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IS THK OOXST1TITIOX A Kt'KAI* OF PAPKE'
' If the decision of Judges Carpenter and Wilkerson denying the
right of the President to pardon Philip Grossma-n is upheld by the .Su
preme Court, it will remove one more clause from the Constitution of
the United States.
With the technique of legal decision it is not easy to differ. By a
sophistry cunningly written into the Volstead Act. Grossman is being
punished not for violating a law of tin* lamp but f.»r disobeying a judge’s
order that he do not disobey the law of tin* land- The- President, they
say. has no power to pardon men whom, the judges order not to disobey
the law,-although he may pardon those who disobey the-law.
The violence to the constitution .in tl\is case arises Jr m the fact
that a power was conferred upon-.the •■court inconsistent yvith the bill of
rights of the United States. The injunction clause of the Volstead Act
was inserted to defeat the right of .trial .by jury.
The history of criminal law .shows that juries-tend to-execute the
law in a spirit of leniency and the judges • yrt the la\y in-the direction
of tyrrany. Our Constitution recognizes that* fact. . However, it-was
the intention, of the framers of the Volstead Act to have, the statute
administered in the latter way, the constitution of the United States
to the contrary, notwithstanding. „
Whether Grossman was a good citizen or an evil character,, he was
charged with the commission <>f a crime and .convicted of a crime. The
Tight of trial by jury was denied. The President of the United .-States,
acting under the pardoning power conferred upon him by the constitu
tion. pardoned him of the oiiiTfe.
Judges Carpenter and Wilkerson hold in effect ‘.hat their powers
under the "Volstead Act to punish contempt supercedes those of the Presi
dent under the constitution to pardon a criminal.
The Volstead Act supercedes the constitution of the Tinted States.
By the same reasoning Co-ngress has power to abolish the right
Of trial by jury and the right of executive clemency ,n all causes by stat
utes authorizing the judiciary to enjoin all crime.
This is absurd, of course, but it has almost become the law of the
land.—Chicago Tribune.
ALASKA RICH IX LKGEXI) AXD STORY
(Alaska Trail Blazer)
"America has no traditions; no legends,” cry some of the folks
who dump their an-nual excess profits in Switzerland and France. While
Alaska has no professionei guides to dope out marvelous stores, she
has a history that antedates that ..f most of the "States.”
Sitka cast mission bells for southern California and Mexico long
years before the Revolution; Some of the proudest ships on the Pacific
were launched in Resurrection harbor before the Civil War; The West
ern Union surveyed a telegraph line down the Yukon before the first
Atlantic Cable was closed up; the Russian Governor sent representatives
to the King of Hawaii in the interests of his fur and ice trade, long be
fore the Mexican War.
Coal and copper were mined systematically during the Russian
Tegime and German coal miners were in charge of one mine where 1,500
feet of tunnel was driven.
All this time the coast of “Russian North America” were being sur
veyed by the natives of a dozen nations and no nation has even been hon
ored with a more imposing list of explorers than has Alaska. Malaspina
Valdez, de Fuc», Vancouver and the immortal Captain Cook have all
touched these shores, not to speak of the courageous Vitus Behring.
Headlands, Mountains, bays and rivers, carry the remembrance of their
exploits in the names of sweethearts, friends and rulers of navigators.
Yankee whalers from New Bedford and pelagic sealers out of mys
terious ports follow the explorers, and the Gulf of Alaska saw battle be
tween Union and Confederate cruisers during the Civil War. There is
more than one Pirate’s Cove on the Peninsula, but as sea otter and fur
seal skins are rather perishable, it is rather doubtful if a search for pi
rate trove would be profitable.
The real treasure trove is a rich fund of legend and story which in
^no*her generation will have been forgotten. The earliest popular
writers on Alaska, such as Rex Beach, unfortunately saw nothing further
tha*i the glittering, noisy excitement of the pioneer gold camps; they set
their stories along the approved lines of such fiction, and were none too
aure of their local color. Later writers hhve also overlooked the wealth
of history and tradition; the romantic days of the Russian occupation
and the stirring tribal histories. To them Alaska is merely a <at« i.
word, and the convenient setting of the same old triangle.
Alaska evidently needs another Fet.imore Cooper, and a Wash
ingtou Irving, with, perhaps, the collaboration of a Cook' publicity man.
KKHpOXIHW TO PITBIJC OPINION
(New York World)
Since the Civil War and especially within this century. Tammany
ban found itself in some measure responding to popular criticism. It
has reared a group of younger leaders very different from the Bowery
Boys of Tweed’s day. This type is exemplified in *><h men as Gov
ernor Smith. Justice Wagner, Surrogate Junes A Foley. Justice McAvoy
and Senator Walker. The development of the new Tammany type
shows how a leader like Morphy can grow from unpromising beginnings,
as a typical city boss over me,, strangely varied from the corrupt to the
fanatically partisan, info a better sense of public responsibility.
S'H.MMItOimiON' ANI> MINK M'lhOMV
Thai waste is always expensive is undeniable; if is ..Iso a well known
fact that frequently the greatest profits in business ar** made by those
who are progressive enough to avoid waste. Elimination of waste in
ihe mining industry, is the slogan adopted by the Standardization Div
ision of the American Mining Congress. This division composed of
;56f> leading mining operators, mine engineers and manufacturers of min
ing equipment, has devoted four consecutive years to the study of the
elimination of waste through the standardization of equipment and sim
plification of mining methods.
With copper selling at less than 14 cents a pound, our high-grade
lead ores being rapidly diminished, the coal industry facing the most
competitive Conditions in its history, the cold industry unable to produce
because of the high cost of operation, it is quite apparent that there will !
be a premium on better management and the greater use of machinery j
in the mining industry. Standardization is the solution of the major I
elements of the question of efficient mine operations.
The Standardization Division of the American Mining Congress lias
already sent to the American Engineering Standards Committee definite
recommendations for national standards . t>. include mining ventilation
both in coal and metal mines, underground transportation in coal mines, J
drainage in coal mines, outside coal handling equipment and underground i
power transmission and power equipment.
One company has given the American Mining Congress definite ;
information as to how the application of the principles advocated be- j
j national standards work tint in the everyday operation of a mine. They j
report a saving of some $45,000 through one year’s testing of these
ciples. Another large coal company "is applying standardization in a
most thorough manner. Several of the larger metal operations ha .<
standardized with great benefit and economy. (Iradn-illy standardiza
tion is becoming recognized as the arch • • my of waste and the fatm-*
I of cheaper production costs. Standardization is no longer a theory.
It is a fact, and an important fact. One directly affect*-ng the profits of
mining companies. The tyrommendatuuis have, been <arefnlly worked
out; they are available to the entire mining industry. Those men who
I have worked so diligently and unselfishly, giving to the mining industry
j as a , whole the benefit 'of their many years of experience, deserve Cue
ffnited cooperation of mine. ojn.T '.torh‘ n the practical application of these
; recommendations. Front- the Mining /’on'gre^, .JouumJ.;
INFORMS WORK ASSIS+WTS DO NOT KNOW CONDITIONS
Without considering the. matter of diplomacy or lack of diplo
macy—-in giving the Secretary of the Interior a general calling down
over the creation of a reserve of several hundred thousand acres land as
a monument for Muir Glacier. Di-legate Sutherland gav- expression to a j
long line of truths in a letter to that official in connection with the sub- j
ject. says The Stroller’s Weekly.
In his letter to the Secretary of the Interior the Delegate pointed |
out the extent of the tract embraced in the proposed reserve, embracing i
as it does, much available agricultural country, vast tracts of merchant
able timber, unprospected mining areas, all of which will be taken with
out the reach of Alaskans by the action of tin* department j-n creating the
reserve. The Delegate charged 'hat the Secretary or 'hose under him
have been misled by maps of Alaska and had no conception of th<- nn- j
mensfty of the territory affected by the sweeping reserve order. On j
the whole the letter from the Delegate was a strong protest against the j
action of the Department ami condemned it as assuming functions that t
belong properly to Congress.
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NOTH K OK M.\|{HHAi;S SAI-K
Notice is hereby given that under
lion issued out of the District Court
rerritoffy of Mask:.. Second Divis
nn. on th< 27th. d:iy of June. 1 TiU4,
upon u certain judgment therein
rendered on the 21«t. da\ of June.
11»U4. Cause Number 2932, and en
tered In fav<»r of A Klimesch. I’iai-n
11 IT. a.nd against (’. St Amand. IV
rendant. for the sum or $5,995.00
with $500.00 attorney fee and
$36.25 costs, with interest at 8ty.
from date of entry of judgment. I
will on Friday. the lath, day of
August 1924 at the hour of 11:00
o’clock a. in. of said day. at the front
door of the Cnited Stairs Court
House, at Nome. Territory of Al
aska. as in said Execution and Or
der of Sale commanded, offer for
sale at public vendue, and sell to
the highest and besi bidder for cash.
•II the right, title and interest
which the defendant had on t.h• 2 I sf
since, in and to the following des
cribed real property to-wit:
’’That certain real property sit
uate ;n the village of Okogamute
also spelled Obogamute, on the Yu
1 on River, in the Wade Hampton
Recording Precinct. Territory of Al-j
a:.ka. which said property is fur- ,
ther described as. Those certain four |
buildings, three of which are under j
r-ne roof, now occupied on the 21st.
day of July 1923. by (\ St. Amand. I
:> u trad tag pusi and st<*re, and
which hid formerly been occupied
by A. Klimesch and ('. Si. Amand.
a- co-partners*, as a trading post and
store, together with the ground and
premises upon whi-h said buildings
are situated and claimed by the
said <\ S*. Amand under possessory
right.” Said property being in the
Second Division.
Dated at Nome. Alaska. July 1,
M. W. GRIFFITH.
United States Marshal.
Second Division. Teritory of
Publish July 5. 12. 1!>. 26. 1924.
Notice is hereby given that any
prison who shall t-uffir any dog to
Im at large in the Town of Nome
during the day time between the
hour* of 7 a. in., and 10 p. in., shall
be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor
;>i'il shall »*r punished as provided
for under Ordinance Vo. 212 of said
Municipality.
And notice is further given that
any person who shall suffer any
loose or horse* to ran at large with
in the corporate limits of this mun
icipality shall be deemed guilty of a
Misdemeanor under the provisions
sf Owlinance Xo. 130 of said muni
c p.ility and punished accordingly. .
POL If M < X»DIITTE K
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