Ivi:t< iiik\\ school loakd \m» Tmio\
The School Hoard of Ketchikan (like any other;
does not have any legal right t<> charge tuition tor out
side children in the public schools ol’ Ketchikan.
The courts have always held tout. School Boards
have only those powers which are expressly granted or
by implication necessary carry out those express powers.
There is no law which gives any school hoard in
Alaska the right to charge tuition. This attempt on
tlu' part of the Ketchikan School Board is unlawful.
Law of 1 !)U7
The law of 1 927 provides that the Territory of
Alaska shall pay $30. tuition to cities who educate out
side children provided however that in no case shall
the Territory p; to any one city more than $30,000.
History of 10127 Law
Mouse Mill number JO (introduced by me) l»u.->
(lie 1 louse giving Ketchikan a straight refund oi 7
without, limitation ($33,7.r»0 in 1028). The Senate
wrote the. bill and proposed to the large cities $-•>,
plus tuition. This would have been the law, but < n
proposal of Senator Will Steel that the limit be pin
at $30,000 without tuition, this plan was followed
being expressly stated in debate that in this case
cities would absorb the tuition.
The School Board of Ketchikan is simply phiv
politics in trying to force outside districts to come i
the city limits, and to get away from the rumpus t
have, started, have blamed the writer maliciously
they have the facts.
WILLIAM L. PAUL,
Member Alaska Legislature
S'i .iTtiiiO() 1)
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Fourteen, years ago Judge James
\Vi“kersliam, author of the Organic
Act, speaking to a joint session of
th- Alaska Legislature, at Juneau,
Alaska, stated in almost the exa “t
language used by the Supreme Court
of the Tinted States when handin
d >;\n the recent decision on taxation
ot ti e Fisheries of Alaska, namely:
T.n right to impose a prohibitory
t<>: if they deemed it necessary to
preserve the lishing industry.
This dual power vested in the Bu
reau of Fisheries on the one sid *
and the Territory of Alaska on the
other side is conflicting and can be
remedied but one way—control thr.i
S. a’ ebood.
Alaska has 4,000 miles of salt wa
ter frontage, and 30,000 miles of es
terries and tidelaiuls which alone
would sustain a State. This vast
amount of tidelands under State con
tiot would solve the problem of tlm
governed by the consent of the gov
erned.
What the people of Alaska want
most of all are facts and figures.
Ohio became a State with a popu
lation of 45,000; Nevada with a pop
1- lion of 42,000. The population
of Alaska, under the last census
(4 020) was 55,030. This gives Alas
ka approximately 1 0,000 more po
pulation limn Ohio, and 1 3,000 more
l)v'’Mlalion than Nevado, wnen State
hood was granted to them.
The following arc some facts and
fi. ores taken from the report of til a
Forest Service as of January 1,
1 C» 2 6:
ft 1 'jH
S UTHLASTEUN ALASKA TON
GA SS NATIONAL FOUL ST
UL POUT
Board feet of lumber. 80,000,000000
« huga<h National lorest Keport
lio.iid feet of lumber (in stand-...
ng timber) .5,000,000,000
't otal value of above $100,000,000
Every 1,0 0 0 feet of lumber cut
m ans $8.00 in wages.
Gutting 700,000,000 feet annual
ly as permitted under Forest Uules,
would at $8.0 per 1,000 feet, in
wages amount to $0,020,000.00
In addition to the above Forest
r* sources we have available and tin
d< veloped Ilydro-electric power es
t.mated at 500,000 horse power. This
power when developed and in use
will furnish employment to SO,000
persons in the manufacture of pulp
a.' ! paper alone. In other word*
tne limber of Alaska is capable of
supporting a permanent population
of 25 0,00 0.
Total investment in the Fish
eries of Alaska up to and
ror the year 1 022,.. $00,027,077
Total number of people em
ployed iu the canning in
dustry for the year
1923
25,
Total investment in mining
equipment in Alaska . $20,000,
Total fur market for years
i922, 19223, 1924, and
19 2;") .$ 2,5 36,
Total assessed valuation in
18 Incorporated towus$2t,283,
Total Alaska fund outside In
corporated towns . . . . $ 298,
Total Hank deposits 192 1 $10,000.
Alaska commerce 1925 aggre
gated . $95,423
On, going shipments including
merchandise, gold and sil
Aterchandise shipped into Alas
ka.3 3,1 9 9
Balance of trade in our fovar
1 9 25 .$29,f 24
For the past ten years, the v
of copper mines has exceeded
value of gold mones by sev
(70'/, ) Per cent.
The total gross revenue fr >m
mining industry to 1926 has
$553,000,000.00. The total e
revenue from the fisheries during
nast ten years only, has been $ -
on0,000.0 0 or a grand total of $1
0t 9,000.00.
9 he natural revenues of Ala
quoted above create an int
to the residents and to the gov
irg body which would take car
any two States in the Union n
h ss Alaska. The Territory of i