The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-05
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Hed Senate n No go pending before le Senate .o
a. being 'the vorstH presented
uy Of the existing and 'e proposed '" and an analysis Of e effect Of the
following the foregoing conclusions,
The present law tries decrease the number Of saloons ana reduce the
proposed the number Of saloons and the amount
The present law o. to restrict the time within uh, iooor can be
sold It docs not permit saloons keep O'Clock night
Sundays election days
Board when restaurants and hotels can sell with meals
hours day for Se5 days the This result does no' first
leading OF the bill The intent covered ups but it is there just the same
The backbone of the existing laws the principle which it
having discretionary
The provides persons good
shat receive licenses and eones the Board the
who a character.
proposed provision good moral eharae
te and humbus for the discretion is taken away from
simply
saloons under the ese restaurants hotels to wide wentyour
m that ooneepe must be good but fails provide penalty they
bad.
present law icensee violates the terms of his license
the Board in its discretion him. suspend cancel his
discretionary power most wholesome effect upon licensees in
making live p o license conditions.
The fear that wrOngdong will bring punishment certain
out enaites delays
GLIDING successive appeals the possible incentive keep
crooked ieensee straight.
proposed puts oOkeeper
the saddle makes the Board lot of Powees dummies and reduces their
decision Icne every provision every
dn of his license expression of opinion which he naught
accomplished by giving power appeal from every
Board trial
delay pronaton guile
of the guilty een and the wit skilled lawyers
appeals and teehnicate easily months
longer any rate they be kept going until the of the eensee
point proposed
itself for it provides that pending these appeals the censee continue
continues day to violate provision the law and
his
even get renewal Of his license the face of the admitted fact that
he is openly and continuously breaking defying the
The law imposes a wholesale license
The law fixes saloon licenses in Honolulu HO Waikiki
The reduces this Hlo
$3.50 in Waikiki and elsewhere.
The law permits
Board sell liquor out of saloon hours with bona fde meals lunch
proposed to not only liquor with meals;
but to sell sundays salOonosing days
without meals Sundays, when sales be with
The present 0 place
cooked provided and served as the principal business thereof
the
tOxicating liquors sold either with without meals
This provision simply converts into gnmin with
The permit: hotels sell all imeday,
and election days, with without meals
This provision ginmn with unlimited privileges
available o ordinary
10 The provides that the majority
registered precinct license shall issued applicant
in that precinct
The proposed repenls provision
The existing law provides that be filed behalf
church. school situated within radius allowed
proposed law epeals this right of protest
H. The the private
The proposed law prohibits this; the object
in arriving
No law has before been prohibiting judges from comforting
vaey with each other their decisions
The makes the renewal mandatory
procedure the applicant applying for the license regular that
the applicant has been convicted a felony
present grant in
locality instead another, there
| applicant
proposed in limiting of
for localities between applicants 1t is
applicant who has been convicted felony equally entitled
license regardless existing number saloons the locality
H. The provides applicant
hold hen' application
i'm for W. years tel such
The
application
ground property
Board discretion,