The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-02
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 The so-ealled red herring of in vestigation which has been get tng much of the attention of the goth Legislature in Juneau appar- ently has given way to the red salmon of just fame for paying the bill A measure dropped in the hopper this week by Rep. Andrew Hope of Sitka would make salmon pay some more. The author was re- ported as estimating the yield to the Territory from his bill at a. round two million dollars a year. II would levy a tax on every salmon taken by all kinds of gear. On kings the rate would be one half of one per cent of the value up to 2.500 and would graduate up to 20 per cent on the value over 10,- GOO. On soekeyes it would start one-I quarter of one per cent of the val ue. on silvsrs two per cent of the value and on humpies and other species one quarter of one per cent to top of 40 per cent of the value over 100000 The bill is proposed as an amendment to the portion of | tn business license tax act which l now levies four per cent on the value of raw fish.
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 tN session remaining, the lawmakers appeared to be headed for another last minute jam Three minor bills have been enacted into law thus far Ninety bills have been intro duced in the House thus far and 49 in the Senate. If they are all given consideration. the Legislators win be burning some midnight oil.
 
 No official action has been taken l yet on the selection of a Territorial Auditor, but dope around the legis- lative corridors seems to favor Neil Moore, who was appointed to the position following the death of Frank A Boyle. Auditor will be up for election next year and some lawmakers favor the idea of leav- ing well enough alone and letting the boys compete for the job in the '52 elections. As the flood of memorials con tinued, this bit of doggerel, labeled "A Memorial a Day Keeps the Sen ate Away" was going around the legislative halls:
 Let's hear the prayer, and call
 it a day,
 And write a memorial said
 Wendall p. Kay
 The Senate is irked; got nothing
 to do----
 I present, Chief Clerk, Memor-
 ial Two two.
 They're a dime dozen said
 Senator Lyng,
 It sounds like the boys have
 bean out on a fling.
 They've done naught but peti-
 tfon for 30 long days;
 Why don't they get out of
 that Anchorage daze?
 They memorial by day and mem
 orial by night.
 And pray that next morning
 there won't be a fight.
 Voters are writing; they're pol
 itically ill.,
 Let's throw out memorials and
 enter s bill. assYge Taylsr, fsrmer Deputy Marshal at iWrangell, is scheduled to have one of the top jobs in the new Office of Price Stabilization under Director Fred G. Hanford, wrangell's Mayor Hanford, who was called to Washington last week in connection with the OPS setup, was due back in the Terri tory this week end
 Balancing the budget remained as the big job for the lawmakers. Revenues from all sources during the biennium ending the last of March will total around IT million under the present tax structure. Requests now before the Legisla- fura total little over 20 million New taxes or a sharp pruning of the budget estimates is inevitable Biggest item in the estimated bud get is for schools, around 12 mill