THE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
OF NINETEEN AND
TWENTYFIVE
HOUSE BILL NO. 9.
Otherwise known as the booze
bill. This bill was introduced by
N. 6. Hardy of Juneau, and had
for its purpose the repeal of the
Alaska Bone Dry Act and the ex
tension of the National Prohibition
Act as the local prohibition law
of. the Territory, permitting trials
to be had in the commissioners
court. Mr. Hardy argued that the
present situation is very confusing,
and the passage of his bill would
assist the officers to prosecute the
bootleggers. H. L. Fau.lkner, at
torney of Juneau, who defend"’
many bootleggers appeared in sup
port of the bill and said that the
present situation wag not fair to
the bootlegger, for the reason that
when he was arrested he would not
know whether he was to be tried
under the Alaska Bone Dry Act
or Under the Volstead act. Con
cerning; the power of the Legisla
ture to pass such a bill Mr. Faulk
ner thought that it could be done,
although he was not positive. Dr.
W. A. Borland of Juneau, also
appeared for the bill and said it
should be passed for the reason
that one time when Prohibition
Director Arthi.r Means was very
sick Dr. Borland got a special per
mit from Judge Reed which en
abled the Doctor to procure some
brandy. This he poured down
the Prohibition Director’s throat
and he was revived at once.
Emory Valentine got somewhat
off the. subject and said that pro
hibition was a failure anyway,
and proved it by telling the Legis
lature ,that he had been in. practi
cally all the finest homes of Juneau
and in every such home there were
large quantities of liquor, and the
same was served on the table.
When Commander Hardy of the
booze forces called Dr. DeVighne
to speak his little piece the good
Doctor, sensing that his army was
having a hard time, had beaten a
discreet retreat. The final argu
ment was made by Hon. Joseph
T. Murray of McCarty, and was
merely a summary of what others
had said. Although he stated that
he was willing to say that he had
downed mt.ch liquor in his time
ns any man in the room. This,
of course, was conceded.
For the forces opposing the boot
leggers bill Attorney General Rust
gard made perhaps the best speech,
and showed that the supporters of
the bill were really working in
the interests of the law violators.
District Attorney Arthur Shoup
also gave his influence to tiho
prohibition forces. Wiilliam L.
Paul called attention to the astonish
ing statement of Mr. Faulkner who
said that when he was in New
York City he attended a banquet
of lawyers and he observed every
table was supplied with liquor. Mr.
Paul took the occasion to tell of
the Convention of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood where there were over
GOO Indians gathered for eight days,
during which time not a single
drop of liquor was in evidence.
One person, a Porto Rican, got
drunk and was promptly arrested
by the Indians and fined. Mr. Paul
suggested that Mr. Faulkner’s
friends, the 600 lawyers, were
able to real and write and would
qualify as excellent voters^ accord
ing to Mr. Faulkner’s appeal for
a literacy test, and yet on his
own confession were violators of
the law.
Mr. Jenson of Nome closed the
debate by reading a letter from
the W. C. T. U. which Mrr. Harrais
had sent to each of the Legis
lators.
The Speaker then put the ques
tion, which can bo interpreted as
follows: Shall the booze bill pass7
Yeas, 6— Grier, Hardy, Moody,
Murray, Sheldon, Wilcox; nayes,
10— Elliott, Ferguson, Grant, Jen
son, Nylon, Paul, Ross, Sherman.
Sundquist, Watson.
And so the bill failed to pass.
HOUSE BILL NO. 10
Was introduced by Mr. Elliott
of Nome and makes the stealing
of certain domestic animals lar
ceny. This bill was passed unani
mously.
HOUSE BILL NO. 11
Was introduced by Mr. Nylen of
Nome, and was for the purpose
of repealing the act placing a
bounty on eagles. The main argu
ment alvanced by Mr. Nylen was
this: The Territory had spent over
$14,000.00 for eagle bounties and
yet there seemed to be just as
many eagles in Alaska as ever,
and therefore it was hopeless to
try and exterminate this bird, and
that further efforts in this line
were not only a waste of money
but would bankrupt the Territory,
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