The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-01
Fred Harrison, 0usted viee-Pres-
ident, Claims Recent Elec-
ton Was Not Legal 4.
PROXIES THAT WERE VOTED
CLAIMED TO BE FRAUDULENT.
Minority Interests Also Threaten
To Turn Up Nasty Trick In
New Charter

The last has not been heard Of the
row which has been going on amongst
the stockholders Gf sae Honolulu Brew
cry for the past many months, and the
new board q directors, elected last
week, Is by no means secure in its con
troll Of affairs, according to one large
stoekholder, who believes that some
thing was put Overt at the annual
meeting. This Is Fred Harrison, who
has been an officer of the company up
TO the recent meeting for the past eigh--
teen years. ~ tt +" RS saf
Mr., Harrison, ,as vice president of
the corporation, presided at the stock.
holders meeting last week, in the alb
sence Of Gus Sehumann, the president,
who had written letter stating that
he declined to take part in the meet
ing because of what he considered the
unfair tactics which had been adopted
TO secure proxies fer the election Of u
new slate of officers. IL
Proxies Called Into Question 81
Mr.. Schumann, minated. in his let
ter, that some, if not the majority, Of
the proxies had been obtained without
taking the stockholders assigning their
votes into full confidence regarding
the coup to be sprung, 1870.
The holders of the proxies were so
anxious to put through their slate that
q number Of irregularities went through
with the jam, sufficient, in the opinion
'of some of the minority, to void the
election. II Is probable that the pres.
ent Office holders, therefore, will have
to defend their new positions and the
7 matter may be taken into the courts.
For one thi-g, the proxies voted were
never submitted for scrutiny and were
not filed or officially passed upon at
tho meeting. Inasmuch as out of the
eighteen thopsand voter represented at
the election of officers there were
twelve thousand represented by proxy,
this point scent important, E~ III
New Charter An Issue rs u
But the row that seems certain over
the election of officers in as nothing
feor-pared to revelations that may be
made within q short time concerning
the Legality Of the brewery 8 new char
| ter, secured at the last session of the
| Legislature. If what is being limited at
in this matter be capable of substan.
tiation, the Bartlett scandal will be
| forgotten in the new one that will be
exposed, a scandal involving lawmak
ers, officials and some prominent lobby.
lists. Documentary evidence is said to
be where it can be produced, ..,,,.
Bartlett left me his power of at.
torney,' says Mr.. Harrison, Sand be,
cause Of that I am being treated by
some Of the .tockholders' as if I were
a confederate Of Bartlett in his embez
elements, In the name Of the brewery
suit has been started against Bartlett
| for recovery of the amount named in
one of the Marlowe notes, with me
made a defendant in the suit under the
power Of attorney / hold. Now. al
though ! was vice president of the com
pany that brought the suit, l knew
nothing Of it, nor did any of the di
rectors with me know 'of it, So far a.
treating me iairly.
"Of course, Bartlett left me hi,
power of attorney4-and that ism t al
he left me-, either.s'