lessee has resided on the land
for at least throe years and pay
ing $2.50 per acre for said land.
To repeal the present law pro
viding for the location of placer
mining claims and restoring to
Alaska the general mining laws
cf the United States, as pertain
ing to placer claims. (By request
cf the Territorial Legislature).
To provide that no boat, trap,
or other property, belonging to
any Indian or other person re
siding in Alaska, shall be seized
and held for forfeiture for alleg
ed violation of the fisheries law,
until after the arrest, trial and
conviction of the owner or oper
ator of saicl property.
Amending a Dill to provide
that it shall be unlawful to
wantonly waste or destroy salm -
on or other food fishes taken in
the waters of Alaska; nor shall
any portion of food fishes, ex
cept the offal, be manufactured
into oil or fertilizer.
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ANOTHEE CONSERVATION
MEASURE
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Commissioner of Fisheries
Henry O’ Malloy states to the
Delegate that he has made it
plain to all interested persons
that the fish traps which were
temporarily closed in Alaska in
the season of 1931 must either be
closed permanently in 1932 or
operated by their owners. The
only exception is the case of
t^aps between Luck Point and
Cape Chacon. He further states
that if any of the Companies de
sire to close any traps tempora
rily in the season of 1932, other
than those which were tempora
rily closed in 1931, favorable ac
tion would probably be taken
thereon. The War Department
has advised that it plans to con
tinue the policy of refraining
from requesting the surrender of
any permit, for an Alaskan fish
trap thus temporarily closed in
1931.
Republican Feud
Takes New Angle
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The feud which broke out be
tween Attorney General John
Rustgard and Walstein G .Smith,
Treasurer on one side as Board
cf Appeals and Auditor Cash
Cole on the other, took a new
angle when the Juneau School
Board entered into the fight by
categorically denying the as
sertions of the Auditor that the
claims for transportation of
children to school we re exhori
tant.
Attorney Frank Foster was
delegated by the Attorney Gen
eral to institute suit to force
p a y m c nt of transportation
claims, along with claim of
Grover C. Winn for extra cleri
cal services following the last
legislature. Mr. Cole, in a signed
statement to the Board advised
that Board that he would abide
by their ruling but places full
responsibility for such action
upon them. That his ruling had
been made in protection of his
office and bond which is in the
sum of $25,000. Under the law
the auditor is held under bond
and is personally liable for any
malfeasance or misfeasance in
office and for knowingly paying
out territorial funds for claims
which he knows to be improper.
The Board took the view that
the Auditor had no right to go
back of the actions of the sev
eral agencies which might con
tract territorial liabilities Ac
tion of t’ e Board of Appeals now
takes from the Auditor respon
sibility for payment of unjust
claims against the territory.
The feud which has broken
out in the Republican circles in
Juneau augers well for a com
plete victory of the Democrats
in the primary and general elec
tions. Unless National Commit
teeman Lathrop is able to patch
up the differences and to bring
harmony into the warring folds
of Republicanism, the party
might just as well fold up its
banners and put them away for
it will enjoy the most stinging
defeat in the history of Alaska
politics in the next elections.
And from present indications it
does not appear that the Com
mitteeman will be able to func
tion in his office as he should.
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MONROE DOCTRINE OF
EUROPE IS PREDICTED
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“The present move toward
tariff protection in England and
on the continent is developing a
European Monroe Doctrine to be
built up for the purpose of
maintaining European security
over the United States, just as
100 years ago our Monroe Doc
trine was announced in order to
maintain American security a
gainst Europe,” said Francis P.
Miller, chairman of the World
Student Federation.
Mr. Miller spoke on “The Eco
nomic and Financial Relations
Between Europe and the United
States” at the University Y. M.
C. A., Seattle.
Mr. Miller believes America
eventually will have to adept
free trade, and points out that
just as Lincoln declared we
could not exist “half slave and
free,” neither can the world
exist “half free trade and half
high tariff.”
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A petition filed in the United
States district court at Juneau,
requesting permission for the in
corporation of the Indian Vil
lage of Hoonah, was rejected by
Judge Justin W. Harding on the
ground that the cost of adminis
tration, which could come only
from business interests, would
be excessive. Under an act pass
ed by the territorial legislature,
the village sought to incorporate
as a city of the second class.