Pelly Accuses Alaska Legislature
Of Imposing Discriminatory Taxes
On Non-Resident Fishermen
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska’s
Legislature enacted five laws be
tween 1921 and 1953 designed to
impose a discriminatory tax on
non-residents who fish commerc
ially in Alaskan waters, Rep.
Pelly (R-Wash) charged Wed.
Pelly made his charges in a re
ply to contentions voiced Tues
day by Delegate Bartlett ©-Alas
ka) that fears of non-residents
against discriminations by Alaska
under statehood were groundless
and bas%d on false assumptions.
Cited by the Seattle Congress
man, within whose district many
of the fishermen who frequent
Alaskan waters, were a 1921 Ter
ritorial act imposing $5 license
on non-resident fishermen and
none on residents, a 1929 act im
posing a $250 license tax on non
resident hook and line fisher
men and $1 on all classes of resi
dent fishermen, a 1933 law im
posing a $25 license fee on non
residents and $1 on residents, and
a 1949 act imposing a $50 li
cense fee on non-residents and
$5 on residents.
Both the 1929 and 1949 laws
were held invalid by the courts,
Pelly said, adding that although
the 1949 ruling was upheld by the
Supreme Court it “has not been
accepted by the Territorial Leg
islature.”
“At the 1953 session,” he said,
“the legislature with full know
ledge of the Supreme Court rul
ing, imposed another discrimi
natory tax on non-residents. To
date a validity of this act has not
been challenged.”
This act, he said, levied a license
fee of $10 on non-residents and
$5 on resident fishermen.
Among measures which he
said Bartlett or his predecessor,
Delegate Dimond, had introduced
unsuccessfully in Congress were
proposals to limit the right to
fish by set nets and purse seines
in certain Alaskan waters to those
who had lived in the area for
five years, to insure priority of
employment of workers and fish
ermen to residents of Alaska
and to relax enforcement provi
sions of the fishery laws and reg
ulations as to residents but not
to non-residents.
Pelly denied an area-licensing
bill enacted by the Washington
Legislature constituted a discrim
ination against Alaskans. He said
the law’s impact was felt only by
those who fish with gill nets and
“since residents of Alaska do not
fish in the state of Washington
with gill nets, they are not af
fected by the law.”
He also described the Alaska
Fish and Game Commission Bill
enacted by the 1957 Alaska Leg
islature as a “neat plan . . . where
by under statehood the coup de
grace will be delivered to all
non-residents in the fishing in
dustry.”
Pelly said this commission is
“heavily weighted in favor of
commercial fishing interests.”
He reiterated his intention to
'offer an amendment to the Alas
ka statehood bill which would
delay transfer of Alaska’s fish
eries to the new state until the
Secretary of Interior certifies
that the Alaska Legislature has
made adequate provision for their
administration, management and
perpetuation.
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Couple Survive
Rigorous Ordeal
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JOHN DAY, Ore., W) —An in
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yesterday after lying helpless
beside a wrecked plane^ since
her husband set out pantless
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Doctors said Mrs. Bruce Davis
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After their plane crashed Mon
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with pain from a hip fracture.
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good condition.
Aside from the hip fracture,
though, she suffered extensive
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“I don’t remember much. I
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self, I cried and I prayed a little.
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I had to get out from the shelter
which was hidden by the timber.
I rolled about 300 feet down the
slope into the clearing.
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I fell a hundred times,” he said
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finally reached a ranch house
early yesterday. Its occupant, a
woman, was frightened. She
She locked the door and turned
him away, Davis said.
So on he went. At the next
ranch Mr. and Mrs. Gus Robert
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