The Alaska daily empire., 1916-10-31
col. RICHARDSON GIVEN OVATION
 AT BIG RALLY
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ing in Juneau in 1897. since that time l have lived in Juneau and oa Douglas Island and my life has been an open book" he said. "l am greatly in favor of an eight hour law. especially for underground workmen as any man who works underground in the damp and bad air for eight hours has done days work, and any more time spent there would be very injurious to his health" He favored the Womans Suffrage and promised to fight any effort to repeal it. He favored the establishment of a school of mines here in order that miners might be taught to care for themselves and Co avoid accidents, and spoke of the need of protecting the fishermen Of the Territory He advocated the dredging of several of the almost dry passages of Southeastern Alas ka, and spoke especially of the one from Hawk Inlet to Young's Bay which would materially assist the fishermen and other travellers of this section. He also spoke in fa' for of the Community Rights Bill and closed in saying that, q" am a sourdough and a roughneck but if elected l shall do my best for the people of Alaska"
 Tanner Talks Community Rights
 Senator J. NJ. Tanner was the next speaker of the evening and referred to his record in he first two sessions of the Legislature. He also referred to the record of Mr. Heckman during the last Leeisla- ture and refuted from the records claims to greatness advanced in the interest of the latter gentlemen on account Of Legislation introduced or passed at that session.
 NIT. Tanner dwelt at some length on the record of the Community Rights bill and stated in part "The Community Rights bill, which is not l mentioned in the Republican Divis- l ional platform, was introduced by me at the second session of the l Alaska Legislature. It passed the | Senate with a unanimous vote but was killed in the House, only one member of the House from the First Division voting in favor of the bill. l At the time the bill came up, Mr. | Heckman left the hall to avoid yot- i ing on tho measure. The only | First Division man who stood be- hind it was John G. Held, of Ju- neau.
 Mir. Tanner stated that if elected | one of the first bills to be intro | duced by him will be the Commun- | ity Rights Bill and he read extracts from the Dispatch to prove that at the time the bill was first intro duced. Tanner was roasted by that paper for presenting it.
 Hits the laps
 Mir. Tanner fayors a higher wage | scale for the fishermen and said he was in favor it. driving every Jap, | Chinaman and the men who employ | them out of the country" Mir Tan ner roasted the Lester Jones report on the Alaska fisheries and con tended that Mir. Heckman had been | opposed to the memorial passed by the Senate denouncing the report. He attacked Mr. Heckman as the owner of the patent rights on float l ing traps which bring in S1O,00O a l year and also as the manager Of the Alaska Packers Association business in Alaska and appealed to the crowd if they thought he would go to the Senate and do anything contrary to his own interests.
 Forest Fundo
 Mr. Tanner spoke of the fight which had been waged over the Forest Service money and of how the case had been appealed to the higher court for final decision. MT. Heckman states that We have lots of money in the treasury and lntimates that it is coming from the fisheries. This is not true as only two canneries have paid their taxes, and these paid for political reasons. Mr. Hcckman owns the greater part of both of them" he said.
 When talking of the Revenue Law, which Mir. Heckman claimed to be the author of Mir Tanner stated that Heckman stood out until the very last for direct property tax and that the bill was roughly drawn by Mr. Cobb, but that the bill was finally passed at the third joint
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