The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-29
LICENSES GRANTED
.T0SAL0ONkEEPERS
UNDER SER|OUSBAN
Dick Sullivan Whose Indebted
ness To Brewery Was Heavy
For Years, Gets Permit
COMMISSION VOLUNTEERS
NO REASONS FOR ACTION
Suspension Of Rosa & Co. Stands
And Will Cost Firm Prob
ably $4,000

-Four saloon keepers who have been
hanging on tenderhOoks for week at
dinner last night with new zest. At
the conclusion of a long executive ses.
sion yesterday afternoon, the board
Of license commissioners renewed the
licenses of Jose Quintal Service Sa
loon; Drake & Smith, Encore Saloon.
and Philip F. Cornyn Dick Snllivan)
Fashion Saloon. The case Of Thomas
A. Marlowe of the Kentucky Bar was
continued until half-past four o'clock
next Monday afternoon. ."'s
Rosa & Co., wholesale dealers, con,
victed of selling to blind pigs, must
close for three months, beginning Jul,
10. A plea from f. c. Peters, attor.
ney for the firm, for clemency was
promptly refused.
Sullivan Decision Unexpected.
The surprise of the afternoon wat
the decision in the case of Dick Sulli
van, whose indebtedness to the brew.
cry for a period of years has ranged
between five and fourteen thousanC
dollars, and whose testimony before tho
commissioners has been about as un
satisfactory as it could te
However, the board is q body with
absolute and arbitrary powers, which
is under no cOmpulsion to account fol
its decisions, which are based in part
on confidential information not open
to the public.
Sullivan was on the stand once NOR
yesterday afternoon nnd was again
questioned with particularly about the
notes and receipts which he gave back
to the brewery and which he believes
to have been torn up at the time his
new note for $500 was made.
Nothing More Ce.nite
Nothing more definite could be drawn
from him than at the other hearings
He had left the notes and receipts or
a table in the offices of the brewery
in the keeping, he thought of H. Good
ing Field.
81 know this sounds funny" he
testified, "but if Mr.. Field were here
I feel sure he could tell you what be
came of them"
No other witnesses were examined
Mr. Peters made mild plea for Rosa
& Co., who estimate that their three
months suspension. is equivalent il
actual loss and indirect diversion OF
business to a cash fine of $4,000
"It was with a shock" said Mr.
Peters, "that read this morning Of
the action taken by the board in the
case of my client.
Suspension Really Terrible
4" I do not wish particularly to com
plain. ! do not say that five men OF
the quality of this board have abso
lutely erred, and I presume the board
in arriving at its decision, has felt
that the defendent has willfully violat
ed the spirit if not the letter of it.
regulations, and that it has wished
not only to punish him. but to mea sur
out a punishment that should act a.
deterrent to others. But a suspen
sion of three months is really a terri
BILE punishment
business. For the three months the
their actual receipts for that period
but a large share Of trade that viii
90 elsewhere. No business can stand
that is compelled to intermit for o
considerable period.
Connived to Violate Law
Chairman Lowrey answered without
delay. "The records show" he said
that the books of the firm have bper
improperly kept, which is violation
Of the rules of this board, but much
more serious is the fact that Mauue'
Calhao, the manager and treasurer, was
guilty Of conniving at violations of the
territorial law.
"He sold liquor to men who, he
knew, were violating the law; who had
taken out federal licenses to escape
prosecution bv the internal revenue de-
partment, and to one of whom he lent
the money to pay his fine after he
had been convicted by the territorial
authorities. There is no disposition on
the part of the board to qualify its
action -