The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-20
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for forty-five days and no more after
the completion of the building unless
the same be satisfied or proceedings
commenced to collect the due bv en-
forcing the same The vote carving
this was unanimous
Graft Report Debate.
Consideration of the report of the
Special Graft Investigation Committee.
which had been deferred from the morn.
ing, was then taken up.
Malicious Press Scheming.
Coney rose to speak on the graft
committee report. He expressed regret
that the matter of graft had ever been
mentioned iii the House. He had sat
throughout the session feeling that the
members were all fair and honest and
there had been friendIiness in every
thing done in the House until the pub
llcatlon of the charges, when a gloom
was east. "And why?' he asked.
Just because there was jealousy
among the employees of the House and
some unfounded charges were made. =
He denied that there was any white
wash in the report. He regretted the
matter mainly from the standpoint of
Hawaiian, because it is said some
times that Hawaiians cannot rule them
selves and are not fit to /be members
of Legislature.
1r the press wants to advertise
this thing SO as to bring about gov
eminent by commission, [ say, Mr..
Speaker. that this is~a dirty low way
to go about it. If that is what they
want, why not come out openly and
not try to gain an end by smirching
this Legislature and Hawaii nei, y said
Coney.
want to warn the members to be
careful about what they say When
something is said the newspaper men
seize it. That is what they want They
take some little thing for a start made
a. big thing out of it and spread it
abroad for the sake of diserediting this
Legislature.
Long Is Sarcastic.
Long complimented the special com
mittee ON the extremely skilful way in
which they had done the special work
for which they had been adopted In
the report he found that he was the
culprit for it all. IF what he had done
had been something TO bring before
the members the danger of placing
themselves in shady position or a
place where his action could be ques-
toned, he did not regret. it. He be
leved it to be the duty of each member
to expose what he knew of wrongdo
ing and point out where suspicion might
In Ia Il Lo IL
He scorned the blame put upon him
in the report for doing what he had
considered his duty and announced that
his shoulders were plenty broad enough
to carry all such blame. He believed
the investigation would result in good
and stated that he was relieved when
he found the report had exonerated
each and every member of the House.
with few exceptions. that report
ought to be accepted, he said, point
ing out that the report was not based
in some particulars upon the evidence.
He proposed to let the House know
that the report was written without
consulting the notes of the steno
grapher.
If that report is to stand. I insist
that it be accompanied by the steno-
grapher g notes. Then it may go to
the Governor and to whom else the
House wants.
Long concluded by expressing thank
fulness that the committee could report
that not member of the House had
received a dishonest penny
Single Quite Angry.
Single stated that there had been
no occasion to refer to the notes taken
of the evidence, the evidence being so
preponderatingl on the side of the hon
esty of the House.
He blamed Long for either not de-
manding a retraetion of an alleged in
terview or for not accepting the re-
port as it stood. He wanted. TO know
what did Long mean by saying that
the committee had done its work, or