The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26

statements of advice he makes tC i the Legislature, but he declared tlatly that he is ready to answer at any time for it if ke has ever made san illegal, immoral or un- ethical proposition to any legis- lator.
 Arnold said he had told the Finance Committee that if more taxes must" be piled on the salmon industry, Ee recommended extension of the 10 cents and 1 cents levy. There is a. definite reason for those respective amounts he said, which is founded upon an equitable spread of the tax within the industry. Except for the price paid fishermen, produc- ton costs are as great for pink salmon as for reds, yet the sale price is only about half. The fig ures recommended by the Finance Committee would mot only be exhorbitant but would ta inequit- able within the industry itself" and would throw operations out of balance.
 Would It Kill Goose?
 Senator Don Carlos Brownell put Arnolds views into a nutshell when he asked if the lobbyist thought the tax proposed in the bill under consideration would be the blow that kills the goose that lays the golden eggs?" Arnold replied that he has no way of forecasting that and can only advise caution. Labor and transportation costs are now unsettled, he added, and the price l947 production will bring is an- other imponderable.
 Senator Rivers was unsuccessful in pinning Arnold down on a state msnt as to whether the canned salmon industry would vigorously oppose" freight rate increases. The industry will look out for itself in the best way it sees, was Arnold's reply.
 Always Be Taxes
 Rivers also asked if the salmon industry would prefer some form of general taxation to replace the 'slugging of one industry" under the present set up. Arnold could not see the time when there would not be special taxes on the sal mon industry and added that there is probably some equity" in them. However. he did agree that if the tax burden is to continue to in- crease, it should be spread out on a general basis. The trend of taxes enacted by recent Legis- latures has been in that direction, Arnold said, and pointed to the Veterans Tax and the motor fuel tax The salmon industry, he summarized, must object to "con- tinual singling out of it for ad- ditional taxes.
 With the discussion approaching the point of pickering, a motion to adjourn was carried without &C., tion upon Cochran's proposed amendment.
 Other Senate action in the af- ternoon session resulted in adop- ton of a free conference com- mittee" report on Senate Bill 35, but House refusal to adopt the re- port brought appointment of new conference group.
 Income Tax Back
 The once-killed net income tax came back to the Senate in the form of House Bill IT. After some objection it was accepted and re- ferred to the Taxation Committee
 Senator Edward D. Coffey sug- gested that it would be in order to dispatch a memorandum to the Governor asking when new nom nations would be submitted to the Legislature to replace the two appointments turned down by the Joint Session last Friday; to the Beard of Education and the Uni yeysity of Alaska Regents. How ever, when it was learned that the official notice of the Legisla ture's refusal to confirm, and sug- gestions for re-appointment of A. A. Ziegler and o. D. Cochran. were not received by the Governor un- til Monday, action was deferred.