by special agents of the De
partment of Justice substantiat
ed the admissions of Mr. Shoup.
The pity of it is that Judge
Heed is also the victim of the
“political coup” that made Mor
rissey Commissioner and thus
pulled out of the fire the chest
nuts of Heckman and others
who had endorsed his notes
when he “bought” the printing
plant.
But the single act that de
termined Judge ^Reed’s case,
if there was but a single act,
was the contempt case in
which he sentenced Harris to
jail for perjury, who later was
declared by a jury to be not
guilty of the charge of per
jury for which he had already
served a term in jail.
lhis was a serious mistake.
Judge Reed made a fine im
pression when he assumed the
responsibility- However, in de
fending his judgment, Judge
Reed made a second serious
mistake, a matter of ethics,
when he offered a letter sign
ed by Henry Roden, the at
torney for Harris in the case
under consideration. In this
letter Roden said that Judge
Reed committed no wrong “be
cause Harris was really guilty.”
This led Senator Overman (a
former judge) to ask “What
kind of lawyers do you have
in Alaska that would write
such a letter?”
Of these three men Judge
Reed really had the sympathy
of the committee. But Reed
was destroyed by his design
ing “friends;” 1st by his ap
pointment of Morrissey, a man
notoriously blind to violations
of our prohibition laws; 2nd
by his act in joining with
Shoup and Bone against Frame;
3rd by submitting the Roden
letter which condemned a
client to aid a Judge.
I should m ention an incident
in the Ritchie hearing that
show how fast these Senators
work. Ritchie was defending
himself by attacking Sherman
Duggan, who had been U. S.
Attorney in the Third Division.
He claimed that Duggan had
subpoenaed a doctor from Cor
dova to Valdez, ostensibly to
be a witness for the govern
ment but really to treat Mrs.
Duggan. Quick as a flash a
Senator who apparently had
been asleep, said in a quiet
way, “Did you approve the
voucher, Mr. Ritchie?” The
“defense” vanished as Ritchie
saw the trap he had caught
himself in and his “Yes, but-”
did him no good.
William L. Paul.
DISPOSAL OF FISHERY
OFFAL
The attention of Alaska fish
ery operators has been called
to Senate Joint Resolution No.
2, passed by the last Territori
al legislature, calling upon the
Attorney General to investi
gate certain conditions in the
fisheries and draft laws for
the abatement of certain evils.
The matters specifically men
tioned in the resolution are
housing facilities, the con
tract system of cannery labor,
and in particular the pollution
of waters in the vicinity of
canneries and salteries of offal.
Judging by the prevailing
sentiment in the territory, leg
islation on these matters with
in the next year is by no means
unlikely. There is, of course,
no certainty as to what, if any,
action, will be taken at this
time; but it seems safe to pre
dict that before any very dis
tant time such plants will be
required to make more satis
factory disposal of their offal
than is now customary at many
points. If properly managed,
the result should be beneficial.
It would certainly make the
fishery plants more attractive
to visitors, many of whom now
get an unfavorable impression;
and it should be possible to
turn the offal into profit.
ihis is now done at a num
ber of canneries. Offal in the
vicinity of Ketchikan and Pet
ersburg is systematically col
lected and turned into by-pro
ducts. and the reduction plants
used by the Alaska Packers
Association at Chignik, Karluk
and Alitak are said to give
very satisfactory results. Types
of reduction plants now in
use. it is true, are not generally
felt to meet the needs of many
canneries; but in view of the
attitude of the Territory, if
for no other reason, it is ad
visable for packers to give
some attention to the possibil
ities in this direction. Manu
facturers of equipment have
long been studying the matter,
and will be prepared to supply
small reduction units, especial
ly adopted to the needs of the
individual cannery or saltery.
Such units, if they prove ef
ficient, will be well worth while
merely in making satisfactory
disposal of the offal; but they
should also prove a profitable
adjunct to the packing plant.
Discharge of oil and sludge
from herring reduction works
is also receiving attention.
Much valuable material has
formerly been lost in this way,
creating a disagreeable condi
tion around the plants; but it
is now understood that efficient
machinery is being introduced
for the recovery of oil and
meal formerly discharged from
the settling tanks, which will
serve the double purpose of
keeping the water free of such
matter and increasing the out
put of the plants^—Pacific
Fisherman.
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