The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-09-30
The Unanswered Speech of Albert White, delivered al F 'airbanks Repub- liean Rally on Friday. Sept. l5, 1850
Note: Mr. White has made repeated offers to debate this
 speech but has had no takers to date.

! member of the board. He said the uncollectable loans amount to only S133 .OOO and that the other $67 ,000 was merely delinquent. Well, to me it is uncollectable until they get It l and I predict that the total Will reach close to the S2o0.Ooo mark or more.
 Court Actions
 The Territorial veterans bureau has had to bring court actions from time to time to collect on loans. AS you are we'll aware, this Territory has an attorney general and has had for a good many years. It IS the duty of the attorney general to ad- wise the governor, the treasurer ana the other officials of the Territorial government, and to bring, prosecute and defend in the name of the Ter ritory all necessary and proper ac- tions or suits for collection of reve- nue under Territorial laws.
 Actually, the attorney generals office has little work to do. So little in fact, that a former attorney gen. eral. MT. Henry Roden, recom- mended that the office be abolished But with little to do, the attorney general, to all appearances, does nothing. MT. Roden's salary, at the time he held the office, was S5,00U year. The present incumbent was able to obtain $9,000 year for him. self and $7,OO0 for an assistant. The attorney general has just returned to his office in Juneau after three month absence. He indicated to a newspaper reporter he was absent attending various conferences. Ac- tually that is just new method the Democrats use to take an extended vacation. Just say you're going to a conference - the taxpayers won't know the difference. But the various Territorial departments, when they have legal work to be done, hire special attorneys at an expense o1 many thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of Alaska. As an example, MT. Warren Taylor of Fairbanks, member of the legislature and a candidate for the senate, brought suit against the Star Cab company at Fairbanks on behalf of the Alaska veterans bureau. The attorney fee was S75O. In another case, Pollas- Urine ys. Crouch, also handled by MT. Taylor for the veterans bureau, the fee was S907. There were addl- tional fees amounting to $50, mak- ing the total to MT. Taylor $1,8O7. In the first Case mentioned the total loss to the Territory was $9,40O.32. In the second case the veteran in- volved paid the attorneys fee. Taylor's Vote
 MT. Taylor voted for the creation of the Alaska veterans bureau at the time it was created It appears to me morally wrong, at least, for MT.
 Taylor to have been retained in
 these cases which came about as the result of legislation in which he
 participated.
 | could continue, if time permitted to recite instance after instance Of 1 mismanagement and neglect, if not of actual fraud, in this one bureau
 alone.
 A great many other interesting facts are being brought to light by
 the special Investigating committee
 We find, for instance, that MT.
 George Sundborg, who is carried on
 the rolls as an assistant to the gov ernor and as consultant to the
 Alaska development board, receives salaries and fees totaling $14,500. Case of Rivers
 Here is an example of a member of the legislature receiving payment from the various bureaus and de-
 partments of the Territory, some of
 which he may have helped to create
 At any rate, the appropriations for these various bureaus were approved
 by the legislature of which he was a
 member. refer to Senator Victor c.
 Rivers of the Third division, who is
 candidate for reelection this year.
 This senator, who is an engineer by | trade, received more than S16694.88 from the Territorial treasury and from other funds handled by Ter ritorial agencies since the end of l the last legislative session. Between June T, 1949, and Oct. 20, 1949 Sen ator Rivers received $1,54465 from the funds of the Territorial highway department. Between April II, 1949. and April 25, 1850, he received Sl2,- 131.58 from the Territorial depart ment of health. Add to this another g 800 from the aeronautics fund, as a partial payment for services to aid the Palmer deal, S1685O from the Alaska statehood committee and. on top of that, SIS, ,76050 that was paid him from school construction funds. The latter amount was paid as a salary trust account.
 Alaska, as you all know, has an engineering department in the office