Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-16
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FALSE, SAYS
JOHN WISE


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ing. but his statement today win be
followed by one in detail early next
week.
Answers Each Charge.
The charges made by Senator Coke
fall into three general divisions, and
Wise today briefly answered each.
/ The first is that Wise made a profit
Of fifty cents per typewriter page
on the typewriting OF the journal by
simply turning over to stenographeT
at twenty-five cents a page the type
writing fer which he received seven
ty-fye cents page, and that to
make an exorbitant profit only a few
words were put on page.
The second charge is that "all sorts
of worthless records" were put in the
journal to swell It's size and increase
Wise's profits.
The third charge is that while the
senate appropriated IL IL cents per
printed page for proof-reading, Wise
paid the proof-reader more than $1O0
less than what he was entitled to.
Wise is pot inclined to take seri-
.ously Cokefs attack upon him. He
says he thinks it is due party to
politics and partly to other motives
and while he, resents the charge OF
dishonesty, he talks s'if Coke will
see the matter much differently when
explanation ssy made.
Wfse's Statement.
In his statement this morning Wise
said:
! Senator Cexe's attack goes deeper
than appears on the surface. / am
not yet ready to take up this element.
but will say that he wishes to dis
credit me- For the time being shall
let the animus of the attack go and
right now speak on the merits of the
charges he has made.
'In the beginning, it Is evident that
Senator Coke has not fairly interpret
ed the meaning of the resolution IN
der which ! was authorized to do the
work. That resolution shows the dis
erection I was given and also the posi-
tive duties was to perform, and 1t
will be seen that those duties were
far more than merely typewriting the
journal.
Under the senate resolution was
authorized and directed to proceed to
compile the Journal The rate of pay
1nent was fixed. ! was to get rs cents
per typewriter page and it should be
emphasized that 1t is explicitly stated
such compensation to be in full for
all compiling, indexing and clerical
duties to be performed after the adj
journment of the legislature
Had Many Duties
taking up the first charge-that
of making an exorbitant profit on the
typewriting, / will say first that the
actual typewriting is worth less than
the other work that has to be done
along with it. To get out the senate
journal ! had, first. to look after the
typewrfting; second, to do vast
amount of comparing that is, going
through the original records and COM
pairing them with the typewriter
pages, which is Intricate and detail
work; third to index the journal,
which means reading it at least twelve
times through to follow bills through
their various phases; and fourth, l
lad to prepare the entire journal mat
ter for filing away in the archives.
For this latter work alone the
clerk of the house was employed twen-
ty or thirty days after the close of
the session at SIS a day, understand.
mo Exorbitant Profits"
Il employed "a stenographer to
typeWrite the pages at 25 cents a
page. All the rest of the work, COM
pairing, indexing, and preparing for
the archives, did for the remaining
fifty cents. l want to say that the
typewriting was one of the simplest
parts Ct the task.
$50 much for, 'exorbitant profits.
AS to the triple spacing, 1t should be
said that followed the style Of the
bills as they are compiled, sand also
that il the lines should be crowded
on the page, would be- charged con-
siderably more by the stenographer,
and my share cut down to nothing
am perfectly ready for entire publ
city on this point and stand by my
5ldlClHCuI fItldl my PTOHI WAS uOI
an excessively large one.
The next charge is that | insert
ed all sorts of extraneous and worth
less matter in the journal
Not one bit of matter can be
shown that was not brought before
the senate, and which the public
should not have access to in the print
ed record of the senate proceedings.
The members of the senate them
selvs insist on a great deal of mat
ter going in that does not seem of
much value, yet it makes clear their
own attitude on legislation and other
matters The senators on the other
islands, who have not access to the
original records in the archives, par
tieularly like for the journal to be a
full record of senate proceedings. |
weeded out good deal myself. But
what goes into the journal is not
much within my discretion There
was a large amount of matter dur
ing the recent session that had to be