The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-16

Continued from Page One) trap operation and S600O TOT taxes and arrived at the lush profit figure Absent from the calculations, ap- parently were such minor expens. 1 items as transportation from tral 10 cannery, cannery labor, cans l salt, cases, freight, insurance ano rokerage.
 1 During the debate on the trap tax ! the Senate once postponed it's invi- tstion to hear Clarence Rhode, Al sska Director of the Fish and Wild life Service, on the sailboat taI ! Ell He finally took the stand al i1:30 and the Senate did not gel | tack to Senator Barr's motion tC postpone action on the trap bill be- tore the noon recess.
 POWER PROHIBITION Director Rhode was questioned aS 10 the reason power vessels are pro -ibited in the Bristol Bay fishers and whether there is any likelihood Of the restriction teing lifted. The regulation was put into effec,
 n 1924, he said, and his guess was that it was done because too many lrower boats were flocking into Bris toi Bay from the outside and con jserFstion efforts were in danger. The Fish and Wildlife ServicC ! recommended two years ago that ths restriction be lifted, Rhode said , out the Secretary of the Interior dic not approve the change. The FWS Rhode explained, only makes recon mendations; the secretary approve CT disapproves the regulations. | The recommendation h as beer
 made again this year, he said, wit 1 information to show that conserya- tion requirements can be met.
 Power boats are more efficient than sail boats, Rhode said, an While the FWs has no authority tC limit the units oI gear used, it car
 keep the catch at appgoyimatel. the same level by regulating tn,
 length of closed periods.
 OBVIOUSLY REGULATORY Although the tax Bill is clo.hec i in the guise of a revenue measure ' it is obviously regulatory in intent Hhcde said He doubted that poWe.
 hoats in the Bay will result in 2 great change in the mortality rate /, pointing out that they, too, art subject to unskillful handling. Some of the fishermen, he felt, would bt
 unable to keep their motors in op-
 erating condition.
 Asked whether the proposed ta2 could ce used as club to force tho
 Fish and Wildlife Service to change ] the regulations, Rhode said he dit
 not see how it could be. We art 1 already on record, and have been for change in regulations.
 1 He declined to guess what influ. ence the tax might have on thu Secretary's decision.
 A nsw Act is under consideration
 10 give the FWS power to limit unit.
 of gear, Rhode said, and if it i!
 adopted the Secretary might b. more willing to change the regula- lions.
 i ADMISSIONS TAX
 Introduced in the Senate thi morning were two Bills by Senator
 McCutcheon. One would change the name of the Unemployment
 Compensation Commission to tn, Employment Security Commission of Alaska"
 Tie other would levy an admis. sions tax of approximately 10 per cent in the Territory. The ratt would be one cent on each 10 cent
 of the admissions charge, or th'
 nearest fraction. Revenues woult l go to the World War II Veterans ] Revolving Fund.
 ! The admissions tax would go into jeffect immediately upon passage ant iapproval of the Bill. Admissions tt
 activities for religious, educationa Ior charitable institutions would b, lexempt from the tax.