The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-22
LIQUOR MEN S
PROPOSED
BILL
Dealers Disagree Over
Citizens Clause
and Fee.

Shall the holding of liquor licenses in
the Territory of Hawaii be restricted
to citizens only? That is the question
at issue before the Liquor Dealers AS
sociation, which met in Waverley Hall
yesterday afternoon to discuss the pro-
visions of a new liquor law they will
present to the Legislature Fifty mem
bers of the association were present,
all but two of them being men en-
gagged in the liquor business in Ho-
nolulu. The report of the special COM
mittee, which has been at work Tor
some time drafting a suitable bill and
holding conferences with the commit
tees of the Anti-Saloon League and the
Civic Federation, was presented. ano
all was going along smoothly when
Ambrose Wirtz of Hackfeld & Co. made
a motion to strike out any clause for-
bidding the granting of a license to an
alien. Nobody seconded the MOTION
but it brought the meeting up with a
short turn and forced an adjournment
until thursday Dy WHICH siiHS @1s
matter will be talked over.
The special committee. consisting OF
Colonel Mccarthy, A. Wirtz, H. A.
Juen, w. c. Peacock, z. s. Cunha ana
ID III. Lewis. had prepared both a ma
jority and a minority report, having
them printed for distribution among
the members. The majority report ad-
vocated a bill based upon that present
Il lot ftS
sion and killed during the final stage.
This bill provides for the creation of
licensing boards, appointed by the SUI
pervisors of each county. The condl-
tions for licenses are:
I'D The applicant must be a citizen
of the United States.
CD The fee for a license to sell
within three miles of a first or second
class postoffice shall be $1,000; within
two miles of a third-class postoffice the
fee shall be $500, and in all other Sec
tions $3.50.
go Violations of the liquor law to
be punishable by fine only, the I'M
prisonment penalty to be eliminated.
(D No saloon license to be granted
to any premises where any other busl-
ness is carried on, nor a retail or a
saloon liquor license of any class to any
person or corporation doing a retan
business other than the sale of liquor
in the district in which the license IS
e. ha usea. aAl
(5) The license fee for cafes, where
no bar is used. to be seventy-five per
cent. of the saloon license fee.
(6) For cafes, run in connection with
a saloon, having the privilege of SELL
ing on Sundays and during closed
hours with meals, the fee to be fifty
per cent. of the saloon license fee.
Cd All clubs where liquors ana
meals are served to pay the same H.
cense as any other licensee in the same
district
(s) No license to be granted within
400 feet of any church or schoolhouse.
(9) No intoxicating liquors to be
sold to women, minors Or interdicted
persons. No minors to be allowed 10
Ioiter about saloon. No woman TO De
employed on the premises in whlch
license is to be operated, nor any minor
TO be employed about the premises,
and no women or girls to be allowed
to assemble together on the licensed
premises. LA
night until five o'clock in the morning
and on SuuuaSS' =.
These are the principal provisions In
.ha hill outlined in the majority re-
rort some of the points having been
adonted from suggestions of the Anti
CoIoon League. The main difference
batvaan this measure and the one now
=, oneration is that aliens are put out
-,f the saloon business, women are Tor
hidden saloon privileges, the license
80, Co., all classes are raised and IL
censes are issued by board insteau
of as at present by the Ierrieoriai
Treasurer. a..
In support of their contention 'nat
4be issuance of licenses may iegaAy De
restricted to citizens, the committees
ouote from the Federal statutes 1ran-
.ad for the District of Alaska, Whlcn
forhids the sale of liquors except py
citizens. The contention is rurther
made by members of the commlttee'
,ltbough not embodied In the report
chat a similar provision is in force IN
the District of Columbia and In seven
~ the states of the Union.
THE MINORITY REPORT.
The minority report recommends that
the license fees be on the following
basis. Wholesale liquor licenses, per
annum. $1,000; jobbing licenses, Saoo; re,
tail saloon licenses, $500; retail hotel
and restaurant licenses, $3.50; country
inn licenses. $3.50, and special licenses,
as per day. The country inns speclhed
are 10 be hotels located in districts out
side of a five-mile radius of any post
of;es of the first or seeond-elass, ana
outside of radius of three miles OF d