The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-09
Altni-SaloOt LeagT'e
Objects t6Plan
OF Importing Booze
Wants Government Agents, Not
License Boards, To Act As Dis
tributors - Questions Legality
OF Governors Regulation;
Patty Wanted Position

Unexpected objection to the tentative
plan of Assistant Attorney GeueraI
Harry Irwin, for having the license
boards act as importers and distribut-
ors of the permitted importation of
liquor after the Hawaii Prohibition
Act goes into effect, developed Mt n
conference yesterday morning Of rep
resentatives of the liquor boards aud
administration officials.
This objection was made by the
Ahti-Saloon League. not to the intend
ed importation of certain amounts Of
liquor, but to the proposed method by
which 10 should hr imported and dis
tributed under tn" Hawaii Prohibition
Act.
In long letter from the league, it
was set forth that there was grave
doubt whether or not the Governor had.
in making the rules and regulations for
the importation Of liquor, a right to
require the several counties to main.
tain the liquor boards. Objection also
was made to the part of the tentative
plan for the licensing of certain estab-
lishments as importers of the liquor
which may be brought in under the pro
visions Of the Act, Then the Anti.
Saloon League letter continued:
Wants Government Agents
"We respectfully suggest, in the first
place. that the general scheme for the
handling of liquors for mechanical,
scientific, sacramPntal or medical pur.
poses he through government agents
rather than through persons or concerns
licensed for such purpose. This would
avoid an unnecessary complication of
machinery for these simple purposes.
At the same time it would simplify or
make easier the enforcement of the
laws on this subject and eliminate or
minimize the temptation to evade the
laws or rules in the desire to make q
profit. We understand that the scheme
obtains in some of the prohibition
states on the mainland
Patty Wanted Job
After these objections were made it
became known that George Patty, sec
rotary of the Anti Saloon League, had
been an active candidate for appoint
ment as territorial liquor dispenser, for
which he had applied to Governor Me
Carthy. 1t was after he learned that
there was no appropriation for the pay
of such dispenser, following the fling
of his application with the Governor,
that the suggestion that provision be
made for the appointment of govern
mcut agents as distributors, rather
than through persons or concerns H.
censed for such purposes, was made
by the Anti-Saloon League.
Rules and regulations with the tenta-
tive plan for the handling Of the dis
tribution Of liquor were Submitted by
Attorney General Irwin for approval
or disapproval at the meeting yester.
day morning. Besides the attorney gen
eral and Patty others present were:
D. Fl. Case of the Mani liquor board,
R. A. Cooke Of the Oahu board, and
DR.. J. W. 'Wadman, superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League. :,
The conference has been postponed
until Saturday morning to permit those
interested to study the rules and regu-
latiOns and the Anti Saloon League OBJ
jections, as well as to permit R. T.
Guard, secretary of the Hawaii liquor
board to arrive here and attend the
meeting.