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Proprietor L-hitina, Alsaka
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GET IN THE WAGON AND RIDE
A revlvival of the cry that Alaska's
legislative enabling act fails to enable
was heard in the United State DIs
trict Court at Juneau when Judge
Robert W. Jennings was hearing the
arguments of counsel in the test suit
entitled J. Epsteyn and A. Greenbaum
vs. Jay W. Bell, clerk of the District
( ourt. The notion is to recover an
itinerant merchant license tax of $20(1.
Over n year ago Greenbaum nnd
Epstein came to Juneau nnd opened a
ladles' merchandise store. On com
plaint of the other merchants that the
Territorial law imposing a tax on
itinerent merchants was being violat
ed, Greenbaum and Epstein went up
to the clerk's office nnd paid over the
required tax of $J00.
Crusher Put on Laws
Then came the opinion of the comp
troller of the currency that questioned
the right of the Alaska legislature to
Impose duties upon federal officials
in Alaska. Simultaneously the attor
ney-general of the United States sent
Instructions to various federal offic
ials in the north that they must not
perform duties prescribed by the leg
islature.
With the acts of the legislature at
tacked from all sides becnuce of opin
ions that held them Invalid, Clerk
Bell could not pay over to the terri
torial treasurer the amount of the
tax paid by Greenbaum and Epstein, j
and has since held the tax In trust
with other territorial license moneys.
Delegate Wlckersham was appealed
to for an amendment to the organic
act, which would validate the laws
passed by the legislature two years
ago.
On August 29. 1914, President Wood- '
row Wilson signed the Wickersham
amendment which had been passed
by both houses of congress. Now it
is claimed that the amendment has
not brought the relief sought.
In substance the amendment pro
vides that “nothing in the organic act
shall be so construed as to prevent
the courts now existing from enforc
ing within their respective jurisdic
Mons all laws passed by the Alaska
legislature within the powers con
ferred upon it, the same as if such
laws were passed by congress, nor to
prevent the legislature passing laws
imposing additional duties, not jn
consistent with the present duties of
the governor, marshal, clerks of the
courts and United States commission
ers, etc., etc."
Amendment Not a “Cure”
It is claimed that while Mr. Wick
ersham’s intentions may have been
the best in the world to cure the de
fects of the organic act, his use in
the amendment of the words “that
nothing shall prevent the courts
from enforcing the legislature’s laws”
and the words “and nothing shall pre
vent the legislature from imposing du
ties on marshal, etc.,” sidestep the
issue. Members of the bar say the
amendment should have read that
“Legislative acts passed by the Alas
ka assembly SHALL be enforced by
federal officials in Alaska.”
It is believed that an interpretation
of the construction to place on the or
ganic act, without amendment, for the
sham amendment went into effect,
license tax paid before the Wicker
will be made by the court if the case
is tried on its merits.
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MASTED MARINER
DIES Df DED AGE
(Hy Associated Press Correspondence)
LONDON, Feb. 12—Captain David
Jackson, 108 years old, who just died
of heart failure at his home in Toot
ing, was for nearly fifty years a mas
ter mnriner on ships between king
land and America. He made his
first trip as a cabin boy In 1817.
Captain Jackson received a letter
of congratulation from the King on
his hundredth birthday, and a similar
letter each year since.
One of the old man’s boasts was
that only once had he been aboard a
steamship, all his other voyages hav
ing been made iu the dayB of sailing
vessels.
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Today’s news in today's Daily Times
FRENCH CYCLING CORPS
AN IMPORTANT FACTOR
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
PARIS. Feb. -2—“The winged Infan
try" or French cycling corps, has ren
dered such good service that the con
tingent 1s being Increased consider
ably.
Though cycling as a sport contin
ued Its hold on France longer than on
any other country. It was, like the
automobile, neglected by the army un
til August, 1913, when the minister of
war authorized Its use In eonjucctlon
with the cavalry, with the object of
increasing the offensive capacity of
the lntter. War has proven that It
has a wider scope of usefulness, be
ing able to replace the cavalry entire
ly where the ground is favorable, with
the added efficiency of the infantry.
Cyclists In the army receive the
same training as the infantry, with
a special course on instruction In the
use of the bicycle in the field. They
nre trained in the exercise of folding
their mnchlnes until they nre capable
of making a halt, shouldering their
outfit and transforming themselvets
Into Infantry ready to charge In one
minute.
One of the oldest cyclists in the ser
vice Is, no doubt, the veteran Dhers,
who was one of the champions of
France thirty years ago. His two
sons, Edouard and Eugene, who were
also champione in their .turn, are
cyclist messengers. Honore Fossicr,
another veteran, and his son Henri, n
well-known long distance rider, are nl
so carrying dispatches.
SOLIDIFIED ALCOHOL
IS USED FOR COOKING
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
PAKIS, Feb. 12—The commissary
department of the army has lately
distributed to the men on guard in
the advanced trenches solidified alco
hol. which is easily lighted by a
match, and, burning without visible
flame, gives out (sufficient heat to
warm up rations.
From the chemist's standpoint sol
idified alchol is still Inexistent, all
efforts to arrive at this result at or
dinary temperature having failed. The
availability of the so-called solidified
alcohol is due to the genius of the
smuggler. About ten years ago a
man conceived the idea of crushing
grated white soap in a mortar and
mixing with it its weight in alchol.
In this form the alcohol passed the
customs inspector as soap, and a sub
sequent simple process of distillation
restored the alchol to its natural
state.
This was the process taken up by
the artny to furnish soldiers in the
trenches a convenient, inconspicuous,
means of heating their food.
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FRANCE’S PRIZE ROHRS
HAVE BEEN RUINED
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
PARIS, Feb. 12—Rain and war to
gether have completed the destruc
tion of the admirable high roads in
the north, of which France was once
proud. The continual passage of
heavy artillery and the thundering
motor trucks have worn deep ruts in
them, now filled with mud that sticks
like glue. Within range of the semi
fixed battle line, the ruts are nothing
compared to the multitude of funnel
shaped holes where the big German
shells have ripped out the macadam
and gouged sometimes three feet
deop into the roadway. Speed is
now certain suicide on these routes,
and the work of bringing up supplies
has suffered accordingly. It re
quires three motor trucks now to do
the work accomplished by two a
month ago. The rapid increase in
the French motor equipment has made
it possible to surmount the difficulty
at the expense of enormous wear ano
tear.
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A SCRAMBLE FOB
LEGISLATIVE
JOBS
There will be no lack of applicant)*
for the sixteen positions, more or less,
which will be filled by members of
the legislature when they convene on '
March 1.
Among the most important places to
be filled will be a secretary of the
senate and a chief clerk of the house.
Then there will be a sergeant a» arms
for the senate and probably another
for the house, and stenographers and
pages and messengers.
Some of the members of the leglsla
tore have already pledged their sup
port to different ones, while others
have left themselves free to be guid
ed by conditions
There Is already some talk of ecen
omy among advance agents of the law
makers, and It may be decided to ap 5
ply the pruning hook to the leglsla- :j
live clerical list.
What Is more probable, however, ji
Is that most of the members from the •:
different divisions will caucus In ad !j
vance on some of the more Important ij
positions and then efTect trades where \
necessary.
Most every Alaskan has some sort -i
of suggestion for remedying either |
real or fancied evils and the members
will hatfe plenty of material on which :•
to work during their session.
1 re-election promises, of course, will
largely govern the trend of the work
to be attempted, and the subjects cov
ered In these alone will furnish plen
ty of work. There seems to be a
strong sentiment that there should
be an attorney general for Alaska.
There is a division of opinion over
whether the attorney general, the ter
ritorial treasurer and the territorial
mining inspector should be elected by
the people at the general elections, or
appointed by the governor, as at pres
ent, save for the office of attorney
general, of which there is none at
present, and which will have to be
created.
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ENGLAND IS SLOW
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
LONDON, Feb. 12—For the first
time since the outbreak of the war
the British press is admitting that
the French people are a little puzzled
about the slowness of Great Britain
In throwing men Into the fighting
line. A vigorous campaign of edu
cation to promote mutual understand- <
ing is what is needed, according to j
the Paris correspondent of the Times; j
and he hints that the recent visit to j
England of M. Mlllerand, the French j
minister of war, “will be an encour- j
agement” in this direction. j
"It is hard." says this writer, "to ex ]
plain to a Frenchman in the street j
the many difficulties England has had 1
to contend with in the formation of j
her new armies. A great many of j
the Frenchmen are under the irnpres- j
sion that in England we have an oh- <
llgatory service. A still greater <
number believe, in the absence of j
news to the contrary, that we have but I
the original one hundred thousand I
men in France. They are all—igno- j
rant and informed frank and gener- t
ous in their admiration of our troops. *
but they cannot prevent a certain
wistful envy from arising now and
then, when they read of our normal
lives at home.
“Much useful work is now being
done by several of the large newspa
pers which have for some days past
been explaining the extent of the ef
fort we are making. More work of
the same nature can be done both in
England and France, and M. Miller
and's visit will be an encouragement
to all efforts in this direction."
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What we mean is COFFEE, not the
wlshy-wlshy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
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