SOLDIER BONUS
MEMORIAL GETS
THROUGH HOUSE
Corrected Draft Approved
Senate Bills Up-—Eagle
Bounty Bill Passes.
The Keys' Memorial for a land
bonus for Ala-ska veterans of the
World War. 'in Its corrected form, I
was brought back into the House!
this morning by the Judiciary Com I
mtttoe and the report of the com-!
mittoe adopted without a record!
vote It was advanced at once to a j
place on the dally file for a final |
reading today and its passage is ex
pected to be consummated this after-;
noon.
In its present form the memorial
asks that Congress bestow grants of,
160 acres of land from the unap
propriated public domain in Alaska
to all veterans of tho World War
who. at the time of thoir entry into
service, were bona lido residents of.
the Territory. It provides further;
that no restrictions of cultivation or
residence on such land shall be im
posed and that the right to locate
and select the land he made tran--,
ferahle and assignable.
Considers Senate Bills
Eight Senato bills, which passed
ithoir second readings in the House
yesterday afternoon, wore on the
House daily file for fin.il passage tiii.-i
afternoon. They are: Xa 32, amend
ing section ,278, Compiled Haws of’
Alaska, relative to motion for new 1
trial in criminal cases; No. 33, Ar
Act relating to proof of signature an:l
handwriting; No. 13, concerning tak
ing of dopokltious in tho Territory
of Alaska to be used in any foreign
jurisdiction; No. 21, amending section
1.059, Compiled Haws of Alaska, ex
tending lime for filing motion for
now trial; No. 24, amending section
1.299, Compiled Ixtws of Alaska, by
providing for divorce on the ground
of non-support; No. 57, amending sec
tion 854, Compiled Haws of Alaska, j
relat ive to proof otf service of sum- j
nitons deposit thereon in iho post
office; No 58, amending section ,552.
Compiled Haws of Alaska, relative to
undertaking of the appellant upon as
appeal in a criminal action from the
judgment of a Justice's court; No. tie.
amomtiiiiig section 984, Compiled I>aw
of Alaska, relatiive to garnishment.
House Bill No. 4, by Mr. Moss,
amending the Children’s Guardian
Act, with minor amendments, passed
the House yesterday afternoon.
Senate Passes Three Bills
The Senato this morning held only
a short session, passing three meas
ures and completing its dally file.
Tho increased eagto bounty hill, by
•Mr. Edmond. was passed unanimously.
House Memorial] No. 7, by Mr. Keys,
•relative to the use of antiquated
cuuplers by the Alaskan Engineering
Commission on its narrow gang a
line, was also parsed. Senate Bill;
No. 11, An Act lo provide for the j
attendance and examination of wit -I
nesses before the Houses of the |
Legislature and before committees
thcroof, was amended as recoin-]
mended by the Committee on J mil- j
clary and continued on second read
ing.
WEATHER CHIEF
COMING NORTH
SEATTLE, March 24—Dr. E. B.
Calvert, head of the Weather
Bureau, is enroute to Setttle and
plans an extensive study of the
North Pacific Coast and Alaska con
ditions affecting weather predic
tions.
It is announced that the Weather
Bureau, Signal Corps and Bureau
of Education officials hope to bring
about the establishment of addi
tional wireless stations in Alaska,
'including one at Point Barrow.
it is not known when Dr. Calvert
will go to Alaska.
M. B. Summers, local weather man,
said tills afternoon that Dr. Calvert
ia the head of Ithe forecasting bureau
and will come to Alaska on the first
steamer after April 1, according to
private advices.
Arrest Causes
Revolt to Be
Nipped
LONDON, March 24.—The Central
News of Berlin says German Minis
ter of the Interior has told the
■Prussian Diet that Lieut. Boss Bach,
recenttly airrested in Berl.n, planned
a revolution to begin March 31. The
revolution was similar to the Kapp
revolt.
PARTY IS DISSOLVED
BERLIN, March 24—The Prussian
government has dissolved Uie German
Nationalists’ Liberty Part.V as the
result of an ‘investigation of the ac
tivities of Lieut. Ross Bach, recently
arrested on suspicion In connection
with plans of the reactionary revolt
M i is ter of Interior .Severing made
this announcement toduy in the Diet.
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Btudetmker car. Comfort and safety
Stand next to Boston Store. —udv.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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The Allowing is a tentative
program of events of a.i entar
tdining nature on Juneau's
schedule for the next :
weeks:
March 31--Days of '9S. A. 11.
Hall, under auspices Pion • -i s
and Auxiliary, Igloo No. (1.
April 2 -Eastern .Star arm I
ball. Elks' Hall.
April 6—Junior Prom, Elk--'
hall. |
April 9-14 -Southeastern Al
aska Inter-School Moet—morn
ing, afternoon and evening | ra
grams.
April 14 Cabaret dance, A. II.
Hall, under auspices Fire l>
partment for benefit playground.
April 2ft—'Musical com dy,
“The Carden of the Shah," t’ol.
seuni Theater, under au.iph -
American Legion. ,
April 20—High S. hool Cllee
Club musical reciital.
April 21—American Legii n
smoker, Elks’ Hall.
May 1—Annual May Day ball,
under auspices Auxiliary Ameri
ean Iaoglon.
FUNERAL SERVICES SUNDAY
FOR EDWARD MONTGOMERY
Funeral services for Edwarl
Montgomery, who died Friday morn
ing at St. Ann Hospital, will he
held Sunday, (tomorrow) afternoon,
at 2 o’clock at Elks’ Hall. The
services will be under the auspices
of B. P. O. Elks, No. 4 20. Mr.
Montgomery was u member of the
Blks’ I.odge at Port Angeles, Wash.
INDIAN GIRL DEAD.
Helen Jackron, an Indian girl. 14
years of age, died at the Govern
ment Hospital at 7:30 o’clock last
night, of pneumonia. The funeral
will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon at the Native Presbyter
ian Church. Rev. David Waggoner
will officiate. The body Is at the
Home Undertaking Parlors.
TO VISIT HERE.
Mrs Edward O'Donnell, sister of
Mrs. James MeCloskey and Miss
Marie Brennan of Juneau, will ar
rive here tomorrow afternoon on
the steamer Admiral Rogers to visit
with her sisters. Mrs. O'Donnell
visited in Juneau several years ago,
at that time being accompanied by
her daughter, Miss lone, and has
many friends here.
GERMAN LOAN HELD UP
NEW YORK. March 24.—Subscrip
tions in America to $50,000,000 for
on internal German loan are being
held up by Parson & Son, bankers,
pendllng investigation to determine
whether the gold in the Relachbank
can be used to secure the loans.
ATTENTION MASONS.
A stated communication of Mt.
Juneau I.<odge No. 147, P. & A. M.,
will be held in Odd Follows' Hall
at 7:30 o'clock Monday evening.
Members are requested to be pres
ent and visiting Brethren are cor
uiaHy invited to attend. Work in
the R. A. Degree. By order of the
W. M. CHAS. E. NAOHEL,
—adv. Secretary.
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tenant at a good price, thus lessen
'dkg your own rent-burden.
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HOUSE TAKES UP
! FISH MEMORIALS
WITHOUT DELAY
I wo Substitutes for Grant
Memorial Offered—Ac
tion Expected Today.
(Continued irora rax* Onfe.l
Iof tlio industry which could agree
on means of preserving the salmon
supply The present memorial, he
said, contains no solution and mere
ly attacks the solution brought for
ward as an expedient by Secretary
Hmover.
Mr. Daly was the only member to
speak in support of the memorial.
He said briefly that the question was
not whether Mr. Hoover is right,
or Mr. Sutherland right, but whether
or not the principle Is the right
one. Ho denied that there had been
any railroading. Some members, he
suld, "in their over-partisanship may
have gone too fast, but they were
curbed.”
Two reports, both Including sub
titute measures, were brought into
ho House this morning on t lie
Grant Fisheries Memorial intro
duced at the beginning of the pres
ent term of the Legislature itt
whiclt the Federal Administration,
the Territorial Fish Commission, the
iittreau of Fisheries and, by impli
cation, other officials, were attack
ed in furtherance of Deli gate Suth
erland’s fight on tiio Alaska list
reserves created by President Hard
ing during the past year.
The majority report, submitled
by Chairman Grant and signed by
Callahan, and Tlaeison, carried a
substitute offered by Mr. Grant and
recommended tlie passage of the lat
ter. The minority report, signed
by Foster and Price, included a sub
stitute prepared by Mr. Foster and
'recommended its passage.
Substitute Is Milder.
Tite Grant substitute, while large
ly identical in terms with the or
iginal memorial, is milder in tone
: titan the latter and eliminated ail
reference to the Territorial Fislt
i Commission which was harshly crit
jieiesd originally for an alleged en
drrsement of the li Iterie3 reserve
policy. Commenting on this phase
j of the matter, Mr. Grant said he
I had received minutes of the C'om
! mission’* proceedings and found no
II n dor semen t nor a record of any
thing Justifying the criticism.
The reference to President Har.d
ittig in the recommended majority
Eubitltute is indirectly only and
guarded, although in substance that
paragraph i3 virtually unchanged
.from its original. Amendments of
fered to the substitute in Commutes
of the Whole this morning made
I further alterations.
Minority Substitute Broad.
; The substitute memorial recom
! mended by the minority is fur
broader in scope than the other. It
condemns the reservation policy in
, its entirety and asks their aboltion.
| It goes further also on the subject
I of fisheries also, requesting their
management and control be turned
lover to the Territorial Legislature
while the majority substitute went
! no further than condemning fish
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and invigorates and stimulates
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eries reserves and demanding (heir
abolishment.
Text of Memorial.
The memorial recommended by
llu majority declared:
"We deplore Hie indiscriminate
I creation of fish reserves in the Ter
ritory of Alaska and consider the
same not only unjustifiable but in
excusable. We know them to entail
numerous evils, which added to
those which already afflict the Ter
ritory, any more than a loyal and
self-respecting people should be ex
pected to bear uncomplainingly.
"We have been taught to believe,
I and we do believe, tliat all the law
| making power of the Federal Oov
[ eminent has been by the Constitu
tion confided to Congress.
"The creation of fish reserves in
■Alaska is for the avowed purpose
of suspending the laws enacted by
Congress and to substitute others
made by a Bureau. We regard ttiis
as a vicious Infraction of the funda
mental law of the land.
"It is astounding for patriotic
[citizens of a republic to contemplate
that, whenever the executive de
| part-ment is dissatisfied with the
i laws enacted by the legislative
branch of government or with the
| failure of the latter to amend those
I laws in such manner as the former
may desire, the chief executive may
| authorize some officer to substitute
i arbitrary rules of conduct in place
] of statutes enacted under constitu
jtional powers.
"A government or a reserve is
essentially a government by men
instead of by law and places the in
! dividual fortunes at the mercy of
official whim. Irrespective of tin
good intentions of present officials,
tlie privileges upon a reserve must.,
in the very nature of things go to
Mioso who maintain the strongest
lotbby. It cannot hi presumed that
before the Bureau cf Fisheries, any
more than before a tribunal primar
ily created to administer justice, a
claimant who can neither appear in
person nor by counsel can possibly
have an even chance with one who
is constantly represented by men
especially skilled not only in pre
senting but in misrepresenting
facts.
“The people of Alaska crave the
equal opportunity in the pursuit of
happiness and that equal protec
tion of the laws vouchsafed by the
i Constitution which they have been
J taught to respect.
“To remove from the entire flsii
I ing population of Alaska all those
I constitutional and statutory protec
tions for equal opportunities i.
such a violent departure from sound
governmental principles that we can
view the new system with only the
greatest apprehension and as an
unnecessary affront to the people o?
this Territory.
“Your memorialists beg to sub
mit that there is no official author
ized to speak for tjie people of the
I Territory of Alaska, except tlie
J members of this Legislature and
the Delegate to Congress from this
Territory.
“Wherefore, your memoralists
respectfully urgd that no further fi3 i
reserves be created in Alaska and
that those which have already been
created be immediately abolished.”
An open clash was averted on
hte floor of tlie House, when after
resolving itself into Committee of
the Whole, Mr. Daly asked for a
recess in order that the two substi-l
jtutes might ’ be studied together,
lie urged the necessity for support
ling the Delegate's position and said
|iif possible it should be done by a
unanimous vote.
After ecu furling briefly, the Com
mittee of the Whole reconvened and
amendments acceptable to the ma
jority of tiie committee reporting I
the memorial were presented by Mr. I
iDaly with the support of Mt. Grant.
The first was iu the paragraph i
criticising the "chief executive" for
: creating reserves, the word "the;
■ chief” being stricken and the word!
"any” substituted. The second
amendment affected the reference to
lobbyists which was changed to|
read to the effect that claimants not
represented cannot have an even
chance with persons represented by|
persons "specially skilled in pre
senting factB," the word “and in
misrepresenting" being stricken.
Suggests Territorial Control.
The third amendment offered by
Mr. Daily struck the flnul paragraph
and substituted the following:
"Wherefore, your memorialists
respectfully urge that no further
fish reserves be created in Alaska
and that those which have already
been created be abolished, and that I
the Legislature of the Territory of!
Aisaka bo granted full power to
manage and control its fisheries." j
All of these were adopted by the
Committee of the Whole, which!
also recommended adoption of the!
majority substitute.
To Suggest Adddtion.
When the House recessed at
noon, Mr. Foster said he would
offci a further amendment to be in
serted in the memorial just before
the final paragraph quoted above.
The amendment lie expected to pro
pose follows:
“That until the fisheries of Alaska'
are placed under the control of
agencies functioning in Alaska, i
there can be no adequate protection
for the fisheries. That the present
system of long distance control can
inly result in the absolute extemln
.ition of the salmon industry and in
pecial privileges to special inter
ests. That the people of the Ter-!
ritory of Alaska are best qualitiel!
to administer and protect their flsli
ereis unu that the Territorial Leg-1
isluturo of the Territory of Alaska
should be granted such powers."
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i WHO'S HERE i
! AND WHERE I
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Henry States is a guest at the Al
askan Hotel. He arrived here from |
Petersburg a shorn time ago tor;
medical treatment.
Mrs. A. M. Porter and her three
children are passengers on the |
steamer Princess Mary for Juneau. ;
They have spent the past severalI
weeks visiting in the States.
At the Gastineau.
W. R. Singleton, H. Martin, R.
W. Wiley.
At the Alaskan.
Henry States, Henry Marlin.
FREEDOM FUND
BEING SOUGHT
BY ANDERSON
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Hundred Thousand Dollars Is'
Wanted to Make Dry
League Independent.
NEW YOKK, March 24.—A cam
pa an for contributions to a $100,000
ireedr.ni fund," with which the Anti
Salon League of this slate proposes
make itself .independent of John
I) Rockefeller, Sr., and Jr„ has been
launched bv William H. Anderson,
-ii; r;i rites do at of the league.
Mr Anderson said he intended to
pour the prospective $100,000 into
that piK-keit of the league’s treasury,
which lias been depleted by the with
drawal of the support, real and
’mythical,” of the Rockefellers.
When the $100,000 shall have been
obtained Mr. Anderson expressed a
•jnviction that his organization would
be "effectively and permanently in
■IrpemlfHt of tbs hostile iiired men
f the phlianthroplcally inclined
friends of law and order.”
Persons who heretofore have not
contributed to the league will be
jsked to cnllist in the “dry” army,
and “those who dropped but because!
hey thought the fight was over,” I
will be asked to re-enlist.
Mr. Anderson divides tile $100,000 j
hind into four sections:
“The first is to itake the place of
he $2.'i.000 which the Anti-Saloon
League has received from the Messrs.
Rockefeller during the fiscal year ex
piring April SO, 1923, and which
Raymond B. PostMck, their repre
lentalive, apparently has assured the
press will be cut off.
"The next two sections of $23,000
Mch are to take the place of the j
r,0,000 cut in the contributions of!
up Messrs. Rockefeller nearly two!
ears ago and immediately after Mr.
■'osilick was selected by them to
■ uperviso their gifts to the Anti
saloon League, only a few months'
ifter his public attack on the en |
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TONIGHT
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COLISEUM ORCHESTRA
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forcemeat program of thech urc Ties
and the league.
“The fourilh section will be the
mythical last $26,000 of the $100.00*
a year which Fosdick allowed the
papers to mislead the public into
thinking was contributed by the
Messrs. Rockefeller, which, in fact,
although needed, never was given."
Church Has Solved
Housing Problems
SAN JOSE, Cal., March 24 —One
family lias found a solution of the
housing problem by buying a church
and remodelling it to the conven
ience of modern habitation.
More than ten years ago St. An
drew’s mission, a branch of the
Trinity Episcopal ChurCli, was es
tablished in flic eastern suburbs of
San Jose, and after a hard and un
successful struggle the pastor was
forced to abandon hope becuase of
the lack of parishioners. Fov two
years the little red church, over
grown with ivy, has been vacant,
the clergyman being obliged to
move t(j more fertile fields.
C. H. Edwards and his wife re
cently move dto San Jose and pur
chased the building. They are now
remodelling the structure to suit
their needs and will soon move Into
theiv new home.
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more and more at
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New Coue Charms
25c and 35c.
Carved white ivory
earrings
$2.50 a pair.
Carved white ivory
pendants
$2.50 and up.
French lockets and
soutoirs in sterling sil
ver with colored
enamel designs.
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