The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-12-21
THE LEGISLATURE.
152ND DAY.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. q, 1892.
Morning Session.
Morning Session.

md approved.
President Walker displayed a
highly artistically engrossed docu-
nent and which he stated had been
placed on his desk yesterday. The
of the document was to ex-
end an invitation to the officers and
of the Assembly to be pre-
sent at the Jubilee services at Ka-
Church on Nov. 2S, 1893,
and was signed by Messrs. E. X.
Lilikalani and d. Naone, as a COM
mittee of invitation. The document
was dated Nov. oath and had taken
until Dec. Goth to reach its destina-
ton.
In consonance with the rules, Bill |
175, the vetoed bill, relating to the
the hours of labor of GER
tain Government employees, was on
motion laid upon the table.
The Order of the Day being moved
and unfinished business coming up,
consideration of Section 8 of the
Bill to regulate the importation and
sale of opium was resumed.
Section 8. Opium imported to
be placed in bond. Passed
Section TO- Collector-General and
several Collectors at their respective
ports to place stamps on half ID.
Is taeD boxes Sl50, and on more
than 80 ID. and not more than | ID.
So, each additional" 2 Id. an add
tional stamp of S1.50. Passed.
Section IL. Any Customs officer
or person entrusted with the duty of
atfiXing stamps to boxes who fails
to do so to be punished. Passed.
Section II. Counterfeiting of
stamps to be punished. Passed.
Section l3. Forgery of name of
any officer of the Government to
stamps, to be punished. Passed.
Section IA. Any duplicate use of
stamps or containers to be punished.
Section Is. Regarding licenses.
Provides for 9 licenses on the Island
of Oahu, at gross price of S25 800;
Kauai, 3 licenses, $500; Maui, Molo-
kai and Lanai, 6 licenses, $4,000;
Hawaii, s licenses, SlS,O00-a gross
total of $4,000.
Rep. Ashford said that the idea of
several licenses had been very care
fully considered. He did not think
that one license issued in Honolulu
would supply the demand for all the
islands. Wherever opium is sold
under this law it must be in a regu-
larly licensed place. 1t makes no
difference where the opium enters so
long as it passes through the Gus
tom House. He did not believe that
it was right to license crime to OBJ
tain a revenue out of it, but as the
voice of the majority was that some
thing might be accomplished toward
curbing this vice by licensing and
incidentally getting revenue there
from, he believed it sound to try the
experiment. AS far as one license
was concerned he did not favor that
proposition; he believed that bet
ter result would be obtained by
dividing the licenses up as proposed
in the amended section. 1t was i'm
possible to regulate the traffic out
side of Honolulu.
Noble Peterson said that in all
probability not one-half of the
licenses proposed would be taken
up. He instanced Waianae, and that
license at $1,000 would not be bought
All experience has shown, besides
that all of the best licenses, the
plums, would be bought up by one
ring. He considered that the object
sought could be better accomplished
if licenses were issued for each
island and not sub-divided into dis
tricts.
Rep. Kaunamano favored the offer
ing of licenses in each district. L
there was only central license
then there would be lot of vendors
of the drug all over the islands whC
would claim that they were agent
, of the chief licensee. He related a
instance of the kind that happened
in his district (Hamakua) under tn
! old license, where man pretende'
he was an agent, but on inquiry
was found that he was not and ha
over 400 unstamped tins of opium i
! his possession. The opium wa
.. seized by the deputy sheriff ther
and he sold it and pocketed tn
! money. One license would simpl
: fill the country with tramp vendor
!, of opium just like the gypsy peddlel
! of jewelry at present.
! Rep. r.. w. Wilcox favored til
: amendment as presented in the bill
The advocacy of one license, simpl
is only intended to benefit one Sc
If there is but one license in Hon
n lulu then the Cabinet might !
9 bribed. He did not say the presel
+ Cabinet but nobody could tell no
- long this Cabinet would stay in.
n was well known that even now the
! was every effort being made
u undermine this Cabinet, Those wi
~ are at all posted know that ii
n opium ring desire much to have OF
>, of their number in the Cabint
During the last two days he h;
been shown lists or states of ne
Cabinets, and on each of those W
Ii the name of man who is engage
di in opium smuggling and who
eer known to be the friend of opiu
ii smugglers. The question before
o is to have one license or several;
hoped that the question would
settled quickly, as he desired to ha
or the work ended by New Years, Th
IN could be accomplished, he thougI
err were it not for the action of tho
whose interests are with the Opt
rings and are endeayoring to obti