the tariff of two cents per pound on fish packed in
Prince Rupert, a measure placed there by “the present
delegate.”
Of course, “the present delegate” has denounced
the “present fish policies of the Secretary of Com
merce.” The vote of every fishing community does the
same tiling. When the fish are gone, as it seems likely,
it will be a sad tale to chronicle.
THE SECRETARY’S SALARY
Each year when an attempt has been made to do
away with the federal secretary and provide for a se
cretary responsible to the citizens of Alaska, the at
tempt has been defeated by Karl Thiele and liis friend
the Juneau Empire.
Judge Wickersham and others have known for a
long time that the salary paid Thiele by the Territor
ial Treasurer was UNLAWFUL, but everyone hoped
that the question could be settled without court action
And each year Karl Thiele has fought for liis ILLEG
AL salary.
That is the reason Judge Wickersham started the
lawsuit restraining the Treasurer from continuing hi.-<
UNLAWFUL practice.
Then comes Governor George Parks and throug *
Congressman CURRY asks Congress to make this
CRIME legal by a special bill. And because it was de
feated, the Juneau Empire sheds tears of sorrow.
As a RESULT of Wickersham’s lawsuit, an
ELECTIVE secretary MUST be provided by the next
Legislature.
“A BILL TO LEGALIZE FRAUD”
This should be the title to the bill introduced in
Congress by Mr. Currv at the request of Governor
George A. Parks. For many years, Territorial Treas
urer Walstein G. Smith has been paying Federal Se
cretary Karl Thiel $2,000. a year under an act which
Judge Thomas M. Reed has declared unlawful—Wick
ersham vs. Smith.
Now the Governor wants Congress to make it le
gal.
The next thing, we may expect bank robbers to
have bills introduced to make their business honoi
able. Why not?
DAN SUTHERLAND
Sutherland, our Delegate, says this about the ef
HERRING SUPPLY O. K.
ALASKANS ARE TOLD
U. S. Commissioner O’Malley Kay*
Present Regulations Will Pro
tect Food Fish
Replying to a communication
ft om the Alaska Native Brother
hood, sent to him by Senator Wes
lev L. Jones, Henry O’Malley, com
missioner of fisheries, has written
to the senator that there is no
authority of law by which the use
of herring for manufacture of oil
and meal may be prohibited, and
pointing out that much herring oi
goes into the manufacture of oleo
margarine and lard substitutes,
that the herring fisheries of Alaska
are being rapidly depleted. Mr.
O’Malley, however, says the record*
oi his office do not indicate that.
The 1927 regulations for South
eastern Alaska, the commissionei
states, reduced the herring fishing
season about 30 per cent as com
pared with 1926, and new regula
tions going into effect January l
Tbe Brotberfcood represented
continue these limitations. H w
feels that they are adequate.
Fish meal, he said, while ordi
narily referred to as fertilizer, is
used extensively for feeding cattle,
hogs and poultry. Most of the
west coast production is taken by
pouitrymen.
A scientific study of Alaska her
ring will be made by an investigator
of the Fisheries Bureau, Mr. O’Mal
ley says.—Seattle Sunday Times,
Dec 25, 1927.
(Editors note:—We reprint the
above to show the people the styl^
of propoganda used by the Bureau
of Fisheries. They now call “fer
tilizer” “fish meal.” They falsely
claim to have no authority to stop
the wanton waste of herring. Every
body knows, if he knows anything,
that the herring are being deplete i
exactly as shown by the ALASKA
NATIVE BROTHERHOOD. The
“scientific study of Alaska herring
is now a fake. In 1913 Dr. Ever
man of the Bureau recommended
that herring plants “be closed
down.” O’Malley now keeps up the
fraud investigation (since none is
mr.de) to delay action.
PATRONIZING HOME INDUSTRY
i he Alaska Government Railway
has given the Ketchikan Spruce
Mills, Inc., an order for 2,255,000
feet of lumber.
PORT ALEXANDER AND
RESURRECTION BAV
On April 14th, the House or Re
presentatives Committee on Rivers
and Harbors approved the projects
for improvements of Port Alexander
and Resurrection Bay.
it is proposed to provide a chan
nel 15 feet deep and 150 feet wide
at Port Alexander. The cost will
b? $17,000.
The cost of improving Resurrec
tion Bay will be $85,000 and will
provide a harbor refuge at Seward.
The improvement cannot be
made before 1929.
The fellow who has a “drag”
usually is a drag on the organization.