THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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WHAT GOV. RIGGS LEARNED
AT WASHINGTON.
That progress has been made in
presenting Alaskan questions to
Congress and a frond lineup secured
for the adoption of needed lejrisla
tion for the Territory at the next
session, is the opinion ot Gov. Thom
as Kipjrs, -Ir., who returned to Ju
neau recently after a stay of sev
eral weeks in the national capital.
That the Alaska Development Board j
hill will he passed hy Congress at j
the next session, Gov. Kiirtcs was;
assured by Senator Harry S. New
of Indiana, chairman of the senate j
committee on territories, and Rep
resentative Charles K Curry of Cal-j
itornia, chairman of the house com
mittee on territories.
That action will be taken on th" j
transportation situation in Alaska,
also the fisheries, is the belief of
the Governor.
Governor Ripys says the new see
letary of the interior, John Barton
Payne, is very much interested in
Alaska and disposed to i.id the Ter
ritory in every way possible.
Discussing several |diases of the
Alaskan matters that, have bee i
prominent in the public eye at
Washington and on the Pacific coast
recently. Governor Riir’:- said:
“On account of the activities ot
the Territorial Shipping hoard, for
the first time there has been serious
consideration by official Washington
of Alaskan transports ion problems.
As an immediate result, the secre
tary of the interior has arranged
the formation of a committee con
sisting of Dr. Alfred II. Brooks, of
the U. S. Geological survey; Otto
Praeger, second assistant postmaster
general, and II. Y. Saint, of the IT.
S. Shipping board, to further in
vestigate conditions with the possi
ble outcome of a shipping board
line being operated to Alaska.
“Senator Jones, the chairman of
the senate commerce committee,
stated at the close of the five days
of hearings on the territorial hill,
it will not be possible to report on
♦he bill at this session on account
of the pressure of other business.
However, three member; of the com
merce committee—two Republicans
and one Democrat—have expressed
themselves as favoring the lull, and
one member has even suggested that
a similar measure might, be well
applied to a national policy. Fur
ther hearings will bo -had in. De
cember to accommodate the largo
cannery interests and Judge Wick
ersham, who wishes to be heard on
the bill.
“So far the only opposition voiced
is the open opposition of the spe
cial interests, such as some of the
larger cannery operator*, tl e vice
president of the Alaska Steamship
company, who considers rhe measure
an attack on the Kennecott ore
rates, John E. Ballaine, who for
merly owned the Seward townsite,
and Canadian steamship lines. A
general officer of a Canadian steam
ship company made the statement
that ‘It would only be about fifteen
minutes to put a quietus on Gov.
Riggs and his advisors.’ It is in
teresting to note those who are ac
tive in endeavoring to put such a
[quietus on the Governor.
“While in Seattle, an officer of
j the Alaska Steamship company ad
mitted to Mr. Semmes and tp mo
that tin' Canadian Pacific Steamship
company had written them urpinp
the raising of rates to Alaska. We
asked to be allowed to see the cor
i respondence, but were refused on
| the advice of the attorney for the
I Alaska Steamship company, who is
| also the attorney for the Canadian
! Pacific Steamship company.
“That there will be a determined
! attempt on the part of the Canadian
i lines to capture the trade of South
! eastern Alaska, there is no doubt.
IThis was admitted to me by Captain
Nicholson, of the Grand Trunk. The
I result of such control would be that
i we should be at the mercy of an
unregulated Canadian commerce,
Southeastern Alaska would not be
benefited and probably would be
hurt, while Southwestern Alaska,
beinp deprived of the benefits of
contributing traffic, would be dis
tinctly damaged, not only in rates,
but in the already inadequate sched
ules. The bill introduced in Con
press seems to be about the only
remedy against monopoly. Of course,
llallaine and his intimate friends in
Washinpton are endeavorinp to show
that the Alaska Territorial Shippinp
board is workinp in the interests of
monopoly, but any student of con
ditions knows that this is impossi
ble, because even if the President
and the secretary of the interior
could not be made to see the wrong
doinp of the board, the territorial
lepislature could abolish the board.
It would be up to the board to bet
ter conditions instead of makinp
them worse.
| “The committee having charge of
the drafting of the fisheries bill did
good hard work. We all agreed
upon a bill, a compromise bill, to he
sure, wherein, for the sake of pro
jecting the fisheries, I gave up a
good deal I thought we should have,
but still there was brought forth
what 1 considered a workable mea
sure.
I “1 left Seattle for Washington
in the full belief that the bill would
be written as agreed upon. My
main contention was that the Terri
tory should not receive less from
taxation and that the conduct of
the fisheries should pass to the Ter
ritory at the end of four years. In
the rewriting of the bill, taking the
19IS pack as a basis, the Territory
would receive #200,000 less revenue
per annum than now received, and
• instead of passing control to the
(Territory at the end of four years,
i there was appended a provision that
'Congress should so provide by addi
tional legislation. This killed the
(intent of the act, as almost anyone
lean block a measure to give Alaska
any new powers. There were minor
I difficulties regarding taxation, which
could probably have been ironed
out, such as the provision limiting;
■ taxation to shore property, thereby
; eliminating floating canneries and
i all other floating equipment. The
. restrictive measures were good, and,
- according to the bureau of fisheries,
- the best ever suggested. Delegate
i Grigsby objected to the other pro
visions of the bill, which he consid
ered too much in the interests of
.the packers, but I believe these fea
tures could have been all adjusted
to meet his objections.
“The bureau also interposes some
minor objections.
“I have received several letters
of criticism for no-t having the fish
eries bill introduced immediately;
but by the time the committee for- j
warded the bill to me in Washing
ton there was absolutely no possi-1
| bility of having it considered at !
I this session; also the bureau did not
want it introduced until Henry
O’Malley, of the bureau, stationed
in Seattle, could be brought to
Washington in consultation. It' is
necessary to bring all factions into
accord if any legislation is to be j
effectual. I hope we can rewrite J
portions of the bill so as to make |
it a workable measure. If this I
cannot be done, then the only bill '
jl can support will be Mr. Grigsby’s;
bill to give the Territory full con
trol, which, after all, is the best |
.solution, if Congress could only be 1
i made to see it.
I “The Red menace. Bunk. I am
i not responsible for reportorial im
jagination any more than I am for
the reported intercepted message
from Petrograd, stating that an at
tempt would be made to establish
soviets in Alaska. That we have ]
I. W. W. and Bolshevik'! in Alaska, j
none can deny. That they are not j
likely to run the Territory, every I
body knows.
“I am advised by the office of the
chief of engineers that floating fish
traps will be considered a menace
I to navigation and their distance |
jfrom shore restricted.
rho frame conservationists of the
East are von,- much perturbed over
the suit I have asked the attorney
general to bring to determine what
is a brown bear. I have been be
seeched not to let the brown bear
become commercialized and thus ex
terminated. Dr. William T. Horou
day, who handles a slush fund called
the ‘Wild Life Protection Fund,’ is
really ludicrous in his attacks on
Alaskans. The people of N'ew York
stem to think that the principal
desire of Alaskans is to exterminate
game. They object strenuously to i
Alaskans having any voice in the
making of game laws, and one,
prominent conservationist admitted I
to me frankly that he did not think
Alaskans were capable of making
such laws. Laws are advocated
which practically withdraw game
from use even for the native, and
which must be administered througn j
an appropriatfon of only $-0,000 for
the whole Territory. In all fairness,
however, to the Eastern sportsman. J
who is a fine fellow when he gets
ahead of his egotism, I must say
that Dr. Homaday’s attacks have
been repudiated to me in writing!
as not representing these opinions
by the Boone and Crockett club,
the Zoological society and the con
servation committee of the Camp
Fire club. Dr. George Bird Grin
nell, the president of the Boone and
Crockett club, and Madison Grant,
president of the Zoological society,
both appeared before the appropri
ation committee in the endeavor to
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“Charles Sheldon, who knows j
Alaska well, has been most help-1
ful. He is in thorough sympathy!
with Alaskans except in the brown j
bear question, but even then he be- I
lieves that bear must be destroyed j
where they interfere with industry,
“I expect Dr. E. VV. Nelson, chief
iof the bureau of the biological sur
vey, to visit Alaska this year. He
has procured an appropriation of
$15,000, and will have his own
game and fur wardens, besides the
i
ones reporting to the Governor’s
office.”
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NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains- i
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building,
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at North Nenana.
Tickets will be on sale at \ny
time during office hours, and can be
■purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m., and from
North Nenana for Fairbanks, Tues
days and Fridays, at 1 p. m. »;
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
subject to change without notice:
r.eave Fairbanks at 7:0© a. m.;
arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m.
Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m.:
larrive Fairbanks, 5:30 p. m.
A ferry will be run between Ne
nana and North Nenana to connect
with Fairbanks trains. Passengers
f.»r Fairbanks should purchase tick
ets in Nenana before crossing the
ferry.
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