The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-05

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.aN Toe matter should lr decided 49,
otcs .n efirf Co pfni,ei ibc rights 81
rtr rifi4fns.
"I5l The bni allows the sale of
horaf bob restaurants without meals
This afeus ihr door io an, saloon 90
s,l iauor afier hours. sundays aud
election daNs. by simply hiring a cook
sad ruuuiuE "a restaurant ON the same
premises The Commissioners 1T oahu
have practically decided that the pres.
sui Ian did not allow liquor 90 be sold
ly restaurants except az and with
meals
"tdl Pending an appeal the bill
siloW, ihe applicant 10 20 ahead opcr
aiing bis saloon until the appeal Is de-
cidrd This would render the whole
matter a farce. JIe would only be- out
h'> lawyers fee IN ease the appeal
went against him. az the case could be
prolonged by continuanccs, etc, as
above stated.
40 The Republican party plat
form declared for the course that the
present liquor law should not be amend
ed al this session. majority Of bo h
Houses were elected under that plat
form.
"ts) The bill. If il becomes law,
will greatly increase saloons and drunk
enness and consequently misery and
distress Of women and children.
"(9) The law as framed drops out
the only local option feature of the
present law and is 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.
400 The propesd law makes all
meetings of the Board public. This is
hard on applicants whose character is
in question. Privacy in consultation
is often desirable.
"G1 Under the laws as proposed
no saloon can be suspended, no matter
how much it may disregard the law
An appeal lies from suspension also.
and under it justice can be defeated
and the saloon go right on.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed)
&C. II. DICKEY, Chairman,
"DOREMUS SCUDDER,
"W. r. CASTLE,
Committee on Legislation, Civic
Federation.
The Petition was referred to the
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the Moore amendments under consil-
Grafton.
Table Poi Resolution.
The select committee appointed to
consider House Concurrent Resolution
No. 10. relating to the Bonine moving
pictures showing an aged Hawaiian
eating poi in a manner that was OBJ
ieeted to by the Legislators, rendered
its report, which was adopted by the
Senate on a unanimous vote. The re-
port says:
"Your select committee to whom
was referred House Concurrent Resolu
ton No. 10 relating to the Bonnie
Poi Eating Films, beg leave to report
that we have met Mr.. Bonins and he
informed us that he had already caused
the Objectionable film to be discarded
and destroyed, which he did at the
time he received the first intimation
of any one being hurt by its exhibition
and before the resolution was received
in the Senate. Mr.. Bonine expressed
his sincere regret for being the cause
of innocently creating such adverse
feeling to what he had regarded as
means of illustrating in some graphic
manner and with a humorous tend, a
scene which might depict an oldtime
custom which is almost a thing of the
past.
Your committee feel that the action
of the House was justified in promptly
expressing their feeling as to what
they deemed very Objectionable; but,
as the same is now beyond any future
use, the committee therefore recon.
mend the said Concurrent Resolution
of the House be tabed.n
Although the Senate has already
gone on record as being opposed to the
idea of bail commissioners, Coelho intro.
duced another measure yesterday which
the Maui statesman explained was ma
terially different from the one that had
already been considered by the Senate
and indefinitely postponed on the rec
ommendation of the judiciary com.
mittee.
On the order of the day the Senate
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