PROGRAM IN DOUBT
Congress Has Not As Yet Settled Down to the Grind
and Just What Heasures Will Be Passed At
Short Session Problematical.
(Prom Cordova Daily Alaskan)
Washington, Dec. 9.—No ou“
seems to have any definite idea re
garding the legislative program iu
the present session of Congress. Al
most everyone agrees that the one
thing of prime importance is the en
actment of appropriation bills which
are to provide means for running the
governmental machinery until Con
gress can meet again. Some of the
legislators express the opinion that
if the President should insist upon
loading up Congress with a great
many measures and insist that they
I be enacted before adjournment the
result is likely to be that the appro
priation bills will get stalled in com
mittee and that the Congress will ex
pire by legal limitation without some
very necessary, and, in fact indis
pensable appropriation legislation be
ing enacted.
Of couise, this has all been said
before, but it may not be amiss to re
new the suggestion in view of the
| very short working session ahead of
us. It must also be conceded by ev
en the casual observer that the Presi
dent’s policies look somewhat less
important than they did before the
recent election. Not that they are
really less important perhaps, but it
is impossible to get away from the
implication carried by the electiOL
returns that the country is by no
means a unit on what Congress ought
to do. it is now known, since the
leading of the President’s messag<
to Congress, just what the Presiden
has prescribed as fit to allay the ilia
of the nation. In view of the appar
ently inspired assertion of his desires
it is possible, however, to make a
fairly good guess on that score.
BIAZMG A TRAIL TO
SEWARD FROM NOME
(From Cordova Daily Alaskan)
Nome, Dec. 9.—Superintendent W
L. Goodwin, in charge of the Nome
diviison of the Alaska road commis
sion, has left here for Seward. He
was accompanied by ten men as help
crs. Thousands of feet of new trap
will be broken by the party and the
old routes will be re-staked.
Six dog teams, seven dogs to the
team were engaged for the trip, as
well as special drivers. Goodwin ha;
an elaborate outfit of things neces
sary to encounter the hardships ht
must endure, and no expense has
been spared in looking after the com
forts of his men.
The party does not figure on reach
ing Seward before the latter part of
January.
Short cuts will be made wherever
possible and thus many miles will be
saved for the weary musher.
New roadhouses will be erected
upon the line of the new trail st
proper distances.
POSSIBLE APPOINTMENTS
TO BE MADE BY TAET
(Prom Cordova Daily Alaskan)
Washington, Dec. 9.—The Presi
dent is understood to have under con
sideration the names of several west
ern men for important appointments.
Chief among these, perhaps, is Sen
ator Sutherland, of Utah, who is be
ing considered very seriously for a
place on the Supreme Bench. The
senator has acquired a reputation
for legal sagacity, and there are very
• many persons in the capital who \
1 think he would be particularly well
, suited to wear the ermine. A num-1
! ber of candidates are in the field
i for the portfolio of Judge Ballinger,;
but as the Secretary of the Interior j
continues to assert that be has no in- :
tention whatever of resigning, and
as his actions seem to indicate that
he has also made preparations to
fight it out on the present lines, it
j is quite possible that a great deal of
good cabinet timber will have an op
portunity to season a while longer.
However, they do say that Senator
Flint, of California, could have the
place if he would but say the word,
and there be those near the White
House who have selected him for first
place in the running. He has declar
ed that he was not in the race, and
It is well known that his one ambi
tion now is to settle down to private
life and practice law in Los Angeles.
ALASKA WILL DEMAND
REMEDIAL LEGISLATION
Washington, Dec. 9.—Information
has reached Washington that the
people of Alaska will be represented
here in force during the winter and
will strongly urge Congress to grant
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legislation which will tend to encour
age the settlement and development
of that territory. They believe that
they are entitled to liberal laws un
der which the immense natural re
sources of the country may be de
veloped.
The Alaska delegation will, it is
understood, be headed this winter
as it was last, by Governor Walter
E. Clark, who, through personal ae
quaintance with conditions in that
territory, has become an ardent ad
vocate of the reforms which the peo-1
pie there have been demanding and i
who will use all of his influence to
see that Congress gives substantial!
recognition to their claims. In his
annual report to President Taft, ne
has made strong recommendations
which include the opening of the
coal lands under some system to be
determined upon to protect the in
terests of the government and yet en
able the people of Alaska to pro
ceed with the work of development,
which has been seriously fettered
hitherto and by their inability to
make use of the exceedingly valuable
coal measures lying at their very
doors.
Seattle, Dec. 9.—The steamer Ala
meda sailed at noon today with the
following passengers for Cordova:
E. A. Hegg Jno. A. Brownrigg, Z:
Gaggin, G. Thomas, F. S. Driscol,
Floyd Loomis, E. Coy and M. Hutton.
For Fairbanks: B. Mallison and
wife, C. Adams and wife, Tom Mc
Gowan, Louis Spitz and T. McLellan.
For Latouche: W. H. Seagrave,
Frank Jordan and E. Duncan.
The Latouche also left today with
a cargo of explosives for Cordova.
Washington, Dec. 9.—Secretary of
Interior Ballinger has submitted his
annual report, which is strongly in
favor of leasing the Alaska coal
lands and the referring of the Cun
ningham cases to the Court of Ap
peals of the District of Columbia.
He also recommends the passage of
a bill by Congress in which appeal
can be taken from the final decision
of the land department to the Court
of Appeals in all land cases and the
leasing of oil and gas lands.
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