The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-06-08

such regulations governing the prohi
bition of alcoholic liquors in or near
military camps and TO the officers and
enlisted men Of the Army as he may
from time TO time deem necessary OF
advisable; provided, that no person
corporation, partnership, or association
shall sell, supply, or have in his or its
possession any Intoxicating or spirit,
uous liquors at any military station,
cantonment, camp, fort, post, officers
or enlisted mems club, which is being
used at the time for military purposes
under this Act, but the secretary Of
war may make regulations permitting
the sale and use of Intoxicating liquors
for medicinal purposes. It shall be un.
lawful to sell any Intoxicating liquor,
including beer, ale, or wine, TO any
officer or member of the military forces
while in uniform, except as herein
provided, Any person, corporation
partnership, or association violating
the provisions of this section or the
regulations made Hereunder shall, un-
less otherwise punishable under the
articles of war, be deemed guilty Of
a misdemeanor and be punished by q
fine of not more than $1,000 or impris
onment for not more than twelve
months, or both. ....
Sec. 13. That the secretary of war IL
hereby authorized, empowered, and di.
rected during the present war to do
everything by him deemed necessary to
suppress and prevent the keeping or
setting up Of houses of i'll fame, broth
els, or bawdy houses within such dis.
lance as he may deem needful of any
military camp, station, fort, post, can.
Torment, training, or mobilization
place, and any person, corporation,
partnership, or association receiving or
permitting TO be received for immoral
purposes any person into any place,
structure, or building used for the pur.
pose of lewdness, designation, or pros.
titution within such distance of said
places as may be designated, or shall
permit any such person to remain for
immoral purposes in any such place,
structure, or building as aforesaid, OF
who shall violate any order, rule, OF
regulation issued TO carry out the OBJ
jeet and purpose of this section shall
unless otherwise punishable under the
Articles OF War, be deemed guilty of
n misdmeanor and b punished by
fine of not more than $1,000, or impris-
onment for not more than twelve
months, or both.
Sec. IA. That all laws and parts of
laws in conflict with the provisions
of this Act are hereby suspended dur
ing the period of this emergency.
Executive Session
: The liquor commission, going into
executive session Immediately after the
bpen meeting, concluded that there WINS
some basis of justice for the request Of
the liquor men that they be permitted
to keep open to the old closing hour of
eleven o'clock now that the new and
efficient federal law barred soldiers.
This clause was therefore eliminated
from all the regulations that had been
and the old hour was restored
from the date of June IA, the date
upon which the new regulations take
effect.
There was feeling expressed by the
liquor men, in their communications to
the board that they felt that the board
had treated them squarely, and the
board further demonstrated the fact by
giving the utmost attention to their
Consequently number of the recon.
that the liquor men put
forth were found Incorporated in the
after the executive session
had got through with them. In no case,
however, did the board change it's pol,
icy, the changes being in method, and
the examinations being those of what
was considered impractical paragraphs.
Attention conferred about those
clauses which were intended by the
to help put down the illicit
selling and bootlegging that they felt
sure would crop up at once upon the
law going into effect.
Liquor Inspector W. II. Hutton, re-
ported, in fact, that blind pigging was
already on the increase, getting its
first impulse from the early closing
hours that have been in force.
One of the measures which the com.
mission desired above all was regul-
alton requiring that to every bottle of
liquor sold, the name of the selling
party be affixed by label. This measure
was the subject OF unfaVorable com
ment from the liquor men, who present
ed numerous arguments against it.
Chief among these was the belief that
a bottle, being once emptied, stood a
chance of again being filled by the pUr-
chaser, possibly under conditions that
would lead an investigator to charge n
violation of law against the party
whose name was on the label. The
justice of this and other arguments
were recognized by the commission and
the measure was struck out.
Must Keep Record
The saloons, however, by the new
are required to keep a writ
ten record in English of all sales of
booze to be taken off the premises. This
has heretofore been required of whole
salers Onl! and while the saloon men
protested that such a record would
have no value as fictitious names would
be given-and also that the rush for
bottled goods would come just before
closing too fast to permit a written rec
Ird to be kept-the commission insist
I'd upon it.