The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-03-04

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scIl liquor after hours sundays aud
election day bt simply hiring c0ok
aud running % restaurant on the same
promlses The Commissioner OF Uanl
have practically decided that the pre-
sent law ava not allow liquor to he
sold by restaurants except AZ aud with
meals
lO Pending nn appeal the ban all
lows the applicant to go ahead operat-
ing his saloon until the appeal is de-
cided This would render the whole
matter a farce. lie would only be out
his lawyers Tee In case the appeal
went against him. as the case could
be prolonged by continuances, etc, as
above stated
ca The Republican party platform
declared for the course that the pre-
sent liquor law should not be amend
ed at this session A majority of both
houses were elected under that plat
form.
go The bill if it becomes a law viii
greatly increase saloons and drunk
enness and consequently misery and
distress of women and children.
90 The law as framed drops out
the only local option feature of the
present law and is a step backward.
Forty out Of forty-six states have now
local option laws or prohibition. TO
eliminate this feature is a direct at
tack on the rights of the majority.
C10) The proposed law makes all
meetings of the board public This
is hard on applicants whose characters
are in question Privacy in consuta-
ton is often desirable.
(1D Under the law as proposed no
saloon can be suspended, no matter
how much it disregard the law. An
appeal lies from suspension also and
under it justice can be defeated and
the saloon go right on
Respectfully submitted,
..s c. H. DICKEY. Chairman,
oi DoREMUS SCUDDER,
w. r. CASTLE,
Committee on Legislation Civic Fed
w. Grafton.
iar POI PICTURES.
Coelho presented the following re-
port of select committees:
Your select committee to whom
was referred House concurrent reso-
luton No. 10 relating to the BONNIE
Poi Eeating Films beg leave to re-
| port that we have met Mr.. BONNIE and
he informed us that he had already
caused the Objectionable film to be dis
carded and destroyed, which he did
| at the time he received the first init
nation of any one being hurt by its
exhibition and before the resolution
was received in the Senate. Mr.. Bon
| inc expressed his sincere regret for
| being the cause of innocently Great
ing such adverse feeling to what he
had regarded as a means of illustrat-
ing in some graphic manner and with
a humorous tend, a scene which
might depict old time custom which
lis almost a thing of the past.
"Your committee feel that the ac.
,tion of the House was justfiable in
promptly expressing their feeling as
to what they seemed very objection,
able: but. as the same is now beyond
any future use, the committee there.
fore recommend the SAID concurrent
resolution of the House be tabled.
Wv. J. COELHO,
IS. e. KALAMA,
PALMER P. WOODS"
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Senate bill to provide for service Of
process. on corporations passed thirC
reading.
House bill relating to inheritances
from illegitimate persons came up fol
third reading.
Moore asked how proof could bC
made that an illegitimate person haC
brothers and sisters.
President Smith explained the pos
sibility in question, adding that the
chairman of the Judiciary Committed
had fully explained the bill on seconC
reading.