The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ARNOLDON FISH TRAPS | | ONCEAGAIN | Senate Holds Hearing on, "Confiscatory” Trap | Tax Bill | W. C. Arnold, spokesman for the canned salmon industry, delivered one of his bitter broadsides at House Bill No. 35 this forenoon when he appeared before the Territorial Sen- ate in his long accustomed role— holding the bridge against legisla- tion intended to eliminate fish traps in Southeast Alaska waters Some people, mainly those who only recently come among us, are so determined to cripple the salmon in- dustry that they are willing to yun any chance—even to the extent of endangering the Territory's finances —in order to accomplish their ends, Mr. Arnold declared in his opening attack on the bill to regulate the use of fish traps under the cover of revenue legislation. He labelled the license fees im- posed on traps, “confiscatory” and described the bill as an effort to circumvent acts of Congress and Fish and Wildlife Service regula- tions, by circuitous methods. It is the intent of the authors of the bill, he said, to reduce or abolish the use of fish traps—and, he con- tinued, we are brought around again to the “same old fight"—to seriously cripple those concerns that produce 60 per cent of Alaska's salmon pack and pay a proportionate share of the Territory’s revenue. Indusiry Reasonable The canned salmon industry, Mr. Arnold argued, does not like to pay taxes any better than anyone else, but recognizes that support of the Territory’s government is to its own benefit—and to that end, is willing, as long as it has the ability to pay, to assume even more than its share of the tax burden—but, it objects to being put out of business at the same time. When Senator Don Carlos Brow- nell asked: If taxes imposed by the bill were really “confiscatory” would not the industry stiil have recourse tq the courts? Mr. Arnold objected : “Surely we're not yet down to that!” Aré we to come here after all these years and be confronted by a Legis- lature that intends to drive us into the courts to protect our rights? Confiscatory Tax Questioned by Senator Frank Gor- don as to which of the license taxes imposed by the bill would be con- fiscatory in nature, Mr. Arnold re- plied that the top backet of $1600 per-trap would surely be so and that the $900 bracket would be in many cases, depending on a good many conditions with relation to prices anll production costs. Mr. Arnold was forced into the position of first witness to appear before the Senate, resolved into a Committee of the Whole for hearing on the bill. With Andrew Nerland appointed to hold the chair for the hearing, Mr Arnold requested that he be afforded the usual opportunity accorded the defense of appearing after proponents of the bill had had their say. The bill's backers, how- ever, seemed wary of Mr. Arnold’s oft-demonstrated ability to puncture their best arguments. A motion by Senator Gordon that Rep. Warren A. Taylor, Third Division supporter of the bill, be heard following Mr. Arnold, brought a ruling from the | chair that all witnesses could have as many opportunities to testify be- fore.the committee as they wished. Under those circumstances Mr. Arnold came forward and opened his ! statement with the remark that he thought it unusual for opponents of the measure to have to prove them- selves innocent. Hits Authors The salmon industry's representa- tive then took the proposed measure apart, section by section. First, he stated he was forced to assume that the authors of the bill, which was introduced by the House Fisheries Committee, must have come from the Third Division, since the meas- ure made no effort to increase li- censes or otherwise regulate other than pile-driven or floating traps— which are mainly used in Southeast Alaska. Hand-driven traps, rommunl in Cook Inlet, are excluded Irom‘ the bill, he pointed out. | Mr. Arnold declared his opinion | that most of the provisions of the!| bill are beyond the purview of the | Legislature to enact, pointing hp(‘v_‘-‘ ifically to the power given under the ; bill to a Fisheries Commission, which it would set up, to establish areas in which traps could be located. The | provision, the witness said, usurpzsion of the powers delegated | by Congress to the Fish and Wildlife | Service. ! That Commission Just what is to be the function | of the Fisheries Commission, as es- | tablished by the bill?, Mr. Arnold asked. Unlimited rule-making pow- ers are conferred upon it by the measure. Mr. Arnold was still in the chair | when the Senate recessed until 2| o'clock this afternoon, with Rep.| Taylor and other proponents of the | bill still to be heard. The recess interrupted questioning by Senator | Gordon which sought to establish | that production costs of the canned salmon industry have not increased in proportion with wartime price levels for canned salmon. Previous to resolving itself into a Committee of the Whole, the Sen- ate sat through the full second reading of House Bill 35. Amend- ments were proposed by Senator N. R. Walker which would have elim- inated all provisions for establishing a Fisheries Commission. The Walker amendments, which had not yet been acted on when the hearing was opened, would leave the bill only a measure to increase taxes on traps and placing an accumulative levy on excess salmon beyond 100,000 caught by all traps held by any one owner. The excess tax would be $2700 per 1,000 fish ‘The trap license fees, as provided | in the bill would scale up from the present $200 for a single trap to $1,600 per trap over 50 held by a single owner. e 'WOODLEY AIRWAYS IN ' FROM ANCHORAGE WITH | PASSENGERS TUESDAY A Woodley Airways plane arrived in Juneau late yesterday afternoon from Anchorage with the follow- ing passengers for Juneau: Jim Houston, Sgt. R. W. MacClellan, Mrs, | Pollard, Lt. Pelland, Mrs. MacFar- land. i Leaving Juneau for Anchorage| e: A. L. Burk, S. L. McMarten, | Edith Gatler, Wayne B. Rowland, C. R. Paulscn, Marie Carver and in-| fant 1 ——.————— | REGISTRATION OF VOTERS | —_— | | Citizens who are not registered |per cent, and it is also suggested | voters must register by April 1st to | that divorce law restrictions be left | qualify as electors at the Municipal |to the Legislature and that an Al-| Election to be held in the City of laska Supreme Court supplant the | Douglas April 3rd. Persons who voted at the last municipal election need not register | again as their names are on the registration lists. If you are not pmsbercd. do not delay in so doing at once. | ! A. J. BALOG, ! | City Clerk. | 'Mar. 14-17-21-24-28-31. is af | of Education to construct certain rural schools and gymnasiums in the Third Division was pasged, as was House Joint Memorial No. 3, signed by Second Division members and asking the Roads Commis- sioners to make certain road and lairport improvements in the Sew- ard Peninsula area. Another request to the Road Commissioners was made in House Memorial No. 6, by Peterson and | Taylor, asking for rehabilitation of UNICAMERAL GETS OKEH; HOUSE VOTE E) House Joint Memorial 14, by Hen- Passage Today ferop insurance, price support at Memorial Kl”ed YeS'er" six-mile stretch of road from nings, asks Congress to extend to |fishermen the same protection On_ a reconsideration vote this producers' level, long-term loans at morning, the House of Representa- low interest, expansion of informa- Valdez to the Dayville cannery. day Is Resurrected fo |given to farmers in the matter of tives changed its vote on the sub-ltion agencies and development of ject of unicameral legislature, consumer educational problems. voting 13 to 10 for the single| bk house. Yesterday, House Joint Memorial 12, by Representative Hennings, asking Congress to make the one- house legislature possible, was killed by a 12-11 vote, with one absent. Before the afternoon was over, I EPISCOPAL CHURCH however, Representative Diamond - had reconsidered his vote, and with The Rev. W. Robert Webb, Rector his switch today, added to a similar of the Church of the Holy Trinity, reversal by Representative Hanford, announces that the fifth in the FIFTH SERVICE IN LENTEN SERIES AT Church of the Holy Trinity, Epis- copal, will jointly present a series of Kodachrome slides taken by Mr. Trevor Davis throughout Alaska. The slides will be shown in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church at 8 p. m, Monday, March 19. Mr. Davis is a professional | photographer and these slides are| new scenes of Alaska taken only last summer. Many were taken on the ski trail in Douglas and will be interesting to those who frequent the snow pack. A general admis- |ate from the Governors Office. |sion charge will be made at the| Leading the trio of okayed bills door at the time of the showing. |Was House No. 9, the Teachers’ Re- e e - tirement Fund Act. Others were pAN AMERI(AN 'S iEi;ouse chim Memorials Nos. 5 and IN WITH FOURTEEN |TERR. GUARDS WILL | PASSENGERSTODAY ~ MEET TONIGHT, 7:30 5 % | Members of Juneau Units, Alaska A Pan American Airways plane qepritorial Guard, will form a work brought the following Passengers to pattalion tonight at their meeting Juneau today from Seattle: Cleora |4¢ 7:30 o'clock in the A B Hall Helbing, Gene Jack, Elaine Daly, |5 repair and overhaul the targets | MacKay Malcom, Janice Bliss, Mary |for the Mendenhall Rifle Range, | x;;ev Wilfred Wright, Clarence Mor- | Henry Harmon announced today. P | He asks each guardsman to bring Whitehorse to Juneau — Robert| 4 nammer and pliers and says there Gilbertson, Foil Alm. . is lots of work to be done, but it Fairbanks to Juneau—Jane ENg-| can he finished in one night with | Refirement Bill Signed Three more measures the approval of Governor Ernest Gruening yesterday, according to |notification to the Territorial Sen- received “Silly boy ... They just callit ‘sponge’ cake . .. It’s made with (entennial Peach Blossom Cake Flour!” the unicameral supporters won the right to have their memorial sub- mitted to the Senate. Would Amend OrganicAct InMemorial House Yesterday Busies Itself on Letters fo Congress A memorial asking Congress to amend the Organic Act in some 20 different phases headed a list of seven memorials passed yester- day afternoon by the House of Representatives. Included in a number of Organic Act changes requested by House Joint Memorial 15, authored by Taylor, McCutcheon and Johnson, are suggestions that the two per cent property tax ceiling for in- corporated towns be lifted along with the 10 per cent ceiling for bonded indebtedness. Repeal is asked for the Organic Act ceiling on property tax for territorial purposes, now at one present District Court judicial | system. Another veterans' measure was | passed, House Memorial No. 5, by McCutcheon, asking Congress to give 160 acres of land in Alaska to every Alaskan returning from mili- tary service. House Memorial No. 2, a Third e Division measure asking the Board BABY | DOZEN ! ( 10:15 A. M. Attention ELKS!!! REGULAR MEETING TONIGHT AT 8 0'CLOCK SHARP e INITIATION Be There! e FEED FOODS . Large Complete Stocks $1.08 Case 24 fins $2.15 TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES 2:15 P. M. DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. MINIMUM—$2.50 BB erts 'CASH GROCER PHONE 105 Be There! series of Wednesday evening Lenten lish, John K. Stewart, Mrs. Mary B. Services will be held tonight and Jackson, Earl McCarron. | the subject of his sermon will be| Juneau to Seattle — Oscar Berg- | based on the clause from the seth, Arthur E. Johnson, Walter |Apostle’s Creed “From thence He Schofield, Erling Hansen, Clifford shall come to judge the quick and Reeve, Benjamin Robitzek Lester the dead.” Wakefield. | The service will begin promptly| Juneau to Fairbanks — William at 8 o'clock and the Lenten choir Wilson, Lindsey Durkee, Maj. R. S¢ will sing. St. Margaret’s Guild will Green, Earl D. McGinty, Mrs. Rose- | meet immediately following in the mary Allen. \ |Parish House. - | BE SHOWN MONDAY: TRAVELOG OF NORTH | Juneau today by plane from Fair- banks, and Anchorage after being absent several weeks on official busi- The World Service Circle of the| Mr. and Mrs. Archie Shiels left Northern Light Presbyterian today for Seattle, enroute to Bel- Church and Trinity Guild of the lingham, Washington. ness. AR R T R Attentiorn==-- FISHERMEN Special Consideration Given All Boaf Orders Boat Orders Delivered Anytime! PHONE 704 Juneau Deliveries— # i0A.M.and2P. M. 7 Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. 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