The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-18
LIQUOR DEALERS
READY TO TAKE
ANY LAW NOW
Fear of Two Years Continuance of Present
Condition Has Caused Something Like
aPanic Among Them.

tives that the discretion in the grant
ing of licenses be abolished in toto.
The report provides further that no
license shall be given Ito any person
who has been convicted of a felony, OF
| gambling or of gross cheat or to a
person who knowingly has in his en-
ploy a person who has been so con-
/ victed; nor shall license be issued
for any building or premises within two
hundred feet of a building occupied ex-
clusively as place of religious wor-
: ship or school house. the measure
ments to be made in a straight line
from the center of the nearest entrance e
of the buildings used for such place of
religious worship or school to the CEN
ter OF the nearest entrance of the place
| in which such liquor traffic is desired
to be carried on provided, however,
that this latter prohibition shall not
apply to place which on the 18th day
! of April, 1905. was lawfully occupied as
a hotel nor to a place in which such
traffic in liquors was lawfully carried
on at said date; nor shall any license
be issued to any person against the
written protest of a majority of the
registered voters for the precinct with
in which such person proposes to es-
tablish his business: nor shall a Ii
cense be issued for any premises with
out the written consent of a majority
or the property holders within a dis
tance of 1000 feet meas Ired in a straight
line from the nearest point of the
promises for which the license is ask
ed to the nearest point of each of the
surrounding properties, which consent
shall be acknowledged as are deeds
when entitled to record and filed with
the application: provided, however. that
such consent shall not be required as
to places which on the 18th day of
April 1905, We're lawfully occupied as
a hotel; nor places where on said date
the traffic in liquors was being law
fully carried on. Whenever the con-
sent required by this section shall have
been obtained and filed as herein pro-
vided, unless the same shall be given
for a limited term, no further or other
consent for trafficking in liquor on such
premises shall be required so long as
such premises shall be continuously oc-
cupied for such traffic. Provided, how
ever that no such consent shall be re-
quired for a place within a distance
of one-half mile from any first-class
or second-class postoffice> in this Terri
tory"
The committe made a number of
other changes in the bill but it was un-
derstood when the measure passed the
House that the Governor was willing
to stand for it as compromise measure.
could stand for the bill as it
came from the Senate. In fact if there
was not a deliberate attempt to kill
the bill with vileness, it looks very /
much as though somebody had reached
for much and fallen down in the reach q.
ing. The Liquor Dealers Association
has disclaimed responsibility for this
state of affairs. The liquor bill, in fact,
as it passed, searches now in vain for |
A father. But it probably will need |
none. after today. The veto will kill |
L. for it is cinch that the House will |
sustain the Governor. A number of the
members have said so, among them sew
,ral who voted the passage of the bill
md the acceptance of the Senate
amendments.