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of the United States, had uniformly
upheld these presidential reservations
and had said that the proclamations
making such reservations had the
force and effect of law. There was
every reason to believe that the Su
preme Court, if it should pass upon
t he question, would say the same
thing about the fish reserves.
I have always been opposed to the
entire system of reserves as applied
to Alaska. I was specifically against
the fish reserves for reservations
created by President Harding. But I
had every reason to believe that from
a legal standpoint they were valid. I
have discussed the question with
many able lawyers, and I have never
heard one say that in his opinion the
reserves so created were invalid.
When we arrived at Juneau in 1923
to attend the session of the Legisla
ture (and that was the first session
of which I was a member) the matter
of the fish reserves wras first consid
ered. A memorial was introduced in
the House, House Joint Memorial No.
1, denouncing the fish reserves, and
asking that they be abolished. This
memorial did not offer to Congress
any other plan for preserving the sup
ply of fish, and when the memorial
reached the Senate, Senator Cham
berlain drafted and introduced a sub
stitute resolution, adopting practical
ly everything included in the origin
al House resolution, and urging the
strongest possible way that the whole
control of the fisheries be put in the
hands of the Alaska legislature. This
substitute memorial was voted down
by Mr. Sutherland’s friends in the
Senate, and thereupon both Senator
Chamberlain and myself voted for the
original House Memorial which had
been drafted by Mr. Sutherland. We
thus put ourselves unequivocally on
record against the fish reserves, and
in the language Mr. Sutherland him
self chose.
But that was not sufficient. Short
ly thereafter a resolution was intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Hunt,
ef the First division. It was known
as Senate Joint Resolution’ No. 2. Sen
ator Hunt said that it was introduced
at the request oi'Mf. Sutherland. This
resolution directed the Attorney Gen
eral (Mr. John Rustgard), “to take
such steps as he thinks proper to test
the validity of the various Fish Re
serves recently created in Alaska by
Presidential Proclamations.” While
I had no hope that the-courts would
hold the reserves invalid, I was per
fectly willing 10 have thse matter test
ed in the courts, and so started on
numerous occasions. But the resolu
tion did not stop there. It further
directed the Attorney General: “to
protect and defend, any private citizen
or corporation of the United States
against any charge of the violation of
any rules or regulations promulgated
by the Secretary of Commerce or the
Bureau of Fisheries attempting to
deny to any person or corporation any
right whidh in the opinion of the Attor
ney General is vouchsafed to such
person or corporation by the Constitu
tion or the laws of the United States,
and, to that end, to defray the neces
sary expenses connected with his or
its defense, including the engaging of
attorneys to assist tlje Attorney Gen
eral in the premises whenever he
shall deem the same necessary.”
This meant, and could only mean,
that we declared null and void the
proclamation of the President, and the
rules and regulations thereunder,
(having the force and effect of law),
creating and regulating the fish re
serves. It was' plain rebellion. It would
in ail liklihood have led to bloodshed.
For on the one side wTe should have
had all of the Federal officials and
the power of the United States gov
ernment enforcing the rules and reg
ulations concerning the fish reserves;
and on the other side we should have
had all of the Territorial officials ad
vising all people to disregard these
laws and regulations. I was not ready
then, and I am not ready now, to re
bel against the United States.
I urged and implored Mr. Suther
land’s friends in the Senate to con
fine the resolution to the testing of (
the validity of the fish reserves in
the courts, and said that I would then
be glad to vote for it. But they; would
not do it. They amended the resolu
tion, but as amended it meant the
same thing it did at the beginning,
for as finally written it directed the
Attorney General, “to take such steps
as he deems proper to test the validity
of the various fish preserves created
in the Territory of Alaska by presiden
dial proclamations;and to take such
other steps as he may deem necessary
to defend and render secure the com
evidently believes that we are not fit
to rule ourselves, and that we should
be ruled from Washington. If he is
right, the Alaska Legislature should
be abolished.
I am accused by Mr. Sutherland of
favoring my private clients at the ex
pense of the people of Alaska. There
is only one way in which the Alaska
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Legislature can pbesibly favor or hurt
the fish and mining and other large
financial interests, and that is by tax
ation. Let us compare the taxes im
posed, for example, on the fishing In
terests by the Legislatures of which
Mr. Sutherland was a member, and
the legislatures of which I was a
member. We shall begin with 1917,
because until then the taxes were
low and it was not known exactly how
far the Legislature could go in mat
ters of taxation. Mr. Sutherland, as
above stated, was a member of the
senate in 1917 and 1919.
In 1917 taxes on the salmon can
ning industry were as follows:
Tax on traps _-.$100.00
Tax on kings, reds
and sockeyes .4^ cents per case
Tax on med. reds „2V& cents per case
Tax on all other
salmon ___2 cents per case
IN 1919:
Tax on traps . $100.00
Tax on kings, reds
and sockeyes —5Vz cents per case
Tax on med. reds _3% cents per case
Tax on all others -3 cents per case
IN 1921:
Tax on traps _ —$200.00
Tax on kings, reds
and sockeyes .7 cents per case
Tax on med. reds „3% cents per case
Tax on all others . 3 cents per case
In 1923: (The first year I was in the
Legislature)
Tax on traps, $200.00, plus $2.00 per
1,000 on all fish caught in any trap
above 100,000.
Tax on kinds, reds
and sockeyes _10 cents per case
Tax on med. reds ...4% cents per case
Tax on all others -3 cents per case
Also the following graduated addi
uuiiai itt*vco.
REDS:
10.000 - 25,000 cases 5 cents per case
25.000 - 40,000 cases 10 cents per case
40.000 - 50,000 cases 15 cents per case
And on all above 50,000 cases, 20
cents per case.
MEDIUM REDS, COHOES, PINKS:
25.000 to 40,09 cases, 2 cents per case
40.000 to 50,000 cases, 4 cents per case
And on all above 50,000 cases, 6 cents
per case.
In 1925 taxes on fisheries were left
the same as in 1923.
It will thus be seen that in 1923,
the first year I appeared in the Legis
lature, that body, with my affirmative
voice and vote, raised taxes more
than 100 per cent, over the 1919 sche
3ule (that being the last year Mr.
Sutherland was in the Legislature)
an the red fish, and the red fish are
by far the principal pack of the Alas
ka Packers Association. Can anyone
who has any regard for the truth
say, in view of this fact, that I was
In the least subservient to the wishes
of the Alaska Packers Association,
or any other corporate client. Mr.
Sutherland says it, and when he says
it, he knows that he is not speaking
the truth. He maligns a fellow Al
askan in order that he may be return
ed to Congress. A man who speaks
falsely of his neighbor is beneath the
contempt of all honorable men.
In the 1923 session, taxes were in
creased greatly, as we have seen, on
:he salmon packing industry, but very
little in any other direction. This in
crease was necessary, in my opinion,
in order to support th£ schools of Al
aska, to support the Alaska Agricul
tural College and School of Mines,
and to take care of the aged pioneers.
And that is just how the money was
spent. Let us look at the appropria
tions for the period from 1919 to 1925
inclusive for the College, for the
schools and for the Pioneers.
Appropriations
Year
1917
for
schools:
Amount
.$432,000.00
L919 423,500.00
L921 _ 470,000.00
L923 _ 674,000.00
L925 _ 740,000.00
So it is plain that the last year in
which I served in the Legislature,
L925, the appropriations for schools
were so far increased over 1919, the
iast year in "which Mr. Sutherland
served in the Legislature, that there
s no real comparison. Most of this
ncrease in appropriation came from
;he additional taxes which f voted to
mpose on the fishing industry. Does
;his prove that I betrayed the people
>f Alaska?
Appropriations for the College:
fear Amount
[917 _$ 60,000.00
1919 _ None.
[921 _-_ 41,000.00
L923 _ 90,000.00
L925 _ 163,360.00
And most of this increase during
my terms of office was taken from
the so-called fish trust, and taken by
my full consent, voice and vote. And
yet Mr. Sutherland wickedly says that
[ betrayed the people of Alaska in or
der to favor the fish trust.
Appropriations for the relief of aged
pioneers:
Year Amount
1917 _$ 30,000.00
1919 _L_ 40,600.00
1921 _ 35,600.00
1923 _ 60,000.00
1925 _ 120,600.00
Compare Mr. Sutherland’s-record in
1917 and 1919 with my record in 1923
and 1925. An<L yet the Fish trust
could have been taxed when Mr. Su
therland was in the legislature in
1917 and 1919 just the same as it was
taxed in 1923 and 1925 when I was in
the Legislature. Most of this increase
of taxation came from the fishing in
dustry, the so-called fish trust. Whom
do you think was the better friend of
the people of Alaska: Mr. Sutherland
in 1919, when he helped to impose &
tax of only 5V6 cents per case on red
fish, and thus could appropriate only
$423,500 for the schools, nothing for
the College, and $40,600 for the pio
neer’s pensions; or Tony Dimond in
1925 when he had helped to raise the
tax of his clients’ red fish to 10 cents
per case, plus an, additional graduated
tax, and thus was able to safely ap
propriate $740,000.00 for the schools,
$163,360 for the college, and $120,600
for the relief of aged pioneers. That
is the question that the people of this
Third division must answer by their
votes next Tuesday.
These are facts. And they cannot
be truthfully denied. And in view of
these facts, was I not justified in
mon right of fisheries of the people
of Alaska and the right of the future
state or states created out of the Ter
ritory of Alaska.” I thereupon urged
the other Senators again to leave out
the latter part of the resolution and
to confine it to the testing of the vali
dity of the reserves in the courts. The
Senate adjourned, and when it re-eon
vened, one of Mr. Sutherland’s friends
informed us that “Dan said the reso
lution must gd through as it was writ
ten, and that no amendment should
be made.” Since I wasn’t taking or
ders from “Dan” or anyone else, I
voted against the resolution, and I
voted again to support the Governor’s
veto. And yet Mr. Sutherland in his
speeches at Anchorage and at other
places falsely accused me of having
opposed a testing of the validity of
the fish reserves in the courts. I
did no such thing, and he knows it.
In making this accusation h e has
sought to besmirch me and to fool the
people of Alaska.
The second charge is equally
groundless. This is the charge relat
ing to the tax on fish traps. Mr.
Sutherland in his speech said: “Today
the tax on fish traps is $100.00.” The
“Third Division Republican Club of
Anchorage” in its article in the An
chorage Times has told you that the
tax on traps is $200.00. Neither state
ment is correct. The present tax on
traps is $200.00 per trap, plus $2.00
per thousand on all fish, caught in any
one trap yearly above 100,000.
Mr. Sutherland was a member of
the Territorial'Senate in all of its ses
sions up to and including 1919. Mr.
Frame (Arthur, not John), was a
member of the House in 1921. The
highest tax on traps during Mr. Su
therland’s terms in the Senate was
5100.00 per trap, with no surtax. In
1921 the tax on traps was fixed at
$200.00 per trap, with no surtax.
Neither Mr. Sutherland nor Mr.
Frame ever made any attempt to tax
traps, or the fish caught in traps, ac
cording to the number of fish caught.
They were satisfied with the * flht
tax. Yet they accuse me of being
false to the people of Alaska because
I followed the example they set me.
In fact, I went further, for during my
first term in the Senate a surtax of
$2.00 per thousand on the catch above
100.000 was imposed on fish caught in
traps.
The law firm of which I am a mem
ber represent, for legal matters only,
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IGLOO imO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows Hall; F. B.
Moore, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
retary.
REWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
moqth in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
_ come; Dorothy Urbach,
W. M.; E. L. Sweek, Sec>etgry.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meeta the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows HaU at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem*
bers are always wel
come. Hilma Peter
son, N. G., Sigrid E. Merritt, sec’y.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. \ All visit
1 n g members
welcome
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F.&A.M.
A Stated communications first
^raV'and third Wednesdays of each
/V\months visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M:; Elwyn
Swetmann, Secretary. »
RE8URRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
^-^8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Rail, next to the postoffice. Vlatung
brothers welcome. Ludvig Larsson,
N. G., Charles Lechner, secretary.
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