The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-05-12


ever there shall he found to exist
any radical and irreconcilable differ
ence between the English and Ha-
waiian version of any of the laws of
the Kingdom, which have been, or
may hereafter be enacted, the Eng
lish version shall be held binding"
Rep. Aholo moved the bill pass to
engrossment. Carried, 16 to Ia.
The same member moved the bill
be read third time on Thursday.
Rep. Castle moved in amendment
ii be read a third time Jan. /, 1887.
Tue amendment was lost and the
motion carried.
Act TO amend secs. | and =, chap.
23, laws of 1874, authorizing the
granting of licenses to owners of
sugar mills to dstill spirituous
liquors.
Rep. Aholo moved the bill be
postponed to be considered with
other bills on the same subject.
Carried.
Act to provide for the issuance of
copyrights.
Rep. Castle reminded the house
that this bill was in the hands of a
select committee, that had not yet
reported. Consequently the bill was
passed over by the house.
Act to amend secs. Is and %,
chap. A, laws of 1882, relating to
the regulation of the sale of spirit
uous liquors. The amendment recites
that the sale of liquor shall be regu-
lated as to time, manner and place.
Ii provides as penalty for first
offence Of unlawful liquor selling, a
fine not exceeding $50; for second
fine not exceeding 5000; for a
third, forfeiture of license, with q
fine not exceeding $500, or imprison-
ment not exceeding six months
or fine and Imprisonment both. In
case of destruction of premises for
which license is granted, the. Minister
of Interior is authorized to renew the
license for other premises. No per-
son other than the one licensed, or
persons employed by him for the pur-
pose, may sell liquor on licensed
premises under penalty not exceed
ing 5000 for the first offense nor
$1,000 for the second, or imprison-
ment not to exceed one year, or
both fine and Imprisonment.
I Rep. Kaunamano moved the bill
pass to engrOssment.
Rep. Dole moved to refer the bill
to n special committee. SO far as
he could remember sec. Is was an
extension of the privileges to the
traffic in places outside of Homo
lulu. At present the dealer in
those places could not sell except
by the glass to be drunk on the
premises. This amendment repeals
that section entirely, and if there
was any value in limiting the sale of
liquor the country loses that value
altogether. The law restricts the
selling, as to minors, drunkards, OF
off the premises. Sec. 19 diminishes
the penalty to violators. At pre-
sent the law may be too hard-not
less than fine of 500. This
amendment allows a violator to he
punished by fine offive cents. 1t
would reduce the penalty to mere
nominal figure. For second
offense, under the old statute, a
man may be imprisoned for not less
than three months. This law. which
is very good-too good-to law
breakers, allows man to be pun
ished for a second offense by one
hour, or even a quarter of an hours
Imprisonment. AT present the pri-
vilege of selling liquor exists-that
point was not under discussion just
now-but existing it was the more
important that checks should be pro-
vided against abuses. If it was
right for them to grant this privilege
they should so limit it, as the sale
of giant powder is limited, that its
injurious character might be re-
duced to the minimum. He saw no
reason, after observing the effects
of granting licenses on the islands,
for removing restrictions. There
are n number of statutes which refer
to the sale or use of liquor, and to
the distillation thereof, and he be-
lieved it would be better for those
laws to be considered in connection
with each other. He was opposed
to the hasty passage of this law,
which takes the backbone right out
of our restrictive measures.
The amendment carried, and the
President appointed the following
select committee on the bill: Reps.
Dole, Aholo, Kauhane, Richardson
and Minister Neumann.
At 1925, on motion of Noble
Cleghorn, the house adjourned till
10 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
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