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ROOSEVELT AND CONGRESS
SHOWING GOOD TEAM WORK
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 — Pres
ident Roosevelt and Congress are
showing good team work so far.
They concentrated on the devel
opment program for permanent
domestic re-adjustment, which was
largely shoved aside by interna
tional problems. Quarters close to
the president represented him as
pleased both at the general ten
uer on Cgpitol hill and the speed
that Congress showed in tackling
its tasks.
Indications came from the Whits
House that .Roosevelt is givipg
renewed consideration to the bi-met
fclic' monetary program. The li
quor tax h’ll looked as if it might
be passed before nightfall. The
treasury is preparing tor a quick
start for cred't borrowing, .that in
the negt six months the total will
reach ten billion dollars. It also
got down of compiling the war
debt statement demanded by the
Senate.
<« KOLOGICAL SURVEY
GETS ALIiOTMKNT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3-The
PWA announced the allotment of
two hundred and ninety thousand
thru the Geologtcal surevy of the
Interior Department for mineral
' resources surveys and land class
Mention in eighteen central and
southern states. The Alaska sur
veys will give employment to
more than one hundred engineers
and technical men now out of
work. ~~ Alaska's allotment Is
|S0,000.
congress shows SPEED
- (By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 — Con
gress broke all speed records and
upset tradition in true Roosevelt
Jan style by swinging into legis
lative work of the second day of
(he season, without even waiting
tor the reading of the President’s
budget message.
Long before tbe tensely await
ed document was received, the
committee of both houses set to
Stork as though they were deter
mined to live up to the President’s
leadership about a short and snap
py session ending in May.
A big democratic majority gave
warm praise. for President Roose
velt's message. In some republic
an quarters It wsb claimed that
the President had not given the
details of atwhere are we going
from here.” The house is prepar
ed to plunge dlerctly into the de
bate on the new liquor tax bill af
ter receiving the budget message.'
Action is expected by the week
end. The Senate made the bud
get messages ita chief point of
business.
HIGH LIGHTS ON
ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 — Pres
ident Roosevelt frankly reported
to Congress a prospective nine
billion dollars recovery campaign
deficit in the next two years. He
asked that the Kd be clamped down
to put the government on a pay as
as you go basis by 1936. In a
message transmitting the budget
of estimated expenditures charge
able to the recovery effort of al
most seven billion five hundred
million for this fiscal year end
ing June 30th, he asked » wo JiU
lion dollars in the war chest to
(on inue and taper off this drive
for the following year. He said
all this involves the government
borrowing ten billion dollars dur
ing the next six months, hut ex
pressed no doubt about meeting
this problem of nine billion deficit
which would swell the public debt
for all time as high as thirty
two billln eight hundred and th!r
tfto billion eight hundred and thir
ty four million dollars.
This does not take into account
the prospective newr taxes from
liquor revenue, and plugging in
come tax loop holes. There was
no recommendation for new taxek.
The President did recommend
the restoration of one third of the
IB percent pay cut of federal em
ployees, effective July 1st. He
favored the continuation of the
three non-local mall rate, as in his
personal address In the House
chamber yesterday.
Roosevelt spoke optimistically of
the bns'ness outlook and said
that if the course outlined was
maintained, “we can confidently
look forward to an increased vol-.
ume of business, more general
profit, greater employment, dim
nnltion of relief expenditures, lar
ger government receipts, and re?
payment in greater human hap
piness.”
. in the message it ia noted that
the. budget for the new year, the
first he has submitted to Congress
shows a reduction of nearly six
hundred and eighty five millions
of dollars in the reduction of the
regular ordinary expenditures, ov
er the budget submitted a year
ago by the outgoing administration.
The huge reconstruction corpora*
tion was called upon to finance
much business end the banking
structure of the nation is charge
able with almost four billion of
the seven billion dollars deficit for
this year.
Reductions predominate in the
national parks budget during the
fiscal year 1835 as compared with
that of 1884. The MoKlnley Na
tional Park budget la $22,270.00
aa compared with $38,480 of the
current fiscal year.
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CONGRESS CONVENED JAN. 3
(By Tlje Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — The
Democratic dominated Congress
convened today with every indica
tion pointing to the swift enact
ment of the administration pro
jgram which will probably include*
one of the largest of peace time
budgets. Cupitol hill set out for
joint session shortly, after noon
| to hear President Roosevelt's ac
counting of his stewardship and
outlin his new wishes.
Although the President’s recom
mendations are guarded, observers
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estimated that the appropriations
would be inprertb^ck-.siji*.Wllions to
be requested; some estimates run
much higher.
ROOSEVELTS MESSAGE
TO CON (illESS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 — Presi
dent Roosevelt, in his message to
Congress, refra'ned from detailed
and specific recommendations of
legislation, tut delt in general with
ids recoverv program and its pro-’
gress in the last six months.
He asked co-operation “to con
tinue restoration toward our na
tional well being and it is equal
ly important, to build on the ruins
of the past a new structure design
ed better to meet the present pro
blems of modern civilisation. We
have plowed the furrow, planted
the seed. ~and hard beginning is
over. If we would reap a full
harvest ,we must cultivate soil
where th's good harvest is sprout
ing and the plant reaching up to
a mature grourth.”
The President apparently plan
ned to deal later with the exact
legislation he proposes to recom
mend in line with the practice in
augurated at the special session
last March. lie congratulated
congress on its worn ana saia mai
this session called (or a continua
t.'on of the program then enacted.
He disclosed his intention to re
port later to the legislators on
“debts owed the government bv
the people of his country, and by
other countries.’’
Returning to home problems he
'said: “We have been shocked by
notorious examples of injuries
(done by clttsens, by persons, or
groups of persons, who have been
living off their neighbors by the
use of methods either unethical
or criminal, and oalls for stringent
preventive or regulatory measur
es. I am speaking of those in
dividuals who evade the spirit and
purpose of our tax laws; those
high officials of banks and corpor
ations who have grown rich at the
expense of their stockholders or
te public—those reckless speculat
ors, with their own or others mon
ey, whose operations injured val
ues, farmers, crops, and the savings
of the poor."
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INAUGURATES ALASKA
SCHOOL BUILDING CAMPAIGN
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2 — Dele
gate Dimond was informed Tues
day by Public Works Officials
hat S175.000 has been allocated
|for school buildings in various
sections of the territory. f'he
territorial legislative appropriated
$30,500 last winter making two
hundred and five . thousand dol
uars available for schools. The
money was allocated as follows:
Golovin, Crooked Creek. Fortuna
Ledge, McGrath, Nushagak, Port
Graham and Port Lock, $500.00
each. tiroviiia Island, Port Al»^
ander, Walker, $4,500 each. Fort
Yukon, Ruby, $3,00 each. Anch
orage Bay, Ouz'nkie, $7,500 each.
Matauuska, Wassila and Kodiak,
$10,000 each. C<aig, Unalaska,
$12,00 each. Afagnak and Sel
dovia, $17,000, each. Nome, for
a new public school building, $50,
000.
HOUSE APPROVES
. LIQUOR TAXES
(By The Associated Press)
W A SH IN <3 TCXN, Jan. 5 — The
House approved the tax of 82.00
per gallon on distilled spirits,
which is estimated to produce*
three hundred million dollars dur
ing the first full year after repeal
and a tax on beer of five dollars
per barrel.
Stocks pointed slowly downward
as the speculative forces generally
took time to figure out the market
aspects of the government’s great
est budget. The figures involved
billions and were some -what diff
icult. Prices suffered from the
stra'n at the close of a heavy sale,
which was slightly under a million.
Bonds were irregular.
V. H. ENGINEERS MAKK
310 OUT BVIWiKT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — Cut
ting ohe million eight hundred'
thousand from the amount avail
able for the fiscal year 1934, the
Board of Army Engineers recom
mended two million one hundred
thousand dollars for rivers and
harbors projects.
Portland and Seattle districts
when completed total twenty-nine
and one half millions as made by
the engineers report to Congress.
I Wrangle Narrows gets 1142,000
from the public works fund. Nome
is the only Alaskan harbor recom
mended for work during the 1935
fiscal year, with 922,500 set aside.
Four thousand was recommended
for flood control work on Lowell
Creek west of Seward for 1984.
The engineers said that 234,000
was available for Nome, and |10,
000 for the harbor of refuge at
Seward, in addition to public works
funds for Wrangle Narrows.
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1)1 MOM) INTRODUCES
MANY ALASKA HILLS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — Among
the bills proposed by Delegate An
thony J. Dimond are: First, a bill
to provide for the payment of dam
ages to residents of Mt. McKinley
Park whose property was taken in
to the park domain. It provides
for the appropriation of $75,000.
Second, a bill rto provide for power
to be given the Secretary of the
Interior to grant extension for the
operation of Alaska coal lands and .
to suspend rentals of the lands
during a period when the mines ara._
awt,
erizes the secretaries of Commerce
Interior, War and Argriculture to
receive funds for Alaska and ex
pend them In co-operative enter
prises within the territory. A
fourth bill provides: For appeals
and writs of error from the final
judgements or decisions of the dis- '
trlct court of Alaska to the U. S.
Circuit court of appeals. Another
bill authorizes the secretary of the
treasury to bestow a gold medal on
Thomas A. Ross of the U. S. Coast
Guard of Nome, for heroism, , res
•ue work, and car'ng for the ill
during the Influenza epidemic, sev
eral years ago. It provides for an
appropriation not to exceed 1500.
A sixth bill authorizes the trans
fer from the United States of the
title to the city of Nome of lot 2,
block 50 , for street purposes, this
being the old abandoned couft
house building o Stedman ave
ue which was later used by the
Bureau of Education. A seventh
bill gives the Alaska Employees the
right of appeal in compensation
cases to the U. S. employees com
pensation commission.
An eight bill gives the natives
and permanent white residents on
the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers
the right to catch and export King
salmon commercially.
A ninth bill changes the date of
the Alaska Territorial election for
the delegate and provides that the
193 4 election be held on the sec
ond Tuesday In September and
every second year thereafter on
the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in September. It also
provides that the territorial legis
lature meets on the second Mon
day In January. 1935, and on the
same date every second year there
after.
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| BRITISH SECRETARY
LEAVES ROME
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, Jan. 5 — Sir John Si
mon, British foreign Secretary, de
parted for London to report to his
government. "There Is no nse
crying for the moon in matters of
international disarmament,’' he
said. His report will be based on
the result of a conference with
Mussolini and in Parts with French
leaders.