The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-30
JACKSON SETS
 g p0INTS FOR HEARING HERE
Testimony of Groups Only Taken dt Sessions 0p-.
 ening Next Monday

1 Nine points of discussion pertain F ing to operation of shipping to and from Alaska and to control and | regulation of Alaska fisheries have been outlined in advance of hear ings to be held here next week by subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
 1 The agenda for the hearings here as stated by the Sub Committee Chairman, Rep. Henry M. Jackson ! tD-Wash0 was received here and released for publication today by the Office of the Governor.
 It is hoped that acknowledge of the matters to which the hear ings will be directed will enable local organizations to prepare tes- timony and presentations for sub mission before the b-Committee.
 Rep. Jackson has advised that testimony at the hearings will be restricted to representatives of au- thorized representatives of estab- lished organizations and associa- tions which desire to express their views on the questions enumerated 1 in the agenda. This appears to the Committee to be a necessary restriction the Congressman de- clared, ito insure that all organ ized opinions reflecting the views of groups of persons are afforded an opportunity to be heard in the limited time available for the hear ings."
 l The hearings al- to commence Monday. August 5, in the Senate Chamber in the Federal Building here and will open at 10 o'clock a. m. each day. Following the ses- sions here, adjourned hearings will be held at the United States Court House In Seattle, beginning at 10 | o'clock a. m., August 12. Tentative subsequent hearings have also been set for Portland, Oregon, later. Matters to be discussed at the hearings here are:
 TRANSPORTATION
 What is required to provide adequate water transportation to and from tEe Territory of Alaska?
 2-What rates are required by steamship operators in order to maintain adequate privately operat- cd water transportation to and | from the Territory of Alaska?
 3-What rates can be paid by the people of the Territory of Alaska for water transportation :? i 4-Whether continued government operation of ships l. is required? i 5-What Legislation by Congress is required to insure continued ade- ouate water transportation at req sonable rates
 FISHERIES
 Shall control of the Alaska fisheries CT control and limitation of fishing gear be removed from tke Interior Department and con- fcrred upon the Territory of Alaska?
 2--What position should Congress take relative to attempted exten- sions of Indian reservations into the commercial fishing areas of Alaska, or relative to the attempt ed use of the conservation powers of the Fish and Wildlife Service to enforce such reservations? 3-What limitations, if any, should be authorized with respect to mobile fishing gear?
 4-If the Interior Department continues to administer the fish cries of Alaska, what should Con- gress authorize the Department to do regarding limitations on the number of cannery units, includ- ing traps, or the number of traps, which may te operated by any per- son?
 Bland Coming
 The Governors Office today add ed that it has been reliably in formed that Rep. Schuyler Otis Bland D-Va), Chairman of the full Merchant Marine and Fisher ies Committee of the House of Rep Iresentatives, will accompany the Sub Committee to Alaska. Other members of the Committee coming here with Subcommittee Chairman Jackson are: Rep. Herbert c. Bon ner D-NC), Rep. Christian A. Herter R-Mass) and Delegate E. L. Bartlett D-Alaska)
 The Sub-C Committee is to leave Washington. D. O., by air tomorrow and will arrive in Ketchikan by plane from Seattle on Friday. The group is to come here from Ketch- ikan by Coast Guard Vessel, arriv-