The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-11

businesses are being offered fol sale.
 He stated there is no objection to the Federal G. I. Bill except that Alaska's vets have not been able to make use of it. Suggesting amendments to the measure under discussion, he stated that veterans want their program kept out of politics As a possible means to that end, he advised that appoin- tees to the Veterans Board should have the requirement of confirma tion by the Legislature before they take office. He also suggested clar- ification of certain wording to i'm pose stronger limitations on the powers of the Commissioner
 Divorce Tax
 Anchorage veterans, McCarrey said, are on record as approving the sales tax as it is incorporated in Senate Bill g. He, for himself went on record with them but now thinks there are better ways of raising the money needed and he also believes the tax should be di- vorced from the bill. He would hate the attorney said, to have the vet erans charged generally as the ones who brought the sales tax to AL aska.
 The Anchorage attorney also gave his opinion that the sales tax can be enforced upon mail order purchases and said the bill should be revised so that Alaska mer- chants will not be discriminated against. Also, he pointed out, the fur industry, Alaska's third largest is subject to the tax imposed. The residential requirement. in the mea- sure too needs clarification, he be- lieved He suggested Pearl Harboi Day as demarcation line, so that itinerant defense workers would not be subsidized Alaska veterans don't want lot of red tape, he avowed They do want to see the Territory make use of Federal money as much as possible, and the S250,00( initial appropriation is not, he be- lieves sufficient,
 Saturday Evening
 At the evening session Saturday N. C. Banfield, Juneau lawyer and ex-serviceman, was the principal witness He followed to the stand William s. Brown Adjutant, Taku Post VFW, speaking for himself and Erwin Hill of Juneau Hill himself current candidate for the Legislature, declared himself in fa- vor of the sales tax provided in the bill because it is an effective means of raising the money and is in cluded in the measure.
 Banfield, representing himself only, displayed an intimate know ledge of the measure and pointed out to the Senators many ways in which it may be improved.
 He advised that return to Alaska be a. necessary qualification for benefits; that some thinking be done about blue discharges" echo ed McCarrey's point regarding con- firmation of Board appointees be- fore they may serve, and described the tax feature as a sales tax in some respects but also a license tax.
 Tax Painless"
 He declared the tax, as set up, is one of the most painless" he's seen yet. He does not believe that it will make any difference at all in the price paid in small sales and the accounting required of the mer- chant is so simple that there should not be much objection.
 He seconded point previously brought out by Senator Shattuck, that securing Congressional approv- al of a bond issue, plus likely re- quired approval by the electors of the Territory would result in the funds being raised too late. The complications of an income tax would also require too much time and it would be the next year be- fore returns would come in. To Senator McCutcheons suggestion of a property tax, Banfield replied that the property appraisal alone would make that a matter of the far future.
 Senator Cochran asked more or less historically about increasing the liquor tax and worked in a brief dry speech.
 Loans Big Need
 Banfield suggested his belief that loans are the big need and that he would not like to see loans leopard ized by the funds being drained tc pay the cash bonuses to those who do not wish loans. He endorsed tht liberal provisions of Senate Bill g declaring that loans, to be effec.