ticket with the exception of one
divisional office where there
were five candidates for the
House with four to be elected.
It is freely said throughout
the Territory that Mr. Hesse was
not the favorite of the Demo
cratic Party, but that Mr. Som
mers’s friends were more inter
ested in defeating Judge Wtck
ersham in the Republican pri
mary than they were in staying
in their own party and putting
over Mr. Sommers.
The vote as issued by the Aud
itor’s Office is as follows:
.Hesse.
First Division. 112
Second Division. 16
Third Division.85
Fourth Division. 94
-Totals 307
Somers. . . .
First Division. 110
Second Division. 52
Third Division. 55
Fourth Division . . ,. 71
Totals 288
Mr. Sommers carried only the
second Division. Mr. Hesse has
announced that he intends to
go after the job in the general
election next fall, putting on a
s'rong campaign.
THE PROSPECTOR’S AID—
WHO INTRODUCED IT
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The prospector’s aid law which
allows $150 to bona fide pros
pectors who apply for it was in
troduced in the Senate of 1927
by Senators Charles Brown of
Nome and Dunn of Ruby, and
passed by a unanimous vote.
The motion to approve the se
cond and favorable committee
report in the House was made by
Representative Fred Johnston
and seconded by Representative
Hosea H. Ross, both of Fair
banks.
The report that Walter Fish
er of Fairbanks “put the bill
thru” is not true.
Fisher Opposed the Bill
Walter Fisher was chairman
of the Committee on Mining
and Manufacturing. On page
163 of the House Journal Record
shows:
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produce only hard transparent ice which preserves the lisb
one hundred per cent.
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PORT ALEXANDER 1911 L. C. SMITH BUILDING
“Report from the Committee
on Mining: and Manufacturing,
recommending that Senate Bill
No. 8 (the prospector’s aid bill)
DO NOT PASS.”
Joining with Walter Fisher in
in opposing the bill were “Slim”
Rydeen of Nome, Joseph Mur
ray of Cordova, Robert Sheldon
of Fairbanks, and Charles Fer
guson of Craig.
On April 7th, 1927, when the
bill came up for second reading,
after which it could not be
amended without increased dif
ficulty, William L. Paul held the
bill in second reading while the
attorney General wrote his
opinion on the legality of the
bill. This move was to answer
the objections of Walter Fish
er and his committee.
A favorable opinion was receiv
ed whereupon Joseph Murray,
Seconded by Ralph Lomen p. 181
House Journal, 1927) moved to
recommit the bill. This was for
the purpose of killing the bill in
Walter Fisher’s committee. Fred
Johnston therefore moved, se
conded by Robert Sheldon—who
had now had a change of heart
—that the bill be held in com
mittee. an unusual but effective
method which in reality re
flects on the committee.
The second report from Fish
er’s committee was favorable to
the bill altho two amendments
were offered. However the first
leport was against the passage
of the prospector’s aid bill with
without qualification. The min
er amendments offered (defin
ing the word “prospector” to be
a citizen and resident within the
Territory for one year and in
cluding the words travel “by
dogs, horses, etc.,”) were not im
portant and really within the
language of the bill anyway.
On final passage the vote was
unanimous for the bill.
“All power is .inherent in .the
people::All power to the people.