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ALASKA SLIPPING
In a speech on the floor of the House
recently, Delegate Bartlett scored the
Maritime Commission on that Agency’s "mis
management and lack of vision'’ in Alaska
shipping matters citing in particular the
commission’s action in allowing increased
tarriffs without proper hearing .from,the
Territory and in pr an ting exclusive con
tracts to four carriers in the trade midi
government subsidy in the form of shin
hire at nominal rat.es and ship insurance.
In part, he stated: ’’Living in an area
where the maritime rates have always been
higher than elsewhere, Alaskans had pretty
well adjusted themselves to a condition of
legalized plunder;'since man is always hope
ful and optimistic, they had hoped and ex
pected that which was bad would eventually
become better as copulation increased and
as Alaskans became'more able to raise their
voices effectively. In this hope and in
this expectation they simply did not com
prehend the strength and the ruthlossness
of their masters, the Seattle operator* t>f
the stenr.ship linos which sorve the Terri
tory. ..Then tho iconic of a territory fail
cron to be heard by an agency, they haTC
no recourse but to plead their case before
Congress...Only the most outrageous exor
cise of discretion, only the most tran
sparent prejudice, only the self-confessed
bias of such agencies-can be corrected by
the courts...Congress did not pass an ex
clusive subsidy for'tho' benefit of the
Alaska carriers of for the benefit of the
Alaska canneries, but for the benefit o"
the Alaska ublic. 5ho 'commission, bo: -
over believes that what it says a resolution
moans is what Congress meant..•. It Trans
itself up in the pious garb of economy ard
says that any other decision would result
in wasteful use of government property,
it does not dare, however, seriously to
examine the fact that in the nnst two years
shin after ship at public and federal ex
pense left for Alaska using'only SO to 3C
percent of voyage ca' acity...
Ir>. the hope of alleviating the present sit
uation as soon as nossible Deleg-to "artlett
has net with the special committee appointed
by Chair:'.an Woichol of the ?!or chant I latino
and Fisheries Corrsittco to inquire into
the relations of the United States I'ari
t imo C etna is sion with the Alaska shipping
situation. He has offered three sugges
tions to Corn-resstan Allen of California
rho heads the coni' itteo: The conr ittee
■should inouire into the necessity for per
manent legislation folioring the expira
tion of the present congressional aid rkich
e:giiros July 1, 1943* the people of Alaska
should be heard on their views regard!" ;
the application of the so-called Jones Act
to the Territory vrhich Delegate Bafflett
socks to amend and the Act of 1886, the
laws now prohibiting the transportation of
passengers and marchandisc between Alaska
ports and ectweon ports in the Unitou states
and pc it u In the Ter .it cry hv foroigr. ves
sels 'vC'-JiC in.- ' a r. -uigslf)