WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to C. L. (Bob* Bartlett. Alaska's Delegate to Confront
Delegate File*
Delegate Bartlett has filed for
nomination as Democratic candi
date for re-election to tin* United
States House of Representatives
eeking his fifth term to represent
Alaska in the Congress.
Elected as Delegate to Con
gress from the Territory in 1944.
Delegate Bartlett was rejected
■ n 194H. 1948 and 1950
Alaska Statehood
In rapid order this week the
President assured Delegate Bart
lett that he is "still in there punch
;ng for statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii”, the Senate Democratic
Policy Committee scheduled the
Alaska statehood bill as third on
the agenda for Senate considera
tion and the Chief Executive’s
State of the Union message deliv
ered to a joint meeting of the
Congress urged prompt adoption
of the statehood bills.
It is expected that the Senate
bill calling for Alaska statehood
will be placed before the Senators
the week of January 20 shortly
following consideration of the
Home Rule bill for the District of
Columbia. The Senate version,
sponsored by 19 Democratic and
Republican Senators, was report
ed favorably to the upper house
last May.
“I’m glad,” President Truman
stated to the members of Cong
ress, “ to hear that home rule for
the District of Columbia will be
the first item of business before
the Senate. I hope that it, as well
as statehood for Hawaii and Alas
ka. will be adopted promptly."
“Nothing Under The Bed"
The Alaska and Hawaii state
hood bills are receiving nation
wide support from leading news
papers following announcement
that the enabling legislation will
soon be considered by the Senate.
The Scripps-Howard papers,
strong advocates of statehood,
carried the following lead editor
ial this week on this subject:
“The South has been much put
upon by critics who blame it
for everything wrong with Amer
ica. and refuse to recognize any of (
the progress Southerners hav«*
ma<te in solving the great racial
and economic problems that have
saddled them so long.
"That makes it easy to under
stand why some Southern lead
ers have become resentful and
suspicious, and why some South
ern congressmen have come tc
the point where they see a dis
guised threat to the South in
every new proposal.
"A few, unfortunately, take
that attitude toward statehood
for Alaska and Hawaii. There is
even talk of a filibuster by South
ern senators to prevent those bills
from coming to a vote.
"They fear that the votes of
four new senators from Alaska
and Hawaii might be cast at
some future time in favor of such
proposals as an FEPC law and
‘civil rights,’ bitterly opposed in
the South.
"In this case, the Southerners
are seeing things under the bed.
"Nowhere on earth do peoples
of different racial ancestry live
in as much peace and harmony
as. in Hawaii not because any
law commands it. but because
that is the Hawaiian way of life.
It is also the way of life which
all good Americans seek.
"In fact a few years ago an
FEPC law was introduced in the
Hawaiian legislature. It was de
feated. because the legislators
felt that it would encourage re
cial antagonisms.
"i'.aska admittedly has a ra
cial problem, with its minority of
Eskimos and Indians, but has
made great progress toward solv
ing it—again, not by laws, but by
schools, hospitals and other
peaceful methods of helping these j
native people live better.
"The right of Alaska and Ha
waii to statehood has nothing to
do with the quarrel between the j
South and its critics. It would
require tortuous reasoning in
deed to portray the peoples of
those territories as ‘anti-Southern
—on the contrary, they share with
the South a desire for freer trade,
for their own indusrties, and for
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"There U nothin* under the
bed here The people of Alaska
and Hawaii are good Americans
; who have served their appren -
1ico*hip They deserve the full
citizenship that only statehood
can *ive them "
Reports On Bills
Life- time appointments of
judges of the United States Dist
rict Court for Alaska would be
provided under the terms of one
af the bills which has the approv
il of the Administrative Office of
United States Courts and the Dc
partment of Justice. If enacted.
Delegate Bob Bartlett’s bill would
iccord the same tenure of office
to Alaska judges as is allowed
judges of the United States dist
rict courts in the continental Uni
ted States. At the present time
district judges in the Territory
are appointed by the President
with the consent of the Senate
for four-year terms.
The Catholic Society of Alaska
would be permitted to purchase
40 acres of land south of the junc
tion of the Glenn and Richardson
Highways for use as a mission
cite under the terms of the sec
ond bill favorably reportd by the
Intmor Department The tract if
land included in the bill con
flict* with proposed townsitc dr*
velopment and the Intenor De
partment haa prop<>»od anothe*
tract, which. It it understood,
would be satisfactory for the pur
pose* required
The University of Alaska, un
der the third bill, would be per
mitted to issue leases for lands
reserved for its benefit for 99
rears instead of the 10-year max
mum period now in effect under
i law passc-d in 1915.
Alaska Appropriations
Over a billion dollars have been
ipprop.iatcd for Alaska during
he past seven fiscal years, ac
•ording to figures compiled by
delegate Bartlett.
The total of $1,103,365,296. ex
clusive of military funds for the
946 fiscal year which were then
held secret, includes the major
appropriations of $572,061,791 for
Army, Air Force and Navy con
struction. $102,642,600 for road
construction. $71,500,000 for re
construction and rehabilitation of
the Alaska Railroad beginning in
the 1948 fiscal year, $4,885,129 for
control and investigation of di
sease in Alaska inaugurated in
the 1949 fiscal year, $1,945,880
for the agricultural research pro
;ram started in the 1947 fiscal1
y*ar and $16 million for the Al
aska public works program whim
got under way during the ItSO
fiscal year.
Postal Mlrwia
Ketchikan. Juneau and Fan
banks are scheduled shortly to
join Anchorage m having deli
very mail service. Assisant Post
master General Lawler told Dele
gate Bartlett this week in in
forming the Delegate that the re
commendations he has long urg
ed have been approved by the
Post Office Department
Three delivery routes for let
ter mail have been authorized
for both Juneau and Ketchikan,
with seven delivery routes ap
proved for Fairbanks In addition
to delivery to all homes within
the three cities, three parcel post
routes at Fairbanks covering the
majority of the city will lie inaug
urated
Coast Guard
The 17th Coast Guard District
will have a new’ director in
March when Captain William W.
Kenner succeeds Rear Admiral
Joseph Greenspun as commander
of the Alaska headquarters, ac
cording to information given
Delegate Bartlett this week.
Captain Kenner, who served
in Alaska waters in the '30’s, is
now Assistant Chief of the Coast
Guard’s Office of Personnel in the
Washington headQuarV** '.At*.
Kenner and their daughter IfUda
Mary, wtll )mn Captain K<nner
in Juneau
Admiral Greciupun util return
to Washington
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Palmer are Washington visitors
Mr lrv.in n Director of the Alas
ka Agricultural Experiment Sta
Uon at Palmer
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