' SENATOR TELLS
PLAIN FACTS
ABOUT ALASKA
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pleted. and I think we have spent he
tween twenty and thirty million dol
lars, and it will probably take five or
six years more before we get a road
to the Tanana river by that route. So
I say our government made a great
♦ mistake when they did not start the
road from Chitina. For the money
that they have expended they could
have had the road completed from
■*the mouth of the Chitina over to Fair
banks.
As it is, this Skagway route is of
great value to us. We need it. Nine
tenths of that Skagway route—I mean
the land-and-river route—is in Cana
dian territory, and we get the full ben
efit of it. Now. you can not wonder
if you know the situation there. As
I said, while Skagway is on American
territory, its whole trade and com
merce come from Canada, from the
Yukon country. If Seattle and the
shipping interests there were limited
to the traffic that could be gotten in
the neighborhood of Skagway in Amer
ican territory, they would not get
enough to pay for running one boat a
year. The traffic that comes there is
mainly Canadian traffic, and that route
is a great advantage to us; and now
what is it that Seattle wants, and
what is it that the shipowners want?
Here is a route, really an entrance
into Canada, from which we get most
of the benefit. We get the benefit of
most of the Canadian traffic from
Skagway. Here they say that you can
not check your baggage through, and
you must not buy a ticket on the
rail-road that will take you through.
Now, is there not enough penalty
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This coastwise law that has been
quoted says that freight shall not be
carried in a foreign ship from one
American port to another under pen
alty of forfeiture. That is, the whole
cargo, or that part of the cargo that
is shipped from one American port to
another American port in a foreign
ship, according to that law, will be
forfeited to the United States.
Now, we come to the matter of pas
sengers. The first law that we passed
was approved on the 19th of June,
1886. That law provided a penalty of
^ $2 a head for anyone traveling in a
foreign ship from one port to another
port in American territory. By the
. law of February 17, 1898, Thirteenth
Statutes, that was changed so as to
provide a penalty of $200 a head for
every passenger carried in a foreign
vessel from one port of the United
States to another.
The hardship of this law was called
to my attention some years ago by a
friend of mine who got stalled in the
island of Hawaii. I think he was com
pelled to wait there two weeks for an
American vessel. He wanted to go
back to San Francisco. He waited two
weeks. No American ship came. A
foreign ship came, and he was so
anxious to get home that he paid the
$200 penalty. The penalty is inflicted
on the ship, but, of course, the ship
would not carry him unless he paid
that penalty. They would not carry
*him for his mere ticket and then
pay a penalty, and he had to pay $200
in order to get back home.
We are not seeking to change that
law; but what is this? It is a ham
stringing amendment, in the interest
of Seattle, to require that you can
not check your baggage, you can not
arrange transportation, in American
territory. Why, we have ticket agents
in this city for foreign steamship
lines, for Canadian railroad lines, and,
I think, for Mexican lines; but no one
would think of ostracizing them or for
bidding them to sell tickets here. The
object of this provision is to forbid
them selling tickets or checking bag
gage at Seattle on these boats; and I
submit that, with the coastwise law
as it is, as I have quoted it, we have
restrictions enough. In view of the
^‘benefits that we have from the Skag
way route, in view of the business and
traffic we get from Canada in all that
Yukon territory, and in view of the
fact that it gives us an eastern door
to Alaska, I submit that this proposed
legislation is outrageous.
I want to say further that if it
comes to the question of protecting
American shipping I am ready to go '
as far as anyone. I have voted for
some of these amendments that almost
went against my grain. I voted for
two provisions in this bill that are
practically subsidies. There is a sub
sidy in giving them immunity from -
excess-profits taxes. I voted for that.
There is another subsidy in giving the
department the privilege of sending
all our mail in American ships and
paying them whatever the department
may agree upon. I even voted for that.
I am willing to try it; but this plan
of inconveniencing American citizens
in the way of travel—and I have been
over this route to Alaska that I have
described to you—this plan of incon
veniencing American citizens in the in
terest of a few vessel owners at Seat- *
tie seems to me monstrous. I have
traveled on the Yukon river over 2,000
miles. I have been over this narrow
pass. I have been down the Lewis
river from Whitehorse down to Daw
son. I have seen the conditions there.
I know that that route, from Skagway <
on, is a great help and benefit to us,
and it is the one route that brings
traffic to the American boats that
come to Skagway.
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