The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-29
LIQUOR SCANDAL
ON BIG ISLAND
Continued from Page One.)

recent grand jury session Of the Third
Circuit, which met at Kailua. The
greatest trouble he stated was that the
police could not, or would not, 40 rneir
duties and assist in the prosecution
of the blind pigs. In several cases
Deputy Attorney General Whitney,
who was in charge of the grand jury
work, was compelled to nolle PROSE-
gases in which he had himself obtained
the indictments. This had to be done
because the police did not serve the
subpOenas which were given them and
the witnesses could not be found.
Hemenway stated that the members
of the grand jury had complained
about the matter and asked that it be
taken up again at the next term and
fought out again. He said that he
realized that the condition in this re-
gard was such as to need special con-
sideration and that 1t would be taken
up and pressed as strongly as possible.
L. l.. Harding and jeremiah w.
Doyle, of the office of Collector of In
ternal Revenue Drake, are due to re-
turn from Hawaii tomorrow morning
after stay of about six weeks during
which they nave been collecting taxes
for the Federal Government from the
liquor dealers on the island. They
have been able to collect sum run
ming well over $4,000 during their stay
almost every cent of which has come
from liquor dealers who have not paid
a cent into the Territorial Treasury.
The highest tax which they could coll
lect, that of wholesale dealer, is 800,
to which would be added a penalty of
90 per cent, making a total of $3.50. If
every tax collected was of this amount,
instead of being smaller and many of
them are under $50, it would mean that
there were sixty liquor dealers on Ha-
wall who paid the Federal tax, but who
did not find it necessary to pay a Ter
ritorial license.
1t can be judged from this that there
Hawaii, who disregard the Territorial
statutes and who have evidently been
winked at by the officers of the law,
even if no more serious condition
exists. The total amount of fees col
lected by the Territory in the County
of Hawaii for the current year, ending
July 1, amounted to only $16,092 SO,
while in the Federal case, where the
taxes are much lower than those Of
the local government, nearly as much
has been collected. The county re-
ceives one-half the money obtained
from this source, so it can be seen
that the monetary difficulties of the
County of Hawaii might be much
lightened if the liquor law were en-
forced.
Attorney General Hemenway states
that Sam X. Kauhane, the liquor ms
pector on Hawaii, seems to be a good
man, but that he can get absolutely no
support from the police and in addition
to this has a pretty hard task, on ac-
count of the great amount of territory
which he has to cover. While the At
torney-Generars department has little
money with which to complete its work
up to the meeting of the next Legis-
lature, Hemenway states that if ne
finds it necessary to do his own police
work there, on account of the lack of
assistance from the local police, he
will see that it is done. Such a con-
dition would probably go further and
result in the bringing of some of the
deputy sheriffs on the island before
the grand jury on charges Of negligence
and malfeasance in office.
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