The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-07
FIGHT IS BEGUN
 ON RESERVATION
 IN LOWER HOUSE
Grant Memorial Assails Ad- mlnIstration and Demands
 Abandonment Policy.
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ate creation of fish reserves in the Icmltory of Alaska and consider the same net only unjusticiable but inexclisahle. We know them to en- tail numerous evils, which. added to thosc 'which already afalict the Ter ritoay' are more than loyai anl self-re,Tocting people should be ex- pscted to bear uneomplainlngly
 We have been taught to believe, and we do believe. that all the law making power of the Federal govern ment has been by the Constitution confined 10 Congress.
 "The creation of fish reserves in Alaska is for the avowed purpose of suspcnding the laws enacted by Con- gress and to substitute others made by Bureau. We regard this as a vicious infraetien of the fundamen. tai law of the land.
 Tt is astounding for patriotic citl- zens of republic to contemplate. that whenever the Chief Executive lis dissatisfied with the laws enacted by the legislative department of the government, or with tho failure oi that department to amend those laws in such manner as the President may desire. he may authorize some office to substitute arbitrary rules of con- duct in place of statutes enacted uhder Constitutional powers.
 Favors Strong Lobby
 "A government of a reserve is essentially a government by men in. stead of by law and places the in- divdual fortunes at the mercy Of official whim. Irrespective of the good intentions of present officials, the privileges upon a reserve must, in tho very nature of things, go to thosc who maintain the strongest lobby. It cannot be presumed that before the Bureau of Fisheries any more than before a tribunal primar- fly created to administer justice, a claimant who can neither appear in person nor by counsel can possibly have an even chance, with one who is conyantly represented by mon spe- ciafly skilled not only in presenting but in misrepressenting facts.
 'The people of Alaska crave that equal opportunity in the pursuit of happiness and that equal protection of tho laws vouchsafcd by the Con stitution which they have been taught to respect.
 "To remove from the entire fishing population Of Alaska all those con sa.tut.orll and statutory projections for equal opportunities i5 such a .yiolenc departure from sound, gov ernmCntal principles that we can view the new system with only the greatest apprehension and as an un- necessary affront to the people Of this Territory.
 Attacks Fish Commission
 Your memorialists bog to submit Shat the Territorial Fish Commission of Alaska in no mannor represent the sentiment of the Territory on the subject of fish reserves. In recon mcnd.ng that system. they, moreover, went not only beyond their authority but beyond their sphere of legitimate activity. The Commission was creat- ed for the sole purpose of conducting fish hatcheries and kindred enter priscs for the propagation of salmon. Through an obvious oversight the Legislature failed to make the mem- bcrs of the Commission responsible, either directly or indirectly, to the people of the Territory, and as a result they made themselves the spokesmen of foreign cannery inter- ests. There is no official authorized to speak for the people Of the Terri tory except the members of this Legislature and the Delegate to Con gross from Alaska.
 'WHEREFORE, your memorialists respectfully urge that no further fish reserves be created in Alaska and that those which have already been created be immediately abolished"