The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-23
THE LEGISLATURE.
One Hundred and Twenty Ninth
Day.
TUESDAY, Nov. -.

TUESDAY, Nov. %.
The House met at 10 A. NJ.
Under suspension of rules, the Min
lister of the Interior presented petit
ton from the Inspectors of Election OF
the LIST Precinct of the 8th District,
that they be reimbursed for expenses
of an action in which they were prose-
cuted, by Supreme Court having dis
missed the same. Referred to Finance
Committee.
Also a resolution that the Finance
Committee be authorized to visit
offices of Board of Health and destroy
certain bills as requested on PIP. 10
and Il of the Boards report. Adopted.
At 10 20 the House proceeded to the
ORDER OF TIE DAY.
Unfinished business, constitutional
amendments, deferred till ii A. NJ, the
House not being full.
Second reading of Bill 1874, the Act
relating to treason; deferred on ac-
count OF absence of introducer and
members of Judiciary Committee.
Second reading of Bill l27, relating
to Board of Health.
The principal change in the present
law is the provision that the Minister
of the Interior shall be President of
the Board.
A motion to pass Section was lost.
Rep. KamauOha moved reference to
select committee.
Rep. Wilder moved the bill be in
definitely postponed.
~ 4 -. Lot
mittee.
Third reading of Bill 19l, concerning
road supervisors. Passed.
Third reading of Bill 65A, providing
for the issue of licenses for the sale of
light wine and beer.
The bill was read.
Rep. Pua moved to add Il provision
that no licenses should be granted in
the country within two miles of any
other saloon.
Rep. White supported that amend
ment.
Rep. Ashford was opposed to the
amendment. 1t would take the pith
out of the bill. No one, for instance,
would establish a saloon two miles
from Lahaina. 1t was nonsense to
talk about "vested interests" No one
could have a vested interest to sell
!
and if the gin selling places could all
be suppressed it would be doing God
service. He would amend the bill by
striking out the provision that no
license should be issued within one
mile of the bell tower. Any hardship
to sellers of ardent spirits through the
establishment of these new places
need not last long. They need not
take out any more licenses. The
House was not here to legiSlate money
into the pockets of the gin vendors
but to promote temperance, and il
was because he believed this bill to bt
beneficial to the cause of temperance
that he should support it.
Nnle Young had not opposed the
bill before because he wished to hear
n full discussion of it. He had moi
voted for any section of it, but haC
supported amendments which he be
lieved would lessen its evils. Those
who were familiar with the fact:
knew that it was the women who
were chiefly interested in this matter
Before the License law was passed ht
did not have a single drunken Hawai-
ian in his employ. After it was
passed he did not have n single sober
one. Those who did not wish to des
troy the Hawaiians should oppose
every measure OF this kind. This bill
would not lessen the consumption o
distilled liquor. 1t would educate
drunkards. If gentlemen had an!
consideration for the Hawaiian race
they would vote against this bill
which promised no good to anyone
He would move its indefinite post
ponement, and he hoped every MAJ
would vote for it. Among the Ha
waiians in his employ the drinking
habit had grown so strongly that h
had to keep part of their wages bac
and paw it to their wives. They &C
ssticlT' at the saloons during tn
week, paid up Saturday night an
usually left all their money there
going home with empty pockets
hungry families.
Rep. Smith said the greatest argI
ment for the bill was that it woul
tend to prevent drunkenness and i'll
cit selling. He believed it would q
neither. He had informed himself ;
to the effect of a license in kolo
where there had been one for tW
wears. 1t had produced great de
more drunkenness than there Ina
been before or since. The salool
keeper had sold to those who SO
illicitly, and there was more OF u
latter than before. AS far rs ne coli
ascertain, there was no planter WI
wished a licensed place establish'
near his plantation. The bill W
misnamed-21 per cent. alcohol d
not make n light wine. In German
the beer contained from 4 to I.
cent. That was a genuinely Zig
drink. You could drink several lar
schooners and not feel it.
Noble Marsden said Noble You
might know something about
foundry, but he evidently kne
nothing about what was gong on
the country. Every store sold
Chinese peddled it on the plantation
Every night one saw people fight
in Their houses. Monday the M
We're not fit to go to work. The SIT
alton could not possibly be any wor
He would move the previous questl'
Lost.
At I1:55 the House took recess.