
members were translating House bill
. for other persons"
Long told how the whole thin.
came about. He said that there wer,
! complaints of poor translation, ant
he left the corridor and asked VIII,
was doing the translation. Mr.. TIES
Ia told him that Kaleiopu was doinl
the translation work for Kalea.
"a short while afterwards, ! saw
: Kaleiopu after the House adjourne'
. writing away on something. l aske,
, him what he was doing and he re
}, piled Your man Kaleo is giving m
:, a lot of trouble with poor transla
ton, did not pay any more atten
ton until some time afterward me
!, Kaleiopu again and he was translat
ing more bills for Kaleo. He mad
: the same remark about the poor fel
:, low; he had to help him out.
II asked who was doing Kaleo
poor translation and was told Poe
poe. Later someone told me tn
:, members OF the House were maxim