THE NOME TRI WEEKLY NUGGET
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME NINETEEN No 27 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 3rd. 1919 TELEPHONE MAIN 114
ALASKA FISH TAX" LAWS UPHELD
ALUES DEMAND 120 BILLIONS DAMAGES
Wilson Addresses Conference
of Governors and Mayors
at the White House
SpeCial to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March 3—At the opening of the conference of the gov
ernor’s and mayor’s of the various states at the White House today, President
Wilson, who personally called the conference for the purpose of discussing
peace and readjustment problems, promised that the Federal government
would consider itself purely the servant of the states and municipalities of the
nation in the solution of the numerous readjustment problems with.H which H
country is confronted as a result of the war coming to an end.
Wilson told the officials that he hoped the conference would assuim
the widest possible range in endeavoring to restore national labor and indus
trial conditions to a normal status as soon as possible.
The president advised the conferees that efforts directed toward a fresh
allocation of labor and industry should be instituted as speedily as possible.
Inferring to the Peace Conference at Paris. Wilson said that the eonferrees
there regard themselvs as the servants of about seven hundred millions of
people and not their masters, and are working with a view to fulfilling the
desires of tlpve whom they represent.
Seere f Labor Wilson, who is presiding over the conference of
Governor’s and Mayor’s declared in his opening address’that the recent Seattle.
Butte and Lawrence labor strikes were nothing more than deliberately or
ganized attempts at starting a social and political movement Intended to create
vast labor and industrial disorganization and bring about the establishments
< f Soviet governments in America.
The Labor Secretary declared that evidence.! arc unmistakable that
this was the ulterior intention of each of the indicated strikes.
SeattleJShjp Yard Strikers '
are Returning to Work
Special to The Nome Nugget l>y The Associated Tress.
SEATTLE. March 3—The striking shipyard workers of this section
have decided to vote on the qustion of returning t-» work under old conditions
during the present week, according to statements in.-de by representatives of
the Metal Trades Workers union following a meeting hint night.
The shipyard strike is apparently breaking down of its own weight and
the men are gradually returning to work at tie old scale of wages and
hours.
Up to the present over five hundred sheet metal workers have returned
Ic work in the various contract shops, their defection marking the first break
in the ranks of the striking metal workers.
The view is expressed even in union circles that the strikers will vote
in the affirmative when the question of returning io work is voted on this
week.
WILSON SIGNS WAR CONTRACT ADJUSTMENT BILL
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Tress.
WASHINGTON. March 3—President Wilson today affixed his signature
to the Itlvcrs and Harbors Appropriation bill, recently passed by Congress
and also rendered into law a bill validating and authorizing adjustments of war
contracts amounting to the sum of two and one half billion dollars.
The latter measure eliminates a considerable number of contracts for war
supplies which are no longer required and provides for proportional payments
fr* the release of the contracts.
Smizer Confirmed for District
Attorney First Division
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March 3—The senate has confirmed the presidential
icnomination of James Smizer for the position of Federal District Attorney of
the Ffcst Alaska Division with headquarters at Juneau.
The nomination of John H. Troy for the post of Collector of Customs
at Juneau has also received the senatorial endorsement.
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ALASKA FISH PROTECTION LAWS
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March 8—By a decision handed down today, the
.Supreme Court upheld m effect, the constitutionality of the Alaska Territor
ial fish-trap law passed by the Alaska Legislature Mi 1915.
The decision, in general terms, orders the dismissal of the appeals
brought by the Alaska-Pacific Fisheries corporation to recover the sum ol
11,900 taxes, which they paid under the terms of the Alaska enactment.
The court also upheld in effect the Federal court decrees upholding the
Vftldity Qf the Alaska Fish Canning License Act, passed by the Alaska Leg
* islature in the same year as the Fish Trap Bill. The decision in this case
orders the dismissal, for lack of jurisdiction of the appeals of the same fisn
lng corporations from judgements of $2,500 obtained against them in the fed
eral courts, following their failure to pay the canning taxes demanded by the
Alaskan Canning act.
SENATE APPROPRIATES
$100,000 FOR ALASKA
INFLUENZA SUFFERERS
Assoc iated Press Sre vice.
WASHINGTON. Mil. 1 -The
Semite Appropriation Ccmimitu. has
favorably reported on the Genera! De
ficiency Appropriation 1 till, whi-h
passed the House yesterday.
The Senate added an additional
appropriation of . hundred thou
sand dollars for the relief of Alaska
influenza sufferers and also tw.) hun
dred thousand dollars for idditional
lighthouse vessels.
OIL AND COAL LEASING BILL
PRACTICAL,_Y KILLED!
Associated Press Service.
WASHINGTON'. Ale-. ;. »- - • oi!
and coal land lensi'g h.ll. which in.-,
sented many Lav. d . p< ssihilitii-:;
and oil lands, was virtuue.- killed tn-I
day when obstruction h i I.. Smeke
Lafollette prevented n cote on ihcl
ev'q'e-: r*JU\-e I» pi.) ' -.rr.Teii had l.< . :: ad
opted !>;■ the House. 1 loth the n.ai
that then- is practically no . h.nic • oi
securing action on tin- hoi before con
gress adjourns.
WILSON SIGNS AS
SESSMENT RESOLUTION'
WASHINGTON. March I re-.i
dent Wilson lias signed the resolution
| ing the h aul requirements regarding
work on mining claims in Alaska for
the years 1917. 1918, and 1919.
I
BRAZIL TO APPEAL TO LEAGUE^
OF NATIONS FOR ROUTE
TO-PACIFIC
Associated Press Service.
II PEN OS A VI IKS, March I Brazil
has decided to ask tlm League of
Nations for an outlet to the shores of
the Paoitic ocean.
A resolution setting- forth that the
commercial development of the Braz
ilian republic is seriously hampered
by the absence of an outlet to Pacific
waters and declaring the intention of
seeking the assistance of the League
of Nations toward securing an outlet
for Brazilian trade through one of the
adjacent western nations has been
passed by the Brazilian parliament.
PROPOSALS FOR BIDS
U. S. Engineer Office v
Seattle Wii.
Proposals for constructing Bank
Revetment, Jetties and dredging Nome
Ha*bo-, Alaska, will be recived hero
anJ at the office of the District Judge.
Nona*, Alaska, until noon, March 15tli,
1919, and there publicly opened.
Information on application to Nome
Chamber of Commerce.
Signed: Sturtevant.
Engineer
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the Poll
Books are now open at the City
Clerk’s Office for the registration of all
voters for the Municipal and School
Elections to be held April 1, 1919.
E. GRIMM
City Clerk
Senator Sherman Describes
League of Nations Constitution
as Pandora’s Box of Evils
Special to The Xome Nugget by The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. March —Senator Sherman. Republican. of Illinois, in
addressing the Senate today on the League <*f X lions question, pictured the
constitution of the league as adopted by the Paris Peace Conference as a
writable Pandora's box filled with evils which would be emptied upon the
American people in the event of its final ratification.
The Illinois .senate* declared that in the event of the proposed constitu
tion being adopted without material changes. He- aggregated calamities of the
world will be dumped upon the American nation and she will lose not only her
present independent sovereignty but will probably have to fight to preserve
'ie;- territorial integrity. Sherman analyzed the terms of the constitution pro
P ised and vehemently insisted that fi majority of the provisions are directly
inimical to the interests of America and pregnant with future trouble.
Sherman also sharply criticised the president by asking who authorized
him b> roar above the republic an autocratic power and declared that Wilson
adroitly maneuvers himself into the spotlight as the •Fountain of Peace and
the guardian angel of mankind.”
TWENTY FOUR BILLIONS REPARATION DEMANDED FROM TEUTONS
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
PALIS. March 3- The Havas News Agency. in an apparently well
founded statement today, declares that the Reparation Committee of the Inter
Aliied Peace Conference has decided that the « nemy countries had ought to
l>a\ liu* Allies the tremendous sum of twenty four billion pounds f«i the d.trn
V.gt committed by *b“uj «... F.-e wai .ifb Stated districts „f France. Relgium and
i Par sections.
Havas also asserts that the French government alone demands the im
!|!« diatc pay ment of one billion pounds as rep nation for war damages done
•11 Northern France. Part of this sum will be demanded in gold, materials
; n I foreign securities, immediately after the signing of the peace treaty. The
mi i nit tee will probably make a recommendation that the remainder of the
.iiy,e sum levied for war destruction Ik* payable within a period of twenty to
thirty five years.
Sundry Civil Bill Carries 4
Million for Alaska R. R.
Special to The Soule Nugget by The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. March :: Tin- Sundry civil Appropriations liill car
ries ail appropriation of four million two thousand and eighty dollars for the
further construction of the government rnilwa-. in Alaska.
line million dollars of the total appropriation is immediately available.
REPORTED GERMANS ACAIN ATTACKING
POLES ON POLISH-GERMAN FRONTIER
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
POSEN, .March It is reported hern that the Hermans have resumed
their war activities against the Poles on Ihe Polish-German frontier.
According to the reports tin- German forces have remained quiescent
for three days, during which comr*lrnlive quiet reigned along tile battle front,
but renewed their attacks yesterday at all points along tile recently established
forntiers of the Polish republic, regardless of lie- fact that the dispute regard
ing the Polish territorial domain has been presented to ihe Paris peace con
Heavy fighting is reported along ilie entire Gernmn-Poland frontier
today.
Fairbanks Nominations
Reported Favorably
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
v\ ar»riit .Mart n i —me
Semite Judiciary Committee lias fav
orably reported the nominations of
Chas. K. Bunnell and Uhineheart F.
Both, of Fairbanks, Alaska, to be fed
eral judge and fetleral attorney, re
spectively. for the Fourth Alaska Dis
trict.
Senator Jones, of Washington, re
/ -
eentiy announced that ho would op
pose the nominations of Dunn el and
Uoth on the ground that they display
ed undue political activity in con
nection with the recent Alaska dele
gate contest. Their endorsement by
the committee, however, indicates that
the changes have not been fully sus
tained.
SENATE COMMITTEE REFUSES ACTION ON WAR TIME PROHIBITION
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March 3—The Senate Judiciary Committee has de
clined to take any action on the legislation Introduced last year to enforce war
time prohibition, which becomes effective on July 1 of the present year.
The committee declared the conviction that there is absolutely no chance
to pass the pending bill during this session of Congress.