The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-02
BILL
 GETS BY HOUSE.;
 NEW SCHEDULES
Second and Fourth Divisions Win Out in Taxation
 Measure Struggle.
Continued From rage One,

sition, offered by Mr. Johnston, to place a l per cent tax on incomes from $5.000 to $1 ,0O0, 900, and above tho latter sum, 1H per cent This carried by one vote, Mr Shepard voting for it with the delegations from the Second and Fourth, the en- tire Third delegation and Speaker Cole, Policy and Grant voting mo-
 An effort made by Mr. Murray 10 permit deductions to be made on ac- count of depreciation of machinery, interest on bonds or money borrowed, or other taxes paid, was defeated on a rising vote, 10 to 6.
 Other Changes Slight
 No other material amendments were made to tho Ways and Means Committees bill, by MT. Foster. i'm posed a tax on undeirakers. doing a business of s1, ,000 to $5.00O per year, $50, and $l0 for each additional $1,000 worth of business done in excess of $5,000.
 Tho present tax of s25 on soft drink stores was reduced to $10 and the S2 head tax on dairy cows entirely eliminated
 Fisheries Debate Hot
 Thc schedule of salmon pack taxes was offered by AIr. Ross and MT. Daily and was adopted only after heated debate in which the courtesies of the floor were extended to A. F. zipf, to explain a schedule. slight ly lower than the one adopted, which was offered by Mir Price. The tilt was started when Mir. Daly and Mr Ross objected to Mr Zipf appearing on the floor A motion granting such privilege carried by a big ma 1 jority.
 Before he could begin his state ment, Mr. Daly demanded to knew whom he was representing and what right he had to appear Uncle Joe" 1 Cannon, in his palmiest days, had nothing on MT. Shepard, who was in the Chair, in ruling. He ordered Mir Daly to resume his seat and not in- terrupt the witness until he had fin ished his statement, when questions would be in order.
 The Price schedule called for 10- cent tax on packs under 20,00O cases of reds, kings and sockeyes; 15 cents on 10000 to 5000 cases; 20 cents on packs of 35,000 to 50,000; 22 cents, 50O00 ito 60,000, and 9 1 cents on packs A excess of 60,00O cases. On medium reds, etc., cents, 7ia cents, 10 cents. 1112 cents, and 121s cents in similar quantities, and on chums a 4-cent flat rate.
 This schedule, said MT. Zipf, based on the packs of 1922, would bring to the Territory in 1923 a total pack tax revenue of $425 .430, an increase of $245.654 over the same tax last year. He said that the canners would not object to paying their share of tho expenses of govern ment. but did not believe they should be forced to stand all of the in crease. He said that the ,Tsoss-Daly schedule would bring in more reve- nue than is required to conduct the Territory's business in the next biennium and declared that the sal mon canning industry was not tinan- cially in such condition as would justify high taxes in order to build up a large surplus in the Territorys 1 treasury.
 Mir. Zipf said he spoke not only as a representative of so per cent of Alaska cannerymen, the Association of Pacific Fisheries, but as an in dvidual canneryman and taxpayer of the Territory who claimed the right to be heard or such matters. He denied statements that he had "admitted'' a former compilation of figures submitted by him to be in correct as claimed by MT. Dsly and Mr Ross, and asserted that he had pointed out the inaccuracies in thai statement to both members men toned before either had discovered them.
 Threaten Mining Raise l He was questioned at considerable length by both MT. Daly and MT. Ross. Both of these members argued that the passage of any schedule of rates lower than those advocated by ,them would not bring in sufficient revenue to the Territory to efficient l ly run the government. Figures sub mitted by them showed an estimated pack tax revelfue for 1923 of $507,323, based on the packs of 1922. They warned that lower rates on salmon packs would result in even higherI mining schedules than those con Iltemplatcd.
 The effort to s,lbsfat atute the Price schedule for the Daly-Ross rates was defeated on a tic vote, the Second and Fourth delegations voting solidly against. and the First and Third members for tho former. On the vote on tho sec ond schedule MT Murray voted with the Second and Fourth the amendment carrying nine to seven.