Honolulu star-bulletin., 1916-03-25

| The Bulletins information Is
that an attache Of one of the terrific
rial departments under instructions
took the copy for the Whitener re
port TO a local printing Office TO be
printed. that the report was printed
and the copies delivered at the Capi
tol, and that the bill was charged TO
the territory on open account, not
against any particular department
The bill is said to be stin unpaid.
| II such is the case, the report 70
the war department was printed by
authority Of some territorial official.
clark's Affidavit.
Clark is now clerk of the federal
court but up to a few days ago was
| secretary to Governor Pinkham. His
| affidavit, dated March IS, is as fol-
! lows
City and County Of Honolulu, }
Territory of Hawaii
|. George r. Clark. IS years of age,
and a citizen of the United States re-
| siding in the City and County Of HO-
nolulu, Territory Of Hawaii, state as
| follows:
am a married man residing at Mo
analua in said city and county. am
the clerk Of the United States district
court of the Territory of Hawaii, hav
ing been appointed to that position
on March Is, 1916. Prior to such ap-
pointment and from October II. 1912,
up to and including March IA, 1916.
was secretary to the governor Of the
Territory of Hawaii, first serving in
that capacity under Hon. Walter F.
Frear, and being continued in office
by the present governor, Hon. l.. E.
Pinkham, until resigned said office
on March IA, 1915, in order to accept
and enter on the duties of my present
position. In politics l am Republ-
can, although have never taken any
active part in politics.
enlisted in the National Guard of
Hawaii in June of 1913, and I am now
a member Of the guard.
have read the report of First Lieu
tenant William c. Whitener, U. S. In
fantry, nspector-instructor of the Ma
tiOnal Guard Of Hawaii, made under
date of November II, 1915, to the
chief of the division of militia affairs.
and know the contents thereof.
Lieutenant Whitener was frequent
caller on Governor Pinkham on mat
ters appertaining to the National
Guard; and on one occasion brought
me his, said Lieutenant Whitener's
report above referred to, and stated
that Governor Pinkham had instructed
him to bring the report to me that ]
would copy it for MIN. He further
stated that he was anxious to have it
completed in order that it could be for
warded to Washington in the next out
going mail, and worked until II
O'Clock that night in order to COM
plete the work, making one original
and four typewriter carbon copies |
of the report. The next morning |
Lieutenant Whitener came and took |
away all of the copie, of said report |
with the exception of one carbon copy
which he requested me to hand to
Governor Pinkham. When Governor |
Pinkham came in l gave him the car |
bon copy of the report as requested
by Lieutenant Whitener, and at that |
time | asked Governor Pinkham if he |
had requested Lieutenant Whitener to |
bring the report to me to be copied |
Governor Pinkham stated that he had |
told Lieutenant Whitener to bring the |
report to me that would copy it for |
him.
Later on Governor Pinkham stated
TO me that the report was too long.
that it should have been briefer and
that he wanted to have it printed.
From the time of my enlistment in
the National Guard in June of 1913 as |
aforesaid and up to the time of the re-
tirement of the former adjutant-gen- |
eral on or about August 13. 1915, |
was i'm a position to know whether or |
not there was any politics in the Ma |
tionaI Guard, and / know that there |
was not, and the statements OF said |
Whitener in said report |
that there was politics in the guard |
during any of the time of my mem |
bership in the guard, are deliberately |
false.
GEORGE R. CLARK
Subscribed and sworn to before me |
this 18th day of March 1918.
]. NJ. CAMARA,
(SeaD Notary Public.
First Judicial Circuit, Territory of Ha.
waii
Yesterday Delegate Kuhio wrote
the governor asking for a direct state
ment on the National Guard matter.
The princes letter reads:
"At first indirectly and now direct.
y as delegate to congress, the report
Of 1st Lieut.. w. c. Whitener, u S
Infantry, nspector-instructor of the
National Guard of Hawaii, made to
he chief of the division of militia
Affairs, under date of Nov. IL, 1915,
las come to my attention. In that re.
port certain criticism is made of the
or people of the Hawaiian
ace as to "a their efficiency as Off
sers and enlisted men of the guard
md t2) their participation in politics.
"As delegate to congress | repre-.
'ent as between the territorial govern
nent and the national government, the
people of Hawaii. And of them. as
1ou we'll know, the majority are of the
same race as myself; to wit, Hawai-
an. And as such delegate and as a
Of that race am vitality in
crested in the report of Lieut.. Whites.