\ licenses .$ 67,000
<d> Increase on tax on
gaming and amuse
ment devices .$ 8,700 '
(e) Increase on license
taxes paid by attor
neys and other pro
fessional persons .$ 4,500
5. That brings in total additional |
revenue for the biennium, not in-1
eluded in the budget estimate, |
shown above, of $1,355,200.
6. And that bring our total estim
ated income for the biennium to
the sum of $4,491,900.
It requires only a simple exam
ple in arithmetic to show that the
Territory faces an operating defic
it for the biennium of $3,943,843.58,
That is not chicken-feed in any
man’s language. That is a deficit!
that cannot be plugged by any1
means, as a result of variables that
may occur in any estimate, based
on a fluctuating economy. People
may buy more liquor, the salmon
pack may be larger, the number of j
professional people may increase
the net income tax on mines may
produce more than our estimate
covers, but, by no possible stretch
of the imagination can these
amounts vary enough to close the
$4,000,000 gap between income
and out-go. And the fluctuations
actually are more likely to occur
on the other side of the ledger.
Give us a period of depression, or
recession for instance, in the next
two years, and we shall widen that
gap instead of narrowing it.
But our arithmetic lesson is not
yet complete. Let’s look now at the
revenue measures, that were killed
and see how much potential rev
enue the Territory was deprived
of by this legislature. These are
the tax bills that were defeated.
1. The net income tax bill, which
would have produced revenue of
approximately $2,300,000 for the
biennium;
2. The general property tax bill
which would have produced rev
enue of $1,200,000 for the bienni
um;
3. The uniform license tax bill
which would have produced rev
enue of about $600,000 for the bi
ennium.
4. This basic tax program would
therefore have produced revenue
totalling about $4,100,000, and, at
the same time have brought many
untaxed categories on to the tax
rolls. It would have spread the tax
burden uniformly and equitably
over all categories of business and
all individuals whose income is
earned in the Territory.
5. Or, as an alternative to, but
not in addition to, the above mea
sure, there was the Engebretn f»x
bill that sought to levy a tax of one
cent per pound on canned red sal
mon, Vi cent on pink canned sal
mon, and l/z cent per pound on
fresh, mild cure and frozen salmon
—this tax would have brought In
revenue of approximately $3,800,
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j 000. The story of what happened
to this bill is in itself a commen
I •
tary on, and an explanation of
what happened to the entire tax
i program at this session.
Mr. Engebreth’s bill got such a
, complete working over in the Fi
nance Committee, that, when it
emerged, it no longer bore Mr. En
gebreth’s name, or remotely re
; sembled his original bill. It had be
come Committee Substitute for
Senate Bill Number 71, and, in
; stead of being a tax on the pound
age basis, it was a case tax. It pro
vided for a tax of 12 cents per case
on red salmon, 8 cents on pinks.!
It worked out entirely the propo*
| ed tax on fresh, mild cure and
frozen fish. In that state, the Fi-'
1 nance Committee recommended
that it “do pass.”
But the end was not yet. When
iit came up for discussion in the
i Senate, Senator Cochran, who was
I a lobbyist before he became a Sen-,
j ator, and hasn’t noticeably c nang
I ed his thinking since that time, de
cided that the tax should be re
duced still further so he produced
an amendment that established the
tax on red salmon at 10 cents per
case, and 4 cents per case on pink.
And so the bill passed. Not, how
ever, until it had been revealed, in
story debate, that W. C. Arno'd,
; registered lobbyist of the Canned
Salmon Industry, had written the
Committee Substitute Bill, him
self, and that all members of the
Finance Committee, had pledged
i themselves to support it in that
form. It was the vote of Senator
Joe Green, Chairman of the Fi
nance Committee, for the Cochran
amendment which caused Senator
John Butrovich, thoroughly in
i censed because he had been be
trayed by his colleague, to make
j this denounemen- .
As it passed, the Cochran
j amendment embodied in it, this
revenue of about $375,000—for the
i biennium is about one-tenth the
amount the original bill would
j have provided.
In the face of these facts, is
there anyone who can fail to ans
wer our $64 question for this
j week?
Who makes the laws for the Ter
ritory of Alaska?
This was your legislature. It has
sold you down the river again; in
the interests of its absentee land
lords—its high-bracket income in
dustries and individuals. It has
left you a Territorial deficit of al
most $4,000,000 with unlimited tax
I sources available to have closed
that gap. Your schools, your desti
j tute and unemployable people,
your crippled and handicapped
1 children, your tuberculosis suffer
ers, your veterans, your Territorial
! institutions will be among the cas
ualties of its lack of courage and
vision, its blind and slavish sub
servience to the big lobbies, before
the next biennium comes to a
close.
So, in the final analysis it’s your
personal responsibility.
What are you going to do about
it?
Folta Appointed 1st
Division U.S. Judge
The President has appointed
George W. Folta as United States
District Judge for the First Judi-j
' cial Division of Alaska, with head
■ quarters at Juneau and the a^ '
pointment is now before the Senate
for confirmation. Mr. Folta, a
long-time resident of Alaska, has
for the past several years been
Counsel at Large for the Interior
Department in the Territory and
served as assistant United States
Attorney for the First Division
prior to that.
Hoess, Murderer of
Four Million, Must
Pay With Life
WARSAW, Mb —Rudolf Hoess
must pay with his own life for
more than 4,000,000 lives snuffed
out at Oswiecim (Auschwitz) ex
termination camp in the two and a
half years he was Nazi comman
dant there.
The 47-year-old ex-colonel, on
trial for three weeks, was sen
tenced to death last night by the
nine-judge Polish supreme nation
al tribunal. No date was set for the
execution.
The prosecution accused Hoess
of supervising the gassing and cre
mation of some 3,000,000 Jews and
1,000,000 other men, women and
children from a dozen countries
including Poland, Russia, Hun
gary, France, Belgium, the Nether
lands, and Czechoslavakia—at the
camp in southwestern Poland, 32
miles west of Krakow.
Hoess, commandant of Oswcc
cim from mid-1941 to the end of
1943, said he could count only
2,500,000 victims. He took respon
sibility for carrying put the exter
minations.
Hoess, who has a wife and five
children in Germany, told the tri
bunal that he would )have thrown
them all into the Oswiecim fur
naces had he been ordered to do
so. The British, who questioned
Mrs. Hoess at Hamburg in Decem
ber, 1945, said they found her
FAIR NOTES
Exciting and interesting times
are to be had in little old Nome
tor the period from April 16
through April 20 at the Ninth An
nual Fair! The Eskimo potlatch
will be the first event on the eve
ning of April 16. The days and
evenings of April 17 and 18 will be
busy ones with reindeer events,
varied exhibits displayed, and mis
<’ laneous entertainment every
evening.
If you want to relive the good
!d days, be on hand for the “Gay
90V’ night on April 19, where the
unforgettable era of the early gold
rush period will be attempted to be
revived, featuring gay and humor
ous entertainment throughout the
evening, and dancing to those old
favorite dance tunes of yesteryear
melodiously played by Fred Hyde
and his orchestra. Persons attend
ing are urged to get into the spirit
of the evening by coming attired in
clothes reminiscent of the gold
rush period, which can be any
thing from a pair of jeans and
boots to a poke bonnet and jaunty
bustle!
The closing date of the Ninth
Fair will be on April 20 with the
reindeer events and. dog races to
be held on our frozen Bering Sea.
Let it be remembered that the
forthcoming Fair is not “Just An
other Fair,” but a “Fair of Fairs’*
—and no pun intended.
house full of clothes and jewelry
taken from executed Jews.
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