The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-27

The Board of License Commission
ers held a harmony meeting yesterday
afternoon, and as result no ONT
would have guessed from the proceed
ings at the public meeting in the even
ing, no one would have imagined thai
there had ever been the bolt of the mi
nority of the evening before.
At the harmony meeting 1t was
agreed that the protest of Commits
=sieners Lucas and Long, which Chair
man Balientyne had refused Lucas the
,privilege of reading Tuesday night, be
spread upon the minutes and made q
part of the record.
Attorney General Peters was called
in to give official advice. He urged
that under the law this Commission
must act by the vote of the majority
'.The majority must lrule, right or
wrong" said Peters. To this Lucas
strongly objected. But on the whole
there was a restoration of harmony
which, as far as appearances in the
evening went, was of the twentyfour
carat kind.
There was an air of expectancy when
the Commission met last evening. There
was a considerably larger gathering
than there was the evening before, the
reports OF the excitement of that meet
ing evidently proving a magnet. Dur
ing the evening a large delegation OF
both men and women from the Chris
1ian church came in. Their presence
was due, no doubt, to the fact that
the church has made protest against
the issuance to P. F. Ryan of a saloon
license for the occidental Bar" ON
-Alakea street, and this protest was set
for hearing at O'Clock.
The ease set for hearing was that of
the application of the proprietors of
the W1gwam saloon, South and Queen
streets, seventy-f1ve feet from the Ka
kaako Mission. against which p w.
Ryder, the superintendent of the Mis-
sion, has filed a protest. The case was
taken up without any ceremony.
Judge Perry representing Rosa and
his partners in the Wigwam saloon
filed a written protest in substance
what he had said orally the night be-
fore. He did not ask that time be
taken in which to read it.
The protest is as follows:
t'The applicants herein hereby pro-
test against the ruling made by the
Board June 25, 1907, and reiterated
June 20, 1907. in this matter, prescrib-
ing the order of procedure to be fol-
lowed IN this case and denying to these
applicants the right to cross examine
such witnesses as may be produced
against them by those opposing the |
granting of their application, on the
ground that such ruling constitutes a +
denial of the legal right of these ap- /
plicants TO hearing herein, and on
the further ground that such proce-
lure so prescribed will constitute an
unreasonable and unauthorized obsta
3le to the ascertainment and presen-
tatfon of the truth on the questions of
act at issue herein.
And under such protest these appli-
ANTS will now proceed to present their
ase to the best of their ability under
he restrictions so imposed by the
Board
A o. ROSA, +
J. G. PEREGLIO,
J. c. CORREIA.
Judge Perry then asked for a ruling
s to whether the rule of procedure as
0 the order of evidence announced by
he Board applied to this case or not.
hartman Ballentyne replied that it
id, that it applied to all cases. Judge
erry excepted to this. Then he ask {
d, merely to preserve his right, he |
aid, that Mr.. Ryder be required to
roduce his evidence in support OF his I
rotest, first. Judge Perry main tanning 5
aat this was the proper procedure. a
his was overruied and Judge Perry f
h
IF you waive your opening Mr.. Ry-
er viii present his testimony first, a
lid Chairman BaI1an9yne. r
we waive nc rights" replied Per- G
. I'VE simply point out what we be-
eve is the proper procedure "
Joe Ouintal was the first witness
lied He said he had worked for the q
onolulu Iron Works for seven years. e.
the past several months he had Wis =
ed the saloon on an average three or Il
ur times a week for several months.
e had never seen liquor sold to MIN :,
s, women or drunken men. He had =
en- minors refused drinks and told -
go out. Drunken men had on sew -
al occasions to his knowledge been =
fused drinks and told to go out. He