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Open Letter to Members of Congress by Dan
Sutherland, Delegate from Alaska
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SUTHERLAND'S MEMORANDA FOR SEN. WILLIS
RE PROPOSED BILL
“An Act to authorize the payment of amounts ap
propriated by the Legislature of the Territory of Al
aska on account of additional duties imposed upon
Territorial Officers.
“Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled: I
.“That neither Section 1856 of the Revised Statutes
(U.S.C. 1645, par. 1457) nor any other act of Congress
shall be construed to prevent payments for clerk hire,
office rent and other expenses of executive offices of
the Territory of Alaska, including additional compensa
tion, not to exceed $2,000 per annum, to the Secretary
of the Territory, under appropriations heretofore or
hereafter made by the Legislature of Alaska for said
purposes.” „ ,
The Act of Congress which this proposed measure
would repeal in its application to Alaska reads as fol
lows:
“Revised Statutes, Section 1855.
“No law of any territorial legislature shall be
made by which the Governor or Secretary ft>f the Terri
tory, or members or officers of any Territorial Legisla
ture are paid any compensation other than that provid
ed by laws of the United States.”
This proposed measure would not only repeal the
above quoted section of the Revised Statutes in its ap
plication to Alaska, but it would also repeal a portion
of Section 11 of the Organic Act of the Territory, which
reads as follows:
“No person holding a conunissipn or appointment
under the United States shall be a member of the Le
gislature, or shall hold any office under the government
of said Territory.”
The purpose and effect of thi3 bill would be to modi
fy and repeal certain statutes for the Territories which
were enacted by Congress during a period of over nine
ty years. The -first Congressional Act to suppress the
activities of Federal officers in the Territories was writ
ten in 18 36, and Congress has repeatedly since that time
reaffirmed its attitude, and has strengthened and made
more explicit the Statutes bearing on this subject,
The specific Act which this measure would repeal
(Sec. 18 R. S.) was submitted to Congress by Hon.
James A. Garfield of Ohio, on January 8 187 3 and
promptly passed without a dissenting vote.
Now come the Federal officials of Alaska to have
Congress repeal those laws which through the years
of our governmental history have been developed for
the purpose of safe guarding the rights of communities
of free people in their efforts to establish self govern
ment and set up independent units as provided for in
the Constitution and by Congressional Statutes, and
particularly those statutes that were designed to pre
vent encroachment by Federal officers on the adminis
trative powers of a Territorial people. ,
The history, of those law’s are so much a part of the
history of our government itself that one would look
for respect for them and reverence for the traditions
that are associated with them, but when modern Fed
eral officials desire to get their hands into the Terri
torial Treasury, all sentiment or respect for tradition
is swept aside.
The incentive behind this measure is briefly, as
follows: j
For years certain Federal officials and employes in
Alaska have received payment for adminstrative ser
vices to the Territory. This is strictly in violation of
the laws that they now propose to have Congress re
peal. These officers, as well as the Territorial Legis
lature, have been advised by their Attorneys General,
in submitted legal opinions, that this practice is in
violation of the Organic Act, as well as of the Statute
quoted (Sec. 1855 R. S.), but they have persisted in
the practice until private citizens brought enjoinment
proceedings in the court. They now propose to have
Congress legalize a practice that the courts must hold
to be illegal.
The responsibility for this situation rests largely
with the local Legislature which has acquiesced in the
practice of permitting Federal officials to draw com
pensation from the Territory in addition to their re
gular Federal salaries.
Thes practice must have been recognized in the past
as most pernicious. During President Grant’s adminis
tration he was prompted to warn Federal officials
against holding State, Territorial or Municipal office.
The language in which Secretary Hamilton Fish issued
this warning in Executive order of Jan. 17, 1873, sets
forth so clearly just what the result of a repeal of
these acts might be that 1 quote it to you:
“The holding of two such offices by the same per
son is incompatible with a due and faithful discharge
pf the duties of either office and often results in de
triment to the public service; and moreover, is not in
harmony with the genius of the Government.”
It is very evident that over fifty years ago this ques
tion of dual service and dual compensation was con
sidered a matter of considerable importance by states
men of that time.
If Federal officials who request the passage of this
bill were asking Congress to sanction the payment of
money now enjoined by the court on condition that the
present practice of dual compensation should cease,
I could approve such a measure, but this proposes to
repeal these old established laws that have stood the
test of time, and have operated In virtually all Ameri
can Territories. This is asking altogether too much.
This action only serves to illustrate the growing ar
rogance of our Bureau system. They have now reached
a stage in Alaska where they have the temerity to call
upon Congress for a repeal of any laws that serve to
hamper their encroachment on autonomous rights of
the local people.
Sincerely yours, ;
DAN SUTHERLAND,
Delegate to Congress.
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