The Nome nugget., 1962-10-29
TO THE ALASKAN VOTERS

TO THE ALASKAN VOTERS
 am opposed to the election of Ernest Gruenina to the Senate and Ralph Rivers to the House and here With are my reasons for my opposi- ton and snbstantiated facts as to my opposition
 The Enabling Act creating Ter flfoflal Legislature. stated the num- Der of Senators and House members. set the day of election and the date they were to be sworn in.
 The taW set the number of days thaf the leoislature was to sf in session al so days with a provision that the governor might again call them III session for q period not eX- eeeding D days.
 In December. 1918. the Secretary of the Territory upon instructions from GoV Graenlns. at that time in Wash lneten,@ called an extraordinary -ses- sion for l6 days ahead of the regular session.
 He included in this call members who had been elected but who were not to take office until 20 days later l was a holdoVer Senator from the 4lfh legislature so I had to attend When the members had been sworn lh by the Secretary of the Territory. ana the Senate organized, asked for and was granted the privilege of the aeoaa and asked that Atty. General Ralph Rivers be brought be fore the Senate for questioning as to the legality of seating members in a a speclal session. when the law speci-
 lcally stated that the governor might agaln call them. stating at the time tfla' l lhefe were six members who ida been sworn ln with whom I had eleNef sas=l Tn a session with BEFORE AGAINo '''eitt
 His reply was to the effect that Was confusing tenure of office with term of office-and went on to say that the call was perfectly lesal-I replied was not confusing tenure nor term of office at all. but stating i.iS Wno,e c on that word AGAIN. I have never sat with these SIX people BEFORE so under any interpretation could not be sjttinp with them AGAIN .ss''.7
 Later m the session a test was made before Judge Folta. whose de eisloh and reasoning published in Alaska Ala Reports No. 12. upon pages s4u ana 44l; in which he stated as follows: Obviously the word again in the foregoing provision would be neahlnsless If any eXtraord nary ses- slon of the legislature was called subseouent to the issuance Of the certificates of election or before the eenvenlne of the regular session .-,accordingly it is my opinion that the extraordinary session was not constituted in accordance with law,
 MT Gruening as governor and Mr. RlVers as attorney general had taken the oath of office to uphold and de- tend the laws of the United States as We legislators had done
 In my opinion it was a gross vio- latieh of their oath of office when they undertook to get around the law to accomplish some purpose of terney. did not know that what he had stated was illegal. it would in- dlcate he was not versed in law
 If he yielded to pressure from Gov. Gruening motivated by actions 10 give him strieter hold on the leg islatrre. then Gov. Gruening was guilty of not living up to his oath of otflee and MT. Rivers of not stand ing up to him.
 A man is known by his acts - any citizen can % into the law library. take this volume. and read Judge Folta's decision
 To me a lie is statement made to deceive one entitled to know the facts. All I ask is that when you come vote. do not be led to vote for them for party reasons nor ridi- judge them by what is proven fact as what they did.
 l have lived at Nome for S2 years, know many of you personally, and at no time in my life have I ever knowingly lied to you. swear that the above statements are true-so let sense, not sentiment. rule your actions and vote for the best in- terests of Alaska.
 Sincerely and respectfully yours.