The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-25

not only would the canning indus try be not permanently injured by such policy, but that the Ter ritory would gain very materially by the creation of field of prof. itable employment for thousands of fishermen If the control of the fisheries is turned over to the Territory believe the Alaska Leg islature will immediately take &C., tion to control fish traps, and I think it ought to do it." he said.
 Alaska Bone Dry Law Senator Dimond accused Judge Wickersham of hedging" on the Alaska Bone Dry Law, one of the measures he has claimed credit for in past campaigns. The AL aska Legislature in 1881 passed a bill to repeal that act of Con- gress when the repeater should be validated by Congress. It asked Judge Wickersham to secure the approval of Congress.
 Now he claims the Legislature tried to pass the buck, that it had the power to repeal the law with out Congressional sanction. Yet, said Senator Dimond, when N o. Hardy, Juneau member of the House in 1925, introduced a bill to that end, Judge Wickersham in response to a telegram from MT. Hardy, wired from Ketchikan say ing that the local Legislature had no power to repeal the law. Now he says that the Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that it has. He knows better than that; no court has ever said anything of the kind. And every lawyer knows that the Legislature hasn't the power" said Senator Dimond.
 Toll System Created
 He indicted Judge Wickersham for permitting a toll road system to be foisted on Alaska, system that Congress has frowned upon for a half century in order that he might ''go beyond the grave to get even" with former enemy for fancied grivances. He ridi- cuied the Delegates claim that the transfer of the Alaska Road Com which was made just to institute the toll system in the place of free public highways, was a step in the direction of Home Rule.
 The real reason, he asserted, was given by Judge Wickersham in his Fairbanks speech when he told an audience there that some years ago he had some differences with Army officers and he saw a chance to get even in the transfer of the Commission.
 He quoted the Delegates Fair banks speech as follows:
 T did not oppose that bill for another reason. I had had some trouble with those Army officers several years ago. They said things about me and I expect I was mean enough to say mean things about them. And I will ad- init there was not a great deal Of good feeling between the Army officers and myself, and I felt that had chance to get ever for the old troubles, so I didn't oppose the bill"
 May Follow Precedent
 Of course these roads are in interior and northern Alaska and do not affect Southeast Alaska. But, argued the speaker, the pre- cedent has been set. If tolls can be charged there, there's no reason why they can't be here, and he predicted it was but a question of time, under similar leadership, un- til tolls would be imposed on the. free public road system of coastal Alaska.
 The transfer, he showed, was opposed by every Chamber of Commerce in Alaska except at An- chorage where no action was ta- ken. 50 here we have Judge, admitting. and indeed boaSting, that in his consideration of this matter, he was Swayed