The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-11
REPORT ON THE
NEW LIQUOR ACT
Senate Committee Presents
Views on the Change
Proposed.

The Ways and Means Committee o.
| the Senate has spoken. In its repor
| ON Senate Bill No. %, introduced by
Senator Moore and providing for many
important and revisionary changes il
the existing liquor law, the majority
of the committee, composed of Coelho
important changes, Fairchild dissents
stating that he is pledged as Republi
can representative not to tamper with
the liquor law. The Moore liquor bill
has already been analysed in the col
umns of the Advertiser and the follow
ing is the report of the committee IL
full thereon:
Your committee on Ways and Means
to whom was referred Senate Bill No
%, has had the same under considera,
ton and begs leave to report as follows:
/. Section 4: This amendment is APP
proved except that there be inserted
after the word "refuse' on line of
page /, the words suspend, revoke,
regulate and control;'' and after the
word case in line Z of page /, there
be inserted the words land shall not
be renewable or appealable to any
court or tribunal
2. Section 9: This amendment is APP
proved with the following exceptions
(a) In line % of page 2, and line /
of page 3, change Five Hundred Dol
lars ($500)' to Seven Hundred and
Fifty Dollars $3.50.
(bl After the denomination 500'
on line SO of page 3, add except in
the following named districts where the
fee for this lieerse shall be Seven Hun
bred Fifty Dollars $3.50 in the District
of Hilo, County of Hawaii, and in the
District of Honolulu, City and County
of Honolulu.
8. Section IS: This amendment is
disapproved-
A. Section %: This amendment is
disapproved.
5. Section "a: This amendment as
proposed is disapproved. An amend
ment of the section as originally enact
ed, by substituting after the words
ssOtherwise the Board may in its dis
erection sgrant or refuse the samep a
semicolon instead of a period, and in
serting thereafter the word Except in
the case Of an application for the re-
newal of license, when the Board
shall grant the same;' and inserting
after the words The Board may also
the words upon applications for Ii,
eenses in the first instance is APP
proved.
These suggested amendments affect
simply the discretionary power of the
Board in cases of applications for re,
newal of licenses.
disapproved Z. Section 81: This
amendment is approved. s. Section 50:
This amendment is approved.
9. Section 35A: This amendment il
approved with the exception that on
lines and of page s, the words re.
fusing applications for licenses be
stricken out; that after the WORD
g licenses on line ) Of page s, there
be inserted the words "refusing trans
fers of licenses;' that after the words
.de novo'' on line IA of page 8, there
be inserted the words stunder rules and
procedure which shall be fixed by the
court" and for the purpose of remov,
ing any confusion resulting from the
existence of two judicial circuits with
in the County of Hawaii, after the
words "wherein the party appealing
as licensee, has his, their or its Ii
censed premises, the license for which
has been suspended or revoked, or fo1
which a renewal or transfer of the
license has been refused, as the case
may be. -