The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 3, 1930, Page 4

Judge Houston who said to have a statement from the Da'l) Alaska Empuv E editor of The Empire (who was anxious to answer e ER ¢ alls from New York and reluctant to stay over in JDHN W TROY f EDITOR AND MANAG Washington another day in order to make it.) less Judge Wickersham digs into past history the easier he will find it to get of today to forget about the things that the people to ecliminate him from Alaska Jlitics for ten years. [was | at that he would like the suggestion of .m. Fraterrnal Societies — e OF | Gastineau Channel ] AUTOS FOR HIRE SCIENTIFIC SHAVING CREAM @R Helene W.L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 ical | Carlson’a Taxi ANYWHERE IN THE CITY FOR $1.00 Careful, Efficient Drivers—Call Us At Any Hour— DAY AND NIGHT—Stand at Alaskan Hotel by _the I d Main | B. P. 0. ELKS Meeting every Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Elks Hall. Visiting brothers welcome. R. B. MARTIN, Exalted Ruler. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. s Second Class | i in Juneau d Large Tube SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and 4.25 per month, following nths, “THE EIGHTY-ROD § TRIP BILL.” _— . * DRS. KASER & FREEBURGEE | DENTISTS | 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. 50 cents rates in advance e Wickersham declared in his Douglas speech the Eighty-Rod Strip Bill was a deparamental asure and that George B. Grigsby, who introduced was only performing routine work. The bill, it is ey will prom: ce of any failuré or irre y delivery of their papers. # ne for Editorial and Business Offices, i Co-Ordinate Bod- ies of Freemason- ° ry Scottish Rite , | Interior 7o BE LARBER 1CATION SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN WAS AUTHOR OF ALASKA RAILROAD BILL. his speech and the Alaska and was his ham Juneau t the Territory said Iroad bill was introduced him The bill horizing the Alaska railroad which a law was introduced in the United States e by Senator George E. Chamberlain.of Ore- gon. Judge Wickersham introduced a bill in the House of Representatives but Senator Chamberlain got his bill through the Senate before Judge Wick- ersham could get action on his bill in the House. When Senator Chamberlain’s bill came down to the House the Senate it was substituted'for the Wickersham Bill and the latter passed into the discard. The House then passed the Chamberlain Bill. The chief difference between ithe Chamberlain Bill and the Wickersham Bill was that the Chamber- lain Bill appropfiated $40,000,000 and the Wicker- sham Bill only $35,000,000. Judge Wickersham someone else in the House succeeded in getting the Senate ation cut from $40,000,000 to 335,- | €00,000. Grigsby, succeeded in getting another appropriation for $17,- 000,000 for the railroad. Only $12,000,000 would have been necessary if the Chamberlin appropriation had not been cut down in the House. The father of the Alaska Railroad was President Wilson. He got Senator lain and leaders in the Senate proposition. The man above to get President Wilson ested was Heifner of Ses the pre Democratic nominee for Congress in the Seattle dis- trict. He visited President Wilson at Princeton be- tween his election and inauguration and urged him to adopt a “Develop Alaska” policy and urged the railroad from the coast to Fairbanks as the best means to that end. Judge Wickersham railroad proposition and in by me om legislation other and any- inter- sted in the one else, probably Charles G attle ssent supported the Government made a very able speech for it in the House. But Senator Chamberlain got his measure through the Senate before Judge Wick- ersham got his through the House and is the real author of the measure, ER SELF-GOVERNMENT MEASURE. THE SUL Judge Wickersham, in his Juneau speech, called attention to the circumstance that the provisions of the Alaska Organic Act regarding liquor and gam- bling » copied self-government measure that was introduced in Congress by Delegate Sulzer and supported by the editor of The Empire. Judge Wickersham did call attention to the really important self-government provisions of the Sulzer Bill caused the of The Empire to support it and to which he referred in the state- ment he made before the House Committee on Ter- es. into¥a not that editor he Wickersham limitations on the power of the lature regarding the liquor traffic and gambling were inserted in the Sulzer Bill for the reason that Judge Houston, Chairman of the Committee on Territories, declared that he had information that the demand in A a for a full Territorial formgof government was y a demand to saloons and gambling in that Territory. did not dis who were his known by M Sulzer that Judge Wickersham was a very frequent visitor at the office of Judge Houstop. Judge Houston had also been in communication with Mrs. Hatcher, one of the backers of the William ney campaign for the Democratic nomination Judge -Houston told M Sulzer that he \\u\xld not, and he did not believe the committee or the House Repr would consent to give power to the people of Alaska to change in any particular the laws with re nce to these sub- jects sol se entatives £ of dry in Sulzer was a tic platform a Prol get the 1916 incor- their platform. He rman of the Com- mittee, the same Willi 1aloney Judge Wickerst to nominate in ihe Demo Delegate to Con- gress. He left it to the people of A ine for themsel had it not been that Judge Houston made it pl that he would the measure if were done. Judge Wickersha not able to get hi: asure reported from the torfes Committee. He did try for the that - the Territories Committee also members of comn tion of one sore or ther Chairman said that he did not able to get another meeting of the comm weeks. (This was in early 1918 when the States was taxing all her energies to oseross the Atlantic.) While Judge Wickersham wa coaching Judge Houston, the probabilities are At the latter was in good faith in the premises. only hearing of the Sulzer self-government and attempted to in to por was opposed whom tempted primary in 1918 for Mr 112 w to det ever have n defea that says that Delegate Sulzer wa not o members wer hat had war to consider believe he would b nited nea or | Chamber- | House | restore the | While he | informants it was| had the but it was induced to approve it by Dele- gates Sulzer and Grigsby The “Eighty-Rod Strip” legislation provided that half of the lands along the water front and back for® eighty rods could not be entered by home- ads or others. The suggestion that it be re- pealed was broached to Secretary Lane by Mr. Sulzer and the editor of The Empire. Several times they had the matter up with him and Edward C. Finney, |Solicitor of the Interior Department. tives of the Interior Department in the field in |Alaske were canvassed and they supported the re- peal proposal. So did Gov. Riggs. At the first the |proposition was anything but a departmental :neas- lure. Department officials said it was one of the |pleces of anti-monopoly legislation and they were |afraid that the muckrakers—who already had held {back Alaska development immeasureably would set lup a howl | After the death of Mr. Sulzer, Mr. Grigsby, his successor, followed the proposition through to the |passage of the bill by Congress. He got the favor- |able report on it from the Department the Interior. | Mr. Grigsby was the author of the Strip Bill and procured its passage. of Eighty-Rod JUSY SILLY; THAT'S ALL. Judge “Wickersham’s declaration in his Juneau !spech that the First Division 'in the next Alaska |Legislature would be a cipher if the Democratic Legislative candidates were elected, because, he said, the majority of the members of the Legislature will be Republicans, was ridiculous to the point of silliness. Party differences have never been taken linto account in the Legislature. No one ever pro- posed that they ought to be taken until Mr. Gardner and Mr. Scott attempted to |justify their surrender to Mr. Paul by advancing the idea that the party label was the thing of |most importance. The party label has not figured lin the selection of presiding officers or other em- | as Delegate to Congress, |ployees of either branch of the Leglslature or in! 5comm1:tco assignments or in legislation. We venture to predict that notwithstanding the [taken into account in the next Legislature. CATCHING AT STRAWS. After President Hoover and Ex-President Coolidge have been working overtime to convince the people | that no one responsible for the stock market |crash that caused the business depression, but that | lit was due to world-wide conditions, the Republican National Committee comes out with a Nation-wide |charge that John J. Raskob, Chairman of the de- feated Democratic Party, was responsible for it all. The Republicans must be catching at straws if they !think the people will fall for that sort of stuff. There are many reasons to think the Democrats have overworked the charge of Republican responsi- |bility for hard times. But there is a million times better excuse for their position than for the absurdly silly charge that Raskob did it all—or had anything to do with it. It listens like a desperate, eleventh- hour shout of agony for relief from God knows where. The Republican Congressional Committee is not iplaying favoritism between wets and drys. It sent $10,000 to Montana to help elect a wet Republican over a dry Democrat for Senator and a like amount |to Colorado to help elect a dry Republican over a |wet Democrat. While the elections this year are in doubt there seems to be no reason to doubt that if people would vote the way they drink the wets would have a |landslide. Only those who vote tomorrow will be entitled tec kick duriog the next two years if the Legislature dees not meet ‘with approval, It will all be over tomorrow. All that will re- |main will be to tell how it happened. May the best men win. | e SRS SAL G e | High School Debating. (New York World.) Debating is abolished as a school activity in Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn because it develops, according to Principal Lieberman, “a smart-aleck attitude based on a win-at-any-cost ideal” Far better then debates for educative pur- poses, Mr. Lieberman thinks, are round-table, dis- cussions or symposiums devoted to seeking the truth rather than winning a victory. Such symposiums “will discuss topics touching upon the social sciences, literature, music and other arts, as well as current developments in pure and applied science.” It must be admitted that seeking the truth is less the object of high school debating than winning victory. Interscholastic debating especially has de- veloped into a game with almost as definite rules and strategy as football. The deadly formalism of |able to both sides and the ingenuity of the coaches leave little room for originality or initiative on the |part of the debaters. On the other hand, the ele- ment of actual combat, ‘mposium club as a substitute. By coming out for the repeal of the Eigh- Iltenth Amendment both parties in New York stand to lose the speakeasy vote. (Macon, Ga. Tele- ph.) Title for a histor§ of American politics from Ha'm to 1930: From Water Wagon to Band Wagon —(New York World.) |department in the Federal Government. rome.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) Representa- ¢ | into account lefforts of professional politicians they will not be | | E the thing, the use of source books of argument avail- | the competitive instinct, does not enhance interest in debates as school activities. Educators will follow with interest Mr. Lieberman's _ |success with his Congressman Ruth Owen wants a child welfare This is the {kind of department that used to be found in each Free Delivery Phone 134 WHEN WE SELL IT IT'S RIGHT Express Money Orders approval of the Department of the - 1 Dr. Charles P. 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