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THE PET MEASURE OF GOVERN- !
OR PARKS IS KNOCKED OUT
IN CONGRESS
Showing how strong for Alaska
the Governor of Alaska is, comes to .
us clearly illustrated in the consid
eration of the Curry (of California) ,
Bill that came up before the <0th
Congress on March 5th last.
The bill reads as follows: Be ••
enacted, etc., That neither section j
1855 of the Revised Statutes (U. 3.
Code 645. par. 1457) nor any otu- ,
er Act of Congress shall be con j
strued to prevent payments for |
clerk hire, otfice rent and other ex- !
penses of executive offices of the
Territory of Alaska, including ad
ditional compensation, not to exceed
$2,000. per annum, to the Secretary
of the Territory, under appropria
tions heretofore or hereafter made
by the Legislature of Alaska tor
said purposes.
This bill was advanced by Curry
tot California—one of the enemies
pt Alaska—as a pet measure of
Governor Parks. In fact Curry re
marked, during the bill’s consider
ation, that it had the approval of
the Governor of Alaska.
In the Congressional Record of
March 5th, pages 4216, 4217 and
4218 (House Records) we have the
complete arguments for and against
the bill. Really, Curry was the on
ly one for it, but many questions
were a3ked by different House mem
beTs. Curry admitted, on questions
from Cooper (Wisconsin) that the
Courts could not do otherwise tliae
declare the payment of Territorial
funds to Bureau officials illegal, still
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he knew would be declared illegal
what he knew, himself, wa's wrong
and what the Governor of Alaska
knew was not right.
Parks is a Coolidge appointee and
is for bureaucracy first and Alaska
some other time when it suits his
convenience. He couldn’t go before
Congress personally with the bill,
so he had a backbiter of the Terri
tory to do it for him. We got Park3
over the votes of the Territory for
our own choice of another man. The
wishes of the Territory were not
given much thought. We think
they were hardly considered, even.
The aim of Parks was to drive a
bureaucratic javelin into the heart,
of the Organic Act of the Territory
He failed, miserably.
It strikes us that Parks had a
deal of nerve, albeit he was backed
to what he thought was an atmos
phere of success by the Territory’s
own Legislature. Since the Legis
• lature couldn’t pass the Coontroller
Bill, he imagined he’d have fair
sailing with the U. S. Congress. He
didn’t.
Immediately after the bill wan
read by the House Clerk, La Guard
ia, New York, demanded a second
After Curry had stated his case and
advocated the passage of the bill
on the strength that only Indians
halfbreeds and chronic office seekers
opposed it, La Guardia got the floor
and suggested that Dan Sutherland
be allowed to speak on the matter.
Sutherland spoke briefly and point
edly. He took up the matter of
past conflicts in territorial affairs
of the United Statera and led directly
to our own Organic Act. He con
cluded his statement with:
“Now, gentlemen of the House,
in closing I want to say that this
Organic Act is our Constitution of
Alaska. It bears the same relation
to the Territorial Legislature of
Alaska that the Constitution of the
Unite States bears to Congress, and
an even better analogy is that of
the State Constitutions, which are
held to be stable Instruments. They
are not to be amended or changed
or altered at the whim or caprice
of any individual or minority or
xanizations, for this request comes
from very inconsequential bureau
crat? in Alaska and from no other
source. Both parties in the com
ing campaign have declared in un
mistakable terms against this prac
tice in violation of our Organic Act.
So i am appealing to you to recog
nize our Constitution as being just
sacred as the Constitution of any
of your States and to refuse this
repeal.
“To repeal this provision is •simp
ly the entering wedge on the part
of the bureaucracy of Alaska, where
today it virtually dominates the
Territory—this is an entering wedge
to the destruction of local self-gov
ernment and the establishment of
a super-bureaucracy in that Terri
tory.” (Applause)
After a few more questions and
replies, and in an answer to John
son, of Washington, in which Suth
erland said he had to make compro
mises with Territorial Committees
that were not always agreeable,
Curry came back with a reply that
Sutherland was speaking an un
truth. The Delegate from Alaska
said then that he’d let that remark
be considered in its vote on the Cur
ry bill.
The question was taken, and on
a division demanded by Mr. Curry,
there were opposed to the bill 130.
for the bill 12.
This vote is so overwhelming
against bureaucratic manipulation
of our Territorial affairs that it
should put a decided crimp in any
more Parks’ schemes of annulling
the Constitution of Alaska. So far,
so good, now it is up to the next
Legislature iu yui iia O. iv. uu me
Controller Bill.
WITH GREAT HEART AND GLAD
HAND
Those who visited Wrangell dur
ing the recent basket ball champion
ship games between Petersburg and
Junta, have returned home all
puffed up with the welcome hand
ed out by the Wrangellites. All
day Monday—and since—it has bees
the big topic on the streets.
“Don’t forget,” we have been
repeatedly admonished, “to hand
it to Wrangelll for the good tims
she handed out to us.”
“And tell Wrangell we’ll not for
get her gifts, her program of en
tertainment nor her unbeatable sys
tem of digging up an immensity of
hospitality that hasn’t been equal
ed in this neck of the woods at any
time.”
“Any one who didn’t have a thor
oughly enjoyable time on this visit
must have been troubled with a bad
liver or a disposition so sour that
vinegar is the quintessence of sac
charin in comparison.”
“Now, remember, you pencil push
ers and key maulers, if you don't
say something real nice about the
manner those Wrangell folk kissed
us on both cheeks and said they
loved us, we’ll quit your darned
paper, so we shall.”
So there you are. It seems that
it stands us in hand to say some
thing in appreciation even though
we don’t know just what words to
use to cover a general assemblage
of this kind where the welcome
and cordiality were so far beyond
the ordinary. But the overwhelm
ing evidence is that Wrangell, in
her very quietly arranged plan of
greeting, has done more to rivet
the good fellowship of the two
towns than tons of chamber of
commerce propoganaa might do, or
the soaring words of best speakers
hope for.
The whole affair from start to
glorious goodbye was from the
bottom of Wrangell's heart. And
Wlii'11 ttint popular favorite of Northwest tables, FRYE’S “DELI
CIOUS” I IRA \1> HAM, comes from the smokehouse, there is preserv
ed for your palate behind the rind* that tempting flavor so fragrant
and so mellow to the taste.
Delicious, nutritious, quickly prep red, a meal in itself, or the prin
cipal ingredient in scores of unusual dishes, and wonderfully economi
cal because every ounce of it can be utilized—that’s FRYE’S “DEL/I
CIOIT8” BRAND HAM. •
when anything comes from that
center of love, cheer and hospital
ity,—and comes without effort
it did this time—only sticks >f
sodden wood couldn’t appreciate it
Some time—and we hope soon —
Wrangell may come this way. We
won’t promise that we’ll be so good
an entertainer, nor so successful
as a hostess, but we’ll certainly do
our little best to prove that our
welcome is unadultered and meant
to please. So here’s to you, Wran
gell, for your wealth of cheer and
your splendid construction of com
radeship.
NIX ON BLUEBEARD
Down in Phoenix, Arizona, the P,
T. A. has re30luted against old Blue
beard. They characterize the tale
as detrimental and degrading and
they want him deleted, cut out of
the text books and slaughtered, as
he butchered his many wives. We
remember running across a copy of
the story of the old scout when we
attended a little backwoods school
in the somewhat misty pass of years.
We remember that we took ?io in
terest in our studies until we fol
lowed Bluebeard through from bo
ginning to end. It strikes us now
that we were greatly excited and
felt keenly for his woman folk. We
don’t know that the story made us
any the worse for the reading of it.
On the contrary, we grew a great
dislike for the killer the while we
nourished a broad affection for the
ladies of his time. Really, we think
the story helped rather than harmed.
IT WOULD BE PLENTY
If Delegate to Congress, Dan
Sutherland, had accomplished noth
ing else in the past two years of
office holding than that of blowing
the Parks Federal Bubble to pieces
—had he done nothing elsej he is
entitled to reelection on that alone
Subscribe for THE ALASKAN
TO SAVE BLOATED FORTUNES
FROM TAXATION
Congressman William Green, oi
Iowa, 72 years old. ha3 been giver
a berth on the Federal Court ol
Claims by President Coolidge. Out
wardly, this is juBt ordinary. In
wardly, it is one of the Coolidge si
lent moves to place in the hands ol
Andrew Mellon a bunch of aces
and gives the rich and arrogant 39
cretary of the Treasury the to$
hand in his move to cut the Federal
inheritance tax. Silent Coolidge! ‘
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RAILROAD VALUE
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fcuit'je 1913 the Interstate Com
merce Commission has been work
ing on placing a valuation on the
railroads of the country. The val
uation dates range between 1914
and 1919 and the cost runs to $130,
000,000. „It costs an awful lot to
find out what something else cost,
doesn’t it?
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Babyhood brings health emer^ncies
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