Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-14
NON-RESIDENT TAX

I N~fNNAAS e"OOuG Glle CdX on non
 resident trollerS which he helped
 to defeat in 1927, he said:
 IT then advised holding the pending tax bill till the power o1
 the Legislature was settled by the
 highest authority in the case on ap-
 peal. I can say that did
 soon thereafter secure a strong de-
 clSIon from the Supreme court
 which I think will render the pres
 ent tax of $25O on nonresident
 trollerS valid. Without that deci- Slon by the Supreme court I feel certain that not even a 5O-dollar tax would have been sustained
 But listen to what Rustgard said this year in an article which he wrote himself and had printed Tn Stroller's Weekly:
 The last case tried by him in- VolVed the authority of the Legis- lature to impose a tax of S25O on nonresident trollers. The Attor- ney General advised the Legisla- ture against imposing such huge tax on the theory that it was so as to prejudice the courts against the law. Some ot those legislators who were op- posed to any such tax at all helned to raise it from $50 to S25O with the nope that this would render the entire tax invalid
 Tn 1921 the Legislature ordered Hustgard to codify the laws of AL aska. In 1923 the Legislature upon receiving the result of his work threw the stuff into the waste bas- ket, as being worthless. And vet RuStgard demanded s1,OOo addi- 'lonal pay for performing duties outside the regular duties of his 'Hlce. Besides this the Legislature 'ald an attorney $1,OOO for handl- ng a case that Rustgard could not handle because he had been attor- ley for a large cannery corpora- ion.
 DELAYED NINE YEARS
 Tn the last case in which Rust ara appeared for the Territory hn ne case of the Territory vs. the 'rlstol Bay Packing Co.,, the court nreW out the case because Rust ard himself had so little confi- ence in the case that he delayed me years in bringing the case for 'lal. The cannery company beat 1e territory by tke simple device building separate sheds over ach line of machinery. "Rustgard's opposition to my bill I92O to tax the fish traps on the ISIS ot the catch was due to the 'ct that Rustgard was even then lghng for the support of certain 1 'nnery interests in his quest for a ( deral judgeship. The entire can- 'ry system was against the bill. C used the power of his of- r 'e to help the cannery men. and e oe1eated the bill by influencing j e vote.
 Let us see what result has fol- wed: f
 me Kelly Rock fish trap, own S
 oy F. E. Harris, is located in c use Fass. From that trap P. E. W '[rS takes over 100000 sockeye c Ill summer. If that trap caught ly 100000 sockeye, P. E. Harris F 'uld pay s5o,Ooo yearly in taxes ir
 the Territory. In the seven si ars since my bill was defeated ci
 MT. Rustgard, your Attorney tl neral Harris has saved $35o oo0 Ill IS not surprising then to learn ri at Harris endorsed Rustgard,s io me for a judgeship at Nome to ti hator Jones of Washington after W was learned that Henry OMal- n;
 mad no objection to MT. Rust re 'd's appointment"
 Ar. Paul ended his statement of D: 'e against his opponent by say u that the reason why MT. Rust tu d defeated Senator Frames bill tE
 the Matanuska road out of An h:
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