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^WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1920~
INTERIOR FOR McBRIDE
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Exchanges coming on the boats ar
riving in Ketchikan yesterday includ
ed a number of papers from Interior
Alaska, including the Nenana News
and the Fairbanks News-Miner, both
of which show' that the Republican
clnbs of those towns endorse J. C.
McBride for national committeeman
of the Republican party.
Throughout the Territory, all the
mewspapers except those controlled
ky Herron show conclusively that
the sentiment of the rank and file
of party members are for McBride,
and that they will be on election day.
In addition to the reports from the
Interior come advices from Anchor
age and Seldovia that Mr. Herron will
fare badly at the hands of the voters,
wanv of whom are fishermen who al
lege that they were -treated shame
fully by the candidate for national
committeeman in the matter of pay
ment for their season’s work,- or rath
er in the matter of non-payment.
While the Herron forces claim to have
the solid labor vote of Ketchikan
the Chronicle is informed by Mr. C.
W. Reed, the secretary of the Ketch
ikan local that such is not the case.
The sentiment in the labor ranks of
Ketchikan, because of the reports
coming from Anchorage and Seldovia,
ie far from friendly toward Mr. Her
ron. it appears.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
WHY NOT LET CONGRESS DO IT?
A letter written by Herbert Hoover
to Colonel House at Paris on March
11, 1919, in which Mr. Hoover pro
posed that President Wilson appoint
a commission to investigate the con
duct of the war, instead of permitting
Congress to probe into the matter,
hae been given out at New York. In
this letter Mr. Hoover expressed the
©pinion that the only way in which
a fair inquiry into the conduct of the
administration could be conducted was
through more appointees of the admin
istration since investigations conduct
ed by Congress would necessarily be
“a mixture of demagoguery politics
and sincerity of desire to maintain a
high standard of administration.” In
this letter Mr. Hoover expressed the
opinion that the administration had
conducted the war “with a freedom
from dishonesty and with an efficiency
not equaled by another country en
gaged in the war.” Referring to his
©wn work Mr. Hoover said that he
would be glad to have an investiga
tion made by appointees of the Pres
ident, rather than by a congressional
committee “that we may be freed
from perpetually recurrent scandal
and traduction at the hands of dem
agogues.” Up to this time there has
»ot been a breath of “traduction and
scandal” in connection with Mr.
Hoover’s work in the war. which
would seem to indicate that so far as
any war activity not conducted with
glaring waste and inefficiency is con
cerned, Mr. Hoover’s apprehensions
were not well founded. The purpose
in giving out the letter was therefore
evidently not connected with any
©riticism of Mr. Hoover’s work, but
is intended to reflect upon the reports
•f congressional committees relative
to waste and inefficiency in the war
department under Secretary Baker.
Many people will continue to believe
that the representatives of the people
in the congress of the United States,
who appropriate the money used by
government officials, are as well qual
ified to investigate the use of that
Money as a committee appointed by
the head of the administration. Self
auditing of accounts is not usually
considered the most business-like way
of uncovering inefficiency or waste.
The curiosity of the people as to how
it came about that we spent a billion
dollars on aeroplanes without getting
war planes to the front in any quan
tity after we had been eighteen
Months in the war or how we spent
a billion dollars on heavy artillery
without getting big guns to the battle
lines in a year and a half, may be un
warranted, but finding out where the
money went will be about all the peo
ple will get for their money, evident
ly, so why deny them this small re
turn for their cash, even if the inves
tigations do prove somewhat embar
rassing to some of those who spent
and got the money? Probably, now
that the question has been raised,
the investigation might with profit
even be widened. It would be inter
esting to discover, for instance, how
Mr. Hoover, busy as he was with his
own work, practically all of the time
abroad, was so familiar with the
economy and efficiency which charac
terized the expenditure of all that
forty billion dollas at two or three
hundred centers of war expenditure
in this country, in the various bureaus
at Washington, and at all points
abroad, and was able to render his
verdict even in advance of the Wil
sonian inquiry he suggested.
Recent Washington dispatches in
dicate that the contested election case
of Wickersham versus Grigsby, involv
ing title to the seat as delegate in con
gress from Alaska, was to have been
taken up by election committee No. 3
of the house of representatives on
March 23. The briefs of the contest
ants are said to be particularly vigor
ous. Former Delegate James Wicker
sham was to have opened the argu
ment.
During the past three weeks more
than four hundred passengers have
arrived here from the States.
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