The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-18
GIVEN
 TO AID ALASKA
 BY SEN. JONES
Jones and Hadley See Need for Liberalization of
 Timber Contract.

it does not entail their destruction were made yesterday hy Senator Wesley l.. Jones and Congressman l.. H. Hadley during a round table discussion of Alaskan problems at City Hall Both declared that they favored making all possible conces- sions necessary 10 build up a pulp and paper manufacturing business in Alaska
 The assurances were given by the Washington members of Congress at the end of a brief discussion of the Forest Service contract now offered to prospective investors. Senator Jones said: '1 am willing to say you can have a contract on the timber for 50 years at price of ten cents, or even five cents, per cord in order to get the industry started so long as the terms of the contract will as- sure reproduction of the timber MT. Hadley declared that the contract now offered apparently would rem der too indefinite any development program for 1t to be attractive to capital He pledged his support to an effort to get a contract offered by the Forest Service such as was sug- gested by Senator Jones.
 Roden on Fisheries
 Although the meeting had been an nounced Thursday in The Empire it was not largely attended. Fisheries and the forest problem were the main topics, other subjects mentioned be ing a Territorial capitol building, a land office for Southeastern Alaska, the local Government wharf, the Hawk Inlet canal project, and a change in the Organic Act to revise the present system of representation in the Territorial Legislature.
 Henry Roden urged the enactment of fsheries code for Alaska to re- place the reserve system. He said snch law might well embody the ideas of Secretary Hoover as now being carried out by reserve regu lations except the zoning feature ant limitation of canneries. Every can nery desiring to operate should b' given permission to do so. he de clared, asserting that the limitation should be placed on gear packs ant seasons, and authority for sucl @ limitations should be made under au thority from Congress rather than b. bestowed by executive orders.
 MT. Roden paid a tribute to Sec retary Hoover for acting to save tn fisheries and to the Bureau of Fish cries for it's honest endeavor to re lieve the situation. He said he real ized that Commissioner O'Malley ant his assistants were handicapped b, inadeouate funds and had done the best they could with the little none, available.
 w. c. Freeburn said he believed the salmon supply could be savet from extermination by placing lower limit on canneries, fixing maximum output per line for eacf cannery. This idea, he said, wa' favored by canners in whom he hat complete confidence as being the one sensible solution to the problem
 Help Get Land Office
 'If your delegate to Congress vii introduce a bill for a U. s. Lant Office for Southeastern Alaska. will be glad to do everything in m! power to help put it through Con press." said Senator Jones whel that matter was brought up by R E. Robertson. Other subjects, par ticularly the change suggested il the Organic Act as to representation in the Territorial Legislature. both visitors said should properly be in itiated by the Delegate and if they were, both said they would support them.
 MT. Robertson touched briefly on the proposed. Government dock TOT Juneau. Territorial Capitol build ing and the Hawk Inlet canal propo sition.
 Following the hearing. Senator Jones and Congressman Hadley wen for an automobile trip over Glacier Highway to Aux Bay, returning iatel for a conference with Federal ofii c,a,s Commissioner O'Malley wis ited the Museum and called on number of local people. spending the evening in the local office of the Bureau of Fisheries.
 Go South Today
 The party, including Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Hadley, left this morhihe on the Unalga for Petersburg ana Wrangell. At the latter place the two members of Congress and Com missioner O'Malley will go aboard the Fisheries boat Widgeon with E M. Ball, Asst Fisheries Agent 'an' cover canneries on the west coast O Prince of Wales Island. and tn Ketchikan district. Mrs. Jones an' Mrs. Hadley will continue on th Unalga to Ketchikan where the res of the party will rejoin the ship th' latter part of next week. Fron Ketchikan the party will go direct tt Seattle on the Unalga.
 The cutter will recruit her creV at Seattle and return directly to lt headquarters here, arriving early Il September.
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