The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-03
FISH MEMORIAL
 IS INTRODUCED
 BY CHAMBERLAIN
On Par with Grant Memorial Tn Condemnation of Res
 ervation Policy.

:, Tho second memorial Of the pres ent session conforming utterly the creation of fish reserves was intro duced in the Senate this morning by Senator Cham berlin. denouncing the present policy of the Department of Commerce in the strongest of terms and demanding immediate abolition of such reserves. In many ways it is considered even more denunciatory than the Grant memorial which passed the House about 10 days ago. The Grant memorial is still in the hands of the Senate Committee on Fisheries, of which NIT. Chamberlin is chairman. As both contain almost identical matter. it is believed pos sible that the Senate may substitute the one. introduced today for the House memorial.
 Bounty on orca
 In a memorial introduced by Sena- tor Aver the Federal government is asked to put bounty on orca, or killer whales, of s100 each. MT. Aver said this was designed to pro tect the seal herds in their migra- tors, thousands being killed each year. It is suggested that the pro- posed bounty be paid out of the reve- nues from the Pribilof Islands sealing industry.
 Tho Senate's morning session was brief. It passed Bill No. 70, amend ing Section SS0. Compiled Laws oi Alaska, relative to service of sum mons, and passed Bill No. 67, amend ing the Territorial pharmacy act tc it's third reading.
 Senate Joint Memorial No ,, by MT. Dunn, asking for tho establish ment of radio telegraph stations al Wiseman, Haycock, Teller and Kotze hue, was passed.
 At ? D. m. today the Senate tool up for consideration Bill No. 77, pro hibiting livestock from running a large on public highways. Severa witnesses were expected to appea in support of the bill, which it wa indicated, would probably fail O passage.
 Text or rIsh Memorial
 The Chamberlln fish memorial fol lows:
 "Your memorialists. the Senate an House of Representative of the Al aska Legislative Assembly rcspet dively represent:
 "We deplore and protest agains the creation of fish reserves in tn Territory of Alaska whereby larg part of the waters of Alaska hay bcen parceled out among numbe of persons and corporations to be ex clusively used by them for salmon fishing, an1 no other persons per mittod to fish therein, as violativ' of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitu tiom and as not capable even Of serv ing any good end. Our protest agains the creation and maintenance of such fisheries reserves is based on the following grounds:
 ssFirst Tho reserves have beer made by an unwarranted suspension of tho law of tho land through the fiat of the executive department o the government. This is nevel justifiable, and least of all whom, a! in the present instance, there is an othcr remedy for the evils of exist ing conditions readily attainable The creation of such reserves embod ies the principle of government bl mon and not by laws. and places thu fortunes of citizens of the United States at the mercy of official whlm And viewed from the standpoint o nrinciplc, the creation of fisheries reserves in Alaska is an arbitrary act which the people of Alaska ough not be expected to tolerate wlthou protest or complaint;
 ',Sccond. Tho reserves so created arc monopolistic in character an6 thus repugnant to the principles O government which we have beer taught to respect and do respect. Int entire waters of certain districts O Alaska have been divided up amont certain persons, firms and corpora tions for their exclusive fishing, th' owners of each canncry being givel the right to fish in certain water and all other persons excluded there from. Whatever might be claimed for arbitrary reservations general! on 4lne grOuuu Ol uctcSoi's VT V" pcdioncy there can be no justlflca ton for the reserves as created an' at present constituted. The who'll spirft and tradition of American poll teal life and history is against me nopoly which has always been con sidercd intolerablo,
 "Third. The reservations as a present constituted will, in our oplr ion, tin no manner tend to tho pro scryation of the supply of salmon. T citc particular instances. several ( tho canncrics in or adjacent to COOK lulct have been limited in thei salmon packs but the Limitations placod upon Shem is largely in @ ccss of ahair sHerago packs for tn last five ycars,} s6>that. even fl thes canncrics keep within the limits pr' scribod by th3 bureau. they may sti tako fish ft tom the waters or A aska greatly in cxccss of the averas pumber which they have been takin sov vcary mast. AS to tho other r