THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
Ontered as second - class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
5UBSCRPTION PRICE $2.00 FOR TWELVE ISSUES
OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
ERRITORIAL PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY PROPOSED
A number of the members of the last legislature
i let informally one night and some one suggested that
; proposed Republican Platform be adopted for the
• ntire Territory.
We herewith print the result of this and other
discussions for the consideration of the Republican
Party in Alaska, to-wit:
1. Elective Territorial Officials for all major offices;
2. Separation of Territorial offices from federal offices;
W. Equitable taxation;
4. Trap-tax based on catch;
5. Discriminatory tax on non-resident fishermen.
<3. Repeal by Congress of Section 2 7 of the Jones
Merchant Marine Act.
KIM JAR A. ADAMS
It is hard to believe And yet we are told that
All*. Adams selected by All*. Coolidge to be judge of
the First Judicial Division in Alaska, was turned down
by the United States Senate, because he was not a resi
dent of Alaska
Now if only the Senate would tell Henry O’Malley
and Herbert Hoover that they will not be permitted
longer to misgovern our Alaskan fisheries, and tha'
these fisheries must be handled by Alaskans, we would
say, “Behold the dawn of a new day.”
THE SCHOOL REFUND
“It is possible, even probable, that the legislature
intended this tuition fee in addition to the $30,OOP,
but carelessness in drawing of the bill and in its pass
age results in the present situation.”—Ketchikan
Chronicle.
The Senate of Alaska was in control on the mat
lor of increasing the refund to cities. Senator Tom
.Jensen of Nome, on the argument of Economy, and to
prevent what he termed “Raids on the Treasury,” aid
ed by three others, insisted that no more than $25,00u
1)0 lelnnded lo cities of Alaska. With this maximum.
h‘‘ was willing lo leave in the law the provision to re
fund un additional $30. per year for outside students
in city schools. His second proposition was this, that
if we, the friends of education, would agree to forgo
lliis $30. tuition, he would support a motion to make
1 he maximum $30,000.
He figured that $25,000 plus $30. from outside
students would be about $30,000. We figured that $30,
000 without the $30. tuition would amount to
AI OR 10 than the lirst proposition.
tor the Ketchikan School Board to take the po
sition that every outside student must pay $30. per year
tuition is wrong ami outside of the spirit of the law
grunting an additional $10,000. to cities like Ketchikan
even when viewed by the suspicious and economical
.Jenson.
The fact that Commissioner Lester D. Render
sou guw mu I mdal aid to Tom Jenson in making his at
t•'!<■!< on i In1 House Bill which had REMOVED the max
imum aid (House Bill No 10 introduced by Mr. Paul;
should not be overlooked. Henderson started the ob
jections in the Senate Committee AFTER the House
had turned him down. He, with Tom Jenson, inn-a,
hear the blame for not only the $30,000 limitation,
hut also for the provision that bases the refund on the
1920-1 927 expenditures.
nn<] OLD GAME OP KILLING OFF THE RESIDENTS
Henry 0 Malley warns tlie packers that unless
(hey really curtail their fishing operations in line wPh
l;is wishes he will have to issue additional restrictions.
The Pacific Fisherman of Seattle, however, thinks
there is no need for alarm and claim that “to April j
the number of applications in southeastern Alaska was
only 413 as against 599 licenses issued and 558 traps
actually operated in the district last year."
The Anchorage Times expresses the usual thought
of thoughtless newspaper editors as follows:
“These figures would indicate that if further re
strictions are to be applied in southeast Alaska they
should be directed ax OTHER features of the fishing
industry than the ELIMINATION OF TRAPS."
Of course, O’Malley might abolish all the resident
fishermen—that would help the foreign trap owners,
Mr. Anchorage Times. Such a course might save a lot
of trouble during the winter because everybody would
be wintering in Seatttle. Even the Anchorage Times
could take a vacation every winter—until the trap
owners come back to Alaska with the geese in the
spring.