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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet
BONE AND THE FISHERIES
The position of Governor Scott
C. Bone on the fisheries reservation
question is made clear in ,a state
ment recently given by him to the
Juneau Sunday Capital. He says:
“In view of Alaska's experiences
with the reservation system in the
tying up for years of coal and oil
and forest lands, the outcry against
the creation of fishing reserves in
Alaskan waters.is perfectly natural
and understandable. Certainly the
reserve system has borne down heav
ily upon the territory and held it
back. The reserve system has been
tested and found .wanting and i
share the feeling of animosity to
ward the system. Efficient adminis
tration is impossible under a bur
eaucratic system. My views on this
point. I feel are so well known as
to require no emphasis or reitera
tion.
“The creation of these fishing re
serves by executive order, however,
comes about as the only alternative
in the absence of needed legislative
by Congress, and the sole food by
regulating the industry and limit
ing the catch and pack, Heretofore
there has been no regulation or
supervision. The fisheries have had
academic treatment at long range,
hut no practical handling. Conser
vation has been lacking utterly.
Under the system now inaugur
ated the department of commerce,
through its bureau of fisheries, be
comes vested with authority and
will be held strictly to account
hereafter. Pending a trial of the
system, criticism may well be with
held in a spirit of fairness. Condem
nation in advance is manifestly un
fair. Nothing has heppc-ned to date
to indicate that the reserve system
contemplates the surrender of the
fisheries to predatory and monopol
ize interests. The policy and pur
pose are jast the contrary, as I
understand the situation.
“I have examined in detail and
■with much care the regulations ap
plying to Bering Sea, Bristol Bay
and Kodiak reserves. Jr. the main
they appear equitable, save in the
requirement that applications for
permits under regulations issued on
December 15 must be filed in Wash
ington by January 15 following.1
This is clearly an impossible re
quirement and I am assuming that
it will be waived in the interest
of small operators far removed
from governmental base who de
sire to engage in the industry. It
does not affect the established can
nerman. In this connection it is
obvious again that administration'
at a distance of five thousand miles
and more must recessrily and un
avoidably impose delays and hard
ships and work injustices. The fact
that the department of commerce
is asking congress to create the
office of assistant commissioner of
the bureau of fisheries for Alaska,'
and to be stationed in Alaska, at
tests that Secretary' Hoover is al
ert to this difficulty and seeking to
correct it.
“Under no conceivable system can
the fisheries of Alaska be handled
satisfactorily or acceptably to Alas
kans at long range. It is sheer im
possibility.
“Secretary Hoover is an admin
istrator of demonstrated and uni
versally recognized ability, and is
deeply interested in conserving the
fisheries of Alaska in a manner that
will not destroy the great industry.
“.Personally and officially. I be
lieve in giving the small canneries
the fullest opportunity, They mean
much to Alaska ss they are more
closely identified with community
growth along the coast. Alaska
should have a permanent fishing
population. I am unalterably oppos- j
ed to bringing into Alaska hordes of j
contract laborers annually. This j
must be corrected. The problems:
connected with the fisheries are j
complex and not to be solved in a
day.
“Whether the reserve system will
produce the results desired in safe
guarding the fisheries and putting
the industry upon a stable basis and
promoting the welfare of Alaska
may be problematical, but the aims
are just and laudable and the de
partment is entitled to public con
fidence and fair consideration. If
the system in its operation should
prove inequitable and adverse to
Alaskan interest I, as governor, shall'
speedily urge its abrogation.”
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WANDA HAWLEY TONIGHT
Wanda Hawley. the popular
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at eight o’clock.
RUSTGARD BACKS DELEGATE
IN FIGHT ON FfSH BUREAU
John Rustgard, attorney general
of Alaska, vigorously joins Delegate
Sutherland in opposing the creation,
of fishery reserves in Alaska wa
ters. and declares “the creation of
ocean reserves by Executive Procla
mation is the culmination of a pol
icy which carries within its vitals
a most insidiuos toxine, which al
ready shows evidence of having poi
soned the entire body politic.”
Continuing in his public state
ment the attorney genera! says:
“When the fathers of this repub
lic framed the constitution and
made the legislative, the executive
and the judicial departments inde
pendent of each other, they did so,'
at least so they said, in order to
attain a government by law instead
of by men.
“The people of Washington seem
to have lost faith in the doctrine
of the Fathers. They are harking
back to the good old days when the
natiqns were governed by men only
and it by law. and are bringing
back to the one territory over which
they have the unlimited power the
old Romanof system which flour
ished when Captain Baranoff ruled
at Sitka and Catherine or her des
cendants ruled at Moscow.
“Of course they have given the
system a new name. They call it
conservation.
“The trick is simple. They hoist
the American flag, and while the
soldiers stand at “salute” and the
public raise their voices to heaven
in rhythmic laudation of the land of
the free and the home of the brave,
the president signs a proclamation
declaring both land and ocean a re
serve, After that no one has any
legal right to tread upon the one or
swim in the other except by special
permission of some official.
“Upon a reservation you may live
or transact business only by leave
of that official, but not otherwise.
You may have no rights there which
the law recognizes and you may be
ordered off and your property con
fiscated at any time. The only
title to property and the products
of your own industry is the officials
good will. He has full power to
make or break you.
“I am talking about the law now.
not the practice. The creation of
a reserve consists in withdrawing
it from the operation of the law.
Those who live there live “not un
der the law but under grace.”
“The fact, of course, is that the
officer in charge of a reservation
is a good, kind, Christian gentle
man ; but let it be remembered that
he is the lawmaker, the jury, the
judge and the executioner all roled
into one. A reserve becomes auto
matically an autocracy.
“There are all kinds of reserves—
that is to say. there are all kinds
of reasons or excuses for creating
‘ one-man governments within the re
public. It is at the present time
claimed in Washington that there
is no limkation upon the power of
I the president to create reserves. A
tract of land or a body of water
may be secured for a single pur
: pose, for several purposes or for all
: purposes. We have fish reserves,
and bird reserves, and forest re
serves, and so forth.
“Recently the Alaska peninsula
and the ocean surrounding it and
the nearby islands, including the
Shumagin group, were proclaimed a
fish reserve. The coast line of this
reserve is probably over 1500 miles
in length and very rich fishing
ground. For many generations these
waters have been fished extensively i
For several decades they have pro
duced for the market several mil
lion dollars worth of fish annually.
"When this reserve was estab
lished the Secretary of Commerce
pro hac vice the Bureau of Fish
eries. became automatically the law
giver, the court as a person retains
*the Rood will of ‘.he autocrat in
j charge will be permitted to fish un
' molested and then only to the ex
tent the autocrat mav please.
"When authority to legislate wa«
, bestowed upon congress some very
specific limi:ations were also entail
ed upon that authority. There are
certain demands in the constitution
for equal opportunities for all—for
equal protection of the law. But all
these safeguards fall away automa
ticllv when a reserve is created.
The officer of the reserve becomes
to all intents and purposes the own
er. He mav invite some into his do
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main and he may chase others out.
"It is now proposed that all the
coast of Alaska with the adjaceht
ocean be created into a fish reserve
In other words it is proposed that
the contitutional guarantee of equal
protection of the law should be re
moved from the entire fishing popu
lation and that the latter should be
made the prey of the personal whim
of individuals.
"The demand of the bureau of
fisheries (and the big canning com
panies* that the North Pacific
Ocean and Bering Sea be reserved
is made with the avowed purpose
of giving one man the power to de
termine who shall be permitted to
'fish and who shall not..
"Where the president acquires
the authority to create these ocean
reserves is a mystery to me. Con
gress has not conferred the power
upon him. I: is clearly opposed
to the spirit of the constitution. The
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president had a sort of a prescrip
tive right to withdraw land from
the operation of the laws designed
to grant title in such land to pri
vate individuals. That tribunal has
not yet held that the Chief Execu
tive, in abser of statuary author
ity. has power to withdraw land and '
give it to a private individual. In
the Annette Island case the Su
preme Court held that congress had
that right, but the authority of the
president was not discussed.
“But of late years the drift of
sentiment has been in favor of cen
traiization to all power at Wash
ington and more particularly at the
White house, and it would not sur- !
prise me to see the Supreme Court
find the constitution has *-growT.”
so much that the president can do
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things which the Fathers never
dreamed of giving*him authority to:
do. I am ever Reminded of the ob-'
servation of Dooley shortly after
the Spanish-Ameriean War. Wheth
er or not constitution follows the
flag is doubtful!.” observed this'
sage.” but it is dead certain the
supreme court follows the returns
of the last election.”
“In a court of first instance law
is the mean between divergent pre-;
cedents, but the supreme court law
is the composite sentiment of the
nine justices.”
Captain C. G. Jones went to
Fairbanks yesterday on a brief of
ficial visit, in connection with his
duties as ruadma^ter.
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MODERN RESIDENCE
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Has the following rooms:
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1 Large Living room. 16X26.
3 Bc-rrooms (each has clothes clo
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1 Large Kitchen, white enamel,
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1 Bathroom, finished in white e
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1 Good well, with clear water all
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1 Kohler & Campbell piano.
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A houseful of A 1 oak furniture. ;
1 Dustproof warehouse, 45X45.
The basement of the house can be
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Small Size, 40c to 50c.
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