The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-18
AFTERNOON SESSION.

AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House re-assembled at :45 PM.
Continuation of consideration of
Bill 65a light wine and beer).
The motion to indefinitely postpone
the bill was lost upon the following
division:
Ayes Minister Jones; Mobiles Ka-
uhane, J. NJ. Horner, Baldwin, w. Y.
Horner; Reps. Wilder, Kanealii,
Edmonds, Iosepa, Smith-1O.
Noes - Ministers G. n. Wilcox,
Robinson; Mobiles Berger, Ena, d. w.
Pua, Williams, Male, Hind, Hoapili,
Marsden, Young, Walbridge, Ander-
son, Thurston, Kanoa; Reps. Ash
ford, Ak, R. W. Wilcox, Koahou,
Kaunamano, Kamauoha, Waipui-
lani, Nahinu, Kaluna-24.
Absent - Minister Brown; Mobiles
Reps. Bipikane, S. X. Pua, Kauhi,
Bush, A. Horner, Kapahu, White,
Akina, A. S. Wilcox.
refer the bill to the next session of
the Legislature. The present House
was competent to deal with the ques-
ton. He yielded to no one in his
consciousness of the evils of the liquor
traffic, but conditions must be dealt
with as they are, not as we wish they
might be. Prohibition was unat-
tainable, and he believed with Noble
Marsden that the general introduce
ton of the use of light beverages in
stead of spirits would diminish drunk
enness and the crimes resulting from
it. He did not believe that Rep.
Smiths amendment would have
much practical effect but was strong
believer in the right of women to ex-
press their moral sentiment on the
subject, and when a majority of them
signed such petition it should pre-
vail.
Noble Baldwin was opposed to the
| bill. 1t was well drawn and had good
restrictions, but he did not believe
they would be carried out. The in
PRODUCER was sincere in his friendship
to temperance and spent more money
at Hebron & Newman's than he did
in the saloons. The speaker was OPP
posed to saloons. Drinking was not
intrinsically wrong, but drinking for
revelry and debauchery harms itself
and others. The member from Wal
luku was correct in describing these
saloons as primary school for drink.
Minors would drink. The saloon was
an alluring place where people learned
to love liquor. The bill was not light
wine and beer bill. 1t licensed the
sale of wine of 81 per cent. strength,
which was heavy wine. One might
as well drink whiskey. The bill
would not be carried out with the
police force that we have. They would
sell hard liquors. 1t would be easier
to sell illicitly than before.
The motion to refer to the session OF
| 1894 was lost.
Rep. Smiths amendment was lost
on the following division:
Ayes-Ministers G. n. Wilcox and
Jones; Mobiles Kauhane, J. M. Horner
Hoapili, Young, Baldwin, w. Y. Hor
ner, Thurston and Kanoa; Reps. Viii.
der, Ashford, 1lanealii, Kaluna, 10
sepa, Akina, Smith and A. S. Wilcox
is.
Westminster Robinson; Mobiles
Berger, Ena, Hopkins, Pua, Peterson
Cummins, Williams, Male, Hind
Marsden, Walbridge and Anderson
Reps. Bipikane, Aki, Pua, Kauhi, r
w. Wilcox, Koahou, Kaunamano
KamauOha, Waipuilani, Nahum anC
Edmonds-24.
Absent - Minister Brown; Noble
Dreier; Reps. Bush, a. Horner Ka
pahu and White.
SECTION 8. Each of such certifying
officers shall be entitled to demand anC
receive the sum OF five dollars from sucI
applicant for each such certificate, an(
any person who shall falsely certify such
petition to contain the names of a ma
g IL,
who shall without the consent of any
such voter sign the name of any sucI
votes to such petition, shall, upon con
viction thereof before any district magis
trate, be liable to fine of not less thar
one hundred nor more than FIVE hun
dred dollars for each such offense.
Rep. Smith offered an amendment
providing penalty for the forging O
names.
Rep. Ashford offered the same
amendment with different wording
which Rep. Smith accepted.
The section passed as amended.
SEC. f. Before the granting of Ii
cense under this Act the licensee shall
pay to the Minister OF the Interior the
amount of the license fee, and shall file
with such Minister bond in the sum o
five hundred dollars $4,000 conditioned
to faithfully carry out and abide by the
terms and conditions of law and of the
licenee, with not less than one sufficient
surety to be approved by said Minister
No person holding a financial interest in
any license for the sale of wines, beer:
or liquors shall be received as surety on
such bond.
Passed with an amendment.
SEC. 5. The license by this Act au
thorized shall be issued only to the per,
son or persons who are to be in the act.
ual management and control of the
business carried on hereunder, and who
are also the actual owners thereof; and
shall not be issued to any person holding
a wholesale, jobbing or retail license fol-
the sale of spirituous liquors. The Ii.
cense shall authorize the licensee to sell
and dispose of the beverages by this Act
allowed, by the glass, to be drunk on