“WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN”
The regular Republicans, with Paul, Ross and Sund
quist as leaders, were opposed in the last legislature
by a combination of renegade Republicans and Inde
pendents, under the leadership of Joseph Murray and
Tom Gaffney.
Who was responsible for the defeat of the bill to in
crease the pension for Pioneers?
Stroller White says it was the regular Republicans.
Let us review the record.
Page 2 3 of 60tli day: “Mr. Johnson moved, second
ed by Mr. Sundquist, that the rules be suspended and
that Senate Bills Nos. 59 (to provide an elective treas
urer) and 15 (to increase pioneers’ pensions) be ad
vanced on the calendar in second and third reading
to final passage.”
On rising vote, Benjamin, Ferguson, Grier, John
ston, Paul, Ross, Sundquist, Worth and Speaker Smith
voted “Yea;” while Fisher, Gaffney, Lomen, Murray,
Rydeen, Scott and Sheldon voted “NO.” And 30 undei
the rules, the bills died.
If Robert Sheldon even had voted “Yea” the Pio
neers’ Pension would have passed. But Sheldon vot
ed “NO” and so it failed.
Later on, Ralph Lomen tried to save the day by
making another motion to advance the bill but hU
motion was out of order as above noted.
In the attempt to fasten the responsibility for the
defeat of the Pension measure, the Democrats will
talk about the vote relating to Lomen’s motion, ruled
out of order by the Speaker. The Speaker merely ap
plied the well-known rule that motions which are lost
cannot again be put in identical language. The facts
in this case were so plain that the House sustained
the Speaker.
FROM THE 1925 RECORD
In these days when John W. Frame and Eugene
Wacker are trying to prevent William L. Paul from
becoming a member of the United Sons of Alaska, it
is well to reread his proposed substitute for Hou3e
Joint Resolution No. I in 1925.
In that Resolution Paul with others offered to wish
George Parks the best of luck in his new office, *but
“Without in any way receding from the position as
sumed at other times by past legislatures of this and
by the citizens of the United States in other Territories
at other times, towit: that self-government is an in
herent right of citizens of the United States and that
the appointment of rulers or officers and the creation
of laws should emanate from the governed or with
their consent."
We understand that the United Sons of Alaska have
adopted this principle after John W. Frame had offer
ed full apologies for violating his campaign pledge
of 1924 by endorsing the appointment of non-residents
to public office in Ala3ka.
Many people think that this time perhaps John W.
Frame can be trusted to keep his promises
Number 6
THE HERDERS
The HERDERS or those owning the cattle are the
ones entitled to elect the herder. This needs no arg
ument when applied to real cattle.
In the 1925 legislature Senator John W. Dunn of
Ruby, introduced Senate Bill No. 2 3 which provides
that “In each herding district***there shall be ELECT
ED a board of Directors” who of course should govern
the “Herding District.”
If the sheep or the reindeer had protested against
herders who governed them without “the consent of
the governed,” we believe the Independent John W.
Dunn of Ruby would have been justified in telling
the “cattle” that it was not for them to select their
rulers, they being cattle.
We are now of the opinion that that worthy Senator
was true to his principles when he voted against the
Controller Bill on the ground that it is only the “herd
ers” who have the right to select the rulers (of cattle).
SIAMESE TWINS
SENATORS HARRY PRATT AND JOHN W. DUNN
How completely the reactionary Senator Pratt of
Fairbanks dominated the “independent” John W. Dunn
of Ruby, is partly shown in the following:
Under the leadership of Representative H. H. Ross
of Fairbanks, the Regular Republicans provided (in
Section II of the Workmen’s Compensation Act) that
the monthly fee paid by the employee for hospital
benefits should cover “His immediate family if domicil
ed with the employee.
In the Senate, Harry Pratt moved to strike out
that clause and true to his new reactionary form, the
no longer independent John W. Dunn, seconded the mo
tion.
The Juneau Empire naturally has endorsed the re
cord of the Siamese Twins.
PRODUCERS—PERHAPS ILLITERATE
Some twenty Indians went out from Sitka in May
and killed over $5,000 worth of fur seals. This mon
ey will be spent in Sitka. Some of it will get to the
City Treasury in taxes from the hunters or the “big
merchants.”
Clarence LeMaster, editor of the Sitka Progress, a
non-producer, will continue to rave against Indians and
will be supported by Stroller White, another tramp
printer, and husband of the assistant curator of the