WHAT ALASKA WILL LOSE
(Continued from Yesterday.)
Sections twenty one and twen
ty five tnen disapprove aii acts
01 the teintonai legislature im
posing taxes upon tne "fish-deal
ing establishments” and all acts
ot congress granting power to
the legislature to impose such
taxes, wieariy this is noth "ter
ritorial legislation” and "the re
vision theieot, ’ and outside the
junsuiction of the committee on
merchant marine and fisheries.
Again, look at the result. The
report of the Alaska fisheries and
fur industries, 1914, states that
the investlnent in tne Alaska fish
eries alone at that time amount
ed to $37,038,632—all subject to
taxation under the power granted
to /tile- territorial legislature at
not to exceed one per cent on
the assessed valuation. Of this
amount the real estate items are:
Canneries, total No- 8x,
value.$6,227,861
Mild curing, No. 17,
value. 98,139
Salteries, No. 15, value 78,421
Halibut, shore and fix
ed property. 367,00c
Cod, value shore sta
tions . 116,203
Herring, shore prop
perty .. .. 56,
Y/uaie stations, value
plants . 612,90c
Fa.tilizors, value of
plants. 87.08;
Total value of real
property .$9,644,111
Here, then, is real property in
Alaska, of the value of nearly
ten millions of dollars which Ff
R. 9528 proposes to release from
taxauon and place beyond the
reach of the legislature to tax
by repealing the law which now
makes it taxable. That rea.
property is now liable to pay a;
much as two per cent if in in
corporated towns, under presen!
acts of congress, but if outside
of incorporated towns may onlj
be taxeu one per cent. Assume
that it is all outside of incorpor
ated towns, the tax would be
$90,441 per annum.
Accoruing to tne fisheries re
port tor 1914, there are 81 salmoi
canneries, 17 mild curing plant?
and 15 salteries in Alasxa; the
number of other "fishery estab
J.shnients” will not more thai
ecjual the combined numbe^ oi
caneries, salteries and mild cur
ing plants, which gives us 226
"fishery establishments” in flhe
territory. Under sections 1 and
2 these 26 "fishery establish
ments” will pay only a "license
fee and tax” ot $5 each, “in lieu
of all other federal or territorial
license fees and taxes- whatever
or $1130 of which Alaska will re
ceive only one half, or $565
The account would sfanu tTius:
Taxes on “fishery estab
ments” at 1 per cent. . .$96,441
One half tax under H. R.
9528 .. 565
Loss of Alaska taxes by
..H. R. 9528.$95,876
Alaska would thus lose $95,
876, on this change in her “terri
torial legislation” on real prop
erty alone, and a total of $370,338.
on both real and personal prop
erty belonging to “fishery estab
lishments ’ which are now taxa
ble as other property belonging*
to other business institutions in
taxable. Clearly H. R. 9528 is
“territorial legislation” of th<<
most important kind, and one
can reauiiy understand why the
“fish lobby” is active and ener
getic in its support.
d. Kepeais tne Alaska school
fund law. d
e- Kepeais the ^Ylaska road
fund law.
f. kepeais the Alaska indigent
fund law.
The “Alaska fund” was creat
ed in the treasury department by
the act of January 27, 1905. TIv;
act provided “that all moneys de
rived from and collected for li
quor licenses, occupation, or trado
license outside of the incorporat
ed towns in Alaska shall be de
posited in the treasury of the
United States there to remain a*
a separate .and distinct fund, to
be known as the “Alaska fund,”
and to be wholy devoted to the
purpose hereinafter stated in the
district of Alaska t One fourth
of said fund, or so much thereof
as may be necessary shall be de
voted to the establishment and
maintenance of public schools in
said district; five per centum of
said fund shall be devoted to the
care and maintenance of insane
persons in said district, or §o
much of said five per centum as
may be needed; and ail the resi
due of said fund shall be de
moted to the construction, and
maintenance of wagon roads,
bridges, and trails in said dis
trict.” 33 Stat. L. 616.
Amenuments to this act have
been made from time to time by
bills considered and reported
from the committee on the ter
ritories, and how the ‘‘Alaska
fund” is appropriated by the pro
visions of the act of March 3,
1913. 37 Stat. L. 728, to the fol
lowing uses: 25 per cent to the
support of public schools, 10 per
cent to the relief of the aged and
indigent, and 65 per cent to the
building and repair of public
roads- The greater part of this
fund is derived from the payment
of license fees by those 11011-resi
dent corporations engaged in the
taking and carrying away of Al
aska's fisheries, and section 25 of
II. R. 9528 would thus repeal the
laws through which we get the
greater portion of Alaska school,
road and indigent funds.
These matters have heretofore
been consul f;ed in bills before,
the committee on the territories,
and clearly the provisions of II.
Id 9528 belong within the juris
diction of that committee, since
it utterly wrecks and destroys
legislation carefully planned aiuf
enacted into law by it for the
government of Alaska.
It is apparent to one at all fa
maliar with the laws of Alaska
that H. R. 9528 is most carelesss*
ly drawn. The defects pointed
cut are not all, nor even the most
serious, hut they are enough to
show its consideration involves
the most important of the terri
torial legislation of Alaska—•
hence it ought to be considered
from that point of view.
g H. R. 9528 is “territorial
legislation.”
Even if it he conceded that H.
R. 9528 relates to fisheries in Al
aska it must also be conceded
that much of it relates also to
“territorial legislation” which
would necessarily have to be sup
plied by the committee on the
"ritories if H. R. 9528 became
a law with its repealing clauses.
Now it is not all "territorial
legislation” under the long estab
lished practice by the house of
referring all Alaska territory fish*
ery bills, with their nqn->fi3hery
elements, to the committee on the
territories, and the consideration,
report, and passage of such bills
from that committee?
Herewith atached is a state
ment showing the reference made
of all Alaska territory fisheries
mils which 1 can find in the Rec
ord. Notice that one was re
ferred to public lands, one to
ways and means, one to revision
>f the laws, fifteen to merchant
marine and fisheries and twenty
six to territories.
While a few bills have from
time to time reached the commit
tee on merchant marine and fish
eries, that committee has never
given Alaskan fisheries bills any
attention nor even held hearings
thereon. On the contrary the
committee on the territories has
considered and passed thq acts
of congress of June 9, 1896,
(house report No. 1453, 29 Stat.
L 316) of June 15, 1906, (house
report No. 2485, 34 Stat. L. 263),
and the act of June 26, 190& (34
Stat. L. 476, house report Na
2(J57)> which have been the Al
aska fisheries laws for more than
twenty years. The committee on
the territories has also conducted
extensive hearings on those and
other Alaska fisheries bills.
Now a contant uniform prac
tice for more than twenty years
on the part of the committee on
merchant marine and fisheries,
and the committee on territories,
ought to be satisfactory evidence
of the admitted jurisdiction of the
latter committee over Alaska
fisheries, bills as Territorial leg
islation.” The committee on
merchant marine and fisheries
has not held a hearing about or
considered an Alaska fisheries
bill for more than twenty years,
and there is not an act relating
to the fisheries of Alaska on the
.statute books w'hich that com
mittee has reported or passed.
But waiving the question of
technical jurisdiction under the
rules, the delegate from Alaska
appeals to the chairman and
members of the committee on
mprchnnt marine and fisheries to
move to refer H. R 9528 to the
committee on the territories so
that the best interests of the pub
lic may be served by a full hear
ing of all the bills on the same
general subject which will then bet
pending before a single commit
tee. Any other action can only
result in delay in the passage of
much needed legislation for the
protection of this great food sup
ply from monopoly and final de
struction Respectfully,
JAMES WICKERSHAM,
Delegate from Alaska.
ALASKA
JIOTES
The Ebner Gold Mining Com
pany has filed a protest against
the application for a patent of the
Alaska-juneau (Sold Mining Com
pany for twenty four mining
claims in the Silver Bow basin.
1 he protest is based on a conflict
of a number of the claims with
patented mining claims owned Dy
the Ebner company. The clash
ing of the big mining companies
over the mining claims and watei
rights promise fruitful litigation
for the Juneau attorneys.
The Juneau land office has re
jected the showing of Joseph
W eyerhorst who made applica- j
lion for patent on a group of'
claims 011 Douglas island. The
application was rejected because
at the time of filing of his applica
tion he did not show that $500
worth of work had been done on
each of the claims The action of
the land office in denying patent
to the ground is subject to appeal
before the commissioner of the
general land office and it is be
lieved the case will be carried up.
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vention and it remained for a Ju
neau man to discover a way to
thaw out waterpipes by electri
city. During the recent cold
spell he placed a large transform
er on a sled which could be mov
ed from place to place and with
a heavy transmission cable nook
ed to one end of the pipe with a
ground on the other end, the cur
rent was shot through. The heat
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