The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-12
KEALOHA IMPUDENT
TO A COMMITTEE

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HlLO, August 10.-John Kealoha APP
pears to have as many official lives as
u eat, for in spite of the various at
| tempts which have been made to pre-.
vent him from taking part in the
transaction of couiss business, he was
able to grace the meeting of the board
of supervisors for this month with his
smiling presence.
So far Johnnie has undeniably had
distinctly the best of it.
Some of the supervisors themselves
tried to clear their body of his pres.
ence They did so nobly by the intro
duction of a resolution by Henry Ly.
man, asking him to stay away until he
had cleared himself of the numerous
graft charges against him.
| Kauhane moved to adopt the resolu.
tion, Lyman seconding.
Wants No Nonsense.
az have just as much right as any
man living to be here,' said Keal0ha.
81 claim now, as l have always claim
ed, that | am not guilty of the charges
which have been brought against me.
We have two more courts besides the
district court, and the cases must be
heard in these two courts, namely, the
circuit court and the supreme court. |
know | am not guilty, and | am not go.
ing to stand for any of this nonsense, /"
Lyman called attention to the fact
that he had made no charges, nor had
he called for the resignation of Ke.
aloha. He had, asked merely that he
take no part in the transaction of
county business until the charges
against him had been settled in one way
or another.
Kealoha Voted for Himself
IL was decided to call an aye and no
vote, and Lyman called attention to the
fact that under the rules no member Is
allowed to vote on question involving
his official conduct. This came near
| leading to dispute, so Lyman agreed to
waive the point. off Kealoha wants
to vote. let him vote,' he said
Kealoha did want to vote very much
indeed, aud the vote was called as fol-
| lows:
Ayes: Kauhane. Lyman. Yates--3.
Noes: Kanehailua, Kealoha, Ewaliko
3.
Attention was called to the fact that
under the rules the chairman is allowed
to vote only to decide a tie, and that
therefore Ewaliko s vote should not
have been called, but Ewaliko over
rode the rule, and the vote was called
tie So Kealoha remained.
Laughs at Merchants.
Kealoha was also able to give the
laugh to the board of trade 3 attempt
TO prevent him, through impeachment
proceedings, from participating in last
weeks meeting. Prosecutor Breckons
had informed the board of trade that
such proceedings were brought before
the board of supervisors. This was, as
matter of fact, the general impress
sion. Later on he discovered that, ac'
cording to an amendment to the County
Act, such proceedings are heard before
the supreme court. This altered the
| affair considerably.
In the meantime it seems that, II
Breckons did not know the law, Re
aloha did At least, his friends report
that 'Kealoha had told them that If the
board of trade proceedings were
brought before the board of supervis'
ors he would put the kibosh on them
through an iniunetion, which, II APP
pears, he intended bringing on the very
point, which was discovered by breek-
ons lust in the nick of time to save the
business men from humiliation.
Impudent and Defiant.
In the meantime the committee com.
municated with Kealoha. 1t acted
under instructions to the effect that
first it must ask Kealoha for his resig-
a nation, Gas a wag put it; il must Try TO
j ast in, harmon with Mr.. kealoha),
I then, If ~ declined to present his resig-
nation. it must take the steps leading
to his impeachment. So the committee
men asked Kealoha over the phone to
meet it to discuss the resignation ques'
ton.
"Talk to Purdy," was his contempt
uous reply
CITIZEN possibly you can say right
now whether you will resign or mott
suggested the committee.
ait is none of your business re.
piled Kealoha.
Having thus complied with the first
part of the instructions, the commit
3. tee set about performing the second
part. Breckons had promised to pre-
pare the necessary papers by Wednes-
day morning. After that he promised
to have them ready from time TO time,
but although the committee members
called upon him repeatedly in order
that they might 90 TO work aud secure
signatures, they have been, until this
writing, unable to secure any satisfac'
ton from him.