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SENATOR SVLZER
OX ROAD Fl'XD
(Continued from page 1.)
of Rnoy, I stated for their informa
t on that the 4th division was get
tiug its full share of road moneys
although contributing very HttH
tax fund, and that our board did
not distribute its tax fund accord
ing to the districts or judicial di
visions where collected, but endeav
ored to allot it equitably and ac
cording to the needs of differenl
districts, as far as the fund woulc
po. I called attention In the sami
letter to the fact that the roai
commission is engaged upon th<
construction and maintenance o
no less than sixty-eight separati
projects, besides the overland wago
road, some of the projects em brae
lug numerous small roads, as ii
tiio F-iu banks local system, thes<
p.-ojects being scattered from thi
vicinity of Ketchikan to north o
Kotzebue Sound and from Valde:
to the Kcyukuk, and that the per
cetitage of the tux or Alaska fun<
provided ta carry on this work pro
perl v. .u'd to meet other demands
was very inadequate. I also ex
plaiued that the overlain
road, (Valdez-Fairbanks-Foit Gib
boa > was for the benefit of thi
whelp interior of Alaska, and con
stituted, together with tha Haines
Chilk.a military road, the argumeu
and reason for appropriations niad
by military committees of congrts
Referring again to your district
or first judicial divisou, i will as
^ure you that our board does uo
fail to recognize its needs, nor it:
rights to a fair proportion of ex
penditures 0:1 road projects. Anj
of the projects mentioned in th<
peutio,1 to our board and agreed t<
by me at our la?t conference whiet
may not be taken up this season
will merely be delayed fo-r a short
time only, 11 is hoped, and in the
meanwhile existing roads will b«
repaired and maintained in a good
condition possible. The high
wan r in parts of the territory dur
ing tin. last few weeks has done
considerable damage to our roads
a-id makes necessary additional
and unexpected expenditure for
fieir repair.
Tbe w.hole trouble about the
read situation iu Alaska is pri
maril' of course, a lack of suffi
cient funds to accomplish what is
really needed for the territory's de
velopment. I have exerted my best
fttorts to have this situation recog
nized and taken care of, and the
war department has been liberal in
its support, but the army appropria
tion bill cannot carry money for the
commercial development of Alas
ka. The secretary of war in a
ietter to the secrttary of the in
terior. Jan. 12, 1914, stated in
connection with a special estimate
submitted by me for $750,000, that,
"In the opinion of the board of
road commissioners and other par
ti s having interest in the matter,
the time has ccme for an expan
sion o' this work of road building
to an extent that makes it impos
sible to consider it a military en
terprise." This gives the reason
for rtferring the matter to the eec
n-tary of the interior "for consid
eration and such action as he
might deemed advisable;" and also
conveys the suggestion that the
initial bteps toward securing in
creased appropriations for road
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| work in the territory should come
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department. With best wishes;
Yours sincerely,
W. P. Richardson,
Colonel of Infantry,
President of the Board,
Statement by ('has. A. Snlzer.
The telegram from Nome referred
j to by Col. Richardson in the at
I Uched letter was as follows:
Xume, Alaska, July Sth, 1915.
Sulzer and Heckman,
Ketchikan.
"Allotments by our board road
I work your district based on pre
I sumption that division of forestry
funds would be accepted as fixed
by legislature. Understand injunc
tion filed against disbursements
un'er this distribution. Unless this
action be withdrawn our board com
peiied to readjust allotments ami
suspend work for present 0:1 neew
projects your district."
Richardson.
Tile attached letter explains this
telegram and this letter was writ
• tea before the decision of th«
[ court in the forestry fund case
- The letter from Colonel Richardsot
k throws considerable light on the
. road situation and shows that th<
. project in S. E. Alaska woulc
t have been carried out in any event
Since the court decision in th<
■, nr.tter the following telegram haj
Valdez, Alaska, August 13, 1915
| Sulzer and Heckman, Ketchikan.
' Reference court decision 01
forestry advice that all projecu
your diivsion be put through ex
cept Wrangell account lateness sea
son must be postponed until spring
Mailed letter to you this subject
just before decision of court waf
received."
Richardson.
Th'^re has been and is consider
able confusion in the public mind
regarding road and trail funds in
the t'.rritory. The "Forest Reserve
Fund" is separate and apart from
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any funds handled by the Alaska
road commission and bhould n,Ot
be confused with tha commission's
work. The forest fund is a fund
paid into the treasury of tha terri
tory by the United States and re
presents 25 uer cent of the mon
eys derived from the National for
ests. Tha money is paid over by
reason of an act of congress yhlch
provides that thif money shall be
expended by the legislature for the
maintenance of schools and the
construction of roads and trails in
tin; county or counties where the
money has been obtained. The pur
pose of this law is to partially
compensate the sections embraced
within the forest reserves for the
withdrawal of the lands and the
restrictions Imposed. No serious
person questions the fact that it
was the clear purpose of congress
that this money should be spent
at Us source. Unfortunately, when
the law was enacted, Alaska had
no legislature at all and evidently
was not taken into consideration.
Again when Alaslca was created In
to a territory with a local legisla
ture. the method adopted was
radically different from any pre
vious territorial creation by our
government and the various divi
sions of Alaska were allowed to
remain as divisions and were not
designated as counties. In many
other respects the Alaska enabling
act restricted the activities of the
people of Alaska beyond the limita
tions of previous territorial crea
tions. Doubtless the non-contigu
ousness of Alaska had something
to do with the case, and also the
vast size of the territory and its
conflicting interests and radically
varied conditions, as well as gross
popular ignorance as to the true
facts about Alaska. However, be
that as it may, I found during the
early days of the last legislature,
that there was a disposition among
some of the members to hide be
hind these technicalities, and not
withstanding it was generally ac
knowledged that the first division
was morally entitled under the law
an-t under the past and present
conditions in Alaska, to the full
. amount of $52,000 which this divi
sion had paid into the fund, still
finally, with three noted exceptions,
i the members of the other divisions
voted solidly to take this money
i and divide it among all four di
visions.
The first day o£ the session I
i introduced Senate Bill Number
i One which provided lor tho ov»nudi
oi tue fund on various projects in
S. E. Alaska. A few days later a
joint committee of the senate and
house was appointed to take this
forest fund under consideration and
rnuko recommendations. We made
t' > best fight we knew how and
this committee, one Saturday, gen
erally agreed to report the bill
back favorably provided 25 per
cent of the amount was sot aside
for a general school board which
Wo agreed to. Eefore Monday
certain influences were set at work
which defeated this agreement and
prevented the just settlement of
this question throughout the re
mainder of the session. The pres
ent law. on tho subject was finally
enacted by the legislature and a
road supervisor appointed in each
diviiion to expend the money. There
is an ancient writing which
starts by saying that all
Gaul is divided In three
parts, and permit me to Bay that,
after having for years'" the bulk of
the road appropriations from con
gress and the tax funds, and after
obtaining $35,000,000 from congress
for railroads, it was all "gall" that
divided our poor little forest fund
iu*o four parts. The members from
other divisions were very adverse
to auy suggestions that forest re
serves might be created in the
other divisions so that they might
have the opportunity to contribute
on an equal basis to this forest
fund. Some of the newsjpapers la
tin other divisions are now accus
ing the people of the First division
of an attempt to create dissension
in Alaska, but it Is not the truth.
The representatives from the First
division have at no time asked for
anything other than was just and
fa'r in the premises, and it was
the members of the legislature from
the other three divisions who creat
ed auy dissatisfaction that may ex
ist, by narrow-mindedly playing
small politics. The people of Alas
ka can never be firmly bound to
gether in a united and harmonious
spirit by narrow legal technicalities.
It requires a broadminded desire to
be mutually fair and just in our
dealings with the greatly varying
conditions over an immense area
of territory. The recent decision of
the court says that congress gave
this money to the people residing
in the Tongass National forest as
a ->art compensation for what the
National government had taken
from them, and while this money
has been taken away from them by
the legislature1 still there Is no
legal redress except b£ the United
Stfttdfl government, We must mak<?' I
the tucst of the fact and lie con' j I
t«nt with the knowledge that we J
hare asked for nothing unreasonable I
or unjust. J
So much for the forest reserve £
fund. The funds of the board of .
Alaska road commissioners are I
derived from two sources, first I
from congress by appropriations I
for the army bill for the construc- |
tion and maintenance of military I
an-1 post roads, and second by a |
percentage of the federal tax mon- ,
eys collected in Alaska and placed |
In wha*. la known as the Alaska
fund. The amount that has been
appropriated by congress up to
th<» o'.cse of last year Is $1,648,
000, and this has practically
all been spent iu the Third and
Fourth divisions, but as this money
is expended by the wa>r department
for military purposes it does mot
enter into the question we have
under discussion. The board .of
road commissioners have received
aud expended from the federal oc
cupation and license taxes in Alas
ka the Bum of $1,203,152. This
has been expended in the different
divisions as follows: *
Flra* Divison $141,3P4
Second Division, 247,431
Third Divison .. ... .. 305,033
Fourth Division 509,304
The Second division has received
twic» as much as the First; the
Third division has received consid
erable more than twice as much,
and the Fourth division has re
ceived nearly four times the
amount of the First division. In
thin connection it must be takqn
Into consideration that the First
divson has paid in practically one
third of these taxes. Col. Richard
son states that he has recogmized
these fact?, but that his board
for the past several years have
assumed that the forest moneys
wculd be expended where derived,
or practically all In the First di
vison, and would thua tend to bal
ance the expenditures for the en
tire territory, and yet some papers
in the iuterior call us hoggish for
asking for what we have been con
fidently expecting and waiting for
several years and what is conceded
to us by all disinterested parties.
Aft(»r the legislature passed the
law dividing the forest fund, I im
mediately introduced the Memorial
to the Alaska road commission. The
members from the other divisions
emlled good naturedly, though rath
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