The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-08-19
WISE RETURNS;
DENIES GRAF TING

Following the publication of charges
made by Senator James l.. Coke that
the Senate journal showed unmistak-
able signs of heavy padding, John II.
Wise, clerk of the territorial senate,
returned to Honolulu yesterday morning
by the steamer Mauha Kea from Wal
mea, Hawaii where he has been so.
iourning for some weeks past.
According to Wise he has returned
to Honolulu prepared to take the stand
and refute, sundry and all. the accusa-
tions of the Democratic whip OF the
territorial senate.
Wise made it a point, since his re-
turn, to cast suspicion on the house
Journal which so far has gone unchal-
lenged, work which covers several hun
dred pages less than the senate journal,
although the house is said to have done,
several times, a greater volume of work
than the upper body.
The senate clerk characterizes as
L" Nominations and senselessn all of
Coke s charges and is rather disposed
to laugh at the senator $ public state
ments. One of Wise 5 defenses is that
there is politics behind all this move
ment.p
He expects to explain, it is said, why
innumerahle pages of amended bills
were made part of the journal, and
why the names of committees are
strung out to cover as much as half n
page at n time.
The erstwhile clerk declared that his
part in the alleged crooked financial
transactions under which he drew down
seventy-fvc cents per page for proof
reading the Senate Journal would be
easily explained. and that instead of
there being an appearance of graft, the
results would show him TO be only an
efficient officer of the senate.
"When the Senate Journal is COM
pared with that of tho house and IL is
found that the journal had not only to
he compared proof read. indeXed and
documents arranged for the archives,
that the amount set aside for these ser
vices was mighty small after all, " said
! Mr.. Wise.
"The house gave the clerk thirty
DAYS on pay in which to prepare his rec
ord The senate, on the other hand,
made no additional remuneration and
whatever time was consumed after the
| session, on the senate journal labor.
would not be compensated by additional
FUNDS
~ have returned from Hawaii, where
| I intended remHinino sixty DAYS, ia
meet the CHARGES preferred by Senator
Coke. II win 700 found there is poll.
! ties hohnd all this movement "
Lester Fithel. the young man who
was raid $50 for work FOR which Wise
/ "a alleged 20 hpve coli 'cted nearly twice
/ that amount from the TER tory, oN'
dressed surprise YESTERDAY to l'lrn that
/ his services as proofreuder had proved
unsatirfHrtory
"The first iutiWatiou ! bad that my
work was unsatisfactory, 80 said fisNel
"came with Wiso's statement today
weeks after my work has been com
pleicl ! di NOT even know that h
was necessary 10 employ other proof
readers ON the ioh Tho Truth Of the
matter Is Wise has hmHu'v lel IA
. r0y,r iis prtty gafi'nF t1riirs For
iWnaielv Z gOi onto Wise ls the lngiF
laiire session prOgrcsrl and retained
all original r0py M tho proofs ! rrad
/ sin hive ilIs IU Wy u0 session. A.
if wns pn.pfsaTN f thr work Was
lpGHlly irUr tH fmi 900 url0fs lY
copy N Nlsn r. sincere boa his rmrpf
that ho pmplUri wn hap lu tir
Woih ho rHu Show thH work ihoA rrr
formed a. ! hHHr fa'i : hafa pl 30.
liir urnOt Boa WE pmrwfIuH ns in ibs
s0uirrs rendered fNr lhp fllU nf
paid me-