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Utter incompetence of congress
to make proper provision for the
government o Alaska is shown by
Secretary Lane in an article in the
Outlook entitled “Red Tape in
Alaska.” Control of the affairs of
that territory is divided among all
the departments at Washington,
and authority overlaps and con
flicts at numerous points. Local
officials have limited authority, and
many questions which should be
decined promptly on the spot are
referred to officials at faraway
Washington, who are ignorant of
the conditions upon which 1 rgely
the decision must be based
Mr Lane cites several examples
of the confusion resulting from
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system of administrative machin
ery,'’ and from the absence of men
on the spot who are endowed with
full authority A man who wished
to lease an island for a fox farm
corresponded for months with three
departments to learn who had the
necessary authority, and discovered
finally that none had the authority.
Care of the black bear is intrusted
to one department, that of the
brown bear to another Mr. Lane
says; “The control of lands is in
one department, of forests in anoth
er, of roads in another, of fisheries
in a fourth and of rail .ways in still
another.” The people of Valdez
applied for a townsite survey in
March, 1899, but did not secure
patent until March, 1912. Instead
of police to enforce all the laws,
there are forest rangers, game
wardens, protectors of the fur
bearing animals, reindeer guards,
bird wardens, multiplying cost and
impairing efficiency.
An indisputafll case is made for
Mr. Lane's scheme to create a de
velopment board which shall have
charge of all the resources of Alas
Ka, composed of residents of the
Creates Reserve
on Cook Inlet
By executive order, the following
reserve has been created:
Beginning at Granite Point, a
headland projecting into Cook inlet
about five miles southwest from
Tyonek, and approximately in lati
tude 60 degrees oi’ north and long
itude 151 degrees 21’ west, which
point is also marked by large rocks
exposed at low tide:
Running thence westward with
the shore one-half mile to a point,
thence north to the middle of the
main current of the Chitna riv r,
’.eight miles more or less; thence
with the main channel of said
stream to where it discharges into
Cook inlet; thence a’ong the shore
thereof southwesterly to the point
of beginning; estimated to include
25,000 acres.
'Dip reserve is for the natives.
and is subject to any existing vest
ed rights.
Delegate Wickersham has started
a campaign to secure for Alaska
full statehood. Senator Ilubbard
introduced a resolution favoring the
scheme, but the senate turned it
down in favor of Millard’s resolu
tion for fuller territorial govern
ment.
The legislature will pass the
Snow bill permitting the people of
Alaska to vote on the question of
prohibition, according to a report
from Juneau.
territory, with full authority under
the direction of a single cabinet
officer. For all practical purposes
of administration, Alaska is as re
mote from our seat of government
as are the Philippines. Great Bri
tain might as well attempt to rule
Indie and her colonies in every de
tail from London as the Unites
States attempt to rule Alaska from
Washington.
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