The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-09

the rules, Senator's were addressing the
chair without saying "Mr. President"
It was an awful moment, but nothing
could touch the feelings OF Mr.. Presi-
dent" who was exhausted in using his
gavel.
Peace reigned at last and DR.. Russell
delivered his minority report, which
reads as follows:
Honorable s. E. Kaiue. President of the
Senate.
Sir: The minority of your Committee
on Intoxicants, to which was referred
Senate bill No. AZ, entitled, 'An Act to
Control and Regulate the Manufacture,
Transportation and Sale of Liquors.
Opium, Ava and Other Intoxicants
Within the Territory of Hawaii" begs
leave to submit the following report:
! That the liquor question in its various
aspects, under various systems, condi-
tions and in various countries has been
the object of my lifelong studies, and
Senate bill No. AZ, now before the Sem
ate, was drafted by myself and is the
result of those studies. Since the bill
was printed and published, a number of
objections to its passage have appeared,
beth in the report of the majority of
your committee and in the press.
/ While the largest part of the objec-
tons of the majority constitutes but
haphazard assertions devoid of any
foundation and may be passed over
without notice, there are some, due to
ignorance OF the subject or misunder-
standing, that are worth refuting.
1 begin with the objections coming
from the business quarters, and espe-
cially from the capitalists, who have in
vested their capital in the liquor trade.
and challenge the majority of your com.
mfttee to show where and how the pro-
visions OF the bill in any manner tres
pass upon vested rights. There is not a
trace of such infringement, since: 1st,
All licenses issued until the passage of
the bill are allowed to run their natural
term. I'd. All stocks of liquors, that
are not injurious to the public health,
and which remain on hand after the ex-
piration of the license, are taken over
oy the Territory at cost price. AS for
, those liquors that on account of inju-
rlous and poisonous ingredients, will
nave to be exported, the Territory can
not admit their sale here under any
conditions, If the Board of Health is do
ing Its duty. Were not certain brands OF
beer condemned and the right to sell
: refused by the Board of Health not
| long ago on account OF the adulteration
with salicylic acid? Not only in law
but In equity, there is no infraction
Whatever; just the reverse. While shut
: Clhg on relatively small private invest
ment in the liquor trade, bill No. 4:
opens wide field for the production OF
= liquors. Viticulture, brewing, distllina
5 and a large number of new industries
g depending upon cheap alcohol such as
manufacture of varnishes, extracts. per,
q fumery and fruit preserving which woult
, furnish employment to the people.
At present Germany controls the alco
mol market and nine-tenths Of the alco
mol manufactured is used IN the above
: named new industries and exported II
e the shape of new goods. Why could no
: we follow their example? II alcohol il
manufactured in the country, that doe
{, not mean, by far, that 1t is consumed q
; a beverage.
In every branch of business there ar
It three forms of profit: First, profit o
n production; second, profit of wholesal
r trade; third, profit of retail trade.
s Under present conditions, foreign cap
i ltai has been the only beneficiary of tn
s hrst two profits. The profits of produc
ton and those of wholesale trade hav
been complete annual loss to the coun
;, try, depicting our wealth annually b,
no small amount.
: Under this Act No. AZ all these profit