The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-09
Though Present Permit Does
Not Expire Till After Next
Legislature
PLAN TO TAKE BEER ,.ag
. - =. .. TO THE ANTlPoDES
amendments Being Prepared
and Bin Comes Up Again
q at Todays Session

Profting by the announcement that
the brewery license extension bill
would come up in committee of the
whole senate yesterday afternoon nu.
nervous representatives Of the Honolulu
Brewing q Mating Company, includ-
ing Attorney Frank Thompson, were
on hand when Mondays session
opened. E .'>.>3
Senate bill Is was called and the
senate went into committee, Of the
whole with Senator Rice in the chair.
Rules were, suspended to allow smoh-
inh the, privilege extending to the
brewery and the gallery. The gallery
was packed with school girls and their
teachers, though they probably knew
nothing Of the brewery measure com
ing up. They could not have Cbeen
there for any prohibition demonstrs,
tion, for they made not a sound.
Makekau In Hurry 81 s..h.s+.
No sooner had the committee started
their. pipes, cigars and cigarettes, than
Senator Makekau moved that, mas.
much as the brewery's license was ex.
|piring in year or so, and senate bill
IL was an extension of the license for
fifteen years, and there seemed no
necessity for argument, the committee
rise and report to the senate, reeOnI-,
including the passage OF the Dill. r w
But there were questions to be ask
ed and amendments to be suggested,
and Makeknu's motion died abornin ;.
Senator Metzger, for example, want
oil to know why it was that the brew
cry paid only $3.50 for license, where
as some other companies handling
though not manufacturing beer here,
were paying $1,000 yearly.
Address by Counsel
( Attorney Frank Thompson, represent
ing the brewery, addressed the com
mittee at length, showing that the
brewery was Halted to the manufacE
ture and sale Of malt brews and the
like, that it paid several thousands Of
dollars in taxes that were not paid by
the Seattle Brewing d Mailing Com
pany, and similar concerns doing BUSH
ness here, and that it employed con
siderable number of men who paid
taxes, and that, altogether, it handed
over to the government, in one way
and another, .ten times the amount
paid by the outside concerns which
We're taxed the $1,000 license. ..
. Mr.. Thompson said he did not wish
to make particular point Of the quos-
tion, ofrlicensc fee, but merely brought
out these facts as a matter Of Justice.
Sherman Said "war Is 49,"
The Honolulu Brewing & Mailing
Company, said the learned COUNSELLOR
was contemplating greatly. enlarging it's
field of operation. It intended making
beer for Australian consumption. The
Australians were refusing to drink any
beer made in Germany or bearing a
German name. Bddweiser, Schlitz and
other German named beers were ostra
cized, in New Zealand and Australia on
account of the. great European war
and the Honolulu brewery was anxious
to fill the void created in the Anti.
pOdes on account Of patriotic abstin.
ence. Hence the company was anxious
to have everything ship-shape, regular
and legal in the matter of the contin
uation of it's license.
To Capture Australasia
In other words thesbreWery il anxi.
GUS to, have it's license renewed by the
present Iegislat ure instead Of waiting
Cor the next legislature to do the trick.
This immediate action, 1t is believed,
better enables them to plan for the
capture Of Australasia. The present
license expires on{April 4, 1918, while
the next lie stature meets in February,
1917. 1t would be time enough to ask
for d renewal in 1917, but the brewery
people, for large financial reasons, want
to know where they stand now.
Castle viii Amend Bill
Senator Castle objected to several
matters in the form of the bill. For
one thing, he said, If the Legislature
was to grant an extension of fifteen
years at this time, he was of the opin.
ion that the fifteen years extension
should date from the daS Of the al.
prevail of the act, instead of from April
4, 1918, The next legislature. should
not be bound by the action of the pres.
emit legislature. Also the local liquor
license commission should have certain
authority over tho brewery regulations
in regard to Sunday liquor selling and
the like.
Senator Castle will put his IDEAS into
tho form of amendments aud the mat
ter will be brought up again to-day.