Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-30
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 | the Alaska Packers. Association. We
 have never. represented the Booth
 Fisheries. We did represent the
 Northwestern Fisheries company in one single criminal case which was
 tried about year ago. That was em- ployment for single case only, and lit is terminated. It is the only em-
 ployment we ever had from any cor Iporation or person connected with the
 Booth Fisheries. The Alaska Packers
 Association have few, if any, traps.
 know positively that when was last
 in Bristol Bay, the place where by
 far the larger part of the red fish are
 caught, they had no traps whatsoever.
 I am informed that there are now no traps in Bristol bay If they have any
 traps in Southeastern Alaska, I have
 no knowledge of them. l did not
 even think of the wishes, or supposed
 wishes, of any client of mine when
 the bill for taxing fish caught on
 traps was before the Senate. voted
 against the bill for the reason that
 the proposed tax would be difficult
 of collection, and would put pre-
 mium upon dishonesty. There was no
 method of keeping a check on the nsh
 caught in traps. The Territorial
 Treasurer advised against any change in the law on account of the resultant
 confusion in his office. And l had
 every reason to believe that the bill
 had been introduced to help uot flew friends of it's author. It meant nothing to me personally whether the
 bill passed or failed. 1 voted against it because thought it was a bad Dill. h voted to maintain form of taxa Ition on traps that had been approved
 by MT. Sutherland and MT. Arthur
 Frame. And now they say that in do- ing what l did, I betrayed the people of Alaska. When they say that they
 know they are not telling the truth,
 and they are trying to fool the people
 of Alaska.
 And that Q Ill of the indictment against me. Searching legislative lrecord covering two sessions, they can find nothing else against me- But let us go further: 1 have al' ways proclaimed my belief that the people of Alaska should control It's fisheries. That Congress should give | to the Alaska legislature control or all Alaskan fisheries and hsh1ng grounds. I have insisted on this at l all times. And the House Joint Mem orial No. 1 of the 1923 session, refer | red to above, contained prayer (add' ed to it after it had left MT. Suther- lands hands) that the control or the fisheries be given to the Legislature. But MT. Sutherland opposed 1t. At the hearings held before the Commit -ee on Merchant Marine and Fish leries. House of Representatives, Six ty-eighth Congress, First Sesslon' | held in January and February, 1924, on page 91 of the transcript, in reply to a question rom Representative McKeown wh asked why the con- trol of the fisheries should not pc turned over to the Legislature we find MT. Sutherland saying: "i shou'o like to ask and would make an enort
 to have the Territory of Alaska han dle their fisheries, but realize that there is no use mincipg matters
 about these things-that these people (the packinq interests or so-called
 fish trust) are all powerful in Alaska and all powerful all over the country. In these hearing MT. Sutherland testl- fled at great length, yet not once alo he even suggest that the fisherles question might be settled by turning the control of the fisheries over to the Alaska legislature. He evidently thinks that the only thing Alaskans are fit to be trusted to do, IS 10 vote
 to return him to Congress. Some or
 us refuse to put so low an estimate upon our intelligence and abllltles. And this is a fair example of the fun damental difference in political out look between myself and MT. Suther- Hand. I believe in home rule; that we are fit to rule ourselves, part1cu- larly as concerns the fisheries. lie opening this statement in using the
 strong language which l did use to characterize the accusations of the men who said that had betrayed my constituents for the dollars that was getting from the fishing interests.
 The fishing industry now pays about 65 per cent of all territorial taxes. But the increase in taxation of 1923 ana 1925 over the taxes of former years fell almost entirely on that industry. And so the increased appropriations for the schools, the college and the pioneers pensions came almost who'll ly from the salmon packing business.
 My enemies, graspingly eager for the power and emOluments of Onlce, say that I am corporation lawyer. am not. I am lawyer for some cor porations, and the distinction is the distinction between honor and dis honor. I aim to be ,and am, the same kind, the same type, of lawyer that my ideal, Abraham Lincoln, was. In my office and in the forum of the ao,,x4 I Faithfully aduiSa and rpnrASRnt L