The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-18
CONTROLLER BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
BY 8 TO 7 VOTE.
Paul Attacks Timber Leas
ing for Pup and Paper
Development.

EY 4 Ycte of ninp - seven. exactly
! IS seVe1al speakers had predicted
lur ,ns til, days debate on the meas
are. thr reiuNenatph Controller Bill
assed The tiuns Ia" Saturday If.
arnoon. And as Speaker Smith an.
nouneed the result Of tho roll call.
aughl swept through the galleries.
/ Throughout the afternoon the gal
ries weta filled to overflowing TIL
greatest amount of applause WAS
given 10 preventative Gafiney,
Nome veteran. whose address again.
the bin was really the feature REQ
IresentatiNe j u. Murray. whose rec
nd for service is the longest of any
member Of either branch, said MI.
Gaflney's speech was the finest
have ever heard delivered al any
session since | have been coming 20
Juneau"
Two members, Repres nntativea
Ross. Fairbanks, and Paul ketchi-
kan, made speeches in the measure'S
defense. and Mr. Grier read letter
from H. V. Ray. Seward lawyer on"
pr sident Of the First Alaska legisla
tnre To Judge Wickeraham endorsing
the idea Of th Controller program.
Paul Attacks Pulp Timbe Sales
y sen alional attack by Mr. Paul
on the Fore; Service adminiet ration
in Alaska and condn mnation Of its
leasing policy. designed to bring
about establishment Of the pulp an
paper manufacturing industry in Al
aska. was one of the surprises Of
the afternoon meeting. A large part
of his speech. which followed Mr..
Gaffney's, was sort OF hymn OF
hate in which be hurled challenges
at Senators Howard and Dunn, caus-
tically Questioned the motives OF
Senator Pratt in opposing an amend
ment Ia the Controller bill in the
Senate, attacked The Empire and
it's representative With Lis usual Vi.
gor, then turned the vials of his
wrath on the Forest Service aud
L. S Bureau of Fisheries in part
cular and all bureaus in general.
Raciling the recent announcement
that the Zellerbach interests Of San
Francisco had successfully bid IN
five billion feet ihe said tenl O..
timber in the Ketchikan district for
the purpose of establishing large
pulp and paper manufacturing plant.
he declared. The Zellerbachs can
have anything they want, They car
have ten billion feet Of timber to
hold for fifty-five years He added
extension of this kind Of program
would sci apart all of the timber
of Southeast ern Alaska in large
tracts. held by big capital and a.
serted Il am not for that kind of
development.
He compared such leases To the
reserves system. which. he said,
meant slagnation of industry, no
employment. no money and, there.
fore. no population.
| He charged the Forest Service with
arbitrary use of power IN handing
its island holdings and other prop
erty in Southeastern Alaska, witn
discriminating against some Of H.:
clients in favor of others. Il de9piee
the bunch hate them for their
tyranny, he exclaimed with in
tense earnestness. And after citing
what he said was tyrannical use Of
power by the Bureau OF Fisheries,
he reiterated this statement. as
serting: Il hate these bureaus"
Challenges Dunn and Howard
Mr.. Paul laid down a sweepinc
challenge to Senator Dunn and Presi
dent Howard to vote against the
House bin This, he argued. had
been amended to make the bill con
form TO what both had contended
for in the Senate when the measure
introduced by Senator Steel was DC
fore that body. Since that had beer
done. he continued: We expect therI
to meet it without resortins to a
technicai,y."
He contended the measure was the
right sort of step. its principles
just, and that the entire plan was
based on the right Of the governed
to govern themselves.
Lomen Enjoys Self
Mr.. Lomen enjoyed himself and
amused the galleries with som
horseplay on various members H>
they and their actions were dept, I
in a weekly paper published al PEI
ersburg by the Alaska Native Broth
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