The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-03

increased to at least $500 per day it will become more and more diff ficult to get the best results froIr the citizens who are summoned anC accepted as notwithstanding the fact that these men are 100 pei cent loyal Americans, willing ant anxious to serve their country and their respective communities. There are men serving on this grand jury being paid the meagre sum of $30( per day, and these very men are pay | ing others the sum of $500 per day l and board to attend to their business and work while they are in attend ance upon jury duty.
 It is fact that nearly every mem Der of each grand jury is the loser financially, on account of his attend ance upon jury duty, and this is alsc true of petit jurors.
 i It is also a further fact that it is ! impossible for a juror to decently maintain himself in Juneau on $3 day; especially is this true of non resident jurors.
 There is not a member of this grand jury who would not refrain from serving, if he could elect so to do, rather than spend many days at court, receiving for his time and services the small stipend of $500 sum wholly inadequate to even re imburse him for subsistence
 The injustice of involuntarily talk ing a citizen away from his usual vocation to perform jury duty and rewarding him with per diem far less than he is earning in his bust ness, trade or profession-and even insufficient for maintenance, is, we believe, a matter of serious import and one which should be remedied by the government as soon as pos sible
 We earnestly ask that this sub ject be placed before the proper au thorities at Washington and the Dele gate in Congress from Alaska for early and favorable action.
 Aliens Not to Engage in Fishing
 To better conserve the fisheries of the Territory, we are convinced after an investigation of the subject. that there should be an abatement of the extensive fishing HOW carried on by aliens, and to this end we re commend, as a aicorrective measure the enactment of law requiring full citizenship of those engaging in the commercial taking of fish ir Alaskan waters; and that a license system me incorporated with this te enable it's ready enforcement.
 Municipal Authorities Are Urged to
 Wake Up
 While this grand jury was unable to obtain sufficient evidence on which to base indictments, it is az parent to us that gambling is ex tensively carried on in the city O Juneau and in other towns of the dis trict That in the former are a nun. Der of men who have no visible means of support and who, in the true sense of the word, are vagrants some of them living on what they can make by gambling and from the avails of prostitution; that they are what are commonly called macques the lowest and most degraded of Gods creatures.
 This grand jury recommends therefore, that the civic authorities not only of Juneau but of all the municipalities of the district. bt urged to strictly enforce the laws against vagrancy to the end that the gamblers and macques may be driven out of and away from the towns and communities which are now polluted with their presence. IT our opinion the blue ticket" systen should be revived and operated. II this connection we must not be un derstood as advocating the shifting of the responsibility from the fedora to the civil authorities.
 We recommend that the Distric Attorneys office and the United States Marshal's office be given auth ority to employ necessary specia officers to ferret out and run dowl 1 offenders of the law with view t expressing vice and ridding th' country of undesirables.
 We recognize that the office of tn District Attorney is now workinl 1 short handed and recommend tha this condition be remedied at tn earliest possible date.
 w. l.. MARTIN, Foreman. Members of Grand Jury
 The members of the grand jury ar as follows: w. L. Martin, foreman Edward c. Adams. James Christof !C. P. Cole. George R. Dull. R. E Holmes, A. H. Humfries, George l Jorgenson, Peter McCluskey, Josep Parent, Geo M Sherbourne. Harve Thompson. c. c. Nichols, c. E. Car wright. Cash Cole, Felix Gray. l.. l Harding, John D. Helps. John Reel II H. J. Turner