The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-05
The Home Rulers Elect Hooking as
Chairman But Fail to
Lower Bonds.
iaukea May Give Bond of $l50,0O0 With Prince
David, August Dreier ct aI as Sureties---Vida,
Brown, Frazee and Johnson Elected.

The Board of Supervisors for Oahl
County was formally organized yester
day. A. Hooking was elected chair
man with three Home Rule votes, bu
voted with the Republicans on all mat
ters considered at the meeting.
Charles Wilson, Jas. HI. Boyd and
Charlie Clark were turned down fol
road supervisor, and H. c. Vida elect
ed after the voicing of a protest by
the Home Rulers against a legislator
holding office.
The bond of Curtis Iaukea was fixed
at $50. 600. the bond of $50, 900 rendered
by him being refused. Iaukea, it is
stated by his friends. will furnish the
larger bond. although he still claims
that the action of the supervisors is
Illegal. August DEaier. Prince David
Kawananakoa and Mrs. Abigail Camp
bell Parker are the sureties on the
$50 900 bond, and will, it is stated, sign
e-the larger bond.
All the former heads Of bureaus,
Samuel Johnson. Garbage Department,
Andrew Brown, Waterworks and w.
L. Frazee. electric lighting, were re-
elected by the board, while there is
some question as to the authority of
the board in relation to the fire de-
partment.
The afternoon session of the super
visors was exceedingly lively in the
discussion of bonds. the Home Rulers
being anxious at the outset to place
Treasurer Damon's at $4,000, the mini
mum; in order to have a precedent up
on which to establish Iaukea's bond
The election of Hooking as chairman
was the surprise of the morning ses-
sion, Hocking's friends claiming, how
ever, that it was simply an expression
of the preference by the Home Rulers
of him over Gilman.
At today's session the question of
fire department, and other appoint
ments will be considered. The inter-
prefer question is also likely to cause
trouble, as some of the members claim
it to be unnecessary waste of time and
money to translate proceedings of the
board, when the native members un-
derstand English so well.
THE MORNING SESSION.
1t was fully an hour and a quarter
after the scheduled time before the
board finally convened. The first de-
lay was caused by the absence of Su-
pervisor Kealoha, who was belated IN
sgetting over from the other side of
she island. He arrived about eleven
o. clock and then it was discovered that
the bond of Supervisor Hooking had
not been delivered and he was COM
PEELED to go and get it. Finally at
11:2o o'clock j. y. Gilman called the
board together as temporary chairman,
all members then being present, to-
gether with District Attorney Raw
1ins. County Clerk Murray, Assessor
Iaukea and Geo. P. Thielen who was
acting as assistant clerk.
According to the county act the
Board of Supervisors must meet today,
for the first time, legally and official
ly," said Mr.. Gilman. The clerk has |
the bonds of the various supervisors
and declares them all in order. As
chairman, now declare the |
Board of Supervisors of Oahu County |
to be in session"
Clerk Murray then called the roll. |
each of the seven supervisors answer |
ing to their names. Mr.. Gilman then |
declared the first business in order to |
be the election of a permanent chair
man.
Mr.. Robinson placed In nomination
the name OF ]. A. Gilman.
Supervisor Mahoe here asked that a
interpreter be appointed, so
he could thoroughly understand the
of the board. His re-
marks were interpreted by Supervisor
Lucas. Mr.. Gilman asked If he /
thought this necessary, before the cleo
ton of a chairman, 30 which Mahoe
'eplied that some vital questions might
arise which he would not be able to
Also he said he could
not properly express himself in the
English language. and thought 1t would
De better If the interpreter was ap-
'ointed at once. He also said that he