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The Nome Daily
NUGGET
Salary Of U. S.
Commissioner Is
Of Vital Necessity
Martin Harrais, local U. S. Com
missioner for Valdez Precinct, ap
peared before the Grand Jury at the
November term of Court, with the
following statement :
“1 am appreciative of this oppor
tunity to appear before you, but be
fore I proceed with my statement I
wish to emphasize that I am not ap
pearing solely in behalf of the Val
dez office, of which I am the pres
ent incumbent, but in behalf of the
whole Third Division, of which you
are in Grand Jury session to inves
tigate and report on the condition of
I our public offices.
“I have lived in Alaska for many
years and have done business many
times with the U S Commissioner's
office, but on the outside of the
counter, as it were. There are only
a few recording offices in the Third
and Fourth Divisions in which I
have not noted the inadequate fa
cilities for storing and preserving
public documents. Seward is the
only place in the Third Division in
which a room and vault have been
provided in the Federal Building
for the U S Commissioner. In the
i other Recording Districts one is lia
ble to find the Commissioner camp
ed anywhere.
“I have done business in the Com
missioner’s office now for forty-five
days, in a room 11x16 feet, in the
Federal Building, through the kind
ness of ,J. W. Kehoe. the present
District Attorney, who has given up
one of his rooms to accomodate the
' Commissioner’s Office. I have learn
ed some things which I did not
know before. Most people who
have done business with the U. S.
Commissioner's office, with all its
I adjunct official positions, have often
blamed the Commissoner for the dis
orderly way in which public docu
! ments are kept.
“The U S Commissioner's Office
is an integral part of the law ad
ministration and enforcing agency
in the Department of Justice—and
i a very important part. It is the cus
todian of vital public documents.
There are four distinct offices to
make up the whole. The Federal
Judge. U S Commissioner, U S Dis
trict Attorney and U S Marshal—
that is the unit. Federal Buildings
have been erected in Alaska during
the past 35 years to house that unit.
Rooms and vaults have been provid
ed for Judges and their Clerks of
Court, for the District Attorneys
and Marshals, but in the housing
i scheme the Commissioners have
been treated as a step-child. I am
at present located in the Federal
Building and Mr Kehoe 1 not going
to tell me to get out. but he can.
and in the event of a change in the
personnel of the District Attorney's
office the order may come and I
must move back to the woodshed.
Fireproof vaults have been provided
for the Clerks of the Court and
Marshals to keep their records in.
I have no quarrel with that. But
to keep records of what? Mostly
records of criminal cases and civil
litigation which, in course of time,
are settled and finished; but the re
cords are all kept in fire-proof
vaults—preserved.
It is true that the Commissioner
deals with little things. He passes
judgement on misdemeanors, settles
disputes of small amounts, records
the records of your town lots, your
mining locations, births, marriages
and deaths. He looks after affairs
of deceased friends. All little things
—but those little things are vital,
living, continuous. There are no
vaults provided to preserve them.
Mostly they are kept in woodsheds
exposed to fire. And the irony of
it is that the records that are so care
fully preserved in fireproof vaults
are mostly criminal records—re
cords of human depravity—while
the records of honest human endea
vors are exposed to destruction.
Three-fourths of the Federal fam
ily are housed and provided with
fixed incomes. The one-fourth—the
step-child—has no fixed income and
must provide its own woodshed. He
must subsist on the small fees he
collects from the public, which sel
dom give an income commensurate
with the service rendered.
The Commissioners are appointed
bv the Judges. The Judge has some
choice of selection in populous cen
ters. Capable men in private busi
ness take the office of Commissioner
as a side line, and the public busi
ness is carried on creditably. In
small communities the Judge’s
choice of selection is limited to
“Whom can I get to take it?”
The office of Commissioner is either
a peacemaker or a trouble-breeder
Stories are told of neighbor's mis
understandings and disagreements
Nine times out of ten these disagree
ments can be ironed out amicably;
but by doing so the Commissioner
gets no fees—no trouble, no fees.
The temptation is obvious; unscrup
ulous men can turn the office into
a trouble fomenter and a den of ex
ploitation. All the other Federal
and Territorial officers are provided
with salaries, office room and expen
ses. Why not the Commissioners ?
Let me repeat—it is true that the
Commissioners are looking after lit
tle things, yet there is not another
office in the whole Territory where
in the incumbent comes in as close
contact with the public in so many
intimate, diversified ways as do the
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Commissioners. The other official
activities are limited to certain pre
scribed spheres. The Commission
er’s duties are many, and they ram
ify throughout the whole gamut of
everyday human relationships. He
has no set term of court. His court
is open all the time to hear and
judge misdemeanors, adjust disa
greements. record and keep safe- if
he can—-your business transactions,
your family relations, and your
titles to property. There are many
other duties. Let me quote one from
the Compiled Laws of Alaska. Sec
4358: “In the exercise of the juris
diction conferred upon Commission
ers by this title in the administra
tion of tiie estates of deceased per
sons, and of minors lunatics, and
habitual drunkard such Commis
sioner shall it as a probate court
which shall be always open for the
transaction of business.’'
“The estates, often small of the
deceased persons and of the helpless
living ones are in the sole control
of the Commissioners. I am not
casting any aspersions upon the
characters of the U S Commission
ers of Alaska, as a whole. I have
had the privilege of being acquaint
ed with many honorable men hold
ing those positions, but we cannot
forget tilings which we have seen.
The disappearance of the small es
tates of the above mentioned help
less folk in the hands of unscrupul
ous U S Commissioners may be still
vivid in the memories of us all.
Those conditions should not be al
lowed to exist in civilized society.”
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that by or
der of the Probate Court in and for
the Cape Nome Precinct, Alaska,
the undersigned has been appointed
Administrator of the estate of ETTA
LUELLA HOWARD, deceased. All
persons having claims against said
estate should present them with pro
per vouchers attached, within six
months from the date of the first
publication hereof, to the undersign
ed administrator at Nome, Alaska.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, February
6, 1935.
,JENNIE POLSON,
Administrator
LEROY M SULLIVAN
Attorney for Administrator
Publish February 7, 14, 21, 28, 1935.
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